‘Automation Industry’

A Manufacturingtalk guide

Start with the news release Citizen debuts four mill/turn centres at Mach 2010 from Citizen Machinery, which we summarised at the time by saying "Citizen Machinery has announced that four mill/turn centres will be debuted on the shared stand of Citizen Machinery UK and Miyano Machinery at Mach 2010.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Cognex launches In-sight Explorer v4.4 from Cognex: "Cognex has launched In-sight Explorer 4.4 for its In-sight vision system, which adds new colour tools, improved calibration and extended data access within its Easybuilder configuration software.".

In March 2010, we covered the news from Micro-Epsilon - take a look at Micro-Epsilon to display sensors at Mtec 2010 which says: "This year's Mtec 2010 exhibition will feature a range of displacement measurement and non-contact temperature-measurement sensors from Micro-Epsilon. ".

Take a look also at the news release from Baldor, Two Baldor products to make debut at Total, as well as Jung jacks and skates ease movement of heavy loads from Movetech, and Exco selects Delcam's Powermill CAM software from Delcam.

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DDEN loadcells measure forces underwater (March 2010)

Applied Measurements has developed its DDEN series of loadcells for the measurement of tensile or compressive forces in underwater locations of up to 10m depth.

Decorative Panels saves space with Fanuc robots (March 2010)

A furniture component manufacturer has integrated two Fanuc robots onto an existing processing system to save space at its Huddersfield facility.

DeltaV wireless automates Novartis biotech factory (March 2010)

Emerson Process Management's plant-wide wireless network is helping to improve maintenance, operator efficiency and plant flexibility in the Novartis biotech factory at Huningue, France.

TRM motion controllers enable hardware savings (March 2010)

TRM has launched a range of motion controllers, which include colour screens and keypads and therefore remove the need for an external human-machine interface (HMI).

Epblue ID has barcode management functionality (March 2010)

Eppendorf has launched Epblue ID, the latest version of its PC software for controlling the Epmotion automated pipetting system.

Ion chromatography analyses bath electrolytes (March 2010)

Inorganic additives are added to plating baths for their catalytic and functional effects on the plating process, but can enter as impurities that build up over time and reduce plating efficiency.

Dilas delivers conduction-cooled multi-bar module (March 2010)

ES Technology has released a conduction-cooled, multi-bar module with a homogeneous top-hat optical beam profile, capable of handling up to 500W output in standard wavelengths.