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Our Dallas branch had a great time Monday with the Innovative-IDM Halloween Festival including a Costume Contest and Pumpkin Carving Contest. The Dallas CIA hosted our monthly Buzz’s Bar & Grill, serving up burgers, hot dogs, brats, salad, chips and handmade corn dip made by Beverly from our Admin Group. Following all the festivities, our...

Electronics And Heat Don’t Mix

As we here in Texas groan about high temperatures of summer, it’s important to remember that we aren’t the only ones suffering from the heat. Electronics and heat don’t mix and the combination can be disastrous. As temperatures rise the number of businesses that lost power or experienced brown increase. During that time, many people...

If you are in the Oklahoma City area on Wednesday, April 6, stop by our Technology Expo. Open house, and lunch is included. Factory technology experts will be on site to answer your questions about pneumatics, motion, automation, I/O, machine controllers, robotics and more.  Raffle prizes for the first five people in the door. See...

Temperature control has taken a giant leap forward with our next generation of controllers – the E5CC/E5EC, which have set new global standards in the crucial areas of precision, user friendliness and control performance. This new series feature large easy-to-read displays, fast simple set up and 50 ms sampling period time. The compact units, which...

Omron Scientific Technologies Inc. introduces the Status Display Touchscreen for G9SP Programmable Safety Controllers. This simple plug-and-play touchscreen displays safety I/O error codes and enables G9SP users to easily view the status of safety inputs and outputs without the cost of installing and wiring indicator lights. Users are able to reset up to four zones...

Machine Objectives: Controlled tension on monofilament Simple operator interface High throughput Motion Control Requirements: 2 Axes of coordinated motion Linear interpolation Constant torque from motor Application Solution: The prime requirement of the bobbin drive is to provide a controlled tension, which means operating in Torque mode rather than Velocity mode. This requirement leads to the...