We’ve started adding YouTube videos to the website. You’ll start to find them sprinkled around our vendor profile pages and here on our Automation Update blog. You can also follow our videos by subscribing to our YouTube channel or following our YouTube RSS feed.
Here are a few of our favorite videos:
Advanced Motion Controls overview. This video includes an introduction to AMC’s design philosophy, a description of their product capabilities, and a tour of their integrated manufacturing and R&D facility in California.
B&R Automation Studio Preview. This video demonstrates the power of B&R’s integrated approach to automation software. Automation Studio is a comprehensive programming tool that supports logic and I/O, visualization/HMI, motion, diagnostics, safety, and project management.
Nexen Roller Pinion System. It’s always cool to see products in action, especially when they are new and innovative ones like Nexen’s Roller Pinion System (RPS). The RPS combines some of the advantages of ballscrews, belts, and linear motors to provide high speeds, high loads, high accuracy, and long travel all at a reasonable cost.
The July 2009 issue of B&R’s automotion magazine is available here. Automotion always has lots of great stories on B&R’s latest applications. In this quarter’s issue:
- Standardization of network technologies
- Shrimp: more popular than ever
- Cutting edge computing
- Entering new markets with Fortuna
- Frequency inverters for all performance ranges
- One tool maximum
- Welding with reduced power consumption
- Molded into shape
- Overhead lifting solutions
- Intel® Atom™ processors for increased cost-effectiveness
- Increased efficiency with integrated safety technology
- Integrated safety doesn’t need to be expensive
- Outstanding packaging
- CNC with the highest precision
- From the mountain to your roads and tables
- Cool solutions
- All-terrain concrete mixers
- Taking a powerful position
- Innovative sputter process
- Grabbing the bottle by the neck
- Straight from the lab to the plant through simulation
- Reel changes with real advantages
B&R’s X20 system is a flexible slice-based I/O system. It supports a number of fieldbus standards, including CANopen, Ethernet Powerlink, Profibus, Modbus/TCP, and others. The new fiber-optic modules are great for widely distributed systems, as they allow for distances of up to 2000 m between nodes. The use of fiber optics is also perfect for machines such as ion implanters that require complete electrical isolation of high voltage sections of the machine.
Read the press release here.
Read more about the X20 system.
