This month's featured supplier, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms #1-200901
Spending too much time on automation development?

Is your current control system limited in helping you maximize production while minimizing system complexity and downtime?

If the answer is yes, then our PAC Productivity & QuickPanel Workshop is for you. This hands-on session is a great opportunity to experience GE Fanuc's revolutionary Programmable Automation Controller solution for yourself.

Increase Productivity, Not Complexity
As today's competitive pressures continue to mount, manufacturers need to expand their systems to increase performance - typically adding significant complexities to their infrastructure. The PAC Productivity Workshop will demonstrate how the PACSystems RX3i controller and Proficy Machine Edition software tools can help you to significantly increase productivity without increasing the complexity of your current system. In addition, optional labs on Proficy Change Management and Proficy Historian will be offered.

Who Should Attend?
Programmers, controls engineers, application designers and system managers interested in learning how to increase productivity throughout their automation applications.

Click here for details on how you can register


New Product Announcement
8" QuickPanel HMI & Control is the latest in the CE-based QP family

Quick Panel Operator Interface was originally introduced in the mid 90’s and took the world by storm as the first simple to use 3rd party touchscreen that could interface to most manufacturers PLC’s.

QuickPanel was also the first CE-based HMI product installed in the field several years ago.  Purchase as View only, or with integrated soft logic controller, this Open CE-based technology has years of field proven installations.

Check out these outstanding features:
  • Microsoft Windows® CE operating system
  • Expandable memory and communication expansion cards
  • CompactFlash
  • OPC connectivity (Client and Server)
  • UL Class 1 Div 2 (A, B, C, D), ATEX Class 1 Zone 2 (pending), and CE Mark
  • Functions from data collection and trending to system security and alarming
  • Built-in web server for access to data, panels, and logic via the Internet or your intranet using any standard browser
  • Communication to I/O using Open Fieldbus, Ethernet connectivity and GE Fanuc Series 90™-30 I/O
  • Common database for increased productivity – greatly reduces development time by eliminating the need to re-enter tag name
  • Extensive library of pre-configured animation objects

New Product Announcement PAC Motion

You expect a striking leap in performance with high definition. That’s exactly what PACMotion from GE Fanuc is designed to deliver – the ultimate productivity for today’s high-speed machines and lean manufacturing environments.

PACMotion is the latest addition to GE Fanuc’s leading PACSystems* family of remarkably flexible, versatile control technologies. The servo motion controller synchronizes up to 40 axes on a high-performance hardware platform, with an enhanced motion engine, operating system, and open, integrated programming paradigm. Add the worldclass reliability of FANUC servos and you’ve built a motion system designed to showcase the best productivity, accuracy and performance your plant has ever seen and is programmed with the PLC Open standard.

It’s one more reason why GE Fanuc is the Leader of the PAC. Learn more at gefanuc.com/pacmotion with an enhanced motion engine, operating system, and open, integrated programming paradigm.
High Definition Motion

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Catch up on the latest GE Fanuc Hardware and Software technology including QuickPanel HMI, Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC), PAC Motion Control and PLC Open, and Wireless I/O.

Regardless of your industry, GE Fanuc has success stories in them all including Food & Beverage, CPG, Printing & Packaging, Life Sciences, Water, Power, Mining & Metals, Petrochemical, and Automotive. From Simple control to enterprise wide automation and intelligence, GE Fanuc has a solution for You!!!

Traceability Seminar a success!
Our visitors at the Traceability Seminar
Sure Control Systems, along with our vendor partners, hosted a seminar in November on Part Traceability and Genealogy. The seminar, entitled ‘Traceability Live’, not only showed the attendees the latest in traceability solutions from Sure , it also was a live demonstration of traceability throughout the facility.

Each attendee was given a pen which was laser marked with a 2D Matrix Code and a corresponding name tag which they took around from vendor to vendor table tops, having it scanned at each station, thus tracking the attendee. Of those that visited each station / two winners were drawn – one for a pair of Leaf tickets and one for a gift certificate for a new Blackberry. Congratulation to Rockson Wai and Krishnan Moorthy.
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PAC Productivity & QuickPanel Workshop
8" QuickPanel HMI & Control
PAC Motion
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Traceability Seminar a success!