Machine vision systems, used to inspect parts in packaging and assembly lines for part completeness, size and orientation, typically require a variety of different hardware combined with dedicated computers ...
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In manufacturing, being able to intimately manage every aspect of the production line provides significant benefits in overall productivity, quality and most importantly security. If just one part of ...
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Rockwell Automation, a global provider of power, control and information solutions, and Cisco, a global provider of networking solutions for the Internet, announced at the Hannover Messe they are working ...
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A new white paper from Rockwell Automation provides a revealing 'snapshot' of how manufacturers are beginning to bridge the historic divide between controls engineering and IT. The paper, based on interviews ...
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Working together, global leaders Rockwell Automation, Endress+Hauser and Spectrum Controls have combined their core competencies to provide a wide range of pre-integrated, pre-tested, ...
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In response to customer needs, a leading packaging company has created a small-footprint bag-in-box cartoner, using a Rockwell Automation integrated architecture-based 'virtual drive train'. Able to complete ...
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A lot happens on the factory floor that enterprise-level information technology (IT) applications do not learn about easily:    * The serial number of a part going into an individual medical device. * ...
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Rockwell Automation announced it has acquired ProsCon Holdings, a privately held engineering firm offering proven and technically unique design solutions to the process industry. Areas of expertise include ...
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Rockwell Automation has announced an agreement with OSIsoft to license and deliver OSIsoft technology within the FactoryTalk integrated production and performance suite. Under the agreement, Rockwell ...
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FlexLogix, a highly adaptable multiloop controller, is modular in nature and allows each segment of the co-generation system to be controlled by a separate FlexLogix unit
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Rockwell Automaton has opted to change the sector-specific body or SETA under which it provides training. Having been set up to encourage skills development through the establishment of a system of levies ...
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The 2006 RSTechED Africa conference, incorporating Automation University, took place in the middle of August at Emperor's Palace, Gauteng. The conference is an opportunity for industry players to network ...
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