New product releases from Omron

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IBG - SA Instrumentation & Control Buyers' Guide

May 2003 News

Each year Omron Corporation releases a number of new industrial control products to its local partner Yelland Control for distribution into southern Africa. Most of these products are particularly suitable for the industries in the local market place and reportedly promoted with great success.

It is often thought that products such as relays, timers and their sockets, have reached the end of their development cycles. These less intelligent products seemed to have been ignored by development engineers during recent years. However, Omron's engineers have now redesigned these ranges equipping them with more practical features that enhance their user friendliness.

One of the major advantages to the user is that these miniature relays and timers have properly designed plug-in terminations and not the flimsy print circuit board pins that are commonly used by many manufacturers. Their sockets now have screwless clamp terminals, easy-to-read terminal numbers, labelling tags and retaining brackets.

Omron will be launching a new range of low voltage contactors, thermal overloads and motor protection circuit breakers towards the middle of this year.

Yelland Control will be introducing the CJ1 series of programmable controllers, which are destined to become one of Omron's major baseline products and will complement the already launched CS1 series. The CJ1 range has been designed so that the user can mix and match the power of various CPUs with the extensive range of standard I/O units and special function units. The chosen units plug into one another without the use of a back plane thus ensuring that the space occupied in the control panel is taken up only by functional components. With its ultra compact design, having a profile slightly larger than a credit card (90 mm x 65 mm), this small package can be expanded from 16 to 2560 I/O bits.

The CJ1 series supports DeviceNet, CompoBus/S, Profibus-DP, Ethernet, and Controller Link networks. Using these network systems, high performance data exchange and programming is achieved. Programming design is done using the programming module from Omron's CX Automation Suite.

Omron's expanding sensor range will this year include the plug and play ZX laser series used for precise measurement of objects on a production line and the teachable diffused reflective E3N-L photoelectric sensor - which has a 2 m sensing distance and features background and foreground suppression.

As an addition to the variable speed AC drive range and the W-series servo drives, the Smartstep servo system will be introduced. The Smartstep is designed to offer machine builders a basic, reliable servo system for fast, precise positioning at a very attractive price. Smartstep power ranges are between 30 and 750 W at 100 and 220 V a.c. and can operate at a rated 3000 rpm and 300% peak torque.

Yelland Control staff and the business associates who form part of the company's distribution and system integration networks have been carefully selected to satisfy the requirements of the customer.

For more information contact Ian McInnes, Yelland Control, 011 455 2782, www.yelland.co.za

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