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Flintec - Weight and Force Measurement solutions

At Flintec, we supply and manufacture weight and force measurement components for use in variety of industries and applications.

Flintec - Weight and Force Measurement solutions

Our standard range of products include force sensors, load cells and weighing electronics. We also offer customers a custom solutions service, which designs and manufactures a product to your exact needs.

Joar Falstad - Low cost industrial IO

Combine standard Industrial I/O cards and a PC - The idea is to make the use of low-cost , massproduced industrial I/O cards in conjunction with a multimedia PC easy , yet powerful and flexible.

Joar Falstad - Low cost industrial IO

Joar Falstad - " I'm a self employed service engineer in my own company Jo Tech Service  in Norway " , working with the same products & more ."

SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

A Closed loop control system has a Sensor-Controller-Actuator. The Bimetal Thermostat has all the three in the Bimetal itself. The Sensor, the Relay Contact and the Intelligence. This is Process Control when implemented to control the temperature in a Bakery Oven.

This leads us to Sensors-Transmitter-Controller-Outputs-Actuators. Where each is an independent electronic/electrical component of an entire Process Control system. The Process could be Temperature, Pressure, Speed, or Level.

CAN Controller Area Network in Automation

CAN (Controller Area Network) is a serial bus system, which was originally developed for automotive applications in the early 1980's. The CAN protocol was internationally standardized in 1993 as ISO 11898-1 and comprises the data link layer of the seven layer ISO/OSI reference model.

CAN Controller Area Network in Automation

CANopen is a CAN-based higher layer protocol. It was developed as a standardized embedded network with highly flexible configuration capabilities.