Siemens PLM updates Teamcenter Express software

, a global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, has announced Version 5.0 of its Teamcenter Express software.

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Siemens helps secure safety of Heathrow T5

BAA turned to Siemens and its tunnel-systems partner Applied Industrial Systems (AIS) when it needed a control system for the tunnel ventilation at Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

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GE Fanuc releases Dataviews 9.25

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced the latest release of Dataviews 9.25, a set of graphic visualisation development tools for building custom applications.

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Omron upgrades machine visualisation software

The latest version of CX-Supervisor from Omron incorporates a new data log viewer, one-click simulation facilities, full support for remote maintenance and an extended graphics library.

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ABB motor service partner solves motor challenge

ABB has revealed how one of its motor service partners enabled a Chiswick brewery to return to operation after suffering a motor failure in one of its critical processes.

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Safety controllers have metal-forming instructions

Rockwell Automation has received BG certification for a suite of 10 metal-forming instructions added to its Allen-Bradley Guardlogix safety controller.

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Motion controller has sequence control

The Yaskawa Electric motion controller MP2300Siec offers PLC sequence control and different motion control functions on a single platform.

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ABB retains leading DCS market

In the newest version of ARC Advisory Group’s “Distributed Control Systems Worldwide Outlook,” study, ABB retained its leading worldwide market position in this core automation market.

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What’s flow control?

Consider the situation where one computer device sends information to another using a serial connection. Now and then, the receiver needs to do some actions, to write the contents of its buffers to disk for example. In this period of time no new information can be received. Some communication back to the sender is needed to stop the flow of bytes on the line. A method must be present to tell the sender to pause. To do this, both software and hardware protocols have been defined.

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Yaskawa introduces Sigma-5 servopack

Sigma-5 is a servo pack, consisting of servo motors, servo amplifiers and a powerful set-up tool.

Sigma-5 series offers rotary, direct drive and linear motors.

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