MILWAUKEE, July 2, 2012 — Machine and equipment manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators and end users with demanding applications look to simplify network design while maintaining resiliency. The new Allen-Bradley FLEX I/O dual-port EtherNet/IP adapters from Rockwell Automation achieve this goal – helping OEMs connect machines to their end customers’ IT infrastructures using a single network. With the dual ports, users can also leverage the adapter to display diagnostics via a simple Web browser, helping reduce troubleshooting and downtime.

The new EtherNet/IP adapters support a device-level ring (DLR) topology, which provides robust network infrastructure and extremely fast recovery time, while keeping implementation cost down. DLR infrastructures are connected at the end device versus the switch. With no need for unnecessary switches and cabling, users can reduce design time and simplify implementation.

When you need precision gas mass flow control of expensive process gases, where minimal pressure drop is a key consideration for cost savings and efficiency, the SmartTrak® 140 controls up to 500 slpm with an ultra-low ΔP of 4.5 psid (310 mBard) much better than typical ΔP values of 25 psid (1700 mBard) for equivalent mass flow controllers on the market.

• Control 10 sccm to 500 slpm (nlpm) with 4.5 psid (310 mBard)
• Competitively priced compared to other high flow controllers
• Controls up to 500 slpm (nlpm) with an ultra-low ΔP of 4.5 psid (310 mBard)
• Control valve with large flow coefficient (Cv) for precise digital PID control at low ΔP
• Dial-A-Gas® Technology allows control of 10 pre-programmed gases in one instrument; substitute any gas
• Pilot Module gives the customer a remote or local display and ability to change gas, engineering units, output signal,
• full-scale, set point, zero, span
• All 316 stainless steel construction for increased durability
• Patented, inherently linear Laminar Flow Element (LFE) for true linear performance

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12.5 µs cycle time, continuously maintained from the PLC to the I/O signals: This is eXtreme Fast Control – XFC. With the presentation at Hannover Messe 2012, Beckhoff was underlining its technological leadership in fast control technology. The components for this record-breaking system are: a high-performance CPU – a Beckhoff Industrial PC with control software to match – TwinCAT 3; ultra-fast I/O components – with 1 µs latency; and naturally the fast Industrial Ethernet system – EtherCAT.

“When we first presented EtherCAT in 2003, the performance of this new fieldbus technology was still miles ahead of the controller capability of the time. With TwinCAT 3 and the current IPC CPUs the gap is closing, although it's still not possible to foresee when we will be able to make the maximum EtherCAT data throughput fully usable for machine controllers”, says Dr. Dirk Janssen, Manager Software Development at Beckhoff and one of the inventors of EtherCAT. “With the 12.5 µs presentation we were showing what the Beckhoff system is capable of together with our EtherCAT Terminals.” Dirk Janssen says that the bus cycle time, while exciting, is actually in itself not decisive: “A fast fieldbus only becomes a fast control system with a capable controller and ultra-fast I/O components. And only with EtherCAT can the highest performance of the fieldbus be implemented continuously through to the I/O signals: All technologies that rely on bus couplers with a separate, local I/O bus suffer here from system-related disadvantages.”

Beckhoff New Automation Technology

Stainless steel housings for the use within explosive-risk zones

The Klippon® TB housing series features excellent performance characteristics, even under the most difficult environmental surroundings. And it meets the stricter requirements of explosive-risk zones found in the process or power generation industries

The new Klippon® TB MH housing series offers further improvements to a product line that is already successfully leading the market.

The Klippon® TB MH housing series features the following advantages:

• Available in 12 sizes and 3 standard depths
• Equipped with up to 4 flange plates
• The seal is protected against compression
• Completely removable padlock mechanism
• Cover lock outside the sealed zone
• Improved temperature performance
• IP66/IP67 protection
• Completely removable cover – no tools required
• Earth stud in housing cover and bottom section
• Welded-on mounting feet
• International approvals

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