Surprisingly the acquisition by ABB did not play an important part in B&R’s Hanover Fair 2017 press conference. B&R explained that the portfolios of B&R and ABB complement each other perfectly, however some overlap exists in the servo technology.
Rockwell Automation has introduced a patented, solid-state cable-pull switch to help enhance industrial safety without sacrificing productivity. The Allen-Bradley Guardmaster Lifeline 5 cable-pull switch from Rockwell Automation is a solid-state, cable-pull E-stop with patented, microprocessor-based technology.
IoTium, a secure network infrastructure company for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced the general availability of its Network as a Service (NaaS) offering, designed to securely connect legacy onsite systems in mission-critical environments to accelerate the deployment of Industry 4.0 at scale. Target environments applications include building and industrial automation, oil and gas, manufacturing, transportation and smart cities.
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it will introduce release 4 of the Smartdac+ GX series panel-mount paperless recorder, GP series portable paperless recorder, and GM series data acquisition system on May 19. With this latest release, new modules are provided that expand the range of applications possible with Smartdac+ systems and improve user convenience. New functions include sampling intervals as short as 1 millisecond and the control and monitoring of up to 20 loops.
The functional enhancements available with release 4 are as follows: