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Yaskawa -V1000

The V1000 is a world-class compact current vector drive that defines a new world standard. Demands for efficient production and better maintainability are on the rise, spurred by global competition. Yaskawa drives have earned a reputation for high performance, high functionality, and high quality. The V1000 provides a world of power in the palm of your hand!

Banner Engineering Corporation

SC22-3 Safety Controller

A totally configurable safety module allows for monitoring of numerous safety devices such as E-stop buttons, interlocking switches, safety light screens, two-hand controls and rope pull switches.

PICO-GUARD™ Fiber Optic Safety System

PICO-GUARD™ Fiber Optic Safety System directly replaces mechanical safety interlock switches to safeguard potentially dangerous machines. This unique combination of control-reliable, non-contacting photoelectric and fiber optic technologies provides a low-cost alternative to cumbersome and costly methods of machine safeguarding. This revolutionary new concept in safety systems is incredibly versatile, efficient and easy to install. It combines a controller and various plug-in, snap-lock PICO-GUARD optical safety interlock switches and plastic fiber optic cable to monitor doors, gates, and hard

1	PICO-GUARD Controller
2	Attenuator
3	Straight Pair
4	Right-angle Pair
5	Active/Passive Pair

A unique combination of control-reliable, non-contacting photoelectric and fiber optic technologies
Incredibly flexible and easy to install
A low cost alternative to cumbersome and costly methods required for machine safeguarding
Universal Safety Stop Interface (USSI) for connecting multiple PICO-GUARD Controllers and other safety devices
Designed to meet ISO 13849 (EN954-1) Category 4 and IEC 61496-1 Type 4 requirements

Turck Incorporated

ULTRA-THIN CAPACITIVE FLAT PAK PROXIMITY SENSORS OFFER VERSATILE MOUNTING & LONG RANGE.

Minneapolis, MN–October 10, 2001–TURCK Inc. has announced QF 5.5, ultra-thin 5.5 mm (0.22") capacitive proximity sensors that can be mounted in very small areas and solve applications previously impossible. The sensors also have an extremely long sensing range relative to their size: either 5 mm or 10 mm flush mountable range, depending on model.

Exceptional mounting versatility is facilitated with several holes and slots in the sensors that allow multiple mounting options. The sensor comes standard with strap ties for use in mounting the sensor onto a sight glass or similar application. TURCK capacitive sensors reliably detect all metallic and non-metallic materials, including water, metal, wood, glass, cardboard, plastic, concrete block, glue, thin wire, silicon wafers, and numerous other materials. List prices begin at $75.00.

Especially significant, QF 5.5 sensors are available with or without a sensitivity potentiometer to adjust the range of the sensor. Models without potentiometer can be factory ordered with a preset sensing range anywhere between 2 mm and 10 mm. Highly visible, wraparound green and yellow LEDs are visible from three sides and indicate "POWER ON" and "OUTPUT ENERGIZED."

The 10-30 VDC sensors are embeddable in steel depending on sensitivity adjustment and are available with NPN (sourcing) or PNP (sinking), normally-open or normally-closed outputs.

Red Lion’s G3 operator interface panels give you complete HMI functionality for PLCs, motor drives and other communications-capable devices. With Ethernet as standard on all G3 models, you can network-enable any serial devices connected to the panel. In addition to the G3, Red Lion also offers Paradigm operator panels, plus message centers, slave displays and large digit displays in a variety of configurations.

The G3 family of operator panels take HMI to the next generation, with an Ethernet port and CompactFlash socket as standard, and with support for up to 5 high-speed serial ports for connection to PLCs, motor drives, temperature controllers, and whatever else is in your control panel. The G3's data logger allows you to record process values to CompactFlash for later access in CSV format via the integrated web server, making access to historical data a breeze. The G3's powerful communications architecture provides high-performance links to an unlimited number of devices, and allows serial data to be exposed via Ethernet protocols to provide access to even the simplest devices via your enterprise network. With a blistering 32-bit processor and huge amounts of FLASH storage, the G3 provides performance way ahead of Red Lion's acclaimed Paradigm range while still meeting your demands for ever more cost-effective solutions.

Red Lion’s Modular Controller series offers a cost effective solution to integrating multi-zone PID control, data acquisition and I/O into your PC, DCS or PLC control system. You can drag and drop controller data to PLC registers in seconds using point-and-click data mapping from an extensive menu of built-in serial and Ethernet drivers. No tedious PLC code to write.

Instantly Ethernet-enable your PLC for free! Not only are programming costs slashed, you can eliminate costly add-on I/O and analog cards and solve applications simply using an inexpensive brick PLC.
The high-density DIN rail design saves panel space and eliminates cutouts. All modules can be hot-swapped -- the master automatically programs a replaced module.