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Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
In the burgeoning manufacturing business intelligence, or performance management, application area, Incuity Software now has a set of off-the-shelf batch analysis reports that work directly with Delta V historians from Emerson Process Systems. The systems supports both continuous and batch historians. This application area is designed to gather data then place in a context for people to make better business decisions. In this case, people can use Microsoft Excel or Incuity's analytic tools to publish graphs, reports and dashboards.
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I don't think I've ever written about conveyors, but here's an interesting concept. MagneMotion (a company that has a bunch of really interesting technologies) has launched a product called MagneMover. It uses magnets (should be no surprise given the names), but the interesting thing is that they have developed a linear synchronous motor and packaged it into a product called QuickStick. These are one-meter long devices that can be linked end-to-end with ways for pallets to navigate bends and turns. The pallets have magnets embedded on the bottom and ride on electromagnetic forces. With the linear motor technology, a controller can know the exact position of all the pallets on the system. There will be demonstrations at ProMat next month. I'm sure I saw a brief demo at Assembly this fall and just talked with Todd Webber, co-founder and president of the company. Among the other features are small turning radius, "double-bogie vehicle approach for negotiating turns and merge/diverge points," and magnetic switching that allows instantaneous (their words) switching without mechanical actuation.
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In case you missed the comment, Steve Garbrecht of Wonderware left a detailed comment in response to Amit's question if these new platforms left legacy users in the cold. Check it out for a detailed look into how this software works.
5:43:37 PM
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