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A Modern Alternative to Reflective Memory and VME
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| Company: | UEI |
| Reflective Memory, and in particular, Reflective Memory in VME chassis has been the standard for real-time DAQ and embedded control systems for years. However, due to the age of most VME technology, as well as the recent consolidation of vendors in the market, many VME users have, or will soon face “end-of-life” issues with their VME solutions. Reflective Memory itself is an older, proprietary technology and may itself be facing end-of-life in the not too distant future. In the meanwhile, new technology from UEI provides the functionality of Reflective Memory in a simpler, less expensive,
and more modern architecture. |
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"You Can't Push a Rope"
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| Company: | MVProducts & Services, Inc. |
| “You can't push a rope.” This was an expression I heard long ago from a statics professor of mine who happened to mention this truth while discussing pulleys. Having spent years in the force measurement
industry, it is an analogy that comes to mind in many applications. One application is that of the calibration of load cells. How so, you ask? As with a rope, pulling a load cell (tension) results in an inherent axial alignment with the force vector. Once you begin to reverse the force and push
(compression), the force vector doesn't necessarily want to remain coaxial with what is being pushed. In the case of the rope, this results in buckling. In the case of the load cell, this results in uncertainty
beyond that of the load cell itself. |
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Fluke 810 Vibration Tester keeps the good stuff flowing
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| Company: | Fluke Corp Div. of Industrial Group |
| At Alpenrose Dairy in Portland, OR operators process the raw milk into a dozen varieties of milk, six cultured products (cottage cheese and sour cream) and 31 flavors of ice cream. It’s a challenge to keep the complex Alpenrose production facility, with its hundreds of motors, pumps and gearboxes, running butter-smooth. But thanks to the new Fluke 810
Vibration Tester, it’s easier today to maintain Alpenrose as the cream of the crop. |
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Quantum Tubers Reduces Development Time with TURCK Sensors and Distributed I/O System
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| Company: | Turck |
| A potato may take six to eight years of development before it reaches the dinner plate. Characteristics like size, color, solid-matter content and starch type can all vary among the thousands of varieties of potatoes, and they are appealing to producers and consumers for their
respective characteristics. For instance, some are best served baked or mashed at dinner, while other varieties are more desirable for the production of French fries or potato chips. It can take
decades to bring a new variety of potato to the consumer market. In fact, it can take five to seven years just to produce the amount of seed needed for a potato farmer to grow his crop to support a commercial demand. |
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Modernizing an HMI/SCADA system
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| Company: | Siemens Industry, Inc., Industry Automation Div. |
| “Time flies.” The old adage may be trite, but it holds true in many cases; perhaps no more so today than with the plant HMI/SCADA system. These systems took center stage a decade ago as the world prepared to enter a new millennium and predictions raged about the demise of all date-based technologies and systems . However, by making a few modifications and putting a variety of upgrades in place, HMI/SCADA systems made it through Y2K unscathed and were once more relegated to obscurity. Now aged and archaic, many are inefficient and ineffective, not doing the jobs they should be doing and, more importantly, not doing the jobs they could be doing. |
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Speed: Today’s Manufacturing Competitive Edge
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| Company: | Adept Technology Inc |
| Ever since the Venice Arsenal started mass producing ships in what some refer to as the world’s first factory back in the 13th century, manufacturers have been driven by the need for speed. Manufacturing speed that is. In today’s environment where consumers demand for new products is driving ever shorter product life cycles manufacturers are consistently looking to turn and produce products at ever increasing speeds just to remain competitive. Superior quality and a low price are a given for companies just to be in the race. What differentiates the winner in this new manufacturing competition is the ability to react quickly, produce fast and deliver even faster. |
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27 Years of Unusual & Wacky Laser Scanning Projects
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| Laser Design & GKS’s veteran metrologists have performed many unusual scans in their careers. Some that have come to the fore in the recent years range from small objects and parts like molded plastic parts to really big projects including huge oil drilling platforms in the ocean and an entire prison compound, decommissioned of course. Laser scanning projects and customers have grown exponentially in size and number since the technology’s inception in the mid-1980s. |
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New controllers extend Integrated Automation to small systems
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| Company: | Siemens Industry Inc Process Instrumentation Business Unit |
| In the past, automation users designing small control systems have been
challenged by many requirements to integrate with other connected
devices, such as HMIs, additional controllers, networks, business systems,
etc. Attempting to meet these system needs, and the inability to meet them
with existing technology, forced designers to choose a larger controller than
otherwise needed, or a PC-based controller, or even a “green-board” custom controller. Now, controller-technology trends have produced a new option, which is “just right” for many applications. |
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Torque Sensors: An Overview of their Design and Application
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| Company: | PCB Load & Torque |
| All torque sensors manufactured by PCB Load & Torque, Inc are strain gage based measuring instruments whose output voltage is proportional to applied torque. The output voltage produced by a resistance change in strain gages that are bonded to the torque sensor structure. The magnitude of the resistance change is proportional to the deformation of the torque sensor and therefore the applied torque. |
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Load Cells: An Overview of their Design and Application
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| Company: | PCB Load & Torque |
| PCB Load & Torque, Inc. load cells consist of specially designed structures which perform in a predictable and repeatable manner when a force is applied. The force applied is translated into a voltage by the resistance change in strain gages which are intimately bonded to the transducer structure. The amount of change in resistance indicates the magnitude of
deformation in the transducer structure and hence the load the applied. |
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