Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) announced the launch of the SmartLine Guided Wave Radar Level transmitter, the latest addition to HPS's SmartLine industrial transmitter family. The new device can measure the level and volume of liquids inside processing tanks up to 160 feet in height.
Rockwell Automation released its latest version v12.0 of FactoryTalk Batch software, designed to help ease the process of modifying and creating new recipes by managing the approval process for changes and automatically tracking the genealogy of recipes. New security-authority binding features also help manufacturers protect their intellectual property.
OMRON Releases Compact Safety Light Curtain to Increase Productivity for Global Production Lines
OMRON Corporation announced the release in October of its new F3SG-R safety light curtain featuring a robust housing structure, safety functions for higher productivity, and reduced maintenance downtime.
FANUC America Corporation announces CIP Safety functionality with the new EtherNet/IP Adapter Safety function for the FANUC Series 3xi-B CNCs that enables safety communication with Rockwell Automation controller (Logix PAC) systems.
Rockwell Automation released its Allen-Bradley Kinetix 5500 servo drive with integrated safety. The drive was designed to help machine and equipment builders keep up with the rapidly changing consumer demands that require them to reduce their machine's development and installation time while increasing their machine's flexibility. The drive leverages a single EtherNet/IP network, as well as a common design environment with Rockwell Software Studio 5000 Logix Designer software.
GE Introduces Software Suite that Utilizes Predix Industrial Internet Platform
At its User Summit: "Making the Industrial Internet Real", in Orlando, Florida, GE's Intelligent Platforms announced the launch of a new version of the Proficy Monitoring & Analysis Suite (PMAS), which integrates its industrial data historian, Proficy Historian with its advanced analytics software, Proficy SmartSignal. The new offering also utilizes GE's Predix platform for the Industrial Internet.
Baker Hughes Launches SeismicTrak Service
Baker Hughes has commercially launched its SeismicTrak seismic-while-drilling service, which, according to the company, enables operators to reduce drilling risk with real-time seismic data capture without adding nonproductive time to their drilling operation. The service helps operators to adjust well paths to maximize production by updating velocity profiles and reservoir models.
Rockwell Automation announced a new universal visible-blade disconnect switch. The disconnect switch has global ratings of UL, CSA, CE and CCC. This new switch is designed to help panel builders, which across all industries have an increasingly global customer base and a broader range of standards that need to be met, reduce design complexity.
Siemens India has won the Super-Efficient Equipment Appliance Deployment (SEAD) Global Efficiency Medal for its 1LA2 series of low voltage IE3 induction motors (verified by testing of the 3.7kW and 11kW models). Siemens' 1LA2 series of low voltage IE3 induction motors manufactured in India won in the IEC Induction Motor category for the India region as the most efficient motors, thereby providing the fastest return on investments to the users.
Weatherford International has announced the availability of its xQuartzPT gauge for extreme-service subsea and downhole applications.
Continuous acquisition of real-time pressure and temperature data is critical to optimize long-term well and asset performance—especially in subsea wells and extreme HPHT land environments. Hybrid electronic quartz technology enables implementing life-of-well pressure and temperature monitoring systems. Yet, the track record for quartz gauges in subsea and HPHT environments has been less than optimal.