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Featured Success Story
Wireless I/O Stamps Out Downtime on Auto Press
This story outlines how frequency hopping Ethernet radios from ProSoft Technology® and ControlLogix® PACs from Rockwell Automation® were used by Gestamp Automoción on their automotive part stamping line to replace a hardwired system that caused frequent downtime at the facility. The radios handle all I/O for operation of the press despite having to communicate with difficult line-of-sight conditions.
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Featured Products
Take a look at the new and exciting products coming in 2009.
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Wireless POINT I/O Adapter
ProSoft Technology announces its Wireless POINT I/O Adapter (ILX34-AENWG), which will provide users with a high-speed, standards-based 802.11g wireless I/O, with a common programming experience via RSLogix 5000. Wireless POINT I/O supports ProSoft Technology’s Integrated Wireless Architecture, combining the best of both worlds for users with Rockwell Automation’s field-proven I/O and ProSoft Technology’s wireless technology and support.
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Cellular
ProSoft Technology industrial cellular solutions combine robust industrial cellular technology from Sierra Wireless, deployment ready options through our data service partners, and industrial protocol pre-configuration. Sierra’s ALEOS intelligence, rugged design and Class I Div 2 certification make these devices perfectly suited for the industrial automation market, including remote process or OEM equipment monitoring, non-time-critical control for municipal and oil/gas SCADA, and M2M applications. The products are expected to be commercially available in the first quarter of 2009.
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CC-Link Family of Gateways
ProSoft Technology’s new Modbus TCP/IP and EtherNet/IP to CC-Link communication gateways allows Rockwell Automation and Schneider Electric control platform users to integrate any of the over eight-hundred Mitsubishi’s CC-Link (compatible products with existing Modbus TCP/IP EtherNet/IP control networks.
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CIPconnect™ Bridges for Easy Integration
ProSoft Technology’s new CIPconnect™ bridges for Modbus and Modbus TCP/IP allow users familiar with the CIP-compliant Ethernet/IP protocol to easily integrate devices without requiring familiarity with the Modbus protocol. The bridges provide seamless routing with no additional programming requirements and minimal bridge configuration.
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Revision 2 Modbus Communication Module
The new Revision 2 Modbus Master/Slave Communication Module (MVI56-MCM) for ControlLogix® is 100% backward compatible with existing MVI56 Modbus products in the field, with existing ladder logic, and with existing module configuration files, allowing users to easily swap and replace products while benefiting from the array of new features designed to improve interoperability and enhance the user experience. The Revision 2 modules will be available soon for the Generic ASCII, Modbus TCP/IO, and DF1 Communication Modules.
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Message Manager
The Message Manager (ILX56-MM) is an in-chassis module for the ControlLogix® platform which enables users to easily migrate to the ControlLogix platform from legacy PLCs or third-party PLCs such as Siemens processors using S7 industrial Ethernet and Schneider Electric processors using Modbus TCP/IP.
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Events
Upcoming Tradeshows
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| Rockwell Automation University |
Barcelona, Spain |
1/28 – 1/29 |
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Hawaii Water Environment Association
Annual Conference |
Honolulu, HI |
2/3 - 2/5 |
The Future of Wireless Solutions in
Industrial Automation |
Frankfurt, Germany |
2/5 |
ODVA 13th Annual Meeting of Members
See Jim Ralston of ProSoft Technology
present:
“Applying Wireless to EtherNet/IP
Automation Systems” |
Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida |
2/24 - 2/26 |
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Rockwell Automation Integrated
Automation University (IAU) |
Dallas, TX |
3/15 - 3/20 |
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| Rockwell Automation University |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
3/18 – 3/19 |
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| Rockwell Automation University |
Prague, Czech Republic |
6/10 – 6/11 |
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| ISA Expo |
Houston, TX |
10/6 - 10/8 |
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| Automation Fair |
Anaheim, CA |
11/11 - 11/12 |
| ISA-SSJV |
Bakersfield, CA |
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| PACK EXPO |
Las Vegas, NV |
10/5 – 10/7 |
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