Toshiba hits the road afresh in South Africa through TM Automation April 2001 Toshiba is a well-known and highly respected name in the automation and control field, even though the use of its advanced products by local industry has fallen behind somewhat in the last few years as ...
Mini programmable controllers March 2001 T1s are the micro programmable controllers in Toshiba's popular T-series family. Being members of the T-series family means that all programs written for a T1 will run on other T-series controllers. The ...
Fully-programmable 96 x 48 controller March 2001, Timecount The Pixsys ATR 400 controllers - new to Timecount's product range - have been designed to provide higher configurability with all functions programmable from the front panel. The dual display allows setpoint ...
Panelmount controller has universal interface March 2001 KAB Instruments has recently acquired the agency for ASCON panelmount universal controllers. ASCON products are manufactured in Italy to the highest quality standards. The instruments offer a broad range ...
Smart PC programmable transmitters March 2001 KAB Instruments represent the Datexel range of DIN Rail and 'Hockey-Puck' Headmount Smart PC programmable transmitters. The complete range of instruments carry CE and ISO9001 certification. The instruments ...
Effective governing of turbines March 2001 Mitech supplied several sugar mills with linear actuators to be fitted to the speed governors on the mill turbines. This enables the turbine speeds to be controlled by the PLC, not only giving better ...
Compact telecontrol with programmable controllers February 2001, Instrotech Using the latest technology, the NAIS FP Series of programmable controllers uses several telecommunications and services simultaneously enabling systems to be developed as customer requirements grow.
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Compressor optimisation and surge elimination January 2001, Moore Process Controls The Moore PAC 353 controller is a standalone, microprocessor-based industrial controller designed for a brand range of process applications
Small PLC - impressive task January 2001 Ana-Digi Systems was required to solve a particularly difficult problem at Coca-Cola's Western Cape bottling franchise, Peninsula Beverage Co. The object was to determine whether the Coca-Cola crates ...
Controllers, programmers and common setters January 2001 ERO Electronic is offering the MK and PK controllers, programmers and common setters. The use of a custom display allows the user to see all-important data at a glance - this and the internal and external ...
PLC-friendly accelerometers January 2001, Temperature Controls Monitran has launched a new range of high performance accelerometers, designed specifically for direct connection to industry standard PLCs, using a conventional two-wire 4-20 mA interface. Designated ...
PLC programming software January 2001 ProWorx NxT programming software is a Windows-based Modsoft solution for Modicon Micro/Compact/Quantum/Momentum/584/984 useful to any organisation with any of a range of different Modicon PLCs in its ...
Smoother and more reliable motor control January 2001 Danfoss says that increasing numbers of engineers are turning to Cl-tronic soft starters for smoother, more reliable motor control. This device has proven to be a cost-effective way of eliminating the ...
Small but powerful PLC January 2001 The LG GM7 from Ana-Digi is a micro PLC with great capability. Available in basic formats of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 60 I/O, all units except the 10 I/O model can support dial-up modem communication. They ...
Soft PLCs - a significant factor in linking IT with the shopfloor January 2001 The use of realtime control software, such as Wonderware's InControl, is starting to replace PLCs except in the most localised, high-speed, mission-critical applications. This approach gives considerable ...
Programmable sensor controllers January 2001 TX9042 EEx ia or TX9044 GP controllers from Trolex have RS232, RS485 or TTL data comms for communications to a scada system and can store 22 500 data logging events in onboard nonvolatile memory, per ...
Resolving the PLC integration conflict January 2001 The automation market has undergone many changes since the early micro PLC - with handheld programmer days. Applications have become larger and more complicated, and the distributor has had to put in ...
High performance controller January 2001 National Instruments is offering a series of embedded PXI/CompactPCI computers featuring Intel Pentium III processors for applications requiring high system performance. The high-performance PXI-8170 ...
Improved loop control January 2001 Honeywell Hi-Spec Solutions is offering Profit Loop - a single-input/single-output (SISO) model predictive loop control application that can be applied to base-level regulatory control loops. Profit Loop ...
PC-programmable annunciators January 2001, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists The Omni-8 and Omni-16c alarm annunciators from local manufacturer, Omniflex, have been upgraded so that users can program them directly from any PC via the RS232 serial port. For this, 'Omni-16 Softset' ...
