ARCEE has been appointed global channel partner for their robotics division. Robot training & development centre for Chennai region would be inagurated during mid May'07. The center would have the state of art Machine Vision Lab and Robotics development & deployment setup.

Enrolment for training programs would commence from 1st May'07 itself. Look up the site for further notifications.

Arcee along with ABB Ltd Robotics Division are now show casing Cognex Vision guidance for ABB robot at stall No.A 105 IMTEX 2007 @ Bangalore International Exhibition Centre during 18th to 24th Jan'07.

On display Machione Vision System for Pattern Recognition; Gauging; OCR / OCV; Direct Part Mark Identification for Bar Code / 2D data & Robotic Guidance

Delphi TVS plans to impliment 2D Matrix ID reading and final assembly of CRDI pumps machine vision inspection and ARCEE sucessfully evaluates application. Details click extn.

Machine Vision System for inspection of Engine valves for Rane Engine valves Ltd, the application has been evaluated successfully for details view attached file.

Launch of: State of Art HMI 5.7” to 10.4” Touch Panels (Windows CE 5.0) & built in run time SCADA (Movicon X / ZenOn 6.0)

And A Technical presentation on Speed 7

Fastest PLC worldwide

The event is hosted by:

Mr. Bobbie Linkenbach - Director: International Sales

Mr. Peter Jacobi - Head: Customer Care

On 17th July 2006 (Monday) At 18:30 Hrs

Venue: Hotel LE ROYAL MERIDIEN # 1, G.S.T. Road, St. Thomas Mount, Chennai �" 16

Visit us at stall No.65, ACMEE 2006, Chennai Trade Center, Chennai, TN, India, from 8th to 12th June 2006. On display are PLC Systems " from VIPA GmbH, Speed 7 " world’s fastest PLC; Motion Controllers; HMIs; AC / DC Servos Systems; COGNEX Machine Vision Systems.

We have developed machine vision with Cognex InSight 5100 camera for interface with an ABB IRB 340 robot for pick and place applications.

The program in the InSight camera uses the PatMax algorithm to train the required pattern, and extract the x, y, and theta orientation of any matching pattern found, whenever the camera takes a picture.

This program runs automatically when the camera is powered on, and the PC does not need to have InSight Explorer running, except for the initial setting up of the camera.

A customised calibration paper is used to calibrate the camera’s co-ordinate system with that of the robot’s co-ordinate system.

A software program developed by us runs on the PC at all times, and is used to extract the co-ordinates from the camera and deliver them to the robot’s S4C+ controller either over a serial port or on Ethernet. This program can be customised for different user applications to conveniently send all required parameters to the robot.

A program written in the S4C+ RAPID language is used to trigger the camera to to take the picture at the required times. It then collects the co-ordinates sent to it by the PC and executes, the required pick and place moves.

Here, It was shown, how cards placed at random orientations are picked by the robot and placed at a fixed user-defined orientation.

In a short span of three months, the existing designs were rehashed, ladder programming implemented, HMI programming tool developed and the technical manual published.

ARCEE AUTOMATIONS proudly launches new generation of XYZEE Axis controllers and low cost standalone controllers for a wide range of applications. The controllers feature AC servo interface apart from existing DC servo and Stepper interfaces. The programming is by standard Ladder Logic and communication is open protocol MODBUS.

These controllers would find usage in Packaging, Machine tools, Robotics and Special Purpose Machines

The WLL cranes supplied by L&T ECC to Chennai Port Trust was under commissioning. The crane is equiped with Siemens S7 controller and drives. The solution was required to report the motor fault status at the carriage level to the operator cabin which is at a height of about 75 metres through slip rings for diagnostic purposes.

ARCEE proposed use of VIPA PLC & ABACUS MC HMIs and the interface between PLC and display unit uses EDBT ( Extended Distance Binary Transmission ) protocol for communication avoiding expensive Profibus communication.

The system is commissioned successfully with considerable savings to the customer

system integration orders with VIPA PLCs and De-central Profibus net working with 470 I/Os. The delivery and execution is crucial as the plants are scheduled for commissioning during March'03. Order value approx. INR 23,56,000.00

a prestigious contract to system integrate the Bio- Gas Plant of Asia Bio-Energy Ltd's plant at Luknow and is currently under execution. This plant uses the municipal solid waste of Luknow city for bio-gas generation and power production. The system offered is 200V series of VIPA PLC with de-central Profibus net working and SCADA solution for plant control and management systems. Estimated order value of controls and electricals approx. INR 11,73,000.00

The product ABACUS MC model 20L features: built in reliability and unique design for optimizing the input requirements and thereby saving the wiring cost. The basic PLC with CPU along with 8 inputs and 16 outputs plus expansion unit with 8 inputs and 16 outputs for G + 7 Floors and 2 such expansion units for G + 15 Floors. (Applicable for both collapsible & auto door)

range of PLCs. VIPA on the displays front, are being supported by ESA Elettronica S.p.A of Italy. To make the HMI solution for lower end applications, cost effective, our R&D team has designed and developed text displays with 4 models to suit varying applications. Programming soft ware is available in both DOS / WINDOWS versions