Automation
Automation applications include industrial robots, machine and process control (printing, textile, milling, ceramic, enveloping), quality inspection, diagnosis and test, security systems, water or gas management, video surveillance systems, humanoid robots, traffic light and speed control or even movie cameras. Applications can also be mission-critical or safety-critical.
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Two completely customized single-board computers are the unique platform for a wide range of instruments and systems tailor-made for different applications for development and production, in telecommunication like mobile radio testing or in electronic laboratories. ...
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Helipod is a self-sufficient airborne measuring probe with its own power supply using batteries, navigation systems, data processing and mass storage. ...
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These Human-Machine Interfaces are used in the interaction with different types of textile machines like (ring) spinning or winding machines, controlling operation of the machines as well the processes, data storage and management. ...
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To make traffic management safer and to achieve a smoother, quieter and calmer traffic flow, computer-controlled multi camera systems are used for speed and red light offenses. ...
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Industrial tightening systems are used for the assembly of manifold parts, for example in automated car production, in valves, in pumps or in generators. ...
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High-speed, high-precision robots are needed in the production process of plastics materials, in painting, for semiconductor production in clean rooms, for machine tending and all general automation purposes. ...
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Shooting movies under extreme conditions like in deserts is a big challenge for recording equipment; this rugged camera control unit based on COTS 3U CompactPCI® and CompactPCI® Serial computers is perfectly suited for such harsh environments and also offers further advantages over regular cameras. ...
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The International Space Station ISS provides a platform to conduct experiments that require one or more of the unusual conditions present on the station. ...
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the CERN research center in Switzerland is "the biggest machine in the world", 140 meters below ground and with a cost of 3 billion Euros: In a 27 kilometer circular particle accelerator, protons or lead ions are smashed together almost at the speed of light. ...
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This system is used for Quality of Service (QoS) testing of mobile networks all over the world, with different system configurations depending on the location. ...
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In this application, a customized F19P CompactPCI® PlusIO CPU board supervises the fluid levels during the bottling process and controls the production line machinery accordingly. ...
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Power & Energy
Power and electricity generation, transmission and distribution are highly demanding industries requiring safe and reliable operation, controlled and monitored by safety-critical electronic equipment. The power and energy sector includes all types of power generation from fossil-fuel power stations to nuclear plants up to renewable energies.
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The acceptance of the VMEbus standard as a common hardware platform for the electron and proton accelerators motivated a modular approach in electronics design, where the acquisition and digitization of monitor signals is done in customized front-end electronics, while digital data processing, analysis and transfer to the control system as well as data distribution for feedback applications is accomplished by a 6U VMEbus board as a common digital processing and communication platform. ...
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In a research environment, new processes for safe nuclear plant operation are tested and experimented, for example in concentrators for tokamak control. ...
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The control of nuclear reactors requires computer systems with the highest level of safety, reliability and availability, calling for electronics qualified for very harsh industrial environments and redundant system design. ...
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Power transmission and distribution for energy-intensive industries is controlled by a computer network ranging from the control functions of remote intelligent field level devices via the process and plant control level to the management level with its HMI clients. ...
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This control platform for intelligent well systems is realized as a pre-integrated and pre-validated 3-slot 3U 24HP CompactPCI® system with its own rugged power supply unit, a PU2. ...
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Mining
Heavy machinery and off-highway vehicles are needed for exploration and development. To save costs and make mining processes safer, the mining industry uses more and more automated computing functions. Rugged and safe embedded computers are the best solution to guarantee fail-safe operation of machines and devices in this harsh environment.
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Medical
Electro-medical devices for medical imaging, patient monitoring, ventilation and anesthesia, diagnosis, therapy and treatment and laboratory engineering require reliable computer components developed and produced according to medical standards. The different challenges often include robust, compact and lightweight design.
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The electronics for this medical laser are based on a 3U CompactPCI® system controlled by an Intel® Pentium® based single-board computer. ...
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One important means of reaching the highest possible safety level in automation of life-critical respiratory support devices is redundant design: In this safety-critical application, two identical computer-on-modules based on the ESM™ standard are used to control several different types of ventilation devices. ...
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Infusion pumps ensure safe intravenous administration of drugs to patients in both critical and routine situations. ...
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Using medical robots for minimally invasive and precise surgery is increasingly supporting the surgeon's work and making operations safer and less straining on patients. ...
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Compact & Rugged Design
Their small form factor and the scalability they give to a design make computer-on-modules a great platform for small-footprint embedded electronics systems. The COM standards used by MEN are extremely rugged, too.
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MEN has implemented many conduction-cooled system solutions based on different board hardware, e.g., fanless box PCs and systems using 3U CompactPCI® COTS boards, or the cooling-optimized ESMexpress® and ESMini™ COM standards.
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Functionality
MEN's product portfolio includes a wide range of functions available through different mezzanine standards like M-Module™ or XMC. They let you configure your 19" system with all kinds of I/O while selecting from standard products. For more exotic functions, we offer programmable, FPGA-based cards.
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One area of I/O functions is fieldbus interfaces. This is especially interesting in the industrial markets. MEN offers many common fieldbus interfaces on different hardware platforms as COTS components.
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Modularity
CompactPCI® is hard to beat in modularity. You can select from standard plug-in cards, shortening your time-to-market. Systems are easy to maintain, and upgrading to higher performance is possible through the lastest CompactPCI® PlusIO and CompactPCI® Serial standards from PICMG.
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Box computers and panel PCs from MEN are based on a family concept, which makes them highly scalable and configurable.
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