Seeing your key machines and sensors on your smartphone or tablet—whether they're in your facility or remotely located—could be mighty useful, you may be thinking.
But maybe you don't have the time or interest to develop your own groov mobile operator interface, or configure devices and set up networking.
If that's the case, take a look at the groov Action Plan.
Topics: groov, optonews, New products, OptoNews 2015-09-23
Do you have devices on a Controller Area Network? Now you can communicate with them using the SNAP-SCM-CAN2B serial communication module and a new CAN RX/TX Integration Kit.
New R2.0b firmware on the SNAP-SCM-CAN2B makes it possible to both transmit and receive data.
When you enable transmit functionality, all data communications between the module and the SNAP PAC brain or controller are ASCII encoded and frame delimited for robust communications.
Topics: Updates, optonews, New products, Integrators, OptoNews 2015-07-15, I/O
Have you have been waiting for this one?
Now you can create a custom application to read from and write to tags in a PAC Control strategy running on any of our SNAP PAC programmable automation controllers:
That means you can access tags in the strategy like integer, float, and string variables and tables, as well as analog and discrete input and output points.
Topics: optonews, PACs, New products, Integrators, OptoNews 2015-06-03
You'll get three great new features (and more) in our latest PAC Project release:
Topics: Updates, optonews, New products, Migration, OptoNews 2015-04-01
Do you have legacy SNAP Ultimate or SNAP Ethernet I/O units on B-series mounting racks? Now you can upgrade these I/O units to SNAP PAC with the new SNAP-PAC-R1-B controller.
The SNAP-PAC-R1-B is exactly like a regular SNAP-PAC-R1 except that it has a blue connector on the bottom that fits on a B-series rack. That means you can:
Topics: OptoNews 2015-03-04, PACs, New products, Migration