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CONTROL SYSTEMS + AUTOMATION ROUND UP
Collaboration creates single platform for electrical engineering solutions
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management
and automation, has stated that Eplan is its major E-CAD solutions
provider to design the products of its energy division on a global
scale. Eplan Platform enables Schneider Electric to optimise its
complete workflow from design to production.The solution helps to
structure and to centralise the components' database and facilitate
knowledge management. All the know-how is embedded, up-to-date
and available for each entity.With Eplan Platform, Schneider Electric
plans to significantly increase productivity by standardising all the
components and reusing them.
“For a long time, each entity of Schneider Electric’s Energy Division
across the world has worked with its own tools and implemented
specific design processes, explains M Frédéric Abbal, Executive
Vice-President, Energy division at Schneider Electric.With the imple-
mentation of Eplan Platform, Schneider Electric expects to centralise
its know-how, enhance collaboration between sites and balance
workload according to the different projects.”
Haluk Menderes, Managing Director Eplan, adds: “The combina-
tion of our 30 years of experience in engineering solutions and the
know-how of one of the worldwide largest player in the energy
domain will bring the best in class processes and a greater electri-
cal engineering and manufacturing efficiency to Schneider Electric.”
Enquiries: Ntombi Mhangwani.Tel. 011 254 6400 or
email
New controllers for heat-process industry
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has released a number of new
UTAdvanced series controllers including four DIN rail 1 mounting
type controllers and one 1/8DIN panel type program controller.This
is part of Yokogawa’s ongoing effort to expand its controller busi-
ness by satisfying market needs and giving customers a greater
range of choices.
UTAdvanced series controllers are mounted on furnaces and other
types of heat process-related industrial facilities for the measure-
ment, display, and control of operating variables such as temperature,
pressure, and flow rate. In recent years, it has become more common
for equipment manufacturers to integrate the setting, manipulation,
and display functions of programmable logic controllers (PLC) and
other embedded control devices on touch panels and other types
of user interfaces, and to mount the hardware on DIN rails inside
panel boxes.There is an increasing need for such DIN rail mounting
type controllers.
The UTAdvanced series controllers come in two sizes: 1/4 DIN and
1/8 DIN. While 1/4DIN controllers are more popular because they
have large display panels and provide a wider range of I/O signal
choices, there are certain applications where space is at a premium
that require a smaller device. For just such applications, Yokogawa
has added more 1/8DIN controllers to its product line-up.
The UTAdvanced controller comes standard with a sequence
control function based on the ladder logic programming language,
which is widely used by engineers.
. 011 831 6300 or email
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