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Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies

Sir William Siemens House
Princess Road
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M20 2UR
United Kingdom

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Article archive for Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies

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Siemens invites you to Answers for Industry 2012 (03/04/2012)

Join Siemens and its guest speakers at Answers for Industry 2012, to be held at the Manchester Central Convention Complex on July 4 and 5 2012. This is a free event where you can gain an insight into current and emerging trends...

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Industrial Ethernet portfolio now includes fault-tolerant redundancy option (30/01/2012)

Siemens Industry Automation and Drive Technologies has expanded its industrial network products range with a fault-tolerant system for smooth and delay-free redundancy in industrial Ethernet networks. The new Scalance X-200RNA (Redundant Network...

Integrated safety – space and cost saving technology (04/01/2012)

Safety systems are an important and integral part of a modern process plant or manufacturing automation system. Hitherto, safety and automation functions were separated, but there is now a trend to integrate a number of safety functions with the...

Drive train management (04/01/2012)

Stephen Barker describes how a complete drive train management strategy can become a valuable part of a best practice approach to energy, cost and carbon emissions reduction Motor driven systems represent the largest single...

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Siemens Congleton celebrates 40th anniversary (13/12/2011)

Siemens Congleton is celebrating its 40th anniversary with its busiest and most successful year to date. The plant was established in 1971 and is now Siemens’ global hub for manufacturing variable speed drives, which it exports to 78 countries...

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Low voltage motor scrappage scheme available from Siemens (13/07/2011)

From August 1 to December 31 2011, Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies (IA&DT) will be running a motor scrappage scheme to ease the associated costs of the EU MEPS (European Minimum Energy Performance Standard) scheme which came into...

Northerly islands face a burning issue (04/05/2011)

The highly successful Shetland Islands waste-to-energy scheme is set for future expansion with its all-new distributed control system. The change was a difficult choice for the operators, but the flexible, open technology promises smooth legacy...

Northerly islands face a burning issue (04/05/2011)

The highly successful Shetland Islands waste-to-energy scheme is set for future expansion with its all-new distributed control system. The change was a difficult choice for the operators, but the flexible, open technology promises smooth legacy...

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Integrated security functions enhance safety of industrial networks (07/04/2011)

New components with integrated security functions from Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies (IA&DT) allow companies to enhance the safety of their networks in process automation and production automation. The new versions of the Simatic...

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Safe shutdown of motors up to SIL 3/PL e (02/03/2011)

Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies has introduced two fail-safe digital modules implemented with the motor management system Simocode pro for safe shutdown of motors in process automation. The DM-F Profisafe and DM-F Local modules...

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New power supplies from Siemens offer high efficiency and power density (02/12/2010)

Compact, efficient and powerful – these are the three key features of the new three-phase Sitop PSU300S power supplies and the single phase Sitop PSU100C device versions from Siemens. The narrow footprint of the power supplies only requires a small...

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Siemens doubles its resource and capability for motion control (22/09/2010)

Siemens has doubled its motion control capabilities in anticipation of future growth in this sector. A new partnership has been forged with HMK Technical Services based in Congleton, Cheshire to address the demands from OEMs...

Boost operational efficiency with remote data monitoring (02/09/2010)

Remote wireless based data acquisition is becoming popular for large plants, and plant operators are increasingly favouring the technology over traditional manual data logging activities and hard-wired installations. Derek Moore reports

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Siemens Sitrans LR250 is now Foundation Fieldbus enabled (19/08/2010)

Siemens Industry Automation Division has added Foundation Fieldbus certified communications to the Sitrans LR250 radar level transmitter. Sitrans LR250 comes complete with Enhanced Electronic Device Description (EDD) and is...

Small, but perfectly formed (02/08/2010)

Siemens has advanced its micro automation offering with the launch of the new Simatic S7-1200 modular compact controller family. Combined with the Simatic HMI Basic panel and Step 7 Basic engineering support software, the new controller offers...

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Sirius metal enclosed position switches are IP66/67 protected (11/06/2010)

Siemens has added two metal enclosure versions to its range of 3SE5 Sirius position switches. Providing IP66/67 protection, they come in two versions: one housed in a 31mm enclosure (to EN 50047) and providing two or three...

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Siemens expands mid- and high-range controller portfolio (26/04/2010)

Siemens has expanded its portfolio of mid-range and high-range S7-300 and S7-400 Simatic controllers and improved their performance. A new firmware, with Profinet functions such as isochronous mode, I Device, Shared Device and...

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Distributed positioning and control of stepper motors, actuators and valves (25/03/2010)

Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies has improved the performance of the two technology modules 2 PULSE and 1 STEP for the Simatic ET 200S distributed I/O system, and has also added new functions. ...

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Distributed I/Os communicate wirelessly (08/02/2010)

Simatic ET 200pro IWLAN, the first distributed I/O system from Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies which communicates via Industrial Wireless LAN (IWLAN), is now available with additional country approvals....

A fully integrated approach to distributed plant control (05/01/2010)

Automating a process application is difficult enough; spread it across a wide geographical area and it becomes a bit of a challenge. Ian Heathcock describes a system that can help deliver remote process control from a central point, and how it has...