Skydivers develop their acrobatic routines indoors. The Airkix skydiving centre in Basingstoke is equipped with a state-of-the-art 14-foot diameter vertical wind tunnel that suspends its flyers in the airflow, emulating the feeling of freefall. Experienced skydivers can develop their acrobatic routines, while others use such facilities for training. Organizations book them for […]
How do multi-touch gestures improve HMI operations? Before smart phones or tablets, industrial human machine interfaces (HMIs) were the only products with touch panels and workers needed to be trained how to operate them according to the project. Nowadays however, gestures and multi touch operations are very common in our daily lives. […]
Using the new mobile function available in Mitsubishi Electric’s new GOT2000 series HMI GT27/25 models, users can remotely monitor and operate devices through a web browser. Up to five simultaneous connections are possible and each client can display different screens. HMIs changed the face of manufacturing when they became popular over twenty years ago, […]
For manufacturers of intelligent devices, connecting them to an Industrial Ethernet (IE) is a challenge facing many companies who sell their products worldwide. There are a number of IE protocols and they tend to be based on a regional basis. In Europe PROFINET, in the Americas EtherNet/IP and in Japan and Asia the CC-Link IE […]
As one of the world’s leading supplier of industrial and factory automation equipment, many machine users already have Mitsubishi Electric automation products on-site. MX4 Business is an entry-level management software enabling to track and report machine and production performance. MX4 Business enables manufacturers to identify and act on productivity, traceability and quality issues that […]