All businesses benefit by improving the level of service to their own business or to their customers. One way of achieving this is by leveraging the inherent abilities of mobile devices and the internet. It is now a relatively simple task to install a monitoring device on a remote process or machine ...
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A substantial part of the cost of electrical installations for automation can be the field wiring to input and output devices. There a many field buses on the market that have been used to reduce this cost with Ethercat being one of them, however Ethercat stands alone due to its ...
Read MoreAutomation Functional Description
A functional description for the IEC61131 program of an automation project is a necessary and vital document. You wouldn’t build a house without first creating plans to specify your requirements and communicate them to the builders, so why would you try to automate your process without a “plan”. A functional ...
Read MoreAutomation Machinery Rejuvenation and Repairs
Manufacturers rely on their automated machinery to meet production quotas. Unfortunately the rapid obsolescence of automation equipment often leaves key machinery difficult to support or worse – non operational. We offer a cost effective upgrade path that can be adapted to a broad range of electronic control equipment scenarios, particularly ...
Read MoreModbus RTU for VSD’s
Modbus RTU is available as standard on most leading brands of VSD’s. A recent project completed by AIEglobal used over 20 VSD’s connected to multiple Beckhoff CX2020 PLC’s, with a majority of the drives being speed controlled via PLC PID’s. The best approach to achieve optimum performance is to split ...
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