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. […]
Enhancing the capability of the Altivar ATV61 and ATV71 inverter drives, the optional integrated IMC controller card removes the need for an additional PLC in smaller application functions. The Schneider Electric Altivar IMC integrated controller card has eight tasks to suit different machine requirements (cyclic, event-triggered, free). A task can be synchronized with the […]
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 […]
South East Water award Mitsubishi Electric a Framework Agreement for Automation Products. A new Framework Agreement between South East Water and Mitsubishi Electric has been agreed for four years with an option to extend for a further two years. The framework agreement covers the supply of PLCs, HMIs, VSDs and associated equipment, as […]