Manager's guide to overall equipment effectiveness January 2004 GE Fanuc's OEE solution provides the mechanism to collect manual data, as well as the machine interfaces to automatically pull data from PLCs, CNCs and other industrial automation devices
USB thermocouple input unit January 2004 The MicroDAQ USB-73-T is a data acquisition product for thermocouple temperature measurement. It is available with 8, 16 or 32 analog inputs and has a 14-bit resolution. Featuring a USB interface, the ...
Modern technology keeps track of your youngster January 2004 Every parent has been through that heart-stopping moment in a public place, when you realise that your child is nowhere to be seen.
Modern technology has come to the rescue of anxious parents who need ...
South African technology impresses Dubai Police January 2004 In a world first for a South African radio communications company, Johannesburg-based Rotrax Technologies has supplied and installed an integrated surveillance system for the first of several RG12 armoured ...
Sound and vibration application development January 2004 National Instruments is offering two new versions of LabVIEW toolkits that give engineers the set of tools they need to perform simple and complex measurements for sound and vibration applications.
The ...
South African developments in telemetry December 2003 There are at least three South African companies that are innovators in this field, these being Omniflex, the Spero Group (Spero), and Specialist System Engineering (SSE)
24/7 realtime wireless data transfer via GSM December 2003 The latest developments in wireless data communications from Opto 22 and Nokia facilitate the access to data from remote applications using the GSM networks and the latest in `general packet radio systems' ...
Utilities monitoring solutions December 2003, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists Monitoring plantwide with scada is common but this has extended to larger geographic areas and even to countrywide applications. Omniflex has been involved with telemetry and data acquisition since the ...
Remote site monitoring across Africa December 2003, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists South African engineering solutions company Omniflex has developed a wireless telemetry solution using mobile two-way radios which allow companies to collect data from remote sites for the control and ...
16-channel USB data acquisition December 2003 The USB-30 is a multifunction data acquisition device for the USB-bus - particularly useful measurement device for portable or lab use. Easy connection
Featuring 16 analog inputs, the USB-30 can be ...
VIs now run on PDAs and FPGAs December 2003 LabVIEW 7 Express, a major upgrade to National Instruments' family of LabVIEW graphical development products, dramatically simplifies the creation of measurement and automation applications and extends ...
Industrial modem for worldwide data connections December 2003, Phoenix Contact , Access Control & Identity Management, Products & Solutions The new PSI-Data/Fax-Modem/RS232 modem from Phoenix Contact provides worldwide access to machines and installations for remote data capture, remote diagnostics, remote maintenance and program downloads. ...
Multimode fibre-optic to RS232/485 converter December 2003, Surveillance The ADAM-4541 module from ProMicro can be used as an RS232/422/485 point-to-point or point-to-multipoint connection for transmitting and converting full/half-duplex signals and their equivalents within ...
Data acquisition and control systems November 2003 The Adam-5000/485/5000E data acquisition and control systems from ProMicro use the EIA RS485 communication protocol to transmit and receive data at high rates over long distances in industrial applications. ...
Data acquisition: speed, accuracy and resolution November 2003 A common belief, often encouraged by instrument manufacturers, is that resolution and accuracy are the same. There is a strong tendency to do this because the resolution of an instrument can be expressed ...
Locally developed production and downtime capturing solution November 2003 AMR Automations was approached by Appletiser to supply them with a solution to enable the operators to log the production details directly in J.D. Edwards. As the company performs nightly backup runs, ...
Remote water level logging - a first in SA October 2003, Healthcare (Industry) The D.W.A.F. existing grid system includes level transmitters and loggers, and field recorders, most of which require field technicians to visit the often far and remote sites to extract data and bring ...
Water samplers with data logging features October 2003, PREI Instrumentation Manning Environmental water and wastewater samplers offer both vacuum and peristaltic type technologies in both portable and stationary units, for toxic or nontoxic samples, with optional refrigeration. ...
DeviceNet communication card October 2003, Infrastructure Red Lion has produced a panel meter with built-in DeviceNet communication. This means that users can now access the display values, setpoints, and reset values stored within the PAX meter and communicate ...
