Typical users of Microsoft Word and Excel useless than 10% of their capability. Are you missing the opportunity to tune up you automation systems because you don’t know what you don’t know? Most of today’s automation technologies are not new. Products such as PLCs, inverter drives, servos and HMIs have been around for thirty […]
Mitsubishi Electric Japan has announced plans to release an advanced SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) software called MC Works64 from October 2012. The software features 64-bit 3D graphics and is capable of displaying plant system configurations in 360-degree perspectives. MC Works64 will be a component of Mitsubishi’s MELViz iQ PlantSuite, an integrated SCADA […]
When an FX PLC is turned from RUN to STOP data is normally reset. So can you make the PLC data retentive if you do not want “loose” the PLC data? The answer is yes. And this is how you do it….. In all FX PLCs there is a special bit register M8033 […]
Mitsubishi Electric has an enviable reputation for the quality and reliability of its products. In fact they are so reliable that many users don’t even know they have them installed. Mitsubishi has backed up their reliability claims by extending its standard warranty for controller and HMI products from one to three years. The […]
The British Food and Beverage Industry has voted a unique Mitsubishi Electric integrated communications solution as the most important technological development of the year. Unlike a PLC, this advanced controller can be programmed in standard C or C++, opening up the world of automation and control directly to non-PLC based engineers. “C” programming is […]