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Industrial Controllers

02/08/2011 10:58 PM

For an industrial automation application, I am looking for controllers.

Can anyone help me with the names of the manufacturers in business. Thanks!

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02/08/2011 11:00 PM
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02/08/2011 11:19 PM

On the power side, to name a few: A-B, ABB, Cutler-Hammer, Furnas, GE, Klockner-Moeller, Siemens, Square-D, Telemecanique, Westinghouse, etc.

On the programmable control side: Some of the same names, plus Gahlil, Omron, Opto-22, etc.

(Just a mixed bag of some I have used, seen, or heard of.)

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02/08/2011 11:38 PM
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02/09/2011 12:07 AM

"Industrial Controllers" is so vague as to be pointless to discuss. There are many many many kinds of "industrial controllers", the term could apply to an embedded microprocessor board, a DCS system running an entire oil refinery, a SCADA system spread out over hundreds of miles, or anything in between.

If you would like some meaningful help, describe the task you need to accomplish, a quick overview of how you are doing it now (if you are), and a general location, i.e. your country (or better yet, fill that out in the registration process so we can identify you as something other than "guest").

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02/09/2011 2:54 AM

@Tornado : Thank you very much for the help
@MoronicBumble: This is a great link...thanks!
@JRaef: Thanks but I was only looking for some names of the manufacturers since I am very new to the field.
I do have an account with globalspec and am a regular at this forum, its just that I can't login from the place I work.

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02/09/2011 3:01 AM

Even in guest mode, you can append identifiers such as normal username, etc.

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02/09/2011 10:19 AM

OK, but names of manufacturers of what? PLCs? PACs? HMIs? DCS? SCADA systems? SBCs? BMS? PID Controllers? Smart Relays? etc. etc. etc.

If you narrow down the field a bit the responses can be more meaningful.

PLCs, by world wide rank of units installed from an internal report I got while I worked at Siemens for a while (2 years ago):

Siemens / TI = 55%

Allen Bradley = 21%

Omron = 7%

Mitsubishi = 6%

Schneider / Telemecanique / Modicon = 4%

Remaining 7% split among all others.

North America:

Allen Bradley = 41%

Siemens / TI = 21%

Schneider / Telemecanique / Modicon = 18%

Omron = 5%

Mitsubishi = 5%

All others are less than 5%

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02/10/2011 2:06 AM

@JRaef: Thank you!

I am looking for a PLC for controlling a 3 revolute axes arm. What parameters should I consider for identifying a PLC. Is there a procedure/cases studies which I can follow?

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02/10/2011 1:28 PM

If you are using servo motors for the axes, a PLC with motion control capability is a must. But if there is not a lot of other associated discrete controls, you may want to consider a dedicated motion controller. That would be especially true if you want what is called "interpolated motion", i.e. smooth coordinated movement in all 3 axes simultaneously. For example a contour milling machine.many of the same mfrs listed above also offer motion control capabilities at some level, but there are also specialized motion control companies such as Bosch / Rexroth, Galil, Emerson, Kollmogen etc. that do not sell traditional PLCs.

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02/11/2011 11:07 PM

I went through the specifications of the motion controllers without PLCs. That is what I am looking for. Please correct me if I am wrong, to chose a controller I would need to select one which can provide sufficient power to my servomotors. But one of my motors is rated 5kW. I could only find controllers which supported a maximum of 750W motor. Do multiaxis controllers support motors with higher ratings?

Thank you very much for your help.

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