Product News

Foxboro LevelWave Radar

Foxboro Field Devices has more than 50 years expertise in level measurement. Their LevelWave Radar Series offers state-of-the-art measurement technology with the highest flexibility in the field. The modular design guarantees easy and fast field installation. Foxboro’s radar devices will consistently provide you with accurate and stable measurement performance across a wide range of installations and applications.

Foxboro’s LevelWave Radar Series provides one universal radar measurement solution for all liquids including corrosive, viscous, sticky, and other difficult media such as foam and turbulent surfaces, and solids. Unaffected by changes in temperature, specific gravity, and pressure and with no need to re-calibrate, the modular design guarantees easy and fast field installation for the requirements of the modern industry.

Why choose radar for level measurement? Radar measurement can do the really difficult applications.

• Free-Space Radar* (LR01) provides a non-contact antenna that is virtually unaffected by changes in temperature, pressure, or gas and vapor composition, which means it is excellent for all kind of liquids including corrosive and other difficult media.
• The measurement of Foxboro’s Guided Wave Radar* (LG01) device is unaffected by changes in density, conductivity, pressure, or temperature or by gas movement above the product.
• Foxboro’s chosen technologies with Quick Noise Scanning* and Empty Tank Spectrum* for vessel level measurement provide greater accuracy and improved reliability & stability.

Foxboro’s LevelWave Radar offers unique advantages designed to save you cost, time and resources:

Easy Installation

Do you want easy installation for your operators so interruptions in your plant and headaches in the field are kept to a minimum? With Foxboro’s unique modular design, installation really could not be easier, which means your operators can move onto the next job more quickly.

Effortless Operation

When considering a new or replacement device, another concern is how it will fit with your existing installation. Each device in the Foxboro range has unique adaptable mounting, which makes it much simpler to fit into an existing space. Not only that, Foxboro has added an optional display with an externally-accessible keyboard and a remote version, which means day-to-day effortless operation for your engineers.

Exceptional Quality

You can also rest easy that every time you order from Foxboro each device has been rigorously factory-tested, which guarantees the build quality of every instrument we ship to you.

GECMA Introduces Its New Remote Terminal

GECMA now offers a new and unique modular design concept – the GECMA RT – a new generation of remote operating terminal.

The GECMA RT has been designed packed full of features and state of the art technology. Suitable for the strictest of hygienic conditions and aggressive production environments, its slim, flexible modular construction also includes individually certified modules to allow safe maintenance even in hazardous areas.

The GECMA RT offers these outstanding features:

For more information, visit http://www.gecma.com/products/gecma.

E+PLC – Eurotherm PLC

The E+PLC contains the heart of Eurotherm expertise in measurement, control, and recording, all in a flexible, single PLC package. E+PLC is an open standards-based PLC platform that combines decades of knowledge in precision PID control and secure recording packaged in function blocks for incredibly easy implementation with these features:

• Standard CODESYS platform
• No learning curve – standard IEC 61131-3 programming

• The best in PID control and secure recording packaged for quick, easy implementation

E+PLC offers precise measurement of process variables to give accurate, repeatable results which translate into optimized energy usage. Its precision is based on the fundamental requirement that to control accurately, you need to measure precisely.

• High stability, high repeatability measurements to 0.1% of span precision
• High level of input noise rejection
• Exceptionally fast acting cold junction temperature compensation for thermocouples
• Accurate linearization for industry standard thermocouples, resistance thermometers, and many other sensors
• Tighter process tolerances to handle the most demanding production operations
• Low input noise prevents control oscillations, allowing precise control to setpoint within tolerance
• Flawless operation for regulated processes, for example AMS2750E, CQI-9

Eurotherm control algorithms protect product quality by eliminating overshoot and providing tighter tolerances to the required setpoint. The resulting finer, repeatable control makes processes more predictable and aids with compliance to both regulatory and quality standards.  The improvements in process performance gained also reduce wasted energy and processing times, thus maximizing overall equipment efficiency (OEE).  Offering superior control with reduced engineering, E+PLC uses a single, integrated programming environment to optimize engineering efficiency.  High performance PID control capability is made readily available within this environment in the form of pre-engineered function blocks.  Users need to simply parameterize the blocks and can instantiate them as many times as required for an application.

The Eurotherm E+PLC offers robust compliance with regulatory and quality standards and delivers the complete peace of mind associated with total data integrity and security. It keeps vital process records safe using highly efficient data management strategies resulting in:

Total security, complete peace of mind through:

• Tamper-resistant records that are created with continual recording to internal Flash memory at point of measurement
• Power fail safe strategy with validated files to be certain data is never lost
• Basing on decades of experience and over 20 years of backward compatible file format
• Complete traceability
• Robustness to network failure

More efficient data management through:

• Integrated recording functionality readily available on E+PLC platform
• Flexible, easily configurable recording and archiving strategies to suit plant requirements
• Easy search and recreating of historical records

New High Performance Pyrometer Series by Process Sensors

Features

Process Sensors introduces their newest self-contained pyrometer models, the stand-alone PSC-SR56N Series. With an outstanding price/performance ratio, this series of two-color sensors is packed with features that make these pyrometers the perfect choice for custom application requirements such as:

Wide Range of Applications

The nature of these highly compact and versatile IR sensors make them ideal for use in:

Designed for Harsh Industrial Continuous Operations

Optical and electronics parts are enclosed in rugged cylindrical stainless steel housings for high performance in the most demanding environments to include under demanding research and development conditions. The durable and compact companion stainless steel cooling jacket with integrated air purge stands up to even the harshest environments, and a number of innovative, ruggedly designed accessories are available.

Four Sighting Methods Available

With five temperature ranges spanning from 500°to 3000°C, the new models offer a choice of through-lens sighting, an integrated red laser, video camera sighting, or an electronic viewfinder. The unique electronic viewfinder feature allows the user to view into the sensor’s eye-piece and observe a colorized video image of the process under measurement.

Easy to Set Up

The free of charge PSCSpot software with optional USB cable for connection to RS485 output allows simple set-up of IR thermometer parameters, facilitates multi-tasking, and makes it simple to record data in graphical, text, or tabular format.

Advantages of Two-Color or Ratio Pyrometers

These pyrometers measure temperatures from the ratio of radiation signals of two adjacent wavelengths as opposed to measuring the absolute intensity within one wavelength, as with one-color pyrometers. The advantages and benefits of using two-color sensors are:

• Automatic compensation for viewing through dirty windows, dust and partial smoke between sensor and target.
• Compensation for changes in target emissivity (i.e., gray bodies); targets with the same emissivity on both wavelengths.
• Measures smaller target than sensor’s field of view (FOV/Spot Size) (i.e., measures weighted peak temperature within FOV.
• Unaffected by moving targets within FOV.

MSystem Tower Light Series

Wireless LAN Tower Light Series

The MSystem IT40SW, IT50SW and IT60SW Series are preassembled tower lights of 40-mm, 50-mm, and 60-mm diameter LED modules with wireless LAN connectivity. The WLAN access point built in the IP 65 protected tower light is a simple and practical solution for status remote monitoring, data logging, and supervisory control of manufacturing equipment and processes in harsh industrial environment.

The WLAN capability complying with IEEE 802.11b/g/n allows a wide compatibility with MSystem’s and other manufacturers’ remote I/O modules and web-enabled data loggers. This supports versatile applications such as data acquisition and control of multiple machines by a single master PLC located in one without needing hard wiring between each of them or event notification to tablet devices with texts and images from manufacturing equipment.

The LED lights are controlled either by local contact inputs or by a host PLC/PC via Modbus/TCP network.

Open Network Capable Tower Light Series

The MSYSTEM IT40S, IT50S and IT60S Series are preassembled tower lights of 40-mm, 50-mm, and 60-mm diameter LED modules. They feature direct control by PLC via Ethernet Modbus/TCP (model: ITxxSRE) or CC-Link (model: ITxxSRC).

In combination with MSystem’s remote I/O modules, local discrete signals can trigger the light modules connected with single network cables via a remote PLC, saving a great part of parallel wiring from sensor devices to the PLC’s input cards, and from the PLC’s output cards to the lights.

Contact input type (ITxxSA1) without network connection is also available for local control.