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IBC control gets faster and more responsive.


The IS-IBC1 bubble control from D.R. Joseph Inc., Grand Prairie, Texas This article is about the city in Texas. For the city in Alberta, Canada, see Grande Prairie, Alberta.

Grand Prairie is a city in Dallas County (USA), with a significant overlap into Tarrant County, and a minor overlap into Ellis County.
, has been upgraded with a 32-bit processor that's 100 times faster than before. This lets it calculate bubble size seven times more often than the previous generation. It also has a new interface with an Ethernet port A socket on a computer or network device for plugging in an Ethernet cable. See WAN port. , which lets it integrate easily with blown film extrusion control and data monitoring. Standard protocols are Modbus RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) A device that collects data from data acquisition equipment and sends them to the main system over a wired or wireless network. See SCADA.  and Modbus ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. . The new hardware is also retrofittable on older IBCs from D.R. Joseph or other OEMs. Tel: (972) 641-7711 * PT Direct: 365PM
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Title Annotation:Extrusion
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Feb 1, 2005
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