Innovating Automation With Balluff

Condition Monitoring: P-F Curve Indicators

Juli is joined by Tom Knauer and Shishir Rege to discuss the Potential-Functional Failure curve, an essential tool when discussing condition maintenance and predictive maintenance applications.
Blog by Tom Knauer on P-F Curve Basics
Blog by Tom on using the P-F Curve to discover failure indicators
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Discover SAMS: An Overview of the Balluff Smart Automation and Monitoring System

Juli is joined by Greg Molinaro and Stephan Langer, together they go over the Balluff SAMS, how to sell it and its availability.
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Top 20 Balluff Product Groups You Can Sell - Part 2 of 2

Amid current supply chain turmoil- Balluff still has plenty to sell. Juli Hale and newly dubbed Supply Chain Information Officer Will Healy discuss which of our product families are still ready to sell and some tips for getting wins with them.
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Top 20 Balluff Product Groups You Can Sell - Part 1 of 2

Amid current supply chain turmoil- Balluff still has plenty to sell. Juli Hale and newly dubbed Supply Chain Information Officer Will Healy discuss which of our product families are still ready to sell and some tips for getting wins with them.
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BOS R81K Photoelectric Sensors for Universal Use

Juli and Jack discuss the new BOS281K line of photoelectric sensors. The BOS R81K photoelectric series from Balluff is designed for area-wide use. It is available as a retroreflective sensor, a diffuse sensor, and a diffuse sensor with background suppression. The sensors' bright red light enables appealing ranges and guarantees perfect detection of your objects. 
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Condition Monitoring Toolkit

Ballluff’s new condition monitoring toolkit (CMTK) provides an easy-to-implement solution for adding condition monitoring to existing machines and processes with an excellent cost-benefit ratio.
It provides continuous status information on connected machines. And it does all this completely independent of a cloud connection or machine control system.
And it now has UL approval for use in the US and Canada.  Version 1.2 also supports running software and programming languages such as Node-Red, Python and C++. There is also a Rest API for configuration and a web user interface for IO-Link configuration.
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Matrix Vision 3D Machine Vision

Chris is joined by Balluff’s Technical Sales Specialist for Matrix Vision products, Frantisek (Frank) Jacubec, Matrix Vision GmbH’s Product Manager for 3D Vision, Fabian Furtner to discuss Matrix Vision’s new Smart 3D Machine Vision device. Frank and Fabian share the types of robotic applications that this product solves and the on-board processing capabilities that help this sensor stand out in the market.
Matrix Vision YouTube Channel
Matrix Vision 3D Camera Playlist
One Page Product Brief
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Universal Magnetic Field Sensors for C-Slot Usable on Any Pneumatic Cylinder

Jack and Juli discuss the newest addition to Balluff’s portfolio of magnetic field sensors. They can be used on any pneumatic cylinder with a C-slot, regardless of the manufacturer. The universal design allows the new models to replace several previous versions. Using fewer sensor variants reduces inventory needs and, therefore, costs.
Product News page
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