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03 September 2024
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TOM CASH explains how engineers can ensure PLCs last for their expected duration.
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18 April 2024
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Charlotte Stonestreet sits down with Lee Turner, vice president of product and supplier management at Farnell to discuss trends and challenges in the world of industrial automation and control
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15 November 2023
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STEPHEN HAYES explains how control technology can play a key role in solving the UK’s productivity puzzle
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24 February 2023
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A renowned door manufacturer has seen a threefold increase in its productivity, thanks to its latest collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric, headed up by Michael Cafferkey
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28 July 2022
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Delivering next-level flexibility and interconnectivity for traction power, a remote telemetry solution will help to ensure smooth operations at London Euston. David Bean reports
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17 February 2022
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Vibhoosh Gupta explains what constitutes a ‘true’ industrial edge controller, and describes the key factors that users should examine when implementing such devices.
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01 September 2021
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Martin Walder takes a look at how demand for increased packaging line speed and flexibility is impacting the use of use of traditional PLCs in the sector
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23 April 2020
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In order to remain competitive, it is generally accepted that industries should adopt lean manufacturing strategies to improve process efficiency. A key action can be to reduce part count, i.e. the number of components in an assembly or system. This is particularly challenging when it comes to highly accurate cartesian coordinate (linear) motion applications. In these cases, machine builders would often need to use both PLCs and computer numerical controllers (CNCs) in order to fully manage movement within the machine – until now. Barry Weller, Product Manager at Mitsubishi Electric, looks at how to simplify the control architecture of cartesian coordinate robots
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03 January 2020
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PLCs with in-built functional safety and fail-safe condition monitoring are the unsung heroes of many renewable installations, offering off-the-shelf availability, high reliability, fast processing speeds and proven safety functions
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12 August 2019
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Mitsubishi Electric has released its smallest and most powerful compact PLC to date, the FX5UC series Premium Micro PLC. Its diminutive size is set to help machine builders and manufacturers pack ever more functionality into a smaller space - while also providing the web access and network connectivity demanded by the latest Smart Factory applications
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25 August 2016
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Following restructuring of IDEC Electronics’ European business last year, the operations of former IDEC Electronics UK have received a significant boost with the launch by IDEC UK’s former managing director, Stephen Schiller, of Staffordshire-based company, Sys-Tek
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14 June 2016
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The interaction between machines and robots is vital for efficient industrial manufacturing. MotoLogix from YASKAWA is a new generation control interface which enables direct integration while still providing all the benefits of a modern control system.
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22 January 2016
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Despite the emergence of alternative control solutions, the popularity of the PLC endures. Mitsubishi Electric product manager Hugh Tasker outlines ten reasons why you still need a PLC.
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17 August 2015
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With the evolution of PLCs being on an upward slope since the early 70s, customer demands are now playing an even bigger role in their capabilities; especially when they are over-designed or under-powered. Heiko Luckhaupt, category marketing manager, Automation & Control, RS Components, reports
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27 April 2015
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As part of its vision for how modern manufacturers can be more profitable through next generation manufacturing, at the recent Hannover Messe, Eaton is showcased its new generation of stylish and powerful HMI/PLCs
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26 February 2015
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In a move said to be unprecedented in the company's history, Mitsubishi Electric has expanded its iQ automation platform with the simultaneous launch of not one but two new ranges of controllers – the MELSEC iQ-R ‘next generation’ programmable automation controllers (PACs) and the MELSEC iQ-F range of compact PLCs.
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23 June 2014
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By linking PLCs with PC-based data acquisition and analysis, shops that fabricate customsed products can achieve better consistency and quality, explains Eamonn Walsh, chairman and managing director at Brainboxes
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08 October 2024
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Siemens Industry has launched its next generation controller family for medium to high-end machine and plant automation to coincide with the latest versionof its Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) Portal engineering framework
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30 October 2012
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Capable of 0.1 microsecond per Boolean instruction, an ABB AC500-eCo PLC has been selected by a specialist machine manufacturer that wanted a detection system to control the operation of its servo controlled rewinder...
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12 October 2012
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Launched in Japan a year ago and now available worldwide, the MELSEC L
series PLC from Mitsubishi Electric has been designed to bridge the gap
between the FX compact PLC and the Q series
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