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TECO Pneumatic is very pleased to announce that we now bring to
northern California the complete line of Crouzet automation and
industrial control components. Crouzet is an international company with more
than 2000 employees in 14 countries and has had a presence in the United
States since 1978. Their product offering is extensive:
We are particularly excited to bring you the Crouzet Millenium II+, one of the most powerful Logic Controllers on the market. Its features include:
With the Millenium II+ functions such as timing, counting, supervision, temperature control and backup are easy to manage. This state-of-the-art Logic Controller incorporates the most advanced function library on the market, now intergrating high-speed counting, a tachometer, a PID temperature controller, and enhanced data storage. The Millineum II+ is available in 12 and 24 VDC. It combines a remarkably easy to use pull down programming menu, excellent adaptability and ease of installation. With preprogrammed function blocks, analog inputs and the powerful calendar clock, Millenium II+ makes controlling your installations easy. Your TECO salesperson would be happy to demonstrate this remarkably flexible and powerful Logic Controller or any of the wide range of Crouzet products. Please give us a call.
Easy Mounting Incremental Encoders from Baumer Baumer Electric is best known as supplier of the world’s broadest range of position sensing solutions for the automation industry. At TECO Pneumatic we rely on Baumer Electric as our sole source for capacitive, inductive, photoelectric, laser and ultrasonic sensors. In the last News from TECO newsletter, we introduced you to Baumer’s remarkable new ultra-miniature MINOS range of diffuse, retro-reflective and through-beam photoelectric sensors. In addition to precision sensors, Baumer offers a very broad line of absolute and incremental encoders, which are used to monitor and control many types of rotary motion. Essentially, an encoder consists of a shaft, a disc and a scanner. The shaft is connected to a rotating object and transfers rotary motion to a pulse disc. The disc is scanned magnetically or optically and generates either incremental or absolute output signals. An incremental encoder provides a pulse for each increment of rotary motion, and an absolute encoder provides a binary code output, which ensures retention of position information during a power loss. The output information is then fed into a control device to be translated into position, speed or directional information. An incremental encoder is capable of monitoring distance, speed and direction; an absolute encoder can provide the added benefit of absolute position, removing the need for machine homing on startup.
The illustration shows a Baumer H25 square flange incremental encoder. With its 2.5" square aluminum flange mounting face and 3/8" shaft, this encoder easily integrates into non-metric mounting envelopes. The H25 provides a broad range of resolution; you may choose from 5 to 6,000 pulses per revolution. Through interpolation, up to 24,000 pulses per revolution are possible. When a high-speed process must be monitored, the H25 is capable of handling rotational speeds up to 10,000 rpm. This small encoder is very rugged; it has a shock rating of 200 G. A standard quadrature output integrates easily into your existing control system. Baumer also offers a variety of connectors and cordsets for these encoders as well as many types of flexible couplings to facilitate mounting. Features:
Complete technical information on the H25 incremental encoder is available in the Baumer Electric section of the TECO Pneumatic web site, www.tecopneumatic.com. For much more background information on the operation and application of encoders, you will find an excellent technical essay, Rotary Encoders: How, Why and Where posted in the technical section of the TECO website. If you would like to see the latest in sensor and encoder technology, ask your TECO representative for a copy of the 2005 edition of the encyclopedic Baumer Electric product catalog and Baumer’s brand new encoder catalog.
Lam Research / TECO Pneumatic Step Forward High-tech companies know that gifting state-of-the-art equipment to a university like Cal Poly is a good thing to do and makes good business sense. Lam Research and TECO Pneumatic are two such companies—they know that the more Cal Poly engineering students work with industry-current equipment and technology, the more industry-ready they’ll be when they graduate. TECO is a pneumatic equipment supplier; LAM makes machinery used in semi-conductor manufacture; and with the help of Parker Hannifin advisor, Rich Duder, Lam and TECO donated almost $80,000 in equipment to the Mechanical Engineering Department (ME) this year. The TECO equipment consists of six separate low-friction actuators along with the pneumatic servo electronics and valves to run the actuators. "This equipment is typically used in demanding semiconductor manufacturing processes for accurate positioning in wafer manufacturing," says ME Associate Professor Frank Owen. "The servo equipment will be used in the Control Systems Lab. Using the exact equipment typically used in industry, and not some miniaturized version of it for an academic lab, gives our students experience that is directly applicable to pneumatic motion control as it is practiced in the real world," Owen notes. "This is a new type of industrial partnership for our program," says ME Associate Professor Glen Thorncroft, "and one we hope will become a model for other companies. "Excerpted with permission from the
Monnier Eliminates Piping Headaches Plumbing a pneumatic system can be a nuisance. Assembling the required tube and fittings, checking for leaks and insuring efficient tube runs all take skill, consume time, and cost money. Recently Monnier introduced a new series of filter / regulator manifolds which address these issues. This complete air supply package provides up to eight filtered and pressure regulated air outlets from a single air inlet. Installation and connection time is held to an absolute minimum. These 'FRM’s' provide full flow to each port. Monnier’s Filter Regulator Manifold offers the following features:
The Monnier FRM reduces assembly labor, improves the appearance of your product and virtually eliminates the possibility of air line leaks. Monnier, "Where Custom Solutions Become Standard," will modify the basic FRM product to suit your requirement. If you would like to get rid of that "rats nest" of tubing in your air delivery system, please ask your TECO representative to see a Monnier Filter Regulator Manifold.
- Eugene Ionesco - "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people
don’t recognize them." "A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing
possibility." "We learn from Experience. A man never wakes up his second baby
just to see it smile." "The only new thing in the world is history you don’t know." "Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue." "Where all are alike, no one thinks very much." "An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself
to be devoured."
We hope that the rain and snow this winter will bring flowers in some form to all. At least we should be able to flush our toilets this summer without worrying too much about water shortages. This March, TECO Pneumatic will participate in two of our favorite trade shows. On March 16th & 17th, we will be in booths 304 & 306 at the Central Valley Plant Engineering Show. This show is held at the Modesto Center Plaza in downtown Modesto. If you plan to be in Modesto and need a ticket, please contact your TECO sales person or call our office. The American Vacuum Society’s Vacuum Show will again be held at the Santa Clara Convention center on March 22nd & 23rd. We always enjoy the chance to meet with some of our oldest customers in this important industry.
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