This digital issue of Automation Notebook gives you snapshots of some of our latest products. You’ll find products from a variety of categories including, Pneumatics, PLCs, Tools, Sensors, Wire and Wiring Accessories. We’ve also added to our Process Control, Power, and Motion Control, Enclosures, and Fuse product categories. Precision Pneumatic Regulators NITRA High Precision Pneumatic…
Team OTTO scored many “firsts” throughout the 2016 competition season in the FIRST Robotics program. The students from Forsyth Central High School ranging in age from 14 to 18 have taken the team the furthest it’s ever been – to the World Competition.
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A Quick Look At Creating The IIoT
The IIoT starts with edge devices. Connecting these sensors, actuators, motors, drives and other smart devices to PLCs and other advanced controllers is the first step. The connection continues through the HMI to provide data sharing to both local and remote users through corporate intranets and the Internet. Connecting edge devices and distributing the data…
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Pneumatic Circuit Symbols Explained
Directional air control valves are the building blocks of pneumatic control. Pneumatic circuit symbols representing these valves provide detailed information about the valve they represent. Symbols show the methods of actuation, the number of positions, the flow paths and the number of ports. Here is a brief breakdown of how to read a symbol.
The latest CLICK PLCs are three to ten times faster than existing CLICK PLC units. Ethernet Basic PLC units and Ethernet Standard PLC feature one built-in 10/100 Mbps Ethernet communications port for both programming and Modbus TCP networking, plus one standard RS-232 serial communications port; Ethernet Standard PLC units add an RS-485 port.
This issue of Automation Notebook gives you snapshots of some of our latest products. Some of the products you’ll find include fusible and non-fusible disconnects and additional pneumatic products such as cylinders, fitting and flow control valves. You’ll also find interlocking safety switches, C-more Micro touch panels, enclosures and
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Why Use Pneumatics?
In manufacturing facilities, compressed air is so widely used that it is often regarded as the fourth utility after electricity, natural gas and water. But compared to electricity, compressed air is more expensive, so why is it so widely used to drive factory automation systems?
Teachers often cover subject matter at the speed of the least experienced student, which is helpful for them, but is less productive for more advanced trainees. Classroom training in general can be quite tedious, and also very expensive compared to more modern alternatives.
Readers of Automation Notebook have their favorite section. For most, that section is The Break Room. This is often the first place many readers go to once they receive the latest issue.
Each issue of the Automation Notebook features a section we call, “The Break Room”. Now that you’ve successfully solved each puzzle, and before you brag to your coworkers, you can double check the brainteaser answers from Issue 34, 2016 of Automation Notebook below. If you want to return to the brainteasers questions, click here. 1.) Mirror, mirror,…