‘Human Machine Interfaces’
An Engineeringtalk guide
Start with the news release
Safety relays simplify control-system design from
Eaton Corp, which we summarised at the time by saying "Safety relays in the Eaton Moeller ESR5 range simplify the design and implementation of control systems that meet safety and reliability standards.".
Several months prior to that,
we featured the news release SICK to exhibit at manufacturing technology event from
SICK (UK): "SICK will use the upcoming Manufacturing Technology Scotland event on 11-12 November, which is to be held at the SECC in Glasgow, to further publicise its Industrial Instrumentation Division.".
In November 2009, we covered the news from ESI Group
- take a look at Pam-Comfort helps Renault design new seat
which says: "Renault has used ESI's Pam-Comfort system for the preliminary design of a new seat.".
Take a look also at the news release from Schunk Intec, Schunk toolholding suits five-axis machining,
as well as LPC-395F fanless PC features removable storage from Stealth Computer Corporation,
and Ceram tests resilience of YSZ used in implants from CERAM.
Latest stories...
Rotary encoders provide 1nm and 2nm resolutions (November 2009)
Renishaw has introduced 1nm and 2nm resolution versions of its Tonic incremental encoder range.
BNS inspects British Energy AGR stations (November 2009)
Increasing graphite core inspection requirements has led to a British Energy review of how to approach the inspection of its AGR reactor channels without extending reactor outages.
Rockwell offers range of servers and workstations (November 2009)
Rockwell Automation has introduced a series of servers and workstations intended to help engineers to more efficiently build a process automation system.
Epiphan introduces KVM internet appliance (November 2009)
Epiphan Systems has introduced the KVM2Ethernet: an internet appliance that allows users to add remote KVM capability to any computerised device.
Boa camera suits harsh factory-floor environments (November 2009)
Adept Electronic Solutions is offering the Boa smart camera, an all-in-one vision system from Dalsa designed for harsh factory-floor environments.
SICK introduces single- and multi-turn encoders (November 2009)
SICK Stegmann has introduced the AFS60 single-turn and AFM60 multi-turn absolute encoders.
EO adds more than 30 lenses to Techspec range (October 2009)
Edmund Optics (EO) has expanded its line of Techspec imaging and machine-vision lenses.
Igus optical-fibre cable suits all bus systems (October 2009)
Igus has developed an optical-fibre cable, Chainflex CFLG.2LB, which is suitable for all bus systems.
Further reading
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Smart move in human machine interfaces
The new SmartTouch HMI range is claimed to be the industry's fastest compact display terminal.
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