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Ludeca
New Products
Rockwell Automation
surement range that covers spans
of up to 10 m. Its five-axis technology
offers simultaneous tracking in
both planes for machine corrections,
allowing live monitoring of horizontal
and vertical machine corrections
at the same time, with the sensor at
any rotational shaft position. Hundreds
of measurement readings are
automatically taken during shaft
rotation, ensuring highly repeatable
results, even in harsh conditions
with vibration, and under unfavorable
mechanical constraints, such
as coupling backlash. The integrated
ambient-light compensation
ensures accurate measurements
even in strong, direct sunlight. New
battery technology enables longer
sustained operation in the field. The
RS5 laser and sensor are fully waterproof,
shockproof and dustproof.
- Ludeca, Inc., Doral, Fla.
www.ludeca.com
This adaptor allows
wired devices to run wirelessly
The newly developed multi-function
wireless adaptor (photo) enables
wired devices that transmit
or receive digital ON/OFF signals,
or receive 4-20-mA analog signals,
to function as ISA100 Wireless
field devices. This increases
the variety of devices that can be
used with field-wireless systems,
and is expected to lead to a wider
use of such systems in plant operations.
The adapter can be used with
switches, solenoid valves, and other
device types that utilize digital ON/
OFF signals, and transmitters that
utilize 4-20-mA analog input signals.
An all-weather model that is
Flottweg
Yokogawa
waterproof and dustproof, and an
explosion-proof model that can be
used in inflammable-gas environments
are expected to be released
by the end of 2015. - Yokogawa
Corp. of America, Newnan, Ga.
www.yokogawa.com/us
Expanded Scada software for
recipe-based production
This company has added the WinCC/
SES (sequence execution system)
option to its Simatic WinCC Scada
(supervisory control and data acquisition)
system (photo, p. 30) for the
sequential control of recipe-based
and sequence-based operations in
production plants. Such an addition
is ideally suited to plants for which
dosing, mixing and material transport
are important process steps,
such as in the food and beverage
industry. Thanks to the flexible sequential
control, plant operators are
able to define their production steps
clearly and freely combine them into
individual process sequences. Both
step sequences and parameters can
be adapted online at any time to
meet ongoing production requirements.
This means that production
sequences can be re-adjusted
quickly and simply in the event that
the quality of natural raw materials
fluctuates, or if another sequence
of production steps is necessary to
enable flexible routing through the
production system. - Siemens AG,
Nuremberg, Germany
www.siemens.com/wincc
New simulation software version
with App builder
This company's newly released
Multiphysics software version 5.0
(photo, p. 30) features extensive
product updates, three new add-on
products, and the new Application
Builder. The Application Builder
empowers the design process by allowing
engineers to make available
an easy-to-use application based on
their Multiphysics model. Included
with the Windows operating-system
version of Multiphysics 5.0,
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