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CMW Automation
Falcon Crest, 18 Soetdoring Crescent, Vredenburg
Core business offering: Industrial automation and information systems.
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Section - Computers & Software
-Industrial computers
- Compact, embeddable (PC/104, PCI, ISA bus) modules
- Explosion protected
- Flat-panel
- Pentium architecture
- PLC plug-in
- Rackmount
- Wall mounted, embeddable
-Input devices
- Keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) extenders & switches
- Keyboards
- Network interfaces (see I/O table)
- Touchscreens
-Electrical design
-Motion control system design
-Communication medium
- Copper
- Optical fibre
- Radio
-Communication standard
- Ethernet/IP
- Fieldbus
- Modbus
- Other
- RS232/485/422
-Distributed I/O systems
- PC-centric
-I/O blocks/modules
-Mounting methods
- DIN rail
- Panel/rack mount modules
-Operating features
- High temperature
- Intrinsically safe
-Signal modules
- Analog
- Digital
- Mixed
-Applications
- Alarm management
- Batch production
- Data acquisition, analysis
- Link to Windows databases
- Soft PLC
- SPC/SQC
-Datasharing
- OPC clients
- OPC servers
-Operating systems
- Windows CE
Section - Data Acquisition & Remote Control
-Barcode systems
- Automated
- Handheld
- Printers
-Ethernet-based systems
-Machine health monitoring
-PC based data acquisition
- automatic data acquisition
- intranet system
-Radio frequency tags
-Recorders
- paperless
-CIM/CAM - Computer Integrated/Aided Manufacturing
-MIS - Management Information Systems
-Monitors
- corrosion
- water quality
-Alarms
-Integration into MES and ERP systems
-Number of I/O points
- 0-64k
- Unlimited
-Number of PLC or I/O drivers
- 16-64
- 64-640
-Operating system
- .Net
- Linux
- Windows 2000
- Windows NT
-Redundancy
-Reports
-Standalone version available
-Cable telemetry
- copper wire
- Ethernet LAN
- fibre-optic
-Radio telemetry
-Remote sensing & control
- cable link
- cellular
- from rotating shaft
- radio link
Section - Miscellaneous Hardware
-19" racking
-Accessories
Section - Networks for Communication & Control
-4-20mA analog loop
-CANbus
-DeviceNet
-EtherCat
-Ethernet
-Interbus-S
-Modbus
-Network analysers
- CANbus
- Profibus
- World FIP
-Profibus
-Remote I/O
-Wireless (for industrial application only)
Section - Process Control & Manufacturing Technologies
-Communications
- Fieldbus
- RS232
- RS422/RS485
-Visual display
-Emergency shut-down systems
-Entry level DCS
-Networked controllers
-PACs - Programmable Automation Controllers
-AC control
- Closed loop
- Flux vector
- Inverters - 1 phase AC
- Inverters - 3 phase AC
- Soft starter
-Analytics & reporting
-Big data & cloud technologies
-M2M communication
-Analog panel meters
-Digital panel meters
-Displays
- LCD, flat-panel
- Programmable message
- Touchscreens
-Handheld terminals
-HMI
-Keyboards
- Custom
- Desktop
- Flat-panel
- Sealed
-Portable servers
-Analog I/O
- more than 512
-Digital I/O
- more than 512
-Display
-Networking organisation
- Host-to-PLC link
- PLC-to-PLC
- Remote I/O
-Networking
- 20 mA loop
- Ethernet
- Fieldbus
- PLC-to-PLC
- Remote I/O
- RS232, RS422, RS485
-Operator interface panel
-PACs - Programmable Automation Controllers
-Programming
- Function block diagram
- IEC 1131
- Ladder diagram (relay logic)
- Logic diagram
- Sequential function chart
-Scan rate less than 1µs per step
-Scan rate less than 1ms per step
-Fibre-optic
-Flow
-Loadcell
-Moisture
-Presence
-Converters
- A-D
- Programmable
Section - Services & Systems
-Contractors
- Factory automation
- Industrial lighting
- Panel builders
- Process control
-Programmers
- DCS
- MES/CIM
- PLC
- scada
-System integration/consulting
- Electrical
- Factory automation
- Other
- Process control
- Scada/DCS/PLC
- Telemetry
-Automotive
-Building management
-Energy management
-Environmental control & monitoring
-Food & beverage
-HVAC control
-Petrochemical
-Pharmaceutical
-Shop-floor data collection
-Water & waste water
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