Internet Of Things Industrial IO AIEglobal has released the HT510 IOT module for remote control of Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP). Features include – Design specific to meet customer specification Direct control of two pumps with current monitoring Two general purpose relays no/nc Twelve general purpose 5V TTL IO signals ...
Read MoreIt is tempting to use a trendy IOT platform for your next automation or data acquisition project, but is it the correct decision? The hardware cost will certainly be lower, but what about the program development and ongoing maintenance costs? The biggest cost for any automation system today is the ...
Read MoreAIEglobal has extended and ported CableCalc an application that previously ran on Open Office to Google Sheets; we are now calling the application CableSheets. The AS3008 and AS3000 formulas are used to perform the voltage drop, loop impedance, and fault calculations, with each line on the sheet representing one cable. ...
Read MoreOne way for Australian Manufacturers to increase their manufacturing productivity is through the implementation of Collaborative Robots. These unique Robots, or Cobots as they are called, are able to work alongside human operators thus increasing their productivity and product quality. Their small size and ease of programming means they are ...
Read MoreThe Webstudio Scada/HMI package from Indusoft is able to interface to any field device for process monitoring, alarming and trending. Don’t be limited by proprietary brands of Scada or HMI that have limited or no ability to communicate with other equipment. The following points high light the benefits of Indusoft ...
Read MoreIndustry 4.0 Industry 4.0 was devised by the German Government in response to their diminishing manufacturing market share caused by China. The German governments motives are obvious once you realise that employment in the manufacturing sector for all nations has the highest multiplier of any industry, figures of 15 to ...
Read MoreFurther to our recent Twincat blog we also needed to provide a DNP3 communications connection to the local Electricity Utility. Once again we were able to supply a solution because our PLC was also running Windows along with Twincat 3. PBScontrol is a 3rd party provider with a DNP3 slave ...
Read MoreTwincat is the IEC61131-3 PLC programming environment for the Beckhoff range of automation controllers. We were initially attracted to Beckhoff because of their Ethercat Fieldbus (see related blog) however we have also come to realise and benefit from the inherent versatility of the Twincat environment. Twincat runs with Windows or ...
Read MoreWhat is Process Batching? Process Batching can be described as an automated process that combines a number of measured ingredients based on a predefined recipe into a single product or batch. The cycle is repeated to produce multiple batches. Normally the measured (weighed) ingredients are combined in a mixer where ...
Read MoreBatchFlex is a configurable PLC Batching library software module developed to meet the requirements of Industry 4.0, and also reduce the cost and simplify the implementation of batch based automation systems. XLplc was developed using the OOP extensions to IEC61131 and provides a suite of Function Blocks (FB’s) that are utilized ...
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