New Vision Sensors: DataVS2

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Ivan Romanow

The DataVS2 vision sensor series presents all the characteristics able to solve artificial machine vision applications in a flexible and intuitive way. The sensor is configured via PC through Ethernet interface. The configuration software has been developed in order to lead the customer through the inspection creation process step by step.
DataVS2 is available in four different versions according to the installed control tools: Object recognition (OBJ), Advanced Object recognition (AOR), Identification (ID) and Professional (PRO). Continue reading →

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Ontario government launches Clean Energy Economic Development Strategy

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Ivan Romanow

The Ontario government has launched its Clean Energy Economic Development Strategy with the goal of creating more jobs in the clean energy sector.

The strategy includes the following priority areas:

• Continue progress in solar and wind energy by supporting companies that are looking to export their Ontario-made products and services to the world;

• Take advantage of Ontario’s global leadership in smart meters and the smart grid, including grid automation, data management and consumer-facing ways to engage Ontarians in their energy usage; and

• Explore the potential of energy storage. Continue reading →

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A New Way to Look at Your Manufacturing Process, Part 3 – Do It Yourself Pitfalls

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Mark Robertson

In the first two parts of this we looked at process monitoring from Sciemetric, a company who specializes in monitoring many, many types of processes.  More importantly, we looked at how their product can help you get the process data you need, and showed a couple of neat little videos that let Sciemetric explain it in their own words.

While they certainly have some neat technology that can solve a lot of process problems, the number one question (sometimes more of a statement than a question) I hear is:

“Why can’t I just do this myself?”  Continue reading →

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A Potentially Perfect Energy Source!

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Ivan Romanow

There is a “perfectly green” energy source that is essentially inexhaustible (billions of times as much as all the oil and natural gas and nuclear that we might ever find or try to use)! It would cause ZERO global warming, ZERO pollution, and not use up any natural resources. It is called the Kinetic Energy of rotation of the Earth. The amount of rotational energy that the Earth has is astounding! We will see below the math that proves the published value of that energy is 2.137 * 1029 Joules or watt-seconds. This “spinning energy” of the Earth is around 60,000,000,000 times that TOTAL ELECTRIC USAGE of all Americans for an entire year! And is at least a billion times ALL the energy that has EVER been created and used by humans during all of civilization! Continue reading →

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Psst. Come Closer. Yeah, you. I’ve got a secret for you. You have power problems.

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Neil Wilson

How do I know? Because unless you are one of the few that actually know and protect your equipment, you have power problems. Transients (surges, spikes, whatever you wish to call them) are, right now, destroying your equipment, from the sensitive electronics in your systems, to the large industrial strength motors that look immortal to mere small events. They are in your plant, and your offices. As you’re reading this, you just had more. And as small and undetectable as you may think they are, they just did damage. You just don’t know it yet. Think of the people that split large rocks by hand, they know that it is never one hammer strike that does the work, but all of the strikes before it and in combination together. And the last hit that actually does the final splitting? It’s not the largest. All the work was done by the hits before it. Continue reading →

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Industrial/Manufacturing Energy Optimization

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Ivan Romanow

GESCAN Ontario has launched a Energy Optimization Specialist Team, to help industrial and manufacturing  deliver cleaner, smarter and more efficient energy solutions. Our goal of the effort is to “help drive energy efficiency, increase productivity and improve sustainability in key industrial applications in Ontario.
Gescan’s Neil Wilson has recieved desigantion of CEM(certification in energy management) and will lead our optimization efforts. This team will capitalize on our core vendors energy expertise with both products and services  to identify and install the right solutions for our customers.
This team has experience and global know-how to deliver cleaner, smarter and more efficient solutions that draw on products and services from Eaton, Total Protection Solutions and GE.
These solutions apply to nearly any manufacturing operation, including data centers, healthcare facilities, oil and gas processing, mining and paper mills.

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Monitoring motors for energy savings

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Ivan Romanow

Your motors can help you find substantial energy savings, if you can hear what they’re trying to tell you. The right monitoring equipment will help you get the message.

With limited natural resources and the ever-increasing global demand for energy, it only stands to reason that energy costs will continue to increase. As energy costs rise around the world, the incentives for facilities to operate their equipment more efficiently will compound over time. There are mandatory means (e.g., regulations) that authorities use to enforce conservation, and compensatory means (e.g., special rate tariffs) that reward users for using less energy. In either case, reducing energy consumption will decrease bottom-line costs to the user. Continue reading →

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A New Way to Look at Your Manufacturing Process, Part 2 – Sciemetric Explained

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Mark Robertson

About a month ago, Carl posted on our blog regarding Sciemetric and the sigPOD and how it can shape manufacturing going forward.  Read original here.

In the post, he reviewed how the technology looks at the unique signature that the process has and using different algorithms and processes can aid in determining whether the part currently being produced has a signature that matches the criteria set and as such whether it is a good or bad part. Continue reading →

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Should Natural Gas Vehicles be considered as part of the portfolio of transportation solutions?

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Ivan Romanow

Natural Gas Vehicle Emissions
Compared with vehicles fueled with conventional diesel and gasoline, natural gas vehicles can produce significantly lower amounts of harmful emissions such as nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and toxic and carcinogenic pollutants as well as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
Light-Duty Vehicle Emissions: CNG vs. Gasoline
Testing has been performed to compare the emissions of light-duty CNG vehicles versus light-duty gasoline vehicles. For detailed results, see the Vehicle Technologies Emissions Testing Continue reading →

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Introducing Eaton’s New S611 Soft Starter

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Ivan Romanow

Eaton is pleased to introduce the new S611 soft starter. The Eaton S611 is an innovative, economical soft starter combining advanced functionality, unsurpassed configuration flexibility, and an extremely comprehensive user interface. It is available in both open and enclosed control configurations to meet the needs of the commercial construction and OEM segment. Continue reading →

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