Product category:
HMIs/Operator Interfaces
News Release from: Red Lion Controls | Subject: TX Touchscreen
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 13 April 2001
Touchscreen operator interface for label
machines
Vectra Systems, of East Yorkshire, has chosen the TX Touchscreen from Red Lion as the operator interface for part of its new range of label producing machines.
Vectra Systems, of East Yorkshire, has chosen the TX Touchscreen from Red Lion as the operator interface for part of its new range of label producing machines The TX is part of Red Lion's Paradigm range of HMIs, which also includes the CL20 and GL350 as used on other Vectra Systems machines
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Jun 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The TX is specifically designed for industrial applications in the process and control arena.0 Vectra chose the TX because it provides a user-friendly interface for operators to control the entire label producing process and for the stunning, 10.4-inch, thin film transistor display, with 640x480 VGA resolution.
The Vectra machines start with printed rolls of paper and produce finished rolls of self-adhesive labels.
The whole system, from the unwind to the conveyor, is controlled from the TX Touchscreen.
For each different label type, a series of set up stages is easily entered to change parameters such as speed, cut presets, verification, web advance, tension, positional offset, batch counter, line marker, and bowl feeder.
An important feature of the TX's functionality, which allowed the touchscreen to be used to control the entire machine, was its ability to communicate over different protocols, and with more than one device on each protocol.
Red Lion was able to write drivers to communicate with a Mitsubishi PLC, four Lenze servo drives and a thermal printer.
Another feature, set up with the use of Red Lion's proprietary EDICT 97 software, is a mimic of the whole machine.
This alerts operators to any faults and directs them to the problem area thus saving valuable time.
The user-friendly interface and the quick faultfinding are of great benefit to end-users, as most staff can now operate the labeling machines.
Before this was the domain of highly skilled labour.
Making full use of the EDICT 97 software, Vectra has even completed one machine in which the entire TX interface is graphical, with no text at all, and can therefore be exported anywhere in the world.
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