EPN Industrial Automation Blog

Industrial MCUs

What's a  microcontroller for industrial applications supposed to do? One of the main demands today is to increase energy efficiency while at the same time support as many communications standards as neccessary. Due to the multicore nature of modern microcontrollers, programming has become increasingly difficult so anything that reduces software complexity is highly desirable.

embedded world 2011: The industrial touch

Ruggedized touch panel computers can serve as control front ends for industrial networking systems. However, the usually delicate touch screens have to withstand all kinds of mistreatment.

Denser Power, less solder

Power Modules for inverter applications need to switch high power levels smoothly with as low an EMI as possible. Besides, they are supposed to be small and lightweight – a balancing act

SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2010: Energy and Safety

Focusing on energy efficiency and Safety/Security, Moxa is going to exhibit products from its railway, public transportation, ITS, marine, factory automation, and power business segments at SPC/IPC/DRIVES in hall 9 stand 221.

Short notice: Mondial taken over by B+R

Austrian Mondial electronic GmbH located in Gilgenberg has been bought out by Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik GmbH (B&R) headquartered in Bad Homburg, Germany.

I7 on cPCI

CompactPCI is around for the better part of 15 years and in this time, many bus and connection standards have seen the light of day and vanished again. cPCI is flexible enough to work together even with the most modern and fastest processor units.

Energy harverster harvests Harvesting Award

The prize for "Best development in the field of energy harvesting" awarded by IDTechEx , has gone to Munich-based EnOcean . According to the awarding market research and consulting company, the prize goes to the company with the best energy harvesting product developed in the last 24 months. The jury declared EnOcean a winner due to their technical advantages and the market potential of its products.

Ask Mr. Green

Colour me “Green”: Not just the colour but also products, technologies, applications and devices in all varieties which save or help to save energy are en vogue these days. Not least the EuP directive, commonly known as Ecodesign, forcing energy efficiency everywhere has boosted general awareness signifcantly. Not only enormous energy savings potentials in various applications are possible but also reduced system costs are driving factors. That’s why Power Integrations started with the EuP Standards Finder, an online tool that quickly matches end products to energy-efficiency requirements.