Featured: Editorial
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How to Use Current Sense Transformers: Principles & Practical Examples
By: Anthony J. Kourtessis, Design Engineer | Signal Transformer at Bel Fuse
Without accurate current sensing, essential functions such as efficiency monitoring, protection, and closed-loop control become unreliable.
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Powering the AI Factory: The Role of 800 VDC Distribution and ISOP Converters in Next-Generation Data Centers
By: Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio, Contributing Editor at Panel Builder US. Conventional server infrastructure was not originally designed to sustain today’s extreme compute density requirements. As a result, modern facilities increasingly resemble “AI factories,” where maximizing computational throughput per rack is a primary objective.
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How To Optimize System Performance with IO-Link- and EtherCAT-enabled Power Supplies
Leveraging your power supply unit as a data source offers significant advantages for both operating companies and system manufacturers. By integrating power supplies with IO-Link or EtherCAT, users gain access to valuable real-time information.
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Power Solutions for Robotics
Design smarter robotics systems with MEAN WELL power solutions available through OnlineComponents.com. Featuring battery chargers, DIN rail power, single-output power supplies with PFC options, harsh-environment models, and bidirectional power supplies, these solutions deliver compact design, efficiency, and dependable performance for advanced robotic applications.
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RS PRO, the own brand of RS, makes automation easier
The control panel — the difference between systems that run and systems that perform. They connect, protect, and organize vital components, directing signal and power flow across complex operations to prevent downtime and protect assets.
Panel building with RS PRO pays off in reliability, cost savings, and convenience. These parts come together to optimize system uptime, safety, maintenance, and longevity.
Featured: In the Panel Products
Products for Panel Builders
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Banner Engineering: 5-Pin M12 and 3-Pin M8 – High Flex Cordsets Family Expands to Meet More Application Needs
Banner’s High Flex Cordset family is adding new 5-pin 22-gauge M12 and 3-pin 24-gauge M8 cordsets, both with single- and double-ended options, to give installers greater flexibility to meet the needs of various applications. Reliably delivering signals in applications with constant bending motion, such as robotics, cable track systems, and linear actuators, these highly durable… Read More…
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Emerson: New AspenTech AVA AI Platform
Emerson recently introduced the AspenTech AVA AI platform, specifically designed for industrial companies to accelerate AI adoption across the enterprise for measurable business impact. Offering agentic, domain-aware AI capabilities, AVA delivers the agility, efficiency and autonomy companies need to respond faster to operating conditions, continuously improve performance using trusted domain context and act with greater confidence through… Read More…
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New Generation AC/DC DIN Rail Power Supply
MEAN WELL’s XDR, XDR-E, and XTR AC-DC DIN rail power supplies target diverse grid needs: XDR for premium single-phase, XDR-E for cost-performance balance, and XTR for three-phase value. Featuring compact design, up to 96% efficiency, multiple output voltages, broad certifications, rugged reliability, and competitive pricing, they suit industrial automation, energy, networking, and semiconductor applications.
Featured: Enclosure Products
OKW: More Accessories For Elegant SYNERGY Aluminum Enclosures
These elegant desktop and wall-mount enclosures won an iF product design award. They are ideal for data systems engineering, network technology, building services systems, safety engineering, medical devices, measurement and control, IoT/IIoT, gateways, sensors and optoelectronics. Learn more
Hammond Manufacturing: 1418LP Series Type 4/12 Mild Steel Wallmount Enclosure – Less Panel
Introducing the 1418LP Series Type 4/12 mild steel wallmount enclosure without inner panel, from Hammond Manufacturing. These enclosures are designed for use as instrument enclosures, electric, hydraulic or pneumatic control housings, electrical junction boxes, or terminal wiring enclosures. Learn more
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AI-generated Control Cabinet Design with ELECTRIX AI
At WSCAD, we’re redefining electrical engineering with the power of AI. Our software, ELECTRIX, is the first and only AI driven electrical CAD solution. It automates routine tasks, reduces errors, and massively boosts productivity up to 99%. We empower electrical engineers to work smarter and faster. Schedule a free demo: ELECTRIX AI 2026 – The only AI-powered electrical CAD software | WSCAD Inc.
Featured Articles
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Enclosures for Embedded Systems
Embedded systems are usually part of a larger application and perform application-specific tasks in the background. Their components or circuit boards require sufficient installation space and options for convenient integration of connectors, connection cables, antennas and much more. The latter can be solved by raised, flat side surfaces. In larger enclosure ranges, the designated connection… Read More…
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Modernization in Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Modernization isn’t a quick fix in an emergency scenario or a reaction to broken technology. It’s a proactive growth strategy. Making the transition to connected, smart technologies is the number one way that food and beverage organizations plan to drive positive business outcomes over the next five years. The vast majority (95%) of these organizations… Read More…
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Speed and Efficiency on the Shop Floor
TE Connectivity snap-on markers are “C” profile for quick/easy application onto wires already terminated. The markers can be applied or changed without disconnecting the wire, offering significant time savings and each marker is pre-printed with an individual character. Designed to fit wire sizes ranging from 22 AWG to 10 AWG.
News for Panel Builders
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Mouser Electronics Signs Global Distribution Agreement with LUTZE Inc., an Amphenol Company
Mouser Electronics, Inc. has recently announced a new global distribution agreement with LUTZE Inc., an Amphenol Company, further bolstering its automation solution lineup for customers around the world. Mouser now offers products from over 60 Amphenol businesses. Read More…
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Novada Cement Selects ABB to Prepare US Plant for Sustainable Production
Novada Cement, part of the Medcem Cement Group, has recently chosen ABB to deliver full plant electrification, automation and drives solutions for its new plant in Tampa Bay, Florida. ABB will design, supply and commission the solutions and provide integrated engineering, project management and support. With ABB Ability System 800xA distributed control system (DCS) as… Read More…
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Stop Electronic Downtime
Stop electronic control downtime due to heat, dirt, and moisture! A low cost, reliable way to cool and purge electronic control panels. EXAIR Cabinet Coolers incorporate a vortex tube to produce cold air from compressed air – with no moving parts. Cabinet Coolers maintain NEMA 4, 4X and 12 integrity and are also available for Hazardous and ATEX locations.
Featured: Videos
The World’s first AI-Generated Control Cabinet. Impossible? Watch This:
99% faster control cabinet design. Impossible? Watch this. 👇
WS CAD recently joined forces with their partners ABB, Phoenix Contact, and häwa to reveal the world’s first AI-generated control cabinet. This isn’t just a concept; it’s a fully functional, production-ready reality. In this video, they showcase the world’s first AI-generated control cabinet workflow using WSCAD ELECTRIX AI. Witness how their AI Copilot automates technical tasks and enables a continuous data flow directly to the workshop floor, featuring hardware solutions from their partner, Phoenix Contact.