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What Design Features to Look for in a Standard Modular Enclosure
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What Design Features to Look for in a Standard Modular Enclosure

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) identified the need to create growth and expand facilities as one of the top trends for manufacturers in 2023. However, the ability to create long-term, sustainable growth hinges on the efficiency and adaptability of your automation infrastructure. When it comes to large enclosures, the choice usually comes down to unibody construction versus a more modular approach. Designing around standard modular enclosures has a much higher ceiling in terms of unlocking new growth opportunities.

EPLAN Platform
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EPLAN Platform 2023 & 2024: Fast and Error-Free Project Planning

The curtain is being lifted at the Hannover Messe: get a first glimpse of the upcoming EPLAN Platform 2024, revealing new mathematical calculation functions, greater ease-of-use for terminal management, and unprecedented possibilities for navigating through the 3D model of a control cabinet. It also facilitates creating the digital twin in EPLAN Pro Panel. Another improvement can be found when dealing with machine cabling in conjunction with EPLAN Harness proD, whereby spare cables can be connected in no time at all moving forward, with just a simple click of the mouse.

MTBF
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What Does the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) Tell You About System Component Reliability? An Analysis From PULS

The term MTBF appears in the data sheets of various technical system components and often causes confusion. This is mainly due to the different calculation methods and the risk of confusion with the service lifetime of a device. At PULS, many R&D specialists deal with both parameters on a daily basis. With this knowledge, PULS brings a little light into the darkness in this blog article.

The Industrial Network Infrastructure: Your Future Business Foundation, Digitization as a Business Asset with Panduit
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The Industrial Network Infrastructure: Your Future Business Foundation, Digitization as a Business Asset with Panduit

The industrial network infrastructure is a valuable business asset. Investments in legacy industrial networks require a clear migration path to optimize return on assets while taking advantage of performance enhancements from new technologies. A robust, well-executed physical layer is foundational to this asset continuing to deliver value. The acceleration of digitization on plant floors is evident all around us. According to Gartner Research, 80% of CEOs in the manufacturing industry are growing digital technology investments to counter economic pressures.

Siemens Offers Optimized Control Panel Constructionto Machine Tool Builders
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Siemens Offers Optimized Control Panel Construction
to Machine Tool Builders

Panel building on machine tools is no longer as simple as wiring a few components and calling it a day. Now, there are more deadlines, cost pressures, standards, new directives, plus an increasing pressure to innovate. Besides commonly encountered problems related to time, cost, compliance and quality, there is also an increased degree of automation in the pre-fabrication of cables and the automated production of sheet metal parts. In addition to the mechanical design and development of the automation concept, planning of the electrical power supply and distribution is the third engineering discipline involved in the production of a new machine.

Power System Balance
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Achieving Power System Balance

For the power generation industry, maintaining power system balance as closely as possible to the ideal power factor (PF) of 1.000 using correction capacitors and other technology is critical. Power factor is a measure of how effectively electricity is used, with an equal 1.000 PF benefiting both the customer and utility, and a low or high PF indicating poor electrical power utilization. A low power factor can overload generation units making them work harder for the same amount of power.

How Can the Availability of a System Be Increased?
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How Can the Availability of a System Be Increased?

For plant operators, the primary goal is to ensure maximum availability of machines and systems. This requires a reliable power supply throughout the entire lifetime of the system. Therefore, it is important that the applied power supplies are reliable, safe and durable. Within a power supply system, however, the power supply unit is often just one component among many. DC UPS, fuses and redundancy or buffer modules are also included. Such a holistic power supply system must be planned conscientiously.

IoT-Based Innovations
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IoT-Based Innovations From Siemens Transform Buildings Into Smart Ecosystems

At this year’s ISH trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany, Siemens will showcase its cloud-based platforms, IoT-enabled products and solutions that make buildings smarter, leveraging the potential that digitalization offers. Exhibiting under the motto “Your fast lane to smart buildings”, the company is focusing on turning buildings into smart ecosystems that respond to the business goals of building owners and operators for improved building performance, as well as to tenants’ needs for comfortable and healthy buildings.

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Ready or Not, Industry 4.0 Is Here

Eaton experts explain how to thoughtfully embrace Industry 4.0 technologies, sharing strategies, considerations, and personal examples to help ensure that your foray into Industry 4.0 starts out on the right foot. It’s been exciting to see the full potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, go from concept to reality. This era’s immediate predecessor, Industry 3.0, represented a quantum leap in manufacturing productivity and efficiency.

Maximum Customer Benefits for the Digital Transformation
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Maximum Customer Benefits for the Digital Transformation

In the era of digital transformation, everyone is combining forces so that various software applications such as product configurators, CPQ, PLC, PLM/ERP and others can ideally communicate with each other. The EPLAN Partner Network was founded over two years ago and around sixty companies have joined in the meantime. Strategic partners such as Phoenix Contact, Siemens and Rockwell Automation, plus technology partners – including ABB, Lapp Kabel, Wago and Weidmüller – come together under one guiding principle: providing the highest degree of integration capability with EPLAN for their solutions.

TTI and ams OSRAM Announce Expanded Distribution Partnership for Greater Sensor Lineup
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TTI and ams OSRAM Announce Expanded Distribution Partnership for Greater Sensor Lineup

Recently, TTI, Inc. was pleased to announce the expanded distribution partnership with ams OSRAM’s sensing solutions. Since the merger of these two world-wide organizations, ams (global sensor providers) and OSRAM (global light emitter providers), they have been lighting up the optoelectronics world offering reliability and performance with the highest level of miniaturization, integration, accuracy and sensitivity for the automotive, eMobility, lighting, industrial and medical markets.

Why More Manufacturers Are Looking to Bring Panel Modification In-House
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Why More Manufacturers Are Looking to Bring Panel Modification In-House

In the last couple of years, doing more with less has become something of a credo for those in modern manufacturing. But with the addition of new complexities like supply chain disruptions and labor shortages, manufacturers across all industries are looking for ways to optimize efficiency, boost productivity, and remove as much uncertainty as possible from production programs. This includes bringing panel modification in-house.

Eaton Expands Cybersecurity Services, Adds Global Customer Experience Sites to Help Customers Address Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities
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Eaton Expands Cybersecurity Services, Adds Global Customer Experience Sites to Help Customers Address Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

As digital transformation drives connectivity in operational technology (OT) systems, this infrastructure can form a vast attack surface from which cybercriminals can gain access. Eaton is expanding its suite of cybersecurity services and leveraging its global partnership with Tenable Inc. to help customers identify the vulnerabilities that put operations at risk and take steps to protect their businesses. Eaton established new customer experience sites around the world to showcase how these cybersecurity strategies should be deployed.

Relevant News and Changes to UL 508A 3rd Edition 2022
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Relevant News and Changes to UL 508A 3rd Edition 2022

What impact does the new UL 508A have on the electrical design of control panels for the North American market? Are you up to date with the latest revision and changes to the UL 508A standard for industrial control panels, published in July 2022? Siemens would like to present you the relevant changes and explain to you the impact on the electrical engineering of industrial control panels.