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Yokogawa to Begin Offering OpreX Batch Solution with Enhanced Portfolio for Batch Plants

Yokogawa Electric Corporation recently announced that it will begin providing OpreX Batch Solution on March 17. This solution for batch manufacturing applications eliminates the overlap between process control system (PCS) and manufacturing execution system (MES) related work and helps to enhance efficiency through all phases of the plant lifecycle, from design and engineering to actual operation, modification, and expansion.

 

 

 

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Beckhoff: TwinCAT for the Process Industry

In TwinCAT, the MTP concept is built into the products TwinCAT MTP Runtime and TwinCAT MTP Engineering. TwinCAT Engineering provides project management capabilities, which incorporate TwinCAT MTP Engineering as a specific project type. This project type supports source code generation for PLC projects, which use TwinCAT MTP Runtime to create a standard-compliant interface in a process plant module.

 

 

 

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Competitive Edge in Building Automation With PC-Based Control

The demands on the intelligence of a building have steadily increased in recent years, with the focus on energy efficiency, user comfort and a good return-on-investment. With holistic building automation across all trades, such as Beckhoff’s PC-based control portfolio, sustainable, energy-efficient operation and healthy living can be realized in the sense of a “green building”.

 

 

 

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KMC Controls Expands IoT Offering with TOSIBOX

In mid-November of 2020, KMC Controls was happy to announce that they were adding TOSIBOX products to their robust product catalog. TOSIBOX‘s commitment to secure, open, scalable, affordable operational infrastructure solutions for the building automation industry closely align with KMC Controls’ core values.

 

 

 

Trace Software: Arc Flash Analysis Software
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Trace Software: Arc Flash Analysis Software

elec calc now includes new features that allows the calculation of the quantified elements of the Arc Flash, from which the user will be able to develop its safety analysis in the vicinity of switchboards and panels. The Arc Flash module for elec calc is based on the calculation methods recommended by the IEEE-1584-2018 standard: empirically derived model or method of Lee according to the characteristics of the installation.

 

 

 

Phoenix Contact: mGuard Secure Remote Service With New Functions
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Phoenix Contact: mGuard Secure Remote Service With New Functions

10 years on from its original launch, Phoenix Contact is introducing version 2.11 of its mGuard Secure Remote Service ecosystem to the market with added features and new system functions. It is not just Android-based mobile end devices for service technicians and iOS-based Apple devices that are supported. On the machine side, PLCnext Control devices from Phoenix Contact can also be easily and securely connected to the mGuard Secure Remote Service.

 

 

 

TwinCAT/BSD Offers Alternative Operating System for Beckhoff Industrial PCs
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TwinCAT/BSD Offers Alternative Operating System for Beckhoff Industrial PCs

TwinCAT/BSD provides an alternative operating system for all of the latest Beckhoff Industrial PC (IPC) platforms. TwinCAT/BSD combines the TwinCAT runtime with FreeBSD, an industrial-proven and reliable open-source operating system. FreeBSD is Unix-compatible and is continually being further developed, improved and optimized as an open-source project by a large group of developers.

 

 

 

Mitsubishi Electric Introduces Remote4U Service in North America
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Mitsubishi Electric Introduces Remote4U Service in North America

Mitsubishi Electric has recently announced a new way for CNC customers to get their machine tool back up and running with Remote4U. Remote4U is a gateway unit designed to allow users to resume production quicker when their CNC machine tools encounter a problem. Machine tool builders and dealers can achieve an easy, low-cost remote service using the Remote4U platform.

 

 

 

Yokogawa Releases CENTUM VP R6.08 Integrated Production Control System
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Yokogawa Releases CENTUM VP R6.08 Integrated Production Control System

On January 20, 2021, Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it would be releasing CENTUM VP R6.08, an enhanced version of the CENTUM VP integrated production control system for industrial plants, and released it two days later on January 22. CENTUM VP is a core product in the OpreX Control and Safety System solutions family. This release delivers enhancements that drastically reduce the amount of work needed to upgrade a control system’s CPU module, including a newly developed utility kit and standards certification for individual CPU modules.

 

 

 

Excelitas Technologies Enhances MachVis Imaging Lens Software
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Excelitas Technologies Enhances MachVis Imaging Lens Software

Excelitas Technologies Corp. has recently released the latest version of its popular Qioptiq imaging lens selection software – MachVis 5.2 Lens Configurator. Designed to simplify the tasks of vision system designers and engineers, MachVis 5.2 features an intuitive user interface for fast, comprehensive information on product data, new lens series and accessories (including access to 3D files), and improved lens selection algorithms for all of the Excelitas LINOS Machine Vision Lenses, Optem FUSION Micro-Imaging and Qioptiq mag.x Microscopy Systems.

 

 

 

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Generic Controller for Various Types of Points

The Swiss company VT Verkehrs- und Industrietechnik AG (VT AG), experts in track and points construction, were faced with the task of modernising the central control and monitoring system for eight points of varying types. They worked with Pilz to develop a generic solution based on the automation system PSS 4000-R for railway applications. The result is a centralised controller for all types of points.

 

 

 

Beckhoff: TF3800 – TC3 Machine Learning Inference Engine
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Beckhoff: TF3800 – TC3 Machine Learning Inference Engine

Beckhoff offers a machine learning (ML) solution that is seamlessly integrated into TwinCAT 3. Building on established standards, it brings to ML applications the advantages of system openness familiar from PC-based control. In addition, the TwinCAT solution supports the execution of the machine learning models in real time. Its capabilities provide machine builders with an optimum foundation for enhancing machine performance.

 

 

 

Bihl+Wiedemann: Lenze Drives Are a Perfect Match for ASI-5
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Bihl+Wiedemann: Lenze Drives Are a Perfect Match for ASI-5

For many years, customers have enjoyed the benefits of AS-Interface for controlling Lenze Drives and frequency inverters. The free topology and cost-effective installation technology of ASi saves both time and money. Bihl+Wiedemann added to this perfect match with additional products like the ASi-5 self-configuring 8 I/O module (BWU4232). This module is ideal for the Lenze Smart Motor or other drives with binary control and four additional signals – either inputs or outputs.

 

 

 

OPC UA – Universal Data Exchange From the Sensor to the Cloud
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OPC UA – Universal Data Exchange From the Sensor to the Cloud

How can the data from intelligent sensors be transferred to the IT level for further processing? This is an important question – because only those who are able to do so can successfully implement Industry 4.0 projects or predictive maintenance. Our answer is OPC UA: Many Bihl+Wiedemann gateways feature this open communication protocol.

 

 

 

Pilz: Software Tool PNOZmulti Configurator
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Pilz: Software Tool PNOZmulti Configurator

Your safety circuit is easy to create on the PC using the PNOZmulti Configurator. The configuration tool supports you with the project design, configuration, documentation and commissioning of the Pilz small controllers. On the graphics-based, Windows-compliant user interface all elements are available for your safety circuit as icons or in selection menus.