Automation

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Cross Now Offers AVENTICS!

Effective December 12, 2018 Emerson’s AVENTICS has entered into a distribution agreement with Cross Technologies Inc. DBA Cross Company.     Emerson’s AVENTICS is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of pneumatic components, systems, and customer-specific industrial automation applications. AVENTICS products and applications fulfill customer’s needs in multiple sectors including factory automation, commercial vehicles, food and beverage packaging, railway technology, energy, and marine propulsion controls.    

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Empire Magnetics Supports Resolvers for Stepper Drives & Controls used in Harsh Environments

In harsh environments, we typically must install resolvers as feedback devices to survive the extremes of the application. Very few of the stepper drives/controls are configured to support resolvers, so Empire Magnetics has for many years provided an RDE product - Resolver to Digital Encoder - to support the resolver and output Encoder type A, B, Z signals. Some customers have issues with loss of power which equals loss of position, and for multi-turn applications, absolute position information is better than incremental.

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Determine Required Motor Torque on Mechanical Positioning Systems

The new LinTech tool provides a relatively painless method for choosing a motor with enough power at your desired move speed.

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Schunk KTG50 Gripper Demo

When handling delicate parts, a pneumatic gripper is often overlooked because it might develop too much force and damage the part. Vacuum or force-controlled electric grippers are sometimes the first choices in such applications. But when factors such as surface irregularities or part position repeatability make vacuum solutions impractical, and high costs of electric grippers make them undesirable, we have an alternative with the Schunk KTG 50 Two Finger Parallel Gripper.

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Guarding Your Investment - A Guide to Safety Fencing

A physical barrier between hazards and operators is an effective, low-tech solution for significantly reducing the risk of injury and the costly lawsuits or machine downtime that result from these accidents. Before implementing a safety fencing system, the following considerations should be taken into account.

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What is an Omron NX Power Module and Do You Need One?

One of the big benefits of using a PLC from the Omron NX1P PLC family is the ability to add I/O modules directly to the side of PLC. Any I/O module receiving power through the NX bus will require an additional I/O power supply unit, but this is commonly overlooked.

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Configure Servo Drive to Run with Parker Automation Controller

Walkthrough guide on configuring the Parker Automation Controller (PAC) with a servo motor via EtherCAT network.

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Upgrade from Iconics Genesis32 to Genesis64

Upgrade ICONICS Genesis32 Application to Genesis64 Save 50% on the cost of new software

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Interfacing with SQL Databases Key to Machine HMI Upgrade

We were recently contacted by a customer about helping to upgrade some test machines that were built in the 1990's. These machines had a single axis motion control requirement to accurately adjust some positions within the machine as material moved through the machine. The machine also was originally developed with a user interface that had been created using Visual Basic Version 6, that at the time was one of the few software environments that allowed interfacing with a database.

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