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New Baldor guide is a valuable resource for automation builders
Baldor has released a major new catalogue overviewing the extensive range of industrial motors, drives, power transmission and motion control products it stocks in Europe. It's a handy reference for any engineer building or maintaining machinery and industrial automation, and is available in electronic or paper forms. The 120-page guide is a valuable resource for automation builders and maintainers alike. It details hundreds of the most common... [more]
Abacus Lighting installs new floodlighting system at Qatar stadium
When the Al Shamal Stadium in Qatar, home to the Qatar National Olympic Committee (QOC), were looking for a company to design and install a pioneering new floodlighting system at its iconic world-class stadium, they chose Abacus Lighting. The stadium posed a unique lighting challenge to the team at Abacus as its layout included four corner turret structures in each corner of the stadium, mimicking the original Al Shamal fort itself. Abacus w... [more]
Baldor's smart drives offer space and cost-saving solutions for single-axis automation requirements
Baldor's new 'smart' drives that offer space- and cost-saving solutions for single-axis automation requirements, in an Ethernet-compatible form. The standalone drives are compatible with Baldor's Mint motion programming language. This allows them to be configured to perform basic motion control requirements such as relative and absolute moves, S-ramp profiles, jog and homing movements, registration moves, and reacting to real-time trigger ev... [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 CoDeSys embedded controller for use with its CPX multifunctional control terminals
Festo has launched a CoDeSys embedded controller for use with its CPX series of multifunctional control terminals. The new CPX-CEC module provides machine builders with a means of overseeing all the units in a CPX terminal – regardless of whether they are for pneumatic or electric drives, or I/O functions – using a fast, easy-to-program controller. CoDeSys is an acronym for Controller Development System. Developed by the German software compa... [more]
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