The Center for Advanced Product Evaluation (CAPE), a unit of advanced vehicular safety systems manufacturer IMMI of Westfield, Indiana, is involved with vehicle safety testing.  The center designs and builds test rigs to evaluate how fire trucks, ambulances, on-road heavy trucks and school buses survive crash test scenarios.  The test scenarios are designed to determine whether there is survivable space inside the vehicle, and whether the vehicle’s mounting system to its frame is sufficiently strong to withstand a rollover incident.  The tests that are performed are typically designed to prove that vehicle manufacturing processes comply with standards set by organizations such as the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) or the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).

(Automotive Engineering, May 2018)

The typical sawline is an inline factory with a flow of material - raw logs in and finished lumber out.   The smoother the flow the higher the mill’s productivity. And, when imperfect logs are being processed, precision saw and chipping head control in response to optimizing inputs is critical to maximizing the recovery of valuable lumber. Cutting curved logs along the curve will not only allow them to dry straight, it will also result in maximizing the usable length of the boards that are produced.  For the new curve-sawing line at the ScierieLapointe & Roy softwood mill in Courcelles, Quebec, optimizing mill output requires the coordination of more than 30 motion axes. A bank of five electrohydraulic motion controllers by Delta Computer Systems Inc. of Battle Ground, Washington does the job.

(International Forest Industries, February/March 2018 - pg. 30)

Delta Computer Systems, Inc.  announces its new high-density 8-channel Voltage Output Module (CV8) for use with the RMC200.  The RMC200 is the latest and most advanced of Delta’s closed-loop electro-hydraulic motion controllers, capable of directing up to 32 axes.   This new add-on module allows for configurations that handle more axes while consuming less panel space. Alternately, its high functional integration can free up slots on the backplane for additional functionality, such as data acquisition.

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