Mechatronics Tips August 22, 2011
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2011-08-22 MECH EATON

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Eaton® SmartWire-DTTM Transforms Panel Wiring, Improves System Efficiency, Reliability for OEMs

The Eaton SmartWire-DT system is designed to reduce panel-wiring complexity, improve system reliability, and save installation time. Dramatically reducing the wiring effort required to build panels, the Smartwire-DT system replaces the myriad of wires in the control circuit into a single cable.
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New Eaton High-Performance Operator Interface Improves Process, Equipment Reliability

The Eaton XV and XP Series of operator interfaces are engineered for optimal connectivity, and provide flexibility in design, communications and application. Designed for OEMs, the XV and XP Series have a broad array of serial and Ethernet connectivity options and are rated for global applications.
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Eaton ESR5 Safety Relay Monitors Safety of Circuits

Eaton is expanding its safety solutions for North American customers with the ESR5 safety relay. The ESR5 is engineered to monitor safety circuits and will be a key enhancement to the safety of equipment. Already available in Europe, the device is designed specifically for OEMs.
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New Eaton Soft Start Controllers Reduce Energy Costs,

Increase System Life The Eaton DS7 line of compact, high performance, soft start controllers provide smooth acceleration and deceleration of the load. Minimizing shock to mechanical components, extending system life, reducing downtime and lowering costs, the DS7 is designed for pump, fan and conveyor belt applications.
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Eaton DP Contactors Improve Reliability for HVAC Customers

Eaton definite purpose (DP) contactors are engineered to improve system reliability, serviceability and uptime, and are rated for 200,000 electrical operations. With a robust solution offering, Eaton DP contactors are available as stand-alone components, enclosed or in starter configurations.
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Tips for Prioritizing Performance Parameters

 

For better decisions and better results in your automation projects, prioritize the performance parameters. In automation projects and machinery design, defining the performance goals is the starting point for any project. Meeting these goals is the primary objective of the engineering effort. Performance is what sells cars, computers, cell phones and just about every other product in our daily lives. It is what customers spend money on.
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Features

PEM® Types PF7M™ and PF7MF™ Captive Panel Screws

PEM® Types PF7M™ and PF7MF™ captive panel screws provide two distinct mounting styles for permanent installation into thin sheets. Both feature small, compact, and low-profile designs ideally suited for limited access areas and benefit from patented MAThread® anti-cross threading technology. Their Phillips recess allows for tool or hand operation. These fasteners install flush on the back side of panels as thin as .036” / 0.92mm (.031” / 0.79mm for PF7MFTM) and are available in two screw lengths with thread sizes #4-40 through #8-32 and M3 to M4. They can install reliably into panels with hardness of HRB 80 or less or HB 150 or less.
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Inventing the Future

Semiconductor costs decrease over time as volume increases. This has been the magic of the industry for decades.
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Progress? or What?

Where is the line between art and technology? Design is how we respond to a need. Part of that response is functional, technically oriented, part of that response is aesthetic and subjective.
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The Cost of Control

In the computer industry we hear interesting metrics about the ever increasing capabilities of processors and hardware.
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Hardware, Software and Performance

In the industrial control world, its all about performance. With every year that passes control system performance improves.
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ABB Robotics Introduces Motor and Gear Unit Packages

ABB Robotics is introducing standardized packages of its well-proven motor and gear units to allow integrators to easily and economically create custom external axis systems.
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EngineeringWatch™


DARwin

Darwin -- A Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence developed at the Robotics and Mechanisms Lab Romela at Virginia Tech. Darwin uses a robotic system technology using National Instruments LABView. The system developed is adaptable and usable. So, the same system is used in many other similar robotic mechanisms.

 
 
 

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