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Quantum is selling the new camera

Measuring temperature economically

InfraTec’s new infrared zoom camera – the Image IR 6300 Z – is now available from Quantum Design UK & Ireland.

It is suitable for demanding applications in research and development, quality assurance tasks and materials testing or in a wide range of OEM integration solutions. Smaller, lighter and without time-consuming lens changes, the compact zoom camera offers precise thermographic temperature measurements in numerous fields of application.

Its excellent price-performance ratio and its remarkable user-friendliness result from the consistent use of clever technologies in optics, detector and electronics, says UK agent Quantum Design.

The ImageIR 6300 Z is equipped with an integrated 7.5x zoom lens as standard and allows, in combination with its motorised focus, fast and stepless adjustment to a wide range of object distances and lens sizes with excellent image quality and high measurement accuracy. Furthermore, the zoom camera is radiometrically calibrated over the entire focal length range, thus enabling extremely flexible use.

By using its powerful image processing electronics, the camera can output the IR image data in real time to several video and data interfaces as well as record and evaluate it independently. Or data can be stored on the integrated SSD. T 01372 378822 W www.qd-uki.co.uk

Safe and flexible option protects machinery user

When Sema Systemtechnik launched its tray former where cardboard blanks are fed in at one second intervals and then folded, glued and sealed in several production stages, it was clear that an effective safety solution had to be found for the situation where there was no cardboard in front of the feed opening.

The company therefore opted for Pilz’s TÜV SÜD-certified solution for safe cardboard feed. Today, the solution comprising the configurable small controller PNOZmulti 2 and special sensors ensures that the feed opening on the tray former at Sema poses no risk to operators.

Two special optical sensors, installed above the feed opening for scanning, form part of the solution for the safe cardboard feed on the machine. If these signal that there are insufficient cardboard blanks in the infeed, then PNOZmulti 2 triggers an immediate stop of the hazardous movement.

However, once the cardboard stocks have been refilled, the machine can be restarted following a signal. There’s no need for rigid safeguards, so operators have the flexibility to feed the machine from both sides. The safety switches PSENcode are also part of the solution. As many of the blanks are smaller than the opening on the tray former, a precisely contoured perspex screen seals off the uncovered area. This is called up by the tamperproof, coded safety switch. Pilz says it is a total solution, which increases process efficiency and significantly reduces downtime on the tray former. “We only use the configurable safe small controller PNOZmulti 2 in our tray formers,” explains Thomas Wehrhahn who is responsible for hardware design at Sema. “In conjunction with the infeed safeguard, PNOZmulti 2 offers sufficient flexibility for adjustments and genuine added value for all of our customers.” T 01536 460766 W www.pilz.co.uk

Now, the feed opening poses no risk to operators

Milling technology offers improved timing screw, scroll, screw feed and auger making

The PAR Group has improved its timing screw, scroll, screw feed and auger manufacturing capabilities with the purchase of a new CNC 4th axis milling machine.

The new equipment compliments a number of similar machines already in operation at PAR and provides improvements such as an increased bed size, integrated 4th axis capability and live tooling provision. This allows for the manufacture of scrolls and augers up to 1 metre in length which is significantly larger than possible with the company’s previous capabilities. T 01257 248369 W www.pargroup.co.uk

Latest edgeController offers a range of benefits in single unit

As well as facilitating exchange of data between industrial control systems and cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and AnyViz, the new edgeController from ifm electronic also provides freely programmable control functionality and versatile visualisation options in a single compact unit.

It therefore offers a complete and flexible solution for the digitisation of machines and systems, says the company.

The new edgeController incorporates a high-resolution, high-brightness 12.3 inch colour touchscreen display partnered by a powerful 64-bit 1.2 GHz quad-core processor which delivers full performance at ambient temperatures as high as 60deg C. A further benefit is that it can be used in almost all industrial applications without the need for additional protection as it features a robust diecast aluminium housing with an IP65 ingress protection rating.

Plug-and-play access to plant or machine I/O data in real time is supported via industrial Ethernet protocols such as EtherCAT, EtherNet/ IP and Modbus TCP. Control functions are programmed using CODESYS V3.5, or the unit can be used as a platform for pre-defined functions which means that no programming is necessary. T 020 8213 0000 W www.ifm.com/uk

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