Rockwell Automation e-News
Volume 14 • Issue 8 • August 2009
To help you stay current with our latest product and service offerings, here's what you can find on the Rockwell Automation Web sites this month.
Automation Fair® — Industry’s Premier Event November 11-12
Join us in Anaheim, California, for Automation Fair with the industry’s most targeted forums and labs for professionals at all levels. What does the Fair offer? Watch now.
Special Events: Safety Automation Forum
Product, Service and Solution News
Integrated Architecture™ tools reduce design and installation time
Spend time developing the unique features of your machine instead of on routine tasks, using:
- New CompactLogix® System Performance and Capacity Guidelines, now including the L4x family of CompactLogix processors.
- The updated Kinetix® Accelerator Toolkit for indexing motion control for CompactLogix L2x and L3x. Enhancements like Sequencer Style, PackML, Low Cost Indexer and Phase Manager give you control over complex and high speed synchronized applications.
- Our newest edition of Integrated Architecture Builder, with Architecture Views showing all configured networks and devices. QuickStarts with walk-throughs make it even easier to configure your Integrated Architecture system.
Process Solutions
Reach new levels of automation excellence in your plant with PlantPAx™ Integrated Architecture for process control systems.
- PortalAccess premium content and expert information from our new portal. Tap peers in our user community and utilize interactive features to find the demos, research and application notes that address your challenges.
- New integration documents provide a step-by-step approach to integrating a field instrument into the PlantPAx system.
Essential Components
500LGIncrease versatility
Modular Bulletin 500LG and 500LC smart lighting control panels with simple human machine interface features reduce complexity — giving you greater design flexibility to manage energy consumption and meet new government lighting energy standards.
PartnerNetwork™
The power of collaboration working for you.
- OEMs around the globe are designing innovative machines with our solutions to give you a competitive advantage. Rely on our newest OEM, Oystar Jones, for high performance packaging equipment and services, and United Bakery Equipment for state-of-the-art solutions for bakeries.
- Rockwell Automation OEM TGW-Ermanco has won Control Design's Innovator Award — learn how they used logic to create a more efficient and less expensive distribution solution system.
- OEMs find advantage with mechatronic use, sustainability goals — read the Control Engineering article
- Solution Providers are proven, trusted, and established organizations that offer extensive experience in the design, implementation, project management and maintenance. Meet Melfi Technologies, provider of dynamic weighing systems for powder and bulk solids handling, and JNE Automation, control system experts.
Robotics Matter: Technology, market trends bring robots to forefront of machine design
Robotics Matter focuses on robotics as a practical solution for manufacturing applications – from simple, highly repetitive pick-and-place packaging, to high-precision automotive assembly and semiconductor handling. Subscribe.
The JOURNAL from Rockwell Automation and Our Partners
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- The Journal wins multiple honors for design and editorial excellence.
Publications
Oil & Gas customers improve ROI
Facing unprecedented challenges? Our extensive experience in the oil and gas industry gives us an acute appreciation of your issues and an in-depth understanding of the tools you need to address them.
In the News
Award-winning drives
Rely on Allen-Bradley® drives, awarded the 2009 Readers' Choice Award from Chemical Processing.
(Please note that the information in this e-News represents recent additions to Rockwell Automation Web sites. Check with your Rockwell Automation sales representative for local availability of these products and services.)