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ENGINEERINGTALK
The Independent Weekly Product Information
Guide
for Product Design and Automation Engineers
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London,
UK
ISSN 1470-627X - Free Circulation
Issue 5: 5 April
2000
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In this issue:
1. Editor's Message
2. Omron and Rockwell
Form Strategic Relationship
3. Toshiba wrongfoots the press
4. Data Acquisition built on Visual Basic
5. Full compliance
measurement to IEC61000-3-2 & 3-3
6. Trident And API Motion Join
Forces In UK
7. New encoders for the motion industry
8.
Profibus International surprised by patent ruling
9. Adhesive
performs in severe environments
10. New Technical Articles and
Case Studies
11. ...And take a look at these products too...
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1. Chris Rand, Editor, writes:
I don't want this to seem
like it's a discussion newsletter
about exhibitions, but they
certainly seem to be much in the
news at the moment. After we
broke the news last week about
the cancellation of the C&I
(Control & Instrumentation)
Exhibition, which was to have been
held at the NEC from 9-11
May, organiser Centaur has announced it
is launching "a far
more strategic event" in May 2001, called
Integrated
Manufacturing Solutions. "As such", the company says,
"we
have decided to withdraw C&I 2000 Exhibition from the
market
in order to better concentrate on an event that the
market
supports." Meanwhile, following the news of the move of
Drives and Controls and OSPMA-Fieldcomms to the Excel venue
in
London, information has reached us that another exhibition
organiser is stepping into the gap by running its own
competitive show in Telford next year from 13 to 15 March,
creating a bit of a head-to-head.
A long awaited shake-out, as
the exhibition heads off
competitors such as the internet? Or
symptoms of the dying
throes of the trade exhibition itself? We
shall see.
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2.
Omron and Rockwell Form Strategic Relationship
Industrial
automation market giants Omron and Rockwell
Automation have
reportedly entered into global technical and
product cooperation.
Initial emphasis of the relationship
will be placed on
"developing, adopting, and promoting common
technologies that
simplify applications and improve the
performance of industrial
automation systems". It is known
that Rockwell Automation will
provide significant technical
assistance to Omron, resulting in
rapid adoption of open
standard technologies such as DeviceNet,
ControlNet and the
recently announced Ethernet/IP (Industrial
Protocol) into the
Omron automation architecture. In addition,
Omron will
aggressively promote these open standard technologies
into
its core markets. Also, the companies will work together
to
improve connectivity between their respective application
software suites through open technologies like OPC (OLE for
Process Control) and the Rockwell Software automation
software
components.
http://www.omron.com
http://www.rockwellautomation.com
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3.
Toshiba wrongfoots the press
We reported previously that
Toshiba's Automation and
Instrumentation Division is changing its
marketing plans, by
connecting a number of Master Distributors
directly to its
head office in Tokyo. In the UK, the Master
Distributor will
be TM Technology, based in Hayes, Middlesex, and
just a few
miles down the road from the current Toshiba London
office in
West Drayton. Since that announcement Toshiba has
contacted
us (as the fastest and most pro-active engineering
medium!)
to let it be known that all other Toshiba companies
remain as
subsidiary companies in the UK and Toshiba
International
still remains active at its London Headquarters.
An
impression had inadvertently been given via the original
press release that Toshiba has entirely left its London
headquarters, which is not the case.
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4. Data
Acquisition built on Visual Basic
Softwire, a new
graphical programming tool for
building data acquisition
applications, is the
first software of its kind to use
industry-standard Visual Basic code. Combining the
speed and
simplicity of graphical programming with
the power and
flexibility of text-based
syntactical routines, Softwire makes it
easy to
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application. An innovative 'try before you buy'
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5. Full
compliance measurement to IEC61000-3-2 & 3-3
As from 1 Jan
2001, EMC conformity will include
the requirement to comply with
limits on mains
harmonics and flicker imposed on the mains by
the
product. Many modern electronic and electrical
products
draw current from the mains in a very
non-linear manner,
inevitably creating harmonic
signals. These distort the mains
voltage and
create problems for the supply and distribution
networks. Given that the numbers of electronic
devices
connected to the mains seems set to ever
increase, control of the
harmonic emissions is an
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6.
Trident And API Motion Join Forces In UK
Trident
Engineering, the Berkshire-based small DC
motor specialist, has
been appointed as the major
UK stockist and distributor for API
Motion as part
of a strategic working partnership set up
between
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Motion makes an extensive range of small ironless
rotor motors,
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iron core motors and spur
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7. New
encoders for the motion industry
Significant new
developments to Renishaw's open,
non-contact, encoder system
include a 360degree
high resolution rotary encoder, linear
encoders
based on 40 micron pitch scale, and a versatile XY
planar encoder. The RGH41 linear encoder system
operates with
Renishaw's new 40 micron pitch flexible
scale, and will shortly
operate with industry-standard
40 micron chrome/glass etched
scale, making it
suitable for a wide range of motion
applications.
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8.
Profibus International surprised by patent ruling
Recent
news that patents without declarations of
assignment are to be
imposed on fieldbus protocols
that are standardised within IEC
and Cenelec has
surprised Profibus International. Standards
affected by manufacturers' patents must normally
be listed
fully in the Standard and made available
to everyone on fair and
equal conditions. A check
carried out among Profibus
International members
confirms that all claims have been assigned
to the
standards organisations on the required
conditions.
Profibus International is now checking
to see whether there are
any patents held by
non-members that may affect Profibus.
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Adhesive performs in severe environments
Severe
environment adhesive 4505 is the latest
Symonds Cableform
structural adhesive, specially
developed to perform under severe
environmental
conditions. It can withstand up to 205fC
continuously - 230fC for 30 minutes during one
paint bake cycle
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petrol, common oils,
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