New controls package includes Intel's latest processor

摘要

A leading manufacturer of machine vision inspection systems used in a variety of industries, Mettler-Toledo Cl-Vision Division is in the process of making a significant shift in its approach to machine control. According to Cl-Vision marketing manager Henry Ostholtoff, it's a shift away from PLCs to an approach that is more PC-based. This shift, Ostholtoff adds, emphasizes controls components supplied by B&R-from servo motors to drives to software to industrial PCs. "We're a global company," explains Ostholtoff. "If we produce equipment for a J&J or P&G or Unilever here in the U.S., we want to produce the same kind of equipment for Germany or Asia.