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News Release from: Danaher Motion | Subject: Control platform for Automated Guided Vehicles
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 August 2006
Control platform maximises AGV
flexibility
Control platform uses Soft PLC for automated guided vehicles to couple extensive programming options and advanced diagnostics with a high degree of user-friendliness and flexibility.
Danaher Motion introduces Version 1.3 of its NDC8 control platform for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) Version 1.3 couples extensive programming options and advanced diagnostics with a high degree of user-friendliness and flexibility
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Even highly complex transport vehicles can now be managed simply and quickly via a single platform.
Text, graphic and color touch-screen displays are included.
This simplifies the programming process and facilitates quick, seamless installation.
Version 1.3 enables users to automatically tune vehicles, for example, in situations where there are slight variations between the laser scanner positions or zero positions of the control encoders.
This optimizes control of all vehicles within the fleet.
Danaher Motion's AGV solutions are used in a wide range of applications and industries, including steel, automotive, electronics, ceramics and entertainment, among others.
Additionally, this control platform is now available in simplified Chinese, as well as English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Finnish and Swedish.
The color touch-screens also support Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese languages.
* About Danaher Motion - Danaher Motion is a leading global manufacturer of motion control products that improve the efficiency and productivity of complex manufacturing operations.
Danaher Motion's product innovations have been revolutionizing the motion control industry for over 60 years through trusted brand names including Dover, Kollmorgen, MEI, Pacific Scientific, Portescap, and Thomson.
Danaher Motion is a strategic business platform of the Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR), a manufacturer of process and environmental controls, tools and industrial components.
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