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Sysmac motion solutions fly at KITE 2017
Omron will showcase its flagship Sysmac motion solutions, incor-
porating robotic and visual inspection control, at the Kwazulu-Natal
Industrial Technology Exhibition (KITE) from 26 to 28 July 2017 at
the Durban Exhibition Centre.
The exhibition is perceived as a major platform for Omron’s
product offerings and solutions, Victor Marques, Country Gen-
eral Manager, comments. “We believe there is a lot of potential
in KwaZulu-Natal. KITE has a good track record of attracting the
relevant stakeholders in most of our target industries, creating an
ideal opportunity for us to highlight our presence in, and offerings
to, the region.”
Omron products to be exhibited are Sysmac motion and PLC
control, NX remote I/O, vision systems, safety products, servos
and Variable Speed Drives, Human-Machine Interface and various
general control components.
The main target for Omron at KITE 2017 is OEMs and food and
beverage end-user customers, agro-processing stakeholders, and
the automotive industry. “Essentially, we are focusing on any
customer looking for cost-effective and highly-innovative automa-
tion and motion and control solutions that
meet, and even exceed, their requirements,”
Marques highlights.
This is specifically because Omron has
strong experience and references in areas
such as motion and drive control, PLC and
HMI, automation networks, visual inspection
control, and robotics. Field sales engineers
will be on the stand to interact with custom-
ers personally, while application engineers
will be available to field high-end technical
queries, and to share their wealth of product
and application experience.
“Management will also be on hand to
demonstrate our total commitment to our
customers, from the top down,” Marques adds. KITE 2017 will
provide an informal, yet professional, platform for customers to
approach Omron concerning specific solution enquiries.
Enquiries: Omron Electronics.Tel. +27 (0) 11 579 2600 or
email
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Positioning drives with RTE
Intelligent networks, such as Industrial Ether-
net, also require a high degree of diagnostic
capability for fault analysis, as well as an
efficient and fast exchange of process data.
For the smart size changeover, actuating
drives are therefore necessary. In addition
to the purely motorised changeover, these
drives permit a complex data exchange
with your control systems, reliably detect
operating states outside the fixed range, and
communicate status or error messages, for
example. As a result, a constantly increasing
load current could signal that the adjustment
axis may be heavily contaminated by pollut-
ants and has to be cleaned during the next
maintenance service.
With the new AG24, SIKO expanded its
portfolio of positioning drives with intelli-
gent RTE (RealTime Ethernet). In addition to
the tried and tested SIKO positioning drives
AG25 and AG26, which are characterised by
their ultra compact design, the AG24 has
now been released to expand the portfolio
of actuators. Despite the considerable output
power and speed of the AG24, all the com-
ponents are still integrated into one housing.
No external components or
junction boxes are needed to
connect to your higher-level
controller. This means that
the drive is connected only
to the supply voltage and the
port for data exchange has to
be connected directly to the
controller or the next drive in
the network. A simpler network connection is
hard to imagine.
Enquiries: Instrotech.Tel. +27 (0) 10 595 1831
or email
The connectivity specialist ESCHA, supplied locally by
RET Automation, introduced 4-pole M12x1-Power products with
S- andT-coding types. As of now, the company offers variants with
L- and K-coding types. Due to their compact housing style, these
products are especially adapted for power supply in the automa-
tion field. Fieldbus controlled I/O-boxes, power supply devices
or small servo motors are among the classical applications. As
electronic devices increasingly getting more compact, demand
for a similarly compact power supply via the standardized- and
industrially proven M12x1-interface (according to IEC 61076-2-111)
has risen continuously.To this effect, ESCHA has extended its exist-
ing product portfolio ‘M12x1 Power‘by two new coding types. In
addition to the available 4-pole components with S-coding (630
V, 12 A) andT-coding (63V, 12A), components with L-coding (63V,
16A, 4-pole without FE conform to PNO-guidelines) and K-coding
(630 V, 12 A, 4+PE) are immediately available.
Besides the obligatory connection- and junction cables, relevant
T-junctions, H-junctions and h-junctions with L- and K-coding types
are available at market launch as well. The junctions facilitate a
decentralised- and structured wiring of energy supply similar to
New coding types for M12x1 power
bus wiring. ESCHA designates this approach as ‘Power follows
Bus’. All components have been thoroughly redesigned and
are dust- as well as water-proof according to protection classes
IP65, IP67, and IP68. They have been designed in such a way as
to meet the requirements according to UL 2337.The products en-
able a large extension of power distribution due to a connection
cross-section up to 2,5 mm². The slight voltage drop in contrast
to small cross-sections is a big advantage particularly in case of
direct current voltage.
Enquiries: BrandonTopham.
Email
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