Author Archives: Greg Harris

Notes from the Cognex Training Session

By Greg Harris | Published: April 23, 2012

Cimtec held a successful training session on Cognex Insight Machine Vision Sensors.  The four day session included hands on lab exercises based on both the EZ Builder and Spreadsheet programming interface.  Thanks to all the students and if you missed this session, join us in Greenville on July 24. Training Schedule  

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Cimtec is Hiring!

By Greg Harris | Published: April 23, 2012

Do you know of anybody that would be a good fit for our team? Please have them contact Kelly:     h r @cimtec.com Job listings here: http://www.cimtec.com/careers/

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Sick IVC 3D Demo setup

By Greg Harris | Published: April 18, 2012

              3D machine vision proof of concept demo of the Sick IVC-3D.   We inspect a metal bracket with a small 0.5mm imperfection and show the rendered model after the laser scanning. NOTE:  the screen capture is full screen,  for best results,  right click the “video” link and save [...]

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GE-IP Releases Proficy Historian 4.5

By Greg Harris | Published: March 6, 2012

The latest 4.5 release of Proficy Historian expands on the unparalleled power of our 4.x series Enterprise Historian platform with significant scalability, performance, and functionality improvements.  This release allows our customers to fundamentally change the way they use Historian to aggregate and accelerate information across their enterprises. For customers new to the product, this is an [...]

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Looking for GE Field Control?

By Greg Harris | Published: December 14, 2011

Through our authorization as a GE Energy distributor, Cimtec now has access to a large inventory of legacy GE Field Control products. For details,  please review our  Field Control Parts listing or contact Cimtec Inside Sales directly  1-866-599-6507 – Email: sales@cimtecautomation.com Field Control was designed as a distributed I/O system that could be used with GE IP 90-30, 90-70 and PAC [...]

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Hirschmann offers lifetime warranty

By Greg Harris | Published: November 17, 2011

New Lifetime Warranty Program Provides Customers the Ability to Register Their Devices and Receive an Extended Lifetime Warranty Hirschmann extends the limited warranty of specific Hirschmann Ethernet products purchased after May 1, 2011 to lifetime. CIMTEC Automation, an Authorized Hirschmann Distributor, invites you to take part in a limited-time offer from Hirschmann.  Hirschmann is extending the limited warranty [...]

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Cimtec to Host GE-IP Modernization Workshop Dec 6.

By Greg Harris | Published: October 17, 2011

Dec 6, 2011:    Charlotte NC. Signup information and promotional offer below. Reduce the complexity, improve the performance, and lower the cost of your distributed control system This unique workshop will demonstrate how you can save time, reduce hardware cost and improve your system’s performance. See the latest capabilities made possible by Ethernet technology, and [...]

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Identifying Registration Marks in Laminate Films

By Greg Harris | Published: October 14, 2011

By using a registration mark, not only is the final print of higher quality, but less scrap is created by print passes that do not line up. Many manufacturing processes rely on registration marks to line up sheet materials for cutting or printing. Some packaging companies use multi-laminate films for their packaging applications, and can [...]

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Sick Safety Scanner for multiple field protection

By Greg Harris | Published: September 28, 2011

  For mobile applications like AGV’s where field of view for safety must change based upon speed or direction or for fixed mount where field of view changes on the state of the machine’s operation,  Sick’s laser based safety scanners are a great fit.  The Sick safety line offers: Easy Integration Wide product options to fit [...]

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Vision Guided Robotics

By Greg Harris | Published: September 19, 2011

Cimtec partners with small parts assembly customer to increase throughput while increasing quality.   Cognex machine vision integrated with Denso 6-axis robotics. Customer has hand assembled product since 1968 due in part to the very tight clearances of the components and the need to visually inspect these components prior to assembly. Engineering proposed and justified [...]

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