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Fieldbus Foundation 2009 General Assembly To Be Held in Yokohama, Japan |
2008-12-29 |
| The Fieldbus Foundation today announced that its 2009 General Assembly will be held in Yokohama, Japan, on March 4-5. Planned for the Pan Pacific Hotel, the annual event is open to Fieldbus Foundation members and non-members, and will be attended by leading Foundation fieldbus suppliers, end use.... |
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I/O Modules Save Time |
2008-12-29 |
Three new inline I/O modules designed for use with the vendor’s PLCs and PACs are said to help reduce engineering time, wiring and hardware costs.
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Flexible Robotic Cabling Supports Higher Performance |
2008-12-29 |
If you are that end-user, though, and don’t manage those cables correctly, you tie up those mechanical workers and their arms, defeating their efforts.
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Innovation |
2008-12-29 |
| In today’s fast-paced business environment, innovation is the key element that helps a company not only to thrive but also to survive. |
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Calculating IGBT Driver Output for Optimum Performance |
2008-12-29 |
| Today, insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) have reached a broad penetration in power electronics and are used in many applications such as frequency converters, power supplies and electronic drives. |
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Automation skills shortage |
2008-12-29 |
| The automation industry is quickly developing a “skills shortage”, which will occur after the current generation of engineers retires. Where will the new engineers and technicians come from to operate future factories and process automation plants? |
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New Pricing Paradigms |
2008-12-29 |
| Prices for automation products are traditionally based on manufactured cost with target gross and net profit margin multipliers. It`s evident that to succeed against China and other countries that accept lower profit margins, new pricing paradigms are needed. |
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CANopen drives boost CNC platform flexibility and economy |
2008-12-29 |
| CNC vendor NUM has added a family of single- and dual-axis CANopen drives to its range. The new drives provide economic solutions for positioning requirements on machine tools, extending NUM`s high performance CNC control range in a way that helps customers to build machinery with highly optimiz.... |
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X-Y Bases for Better Positioning |
2008-12-29 |
| Today, Baldor Electric Company launches a ready-engineered linear stepper X-Y positioning base that is capable of dramatically increasing productivity in a wide range of machinery applications. |
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Doring Joins Vacon |
2008-12-29 |
| The global AC drives manufacturer Vacon has appointed Thomas M. Doring as Executive Vice President for Sales, Marketing and Service of Vacon, Inc., USA. |
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Pump Sleep Mode for Drives |
2008-12-29 |
| Hitachi announced the availability of the IPU-PSM option board. When installed in a Hitachi L300P Series inverter, the IPU-PSM adds Pump Sleep Mode functionality to the standard built-in PID function. |
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IR Introduces Revolutionary GaN-based Power Device Technology Platform |
2008-12-29 |
IR`s GaN-on-silicon epitaxy and power device technology heralds new era for power conversion
International Rectifier Corporation today announced the successful development of a revolutionary gallium nitride (GaN)-based power device technology platform |
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Drives into food and beverage applications |
2008-12-29 |
| Brochure shows how companies such as Northern Foods and Heinz are using ABB drives to run specific applications at the appropriate speed and so cut operating expenditure. |
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