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Fox Controls Rand
Suite 151, 1st Floor, Blairgowrie Plaza, 64 Conrad Drive, Blairgowrie, Randburg
Core business offering: Import and distribution of measurement and control instrumentation and automation, sensors, PLCs, power supplies, safety scanners, counters, timers, hour meters, tally counters, clickers, water batch controllers, smart relays, MMIs and also length measuring systems, cable length meters, meter counters and wire length counters.
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Section - Data Acquisition & Remote Control
-Recorders
- events
-Standalone data loggers
Section - Miscellaneous Hardware
-Instrument power supplies
-Mains AC-DC converters
-Relays
- DIN-rail mount
- General purpose, control
- Plug-in
- Time delay
-Switches
- Key-lock
- Pushbutton-control
- Thumb-wheel encoded output
-Emergency stop switches
-Key-lock switches
-Light curtains
-Visible alarms
- Industrial beacons
Section - Process Control & Manufacturing Technologies
-Functionality
- Auto/self tuning
- Logic
- PID/PD
- Ratio control
-Inputs
- 0/4-20mA
- mV/V
- Strain gauge
- Thermocouple
-Number of loops
- 1-16
-Outputs
- 0/4-20 mA
- mA/mV
- Relay contact
-Panel size (mm)
- 48x48
- 48x96
-Visual display
-Totalisers and correlators
-Intrinsic safety
- Totalisers
-Capacitive & conductive
-Optical, laser
-Ultrasonic
-Automatic dispensing systems
-Batching
-Digital panel meters
-Digital process indicators
-Displays
- LCD, flat-panel
- Touchscreens
-Analog I/O
- 1-16
- 17-64
-Digital I/O
- 1-16
- 17-64
- 65-256
- 257-512
- more than 512
-Display
-Multiprocessor
-Networking organisation
- Host-to-PLC link
- PLC-to-PLC
- Remote I/O
-Networking
- 20 mA loop
- Ethernet
- Fieldbus
- PLC-to-PLC
- Proprietary data bus
- Remote I/O
- RS232, RS422, RS485
-Operator interface panel
-Programming
- Diagnostic software
- Documenting software
- Function block diagram
- Ladder diagram (relay logic)
- Logic diagram
- Sequential function chart
-Scan rate less than 1µs per step
-Scan rate less than 1ms per step
-Scan rate more than 1ms per step
-Controllers/logic devices
-Control transducers
- Displacement/position transducers
-Flexible shafts
-Programmable motion control systems
- Custom system design
- Pneumatic drive systems
-Rotary encoders
-Capacitive
-Colour mark
-Edge detection
-Hot metal
-Inductive
-Infrared
-Laser
-Limit switch
-Machine guard
-Magnetic
-Photoelectric
-Ultrasonic
-Displacement
-Fibre-optic
-Level
-Light intensity
-Metal detectors
-Other
-Presence
-Thickness
-Converters
- A-D
- D-A
-Isolators
-Counters
- Batch
- Handheld tally
- Mechanical
- Panel mount
- Rail mount
-Timers
- Analog
- Digital
- Panel mount
- Rail mount
Section - Services & Systems
-Shop-floor data collection
Section - Test, Measurement & Calibration
| News from Fox Controls Rand: |
Low-profile touchless switches
November 2022, Operator Interfaces, Switches & Relays, Fox Controls Rand
LED illumination and indoor/outdoor durability make these low-profile touchless switches ideal for clean and functional industrial and public applications. |
A new breed of PLC with HMI
October 2014, PLCs, DCSs & Controllers, Fox Controls Rand
The new 95 mm IDEC SmartAXIS Touch is a breed of its own and the perfect combination of PLC processing and HMI monitoring and control. Available in 65K TFT colour or monochrome, SmartAXIS Touch is an ... |
Slimline power supplies
September 2004, Electrical Power & Protection, Fox Controls Rand
Idec Electronics is offering its new PS5R range of switched mode DIN rail mounted plastic power supplies. These new models deliver the power of a traditional power supply in half the space, without sacrificing ... |
Intelligent machine terminal
April 2004, Operator Interfaces, Switches & Relays, Fox Controls Rand
The machine terminal 2480, part of the BDE 2400 product group, is an intelligent terminal for use in machine monitoring, job booking, quality and DNC applications. Production data is automatically collected, ... |
Industry news: |
SEW-EURODRIVE drives innovation at automotive plant
November 2025, Motion Control & Drives, Editor's Choice, SEW-EURODRIVE
[Sponsored] A major automotive manufacturer in Gauteng has boosted its operational efficiency, safety and energy savings with the installation of SEW-EURODRIVE’s advanced MOVIGEAR mechatronic drive system in its newly expanded buffering zone. |
Platform for integrated digital mine management
November 2025, IT in Manufacturing
Becker Mining launches platform for integrated digital mine management |
From the editor's desk: The joy of science
November 2025, News, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
Scientific innovation is the basis of automation, and I always enjoy following the scientific Nobel prizes each year. I thought I had figured out how quantum computers work, but the physics prize this ... |
Setting new standards in dry-type transformer technology
November 2025, Electrical Power & Protection
Dry-type transformer technology is gaining ground globally, and leading the charge in Africa is Trafo Power Solutions, in partnership with Italian manufacturer, TMC Transformers. |
Würth Elektronik presents new radio modules
November 2025, Industrial Wireless
Würth Elektronik has introduced two new highly compact radio modules. They give developers maximum freedom in designing proprietary wireless solutions that go beyond standard protocols. |
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