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Newsletter                                                                                                     December  2011

2011 Holiday Message

Online Technical Support Resource 


I don't know if you've noticed a little addition to the Gibson website lately, but we've added a "GetSatisfaction" link thGet Satisfactionat connects you to a community based support resource.

To start off with, all of the folks here at Gibson are signed up and monitoring the forum.  You can either create a new GetSatisfaction login, or if you already have a Facebook, Google, Twitter, Windows Live or OpenID login then you can login with those credentials.  

 

We've been so blessed over the years to build relationships with many very talented and savvy customers, and we thought if we gave those "Friends of Gibson" a forum to ask and/or answer technical questions related to our factory automation products that the result would be better support, and over time we'd develop an always-on resource of search-able questions and answers.  It also gives us the ability to get instant feedback on how we're doing for you.  If you haven't ever heard of "GetSatisfaction" we invite you to take a look.  

 

I'd love to hear what you think about it, and we'd really love to see you using the resource to help increase your profitability, competitiveness, and productivity.

                                       - Dan O'Brien

 

Pepperl & Fuchs  Subminiature photoelectric sensors are ideal for packaging or converting applications  

ML4 Sensor

 

The ML4.2 Series subminiature photoelectric sensors help maximize machine productivity by delivering faster response times, multibeam redundant detection, independent outputs, and zero deadband sensing.

 

 ML4.2 dual-sensor redundant detection models feature dual light beams from two emitter LEDs that reflect light to two receivers. These beams act as a logic "OR" so that either beam can switch the output. Having a redundant light beam enables transparent or glossy objects that are foil or plastic-wrapped to be much more reliably sensed when compared with single-beam sensing.

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Technical Paper: "Sensing by Ranging"  

   
The future of photoelectric sensors lies in direct

distance measurement.

 

Direct measurement is the only way to reliably measure the distance to an object where the reflection characteristics are constantly changing. While this realization is nothing new, it has rarely been implemented in the industrial optical sensor sector due to high costs.

 sensing by ranging

Pulse Ranging Technology (PRT) technology has succeeded in providing a time-of-flight measuring principle that is both suitable for compact sensors and acceptable in price.

 

Download the paper

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Gibson Engineering continues to expand our Facebook presence adding updates and posts on a weekly basis. 

 

We recently added a special page that provides users with access to a New Cognex On-Line catalog which enables fans to search the catalog by product type or model number.   

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Pepperl & Fuchs CC-Link Controller for Industrial RFID

 

The IDENTControl compact family of industrial RFID controllers has been expanded to include communication to CC-Link.  This common upper-level bus system is used almost exclusively by Mitsubishi PLCs. 

 

CC link RFIDThese RFID controllers also support CC-Link V2. This newer specification allows for extended cyclic settings, resulting in a large data map, making it easier and faster to read and write large amounts of information to the industrial RFID system.   

This two-head RFID controller communicates to both read/write heads simultaneously and incorporates a new advanced RFID protocol.  This powerful protocol gives positive feedback to the user when a new RFID tag has arrived and allows for large read/write data blocks that are limited only by the read/write head's internal memory size.

  • Connect up to two IDENTControl read headsCC-Link V1.10 and CC-Link V2 support
  • Rotary switched for setting the CC-Link address, baud rate, and extended cyclic settings
  • Simultaneous access to both read/write heads
  • Extended cyclic settings to map up to 128 words at one time
  • Function blocks available for quick and easy integration into your PLC program

 

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In this issue:
  
   
  
   
  
 
Video Blog: Mitsubishi Robot Plays Scrabble
 
Epsisode One video
 
Greg Sokol and Mike Torilli step through our vision guided robot demonstration.
 
 
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