Enclosures are widely used to house electrical or electronic equipment along with switches, knobs and displays while providing a safe installation that prevents electrical shock to equipment users and protects the contents from the environment. Today’s enclosures are designed with features and materials that allow safe and protective use in hazardous areas, but also designed to be pleasing to the eye.
The Series RPME FlexiSENSE room pressure monitor is designed for low differential pressure applications that require pressure monitoring and alarming. This series is perfect for room pressure monitoring applications, including: clean manufacturing areas, clean rooms, research labs, and vivariums.
CARLO GAVAZZI has recently launched the RM1D Series, a comprehensive family of DC switching solid state relays. The RM1D Series is designed for applications that demand critical response times, rapid cycling, and high reliability. They are ideal for use in transportation, off-grid and renewable energy systems that run off batteries, as well as DC heaters, solenoids, valves, fans, and other equipment that requires DC switching.
Immersion cooling, first commercialized in the early 2000s, has generated a lot of attention and a host of eager advocates over the years. Compared to the more traditional liquid cooling solutions bringing cooling to IT appliances or directly onto the chips, immersion cooling essentially gives it a bath, submerging the equipment – lock, stock and barrel – into a pool of dielectric fluid.
Stewart Connector, a Bel group company and manufacturer of high-speed connectors used in data communication applications, recently added M12 X-Code to RJ45 cable assemblies to their offering of M12 harsh environment solutions. M12 X- Code cable assemblies are the ideal solution for Ethernet connectivity up to 10 Gbps in factory and industrial applications.
Pepperl+Fuchs now supports the Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA) in its role as one of the founding members. This new association was established by the German trade associations ZVEI, VDMA, and Bitkom, along with 20 companies from the machine building and electronics industries. The aim is to increase use of Industry 4.0 through joint development of a “digital twin.” The digital twin functions as the interface for physical industrial products in the digital world within Industry 4.0 applications.
Autonomous mobile robots (AMR) and automated guided vehicles (AGV) are taking over modern, smart intralogistics. Pepperl+Fuchs presents the R2300 multi-layer scanner, a 3-D LiDAR sensor for travel path and rear-area monitoring. Due to its compact size, ease of integration into measurement technology, and high availability, it is perfectly tailored to the requirements of such vehicles.
The use of electrical equipment in hazardous areas requires strict conformity to the relevant standards and directives. This also applies when integrating industrial sensors into such environments and often creates challenges for users. As a pioneer and innovator in factory and process automation, Pepperl+Fuchs now offers a range of turnkey, ATEX/IECEx-certified solutions to help solve this problem.
ABB has acquired Codian Robotics B.V., a provider of delta robots which are used primarily for high-precision pick and place applications. Codian Robotics’ offering includes a hygienic design line, ideal for hygiene-sensitive industries including food and beverage and pharmaceuticals. With the transaction, ABB is accelerating its engagement in the growing field of delta robots.
As the big brother of the safety switch PSENmech, the safe mechanical safety gate system PSENmech with guard locking offers an economical solution for safe monitoring of movable guards. The safety gate is securely locked until the hazardous machine movement has stopped. Any unintended restart of the hazardous movement is prevented.
The EJxxxx EtherCAT plug-in modules are electronically based on the well-known EtherCAT I/O system and their design allows them to be directly attached to a circuit board. The circuit board is an application-specific signal distribution board that distributes signals and power supply to individual application-specific plug connectors in order to connect the controller to further machine modules.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. recently announced that it has acquired Oylo, a privately-held industrial cybersecurity services provider based in Barcelona, Spain. Oylo is dedicated to providing a broad range of industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity services and solutions including assessments, turnkey implementations, managed services and incident response.
The ProSense LPM1 series of loop panel meters offers a simple, low cost digital display of an analog 4-20mA signal. Models are available for mounting in a standard 1/8 DIN size panel cut-out with minimal installation depth as well as models provided in an aluminum enclosure for field mounting as a remote display for process instrumentation transmitters. The meter is powered from the mA loop and requires no external power supply.
What if you can achieve better system performance, capacity, productivity, and security to meet the growing demands of smart machines and equipment for manufacturing? To stay ahead of the changing market demands, it is necessary to have migration solutions that help lower the risk of maintaining legacy equipment and achieve increased productivity. Here is how Rockwell Automation can help you migrate from SLC 500 to CompactLogix 5380 controllers and Compact 5000 I/O system.
