WIXOM, Mich., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Acromag has released a new version of their I/O Server Industrial PC, this time with an AMD Geode® CPU to reduce costs as an alternative to PC/104 or CompactPCI embedded computers.

NI Embedded Vision System Increases Inspection Speed with Multicore Processing for Multiple Cameras AUSTIN, Texas, June 9, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today announced the release of a new embedded vision system that gives manufacturing engineers and system integrators the ability to build high-speed real-time machine vision systems for applications such as sorting products, verifying assembly and inspecting packaging.

Engineers and scientists now can use National Instruments (Nasdaq:NATI) new flat-panel touch-screen, touch-panel computer and panel PC human machine interfaces (HMIs) with the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment to develop user interfaces.

Highly modular in design, the new APC620 and APC630 PCs from B&R can handle the most varied of industrial applications, the manufacturer says. From B&R's new generation of industrial PCs, these machines allow the user to select one, two, or four PCI slots.

PC's have now been in the plant long enough to demonstrate just what they're capable of-and what they're not IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT it was only about twenty years ago that the personal computer, or PC, began to change plant floor automation forever.