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Intrinsically safe keyboards

01 April, 2009 by

The iKey intrinsically safe keyboards are constructed in a rugged, stainless steel case with industrial silicone rubber keypads, ensuring NEMA 4X protection.

Food business performance evaluation

01 April, 2009 by

Lawson M3 Analytics for Food & Beverage is an application that helps food companies access meaningful business intelligence to improve decision making without having to develop analytics tools in house.

CitectSCADA V7.10 SCADA software upgrade

01 April, 2009

Citect has equipped the latest edition of CitectSCADA, V7.10, with Windows Integrated Security and support for Microsoft Windows Vista.

Quality assurance software

01 April, 2009 by

The Sartorius ProControl@Informer software module has been released for the Sartorius ProControl for Windows (SPCfWin), a QA system that can collect process data on a wide variety of quality attributes in samples with individual values, as well as in condensed form from dynamic checkweighers.

Compressed air usage audit

01 April, 2009 by

CompAir’s Airnergy Analysis provides a totally integrated and comprehensive demand side audit of a business’s compressed air usage with a full measurement of energy use, actual airflow rates and pressures.

Real-time process control for food processors

01 April, 2009 by

Real-time process control for food manufacturing has come closer, due to pioneering research work at University College Dublin into viscosity measurement techniques for characterising the flow and mixability of highly non-Newtonian fluids. At the heart of the researchers’ experiments is the TorqSense transducer made by Sensor Technology in Oxon, which monitors the constantly changing flow characteristics of materials as diverse as tomato sauce, chocolate, pasta sauce and chicken tikka massala as they are mixed.

Operator interfaces

01 April, 2009 by

Building on the success of the previous touch screen PMI ranges, the fourth-generation Pilz operator interface and diagnostic display units offer improved performance.

Plant simulation software

31 March, 2009 by

Plant Simulation is a software solution from Siemens PLM that allows users to optimise throughput, relieve bottlenecks and minimise work-in-process in factories, warehouses and logistical operations.

LabWare is certified ‘Powered By SAP NetWeaver’

13 January, 2009

LabWare LIMS v6.0 is one of the first enterprise LIMS to become certified for use with SAP’s Enterprise SOA-based Integration Technology.

ABB Pick-and-place robot

01 August, 2008

ABB Australia’s second-generation FlexPicker robot, the IRB 360, is more productive with increased speed, higher payload and a smaller footprint than its predecessors.

Lean production management

01 July, 2008

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has available its latest version of its Proficy Tracker software that helps companies realise lean initiatives by managing the execution of orders and the related flow of materials.

Clean area automation

01 July, 2008

Baldor has launched a family of frequency inverter drives for AC motors.

Compressed air energy management

01 July, 2008

An energy-management system from Parker domnick hunter is designed to save up to 80% of power consumed during drying compressed air.

Laboratory information management system

01 June, 2008

LabWare has introduced the next major version of its LabWare LIMS.

Intelligent management production software

01 June, 2008

Innova software is designed for intelligent production control. The technology is built on the extensive software development experience of Marel Food Systems’ four global brands AEW Delford, Carnitech, Marel and Scanvaegt.