OFFTOPIC: where to look for suppliers...

 Hi all,

I am trying to put together a proposal to the university I
work for to buy 
some didatic industrial automation production systems.

 I know of festo and their modular production systems for
teaching automation 
(www.festo-didactic.com), but I would prefer something more
along the lines 
of some conveyors and actuators somewhat similar to robot
arms.

 Does anybody know of any suppliers for these didatic
systems, or where I 
should look to find them?



  Thnaks for any help you may provide,


		Cheers,

				Mario.

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There are several manufacturers that make didactic
automation system.
At our college we use SMC products, this is a European
pneumatics
manufacturer that has several systems available.
There is also a US company called Amatrol that has very nice
setups.

My question in return however is that it is not likely any
of these
systems will have a Linux-PLC control. Can you tell me what
you intend
to use to control it?

Thanks, have a nice day

Martijn Giesselbach

Autom.specialist
Alexandria Technical College
MN USA

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suppliers...



 Hi all,

I am trying to put together a proposal to the university I
work for to
buy 
some didatic industrial automation production systems.

 I know of festo and their modular production systems for
teaching
automation 
(www.festo-didactic.com), but I would prefer something more
along the
lines 
of some conveyors and actuators somewhat similar to robot
arms.

 Does anybody know of any suppliers for these didatic
systems, or where
I 
should look to find them?



  Thnaks for any help you may provide,


		Cheers,

				Mario.

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 Thanks Andrey & Martijn for the tips!


On Wednesday 08 November 2006 15:26, Martijn Giesselbach
wrote:
> There are several manufacturers that make didactic
automation system.
> At our college we use SMC products, this is a European
pneumatics
> manufacturer that has several systems available.
> There is also a US company called Amatrol that has very
nice setups.
>
> My question in return however is that it is not likely
any of these
> systems will have a Linux-PLC control. Can you tell me
what you intend
> to use to control it?


 We use mostly Schneider (7 Premiums) and Omron (4 CJ1 and 2
CS1) PLCs, and 
Profibus, DeviceNet, Modbus (RTU, ASCII, TCP) and RTPS
networks (almost 20 
slaves overall). We also have a couple LCD touch panels, one
hmi web card, 
several speed controllers, etc... I believe we are currently
quite well 
equiped in industrial grade equipment.

 What we are currently looking for now is for mechanical
devices that the 
students may control. At the moment we are more inclined
towards the small 
models at
http://www.staudinger-est.de/intl/en/simulation02.
aspx?group=1
as we would like to have at least 6 groups working
simultaneously in the lab, 
and 6 of the the festo/amatrol type systems would be a tight
fit in the 67 m2 
lab along with the existing workbenches, and would probably
come out too 
expensive.



  Cheers,

		Mario.

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