Innovation from four points of view

The four companies of which we speak (Pro-face, Lenze, leuze electronic and Vahle) jointly presented their latest products on 8 July in the framework of the Santiago Bernabéu. The press room of the stadium, which is usually move to football players and coaches, served on this occasion to present the recent projects that these four companies have been developing in recent months.

Pro-Face, said Manuel José González, Manager of the company, as "the number one globally in touch screens". In addition, it should be noted that it was the first manufacturer to bring to market, 33 years ago, a touch-screen", explained Carlos Aguilera Sánchez, delegate the zone Centre and South of the Japanese company. In addition, 15 years ago, Pro-Face took the first panel PC, a touch-screen with integrated PLC. On the other hand, in a few months, are planning to get a touch screen consisting of two parts.

Aguilera explained innovations in displays for home automation and also spoke of touch screens, which stressed that "the AGP3000 series is the standard range, whose main characteristic is the power in communication with the PLC, can communicate with 4 different protocols at the same time and exchange information". In the series GP4100, 3.4 ", Aguilera reflected that"the software is free, there are 4 different models, with a harbour mini-USB", among other features.

For its part, Marc Noguera, the Technical Department of Pro-Face, flailed the latest software from Pro-Face. GPproEX, which explained that "it serves to schedule all screens, including those with PLC". WinGP is one of the programs that use their screens, which can be used throughout a HMI design tool also in a conventional PC.

The Pro-Server "is an application for computer that connects to all the screens that are in factory and capture data from these screens, destined to the production or traceability." GP Viewer "is a remote monitoring software, to connect remotely to the screen you want and see what happens on the screen." Noguera also wanted to make it clear that "it is a software designed to go faster, because when you know, little time is wasted in programming".

Leuze Electronic, as well explained by his manager James towers "is a family business with 1500 employees worldwide and a turnover of EUR 210 million". The Group was born in 1963, began working on the development of the first sensor optoeléctrico to own machines in textile industry. Thirty years later founded Leuze Lumiflex, brand to be merged with Leuze electronic in 2009.

Currently its increased business focus are sensors and systems for the identification and security. In the first case, the detection Division is dedicated to the manufacture of optoelectric sensors, optical sensors for measurement of distances and Ultrasonic sensors, for the detection and measurement. Identification Division focuses on systems of identification RFID, as well as distance measuring and data transmission systems. Finally, the Security Division is responsible for manufacture sensors and security systems, as well as advice and safety inspections.

Their systems are also applicable to logistics, have identification systems, data transmission and measurement of distances, as readers of code barcode, RFID systems, modular connection units, systems of imaging, optical data transmission, measuring optical distances or manual code readers.

The third of the companies that presented at the Santiago Bernabéu was Lenze. Headquartered in Germany, it has more than 3,000 employees throughout the world and invoice of EUR 550 million. It has production plants in the U.S., France and Germany. His Manager, Oscar Chaves, explained that currently the company "focuses its activity in Eupora, but in recent years we are expanding into Asia and United States".

For his part, Juan Manuel Gil, delegate of the downtown area, clarified that Lenze focuses on industrial automation and drives, including "gearboxes of high-performance, all basic types, elocoidales, bevel gears, parallel axis gears to which we can adapt our asynchronous montores of E2 and E3 efficiency." "Also we can adapt them servo motors, both as asynchronous synchronous".

Gil stressed the value of the range of minimotores: "Are small horsepower engines, which are combined with our gearboxes of low size for applications where loads are light". All their equipment, in addition, have a removable memory, what makes its maintenance "to replace a team on the other hand only we need extract memory with all the parameters of a computer and install it on the new computer".

Vahle, as all companies who participated in the event, "is a family company with a presence in five continents and supplies electricity to machines that move," as described by Marcos Martinez Esser, Manager of the company. Points of production are in Germany and the particularity of this company is that it is dedicated to "a very wide range of industrial applications".

The range of customers and applications is also very broad, counting among these sectors of the elevation, logistics, automotive, heavy industry, ports and transport. Alberto López, commercial director, flailed the news presented as "the security line MKH, which is a compact line, from six to ten poles". It is a modular system of bars of four metres with a plastic housing which introduced the copper tracks.

Lopez noted that it is "a very small leadership;" "occupies 56 by 88 mm and ranges from 6 to 10 Poles, and intensities of 40 to 200 amps". Another feature of this product is that "with this kind of leadership, serves both for indoor and outdoor, the only difference is that inside are placed every two meters and abroad, each metro". It is a product easily installable with many accessories like neoprene lips to make it more water resistant.