New paperless recorder March 2001, Endress+Hauser South Africa Endress+Hauser is now offering its new Eco-Graph paperless recorder which it says has set a new trend in process recorder design. The company says that the new recorder combines flexibility with environmental ...
Counter/frequency modules March 2001 Advantech's ADAM-4080/4080D isolated counter/frequency modules have two 32 bit counter channels and a built-in programmable timer for frequency measurement. All modules include digital alarm functions, ...
New-look I/O system product range March 2001 The popular MOD-MUX Modbus I/O system from Procon Electronics has recently been given a new look and has been upgraded making installation and maintenance much easier.
A diagnostic port has been added ...
Cycle data acquisition now more affordable February 2001 The DT800 allows the reduction of gathered stress data into a desired cycle histogram - megabytes of raw strain data can be reduced to a few tens of cycle count values
Machine vision with Ethernet connectivity February 2001 With its high-resolution imaging (640 x 480 pixels) capabilities combined with network communications (Ethernet and Fieldbus) the Series 600 Sensor from DVT is a valuable smart factory tool.
It delivers ...
Enterprise critical video systems February 2001 Chasms in business effectiveness encompass different problems in different industries, but the core concerns are almost universal. Undesired productivity, unnecessary non-value-added activities or processes, ...
Industrial radiation-free panel monitor February 2001 Advantech's FPM-38 is an industrial 15" colour XGA TFT LCD flat panel monitor. Small and lightweight, the FPM-38 offers an optional touchscreen making it user-friendly as a control interface system. The ...
Paperless recorders fit existing panels December 2000, Protea Automation Solutions A new family of graphical recorders, called the Chessell DAQ Series 5000, have been launched by Eurotherm. The recorders, which meet a wide range of data recording functions in the power generation as ...
Hart communications September 2000, PREI Instrumentation Using the Hart protocol, numerous items can be monitored on a single communication line including process variables, temperature, relay status, configuration changes and other functions
UK National Grid case study - SA scada HMI in innovative project September 2000, Adroit Technologies "National Grid, Yorkshire Electric, Scomagg and Adroit worked very closely at all stages of the project to ensure the end result was a reliable and commercially viable solution which met National Grid's business requirements."
Paperless recorders come of age September 2000, KROHNE Continuing development of paperless recorders will extend their capabilities offering faster logging rates, more channels and greater storage capacity
Modbus I/O now has easily implemented radio telemetry September 2000 The MOD-MUX Modbus I/O system from Procon Electronics, which traditionally has used a RS485 or fibre-optic network, can now be expanded onto a radio telemetry network.
A robust radio modem is used to ...
Detecting cracks and defects in cast parts with LabVIEW September 2000 Cracks and defects in parts used in a variety of applications ranging from mission-critical aerospace and automotive parts to household fixtures can cause catastrophic failures when the parts are stressed ...
Data logging made easy September 2000 Mimic Crafts has announced the launch of new additions to its EasyLog range of data logging equipment from Lascar Electronics. EasyLog HL is a small, low cost, handheld programmer and data retrieval unit ...
High-speed RS232 data transmission September 2000 Advantech's PCL-849 series from ProMicro provides four individually configurable RS232 serial communication ports while the PCL-849+ has a 16C654 UART. By buffering data into 64-byte packets before putting ...
Compact, adaptable dataloggers September 2000 ACR dataloggers distributed by Datalogger SA are small (about the size of a packet of cigarettes), lightweight (110 g), battery powered and easy to use. They are adaptable to almost any monitoring situation. ...
Internet-ready programming tool September 2000 LabVIEW 6i has Internet-ready capabilities that increase the productivity of engineers and scientists. With this version, users can deploy control applications to colleagues with the new LabVIEW Player ...
Pentium MMX processor-based panel PC September 2000 Advantech's PPC-140T/120T Intel Pentium MMX industrial panel PCs are human- machine interfaces. Equipped with a 531 or 307 mm TFT LCD, they are good as monitoring devices and interfaces in information ...
Digital I/O counter card with programmable clock generator September 2000, Danntech The PC digital I/O counter card is a plug-in card intended to fulfil general-purpose digital input, digital output, counting and timing requirements in PC-based measurement and control applications.
The ...
B & A Projects completed commissioning of paste plant expansion July 2000 Johannesburg-based electrical and control system house B&A Projects has successfully completed commissioning of the paste plant for Chartech in Witbank.
The expansion project included electrical instrumentation, ...
