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Intelligent control for safety curtains at sea
The latest safety curtain installation from specialist Blackout Triple E, on The Golden Princess, a 109,000 ton luxury cruise liner, relies on Hitachi control equipment
News from Engineeringtalk, 12 October 2001
Drive support web site offers free downloads
HID has announced enhancements to the DriveManager support web site enabling registered users to access free downloads and upgrades for the DriveManager suite of programs
News from Engineeringtalk, 19 July 2001
Hitachi machine interfaces exceed sales targets
HID reports that since launching the Hitachi range of HMIs (human/machine interfaces) into the UK in the middle of last year, all eleven models in the range have exceeded sales expectations
News from Engineeringtalk, 13 April 2001
Handy software for AC inverter programming
The SRW Simulator programming software emulates Hitachi's existing SRW hand held programming unit, but with the convenience of being able to program offline
News from Engineeringtalk, 13 April 2001
New business sales engineer for automation company
HID has appointed Richard Mills as its new business sales engineer, with a remit to develop new and emerging markets as well as to exploit the opportunities for Hitachi's advanced automation products
News from Engineeringtalk, 1 March 2001
Big sales for micro PLCs indicate strong future
Don't write off the PLC, says HID: since launching the latest Hitachi EH-Micro range of PLCs in mid 2000, the company has experienced unprecedented growth in sales of the powerful new baby devices.
News from Engineeringtalk, 21 February 2001
Software makes setting up drives really easy
HID has unveiled a very simple menu driven Windows based system called QuickStart, which makes setting up the Hitachi variable speed drives as easy as possible
News from Engineeringtalk, 13 February 2001
A new level of simplicity for drive programming
Hitachi's DriveManager emulates Hitachi's existing DOP and DRW hand held programming units, but with the convenience of being able to program drives at a desktop with a full size monitor.
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 November 2000
New Southern sales manager for drives company
HID has appointed Bob Halls as its new Sales manager for the South of England.
News from Engineeringtalk, 10 November 2000
Expandable PLCs offer good networking
The new Hitachi EH-Micro Series of PLCs from HID continues the company's tradition for very small compact systems with maximum power and functionality.
News from Engineeringtalk, 19 June 2000
New Hitachi HMIs go for ease of use
The new range of Hitachi human machine interfaces from HID is designed to make system operation as simple as possible.
News from Engineeringtalk, 19 June 2000
New drives tailored for HVAC applications
Hitachi's new L300P drives have been specially designed to deliver variable speed control to HVAC applications.
News from Engineeringtalk, 19 June 2000
Designing a smoother ride for elevators
Stephen Scales of HID Limited explains how Hitachi has addressed the issue of a smoother elevator ride with a new inverter that offers significant advances for lift engineers.
News from Engineeringtalk, 19 June 2000
Two new drives from HID
The new SJ300 is a high performance inverter with full torque at 0Hz in open loop mode, and the new L300P is a drive specially designed for fan and pump operation in the HVAC industry.
News from Engineeringtalk, 19 June 2000
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