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SMC’s Air Management System (P171)

Shawn Tierney -
Today my guest is Mark Arnold of SMC and he introduces us to their Air Management System in this episode of The Automation Podcast. For more information, check out the "Show Notes" located below the video. Watch the Podcast:  Listen via Apple, Google, Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn, YouTube, Rumble, Amazon Music,...

SMC Launches New Air Grippers and Flow Controller

Shawn Tierney -
Today SMC launched two new products, a series of Air Grippers for collaborative robots, and a new Air Flow Controller. The Air Grippers are require just 1 air supply tube and 1 electrical wire, and have a built-in solenoid valve, exhaust throttle valve with silencer, auto switch, and fitting. The new...

Banner’s New Pressure Sensors

Shawn Tierney -
Banner announced their new S15C series of pressure sensors available to measure ranges up to 5000 psi. These sensors feature 4–20 mA analog outputs and include a Modbus converter with pre-scaled value, and allows for simple integration with SNAP ID. The series launched with six stainless-steel models ideal for liquid-pumping...

Festo’s Decentralized I/O Boosts Machine Performance

Shawn Tierney -
According to a new Blog on Rockwell's website, Festo 's CPX-AP-I decentralized I/O brings increased responsiveness and diagnostics to pneumatic systems and includes an L5X file export for faster and simpler programming in Studio 5000. Some of the specs listed in the article included that the CPX-AP-I I/O includes EtherNet/IP ...

Rockwell Automation and Infinitum Team Up To Make High-Efficiency Low Voltage Drives and Motors

Shawn Tierney -
Infinitum, creator of the sustainable air core motor, and Rockwell Automation announced an exclusive agreement to develop and distribute a new class of high-efficiency, low voltage drive and motor tech. This solution is said to significantly reduce energy and costs for industrial customers. Energy conscious companies already implement variable frequency...

Ignition 8.1.32: New BACnet Read/Write Functions, Scripting Style Guidance

Shawn Tierney -
The Inductive Automation Dev Team does it again with a another shipment of slam-dunk update full of improvements. Their latest release, Ignition 8.1.32, delivers many new features including new scripting functions and acceptable values for their BACnet Driver, guidance for parsing script functions and docstrings, and much more. See the below...

Straton Redundancy S2 ProfinetIO

Shawn Tierney -
As we previously reported, the Straton redundant runtime now supports S2 redundancy on ProfinetIO. In this configuration, the Primary and Secondary controllers both connect to devices on Profinet, allowing active switching with low latency, avoiding temporary network failures. S2 redundancy also allows a reduction of the switching time from one controller...

TeSys Island: Smart Motor Starters from Schneider Electric (P170)

Shawn Tierney -
Today my guests are Erik Barnes and Dana Voelker of Schneider Electric and they introduce us to their TeSys Island Smart Motor Starters in this episode of The Automation Podcast. For more information, check out the "Show Notes" located below the video. Watch the Podcast: [vimeo 864137918 w=750 h=420] Listen via Apple, Google,...

Beckhoff Camera, Lighting & Lensing

Shawn Tierney -
Beckhoff is promoting their new camera, lighting and lensing hardware as part of a comprehensive, integrated image processing solution. With Beckhoff Vision, the company says engineers will see new possibilities for applications that require machine vision hardware and automation software that are perfectly matched. See the below video clip for our...

Cognex’s New In-Sight SnAPP

Shawn Tierney -
Cognex announced the launch of their new In-Sight SnAPP vision sensor, which they market as an ease of use, accurate, and highly functional industrial vision sensor. Their new In-Sight SnAPP is designed for simplicity and ease of deployment so as to give customers a new, accessible on-ramp to machine vision. See...

Rockwell Stratix 5200 Switches

Shawn Tierney -
Rockwell Automation announced the release of a new line of Stratix switches today. This new line, the Stratix 5200, is said to offer increased functionality and are easier to set up, configure. The Stratix 5200 fully managed switches offer various hardware configurations and features, including: Higher port speed options with...

Heavy-Duty, Compact 1200kg AMR

Shawn Tierney -
OTTO Motors announced its new OTTO 1200 AMR, its highest performing heavy-duty AMR designed for tight spaces. This their newest AMR is designed with a narrow width and can autonomously move payloads up to 1,200 kg (2,640 lb) without compromising safety. For a summary of this article and our reflections, see...

Fully Autonomous Welding Robotics

Shawn Tierney -
Path Robotics released a new press release on their new, fully autonomous robotic manufacturing system with their new autonomous Fit-up robotic system, the AF-1. Touted as "a ground-breaking robotic cell capable of performing both fit-up and welding of metal parts," they are showcasing it at FABTECH, the North American metal...

New Turck PROFINET Encoders

Shawn Tierney -
Turck announced it's offering new, versatile Profinet absolute encoders for precise positioning and fast data transmission. The REM (multiturn) and RES (single-turn) series use the latest Profinet encoder profile (version 4.2,) allowing the single turn devices to offer 19-bit resolution, while the multi-turn models offerup to 24 bits of resolution. Not...

September’s New PROFINET Products

Shawn Tierney -
This month the following five new PROFINET products made PROFINEWS's list: Festo's Modular Remote I/O System with PROFINET and IO-Link Parker Hannifin's New AC Inverter Drives with PROFINET Beckhoff's Ethernet APL Terminals with PROFINET for Hazardous Areas Microchip Technology's New Gigabit Ethernet Switch with AVB/TSN and Integrated PHYs Siemens'...

IO-Link and Mioty Alliance

Shawn Tierney -
PROFINEWS has a new story about the IO-Link community working with the mioty alliance to increase their collaborative efforts and cooperate more closely in the future. With that in mind, they’ve created a joint working group focusing on the adaptation of IO-Link (IODD) data models to seamlessly integrate them into...

Softing’s dataFEED OPC Suite (D012)

Shawn Tierney -
On today's show Quinton Lowry of Softing demos and answers questions on their OPC UA Server, dataFEED OPC Suite in this episode of The Automation Demo (D012.) For more information check out the "Show Notes" located below the video.  The Automation Demo, Episode 12 Show Notes: Special Thanks to Quinton Lowry of...

Panduit Details The Advantages Of Single Pair Ethernet

Shawn Tierney -
More and more Industrial Ethernet products are coming with embedded two port switches, which is a welcome trend and is making the daisy chaining of Distributed I/O a growing trend in control system topologies. But daisy chaining your I/O drops can only take you so far (pun intended,) and doesn't...

Beckhoff Talks Future Proofing Automation

Shawn Tierney -
In Beckhoff's latest article, "Digitalization for the process industry," they share their vision on how engineers can make their plants "fit for the future" by providing an overview of various concepts for digitalization and flexibility, including: Implement continuous monitoring via NOA Edge Devices Ease field device installation via Ethernet...

IND360: Next Gen Weighing Indicator from Mettler Toledo (P169)

Shawn Tierney -
Today my guest is Jeff Holcomb of Mettler Toledo who introduces us to the Next Generation of Weighing Indicators, the IND360, in this episode of The Automation Podcast. For more information, check out the "Show Notes" located below the video. Watch the Podcast:  Listen via Apple, Google, Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn,...

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