Thinking about Wireless in Industrial Automation?
Wired and Wireless: You Can Have Both
CSIA Executive Conference: Opto Demonstrates IO4AB
Florida and Michigan Classes for the SNAP PAC System
Thinking about Wireless in Industrial Automation?
Wireless sounds great: you can reduce wiring costs and control or monitor areas you could never get to with a wired network. But several concerns remain.
Before you decide to go wireless or choose a system, take a look at our new white paper, Overcoming Concerns About Wireless in Industrial Automation. It discusses some issues you'll want to think about:
- Security
- Performance and reliability
- I/O component availability and cost
- Upfront expense in money and time
Download the white paper now.
Wired and Wireless: You Can Have Both
Here's big news: we've just announced Opto 22 wired/wireless PACs and I/O.
Why is this big news?
- Because you don't have to choose between wired and wireless—you get both in the same hardware.
- Because all SNAP I/O modules and accessories work with wireless. You're not limited to a separate product line or a subset of regular products. All SNAP I/O works wirelessly.
- Because all of the same PAC and brain functions and protocols work wirelessly as well as wired.
Read our white paper for more information.
Need to spec a system now?
Wired/wireless PACs and brains will be ready sometime this summer, but you can spec systems now.
We're adding a wireless radio to R-series and S-series PACs and EB brains. New PAC and brain part numbers will have -W at the end. Example: wired/wireless version of the SNAP-PAC-R1 will be SNAP-PAC-R1-W.
Since all functions remain the same and wireless is just added as another way to communicate, you can spec systems based on these current products:
All of the following parts will work wirelessly with full functionality (no change in part number):
Questions? Contact Pre-sales Engineering
Call 800-321-6786 (toll-free in the U.S.) or 951-695-3000
Email: systemseng@opto22.com
CSIA Executive Conference: Opto Demonstrates IO4AB
Join us at the Control Systems Integrator's Association (CSIA) Executive Conference for 2009. We'll be at the conference in Naples, Florida, demonstrating SNAP I/O for Allen-Bradley® Logix systems (IO4AB).
Come to the Partner's Tabletop Exposition on Thursday, April 30, 2009 and see what we have to show you. For more information about the presentation, contact Arun Sinha at Opto 22.
The conference runs from April 30 to May 2.
See the complete conference agenda (pdf).
Florida and Michigan Classes for the SNAP PAC System
If you can't come to free training in Temecula, CA, we have May and June classes in both Florida and Michigan.
You'll learn all about the SNAP PAC System—SNAP PAC controllers and I/O, PAC Project software, and more—in these hands-on, instructor-led classes.
Florida Classes in Spanish and English
Introduction to the SNAP PAC System
Class also includes an overview of industrial protocols and an EtherNet/IP workshop
Class in English: May 25-27
Clase en Español: June 1-3
Cost: $1,000 per person. (Includes $500 credit toward purchase of Opto 22 products through Optomize.)
Location: Optomize, Inc., 2800 Glades Circle, Suite 115, Weston, FL 33327, USA
To register or for more information:
Email: training@optomizeonline.com
Web: www.optomizeonline.com/training
Michigan Class
Introduction to the SNAP PAC System
Dates: June 1-4
Cost: $1,200 per person. Lunch is included. Class time: 8:30 - 5:00 Space is limited to 9 people
Location: Soaring Eagle Casino, Mt. Pleasant Michigan
To Register:
Call Grace Rodgers at 248-391-6100
www.kundinger.com
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