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 | | 2nd European Industrial Ethernet Award goes to TUM (the technical university in Munich) - 08/25/2010
A project group from TUM (the technical university in Munich) impressed the judges at the competition B&R held this year among European universities highlighting innovative ideas for POWERLINK technology. With their concept for configuring POWERLINK-based machines via Plug & Play, they demonstrated an extremely high level of technical ability and creativity, which the jury of experts from the fields of economics and research rewarded with the €10,000 prize money for first place. |
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 | | B&R - Sole MathWorks system integrator for automation - 08/19/2010
With acceptance into the system integrator program, MathWorks - the manufacturer of MATLAB® and Simulink® - recognizes B&R as having the highest level of expertise in the area of modeling and simulation. B&R is now the only official system integrator in its branch of industry. |
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 | | IEC approves openSAFETY as worldwide standard - 07/23/2010
The fieldbus-independent openSAFETY protocol was tested according to IEC 61784-3 FSCP 13 and approved by national IEC committees representing 27 countries including China, USA and Germany, and is therefore released for international standardization. |
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 | | The most powerful motors on the market - 07/06/2010
The new 80MPF series stepper motors with 60 mm flange that have been added to the B&R product line are powerful and extremely cost-effective drive components. With 25% more torque and 30% less power loss, stepper motors from the 80MPF series are ideally suited for applications with high clock rates, for example packaging machines or filling systems. |
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 | | Simulink PLC Coder - Automatic generation of IEC code for B&R Automation Studio - 06/29/2010
At the beginning of March, MathWorks, the leading developer and supplier of software for Technical Computing and Model-Based Design, introduced a new product for automatic generation of IEC code. Simulink PLC Coder extends Model-Based Design for the industrial automation segment by helping create source code in structured text (IEC 61131-3 ST) using Simulink models that can be easily integrated in B&R Automation Studio. |
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 | | New start for MONDIAL electronic - 06/10/2010
MONDIAL electronic GmbH located in Gilgenberg has been bought out by Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik GmbH (B&R). The new owners will invest in strategic product development and accelerate international expansion of the company. |
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 | | IP69K - Highly robust and suitable for hygienic applications - 06/09/2010
B&R's IP69K operating units have an ultra-modern surface design and stand up extremely well to frequent cleaning, making them an industry standard for reliable automation devices in harsh industrial environments. From visualization terminals with modular interface cards to Power Panels with integrated control and drive technology, the robust HMI devices are produced according to DIN 40050 with certified IP69K protection and are available with screen dimensions from 5.7" to 15". |
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 | | Efficient closed loop temperature control for the plastics industry - 06/02/2010
Precisely maintaining the set temperature on extruders and injection molding machines greatly influences the quality of the products made. Even a few tenths of a degree can make the difference between a workpiece that meets the quality criteria and one that is rejected. In addition, new set values for temperature must be approached as quickly as possible and without overshooting them in order to reduce energy consumption. |
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 | | BiSS Interface for ACOPOS - 05/27/2010
B&R extended its wide range of plug-in modules for the ACOPOS drive family to include a module for evaluating BiSS encoders. |
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 | | ACOPOSmulti servo drives now include a 120 kW module - 05/12/2010
B&R expands its line of ACOPOSmulti drive system components and successfully enters the next "weight class". Customers now have inverters and power supply modules with maximum rated current values up to 165 A available to them. |
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