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Advanced Micro Peripherals' CompactPCI MPEG-4 card encodes four real-time analog video audio inputs

The MPEG4cPCI from Advanced Micro Peripherals is a unique 3U CompactPCI MPEG-4 video codec board capable of simultaneously encoding four full-size (NTSC / PAL) D1 resolution, full frame rate real-time analog video / audio inputs. It can also decode and playback video and audio recordings from storage to display. A Preview feature allows incoming video from each channel to be viewed simultaneously via the host system graphics controller while als... [more]

New Inter-Connection Technologies Group within GAMBICA's Industrial Automation Sector

Nine GAMBICA member companies including four new members have formed a new Inter-Connection Technologies Group, within GAMBICA's Industrial Automation Sector. The Group's inaugural meeting appointed Stuart Jaycocks, from Weidmuller, as chairman and welcomed new member companies ContaClip UK, Phoenix Contact, Wago and Wieland to the roster. The other member companies in the group are ABB, Legrand, Rockwell Automation and Schneider Electric. ... [more]

Embedded card provides MPEG-4 MPEG-2 and M-JPEG compression

Advanced Micro Peripherals’ new MPEG4000WA is a multi-format video encoder which combines graphics overlay, motion detection and enhanced Watermark Authentication on an industry standard PC/104-Plus module. The MPEG4000WA serves as a very powerful solution for capturing and compressing up to 4 concurrent live analog video inputs to full D1 resolution using either MPEG-4, MPEG-2 or M-JPEG encoding standards. The board can also encode audio for ea... [more]

Schneider Electric's Magelis HMIs reduce downtime at Nicholl Food Packaging production plant

One of the UK’s largest food packaging companies, Nicholl Food Packaging is a specialist manufacturer of aluminium foil containers and catering disposables for all sectors of the food industry. Its 10-acre Cannock site houses the most up-to-date production facility in Europe and its production is handled by a large number of electronically controlled presses. The old Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) and existing PLCs were installed a number of y... [more]

Festo launches ELGR toothed belt drive axis to enter the low-cost electric actuator market

Festo has entered the low-cost electric actuator market with the launch of a unique toothed belt drive axis which marries cost-optimised design rules with precision engineering. Costing 65 percent less than Festo’s EGC series high performance electromechanical axes, the new ELGR toothed belt axis sets a new price-performance standard for the motion control industry. Designed primarily for applications involving relatively short stroke lengths... [more]

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