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ABB’s New ANSI Medium-Voltage Digital Switchgear Offering Helps Customers Improve Safety, Efficiency, and Performance
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ABB’s New ANSI Medium-Voltage Digital Switchgear Offering Helps Customers Improve Safety, Efficiency, and Performance

ABB has recently announced the release of a new digital switchgear portfolio that offers a significant reduction in total cost of ownership as compared to conventional switchgear. Additionally, there are specific advantages in terms of safety, space savings, simplicity of design and increased flexibility in protection and control. ABB is a manufacturer of UL certified ANSI digital switchgear.

 

 

 

Yokogawa to Release Collaborative Information Server
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Yokogawa to Release Collaborative Information Server

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has recently developed the Collaborative Information Server (CI Server) and will be releasing it to the market in January 2021 as part of the OpreX Control and Safety System family. The solution will integrate the handling of all kinds of data from plant facilities and systems to enable the optimized management of production activities across an entire enterprise, and provide the environment needed to remotely monitor and control operations from any location.

 

 

 

Phoenix Contact: BOXTRAB Surge Protective Device
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Phoenix Contact: BOXTRAB Surge Protective Device

Phoenix Contact’s new BOXTRAB surge protective device (SPD) combines protection for power, data, and signal within the same enclosure. In the process industries, instrumentation requires both power and signal/data control lines. Equipment users often protect these circuits with two dedicated surge protectors: one for power and one for signal. BOXTRAB provides an all-inclusive suppression system comprising independently configured protection arrays within a single enclosure to safeguard both the instrument’s power and signal lines.

 

 

 

Phoenix Contact: Flexible and Efficient Power Supplies
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Phoenix Contact: Flexible and Efficient Power Supplies

Phoenix Contact has increased the efficiency and power density of its popular STEP POWER power supplies. The third generation of STEP POWER keeps the same footprints as the previous version, measuring just 55 millimeters deep and with widths starting at just 18 millimeters. The STEP 3 power supplies were designed primarily for the building automation industry and have EN 60355-1 certification.

 

 

 

Phoenix Contact: Multifunctional Cutting Tools
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Phoenix Contact: Multifunctional Cutting Tools

The new electrician’s scissors from Phoenix Contact’s Cutfox series have durable micro-serrated blades, so they can deliver high cutting performance. The new scissors are suitable for cutting copper (flexible), aluminum (flexible), glass, and Kevlar fibers, plastic, and braided shield.

 

 

 

 

ABB and IBM to Bolster Cybersecurity for Industrial Operations
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ABB and IBM to Bolster Cybersecurity for Industrial Operations

ABB and IBM have recently announced a collaboration focused on connecting cybersecurity and operational technology (OT). As a first result of this collaboration, ABB has developed a new OT Security Event Monitoring Service1 that combines ABB’s process control system domain expertise with IBM’s security event monitoring portfolio to help improve security for industrial operators.

 

 

 

A Perfect Match – ABB Jokab Sensors and B&R Safety Technology
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A Perfect Match – ABB Jokab Sensors and B&R Safety Technology

ABB Jokab’s proven range of innovative safety sensors can now be used directly with B&R’s integrated safety technology. The ABB portfolio includes a complete set of gate closures, light curtains and safety mats. The broad selection will make it easier than ever to implement safety concepts. Safety products from ABB Jokab are simply wired to B&R’s safe I/O modules. Both B&R safety technology and the ABB safety portfolio satisfy the requirements of ISO 13849-1 up to PL e / Cat. 4.

 

 

 

How Omron’s Newest Photoelectric Sensors Achieve Reliable Detection for a Wide Range of Applications
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How Omron’s Newest Photoelectric Sensors Achieve Reliable Detection for a Wide Range of Applications

Stable detection can be a challenging proposition on flexible manufacturing lines. When packaging designs and container shapes are frequently changed, manufacturers must typically select from a wide range of sensor candidates for each object to be detected and each installation distance. This dramatically increases the number of selection steps.

 

 

 

PMIvisu – the Visualization Terminal With Pre-Installed Visualization Software
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PMIvisu – the Visualization Terminal With Pre-Installed Visualization Software

Pilz Human Machine Interfaces (PMI) are the link between human and machine. In this interface function they must be particularly effective as well as intuitive to use. PMIvisu operator terminals are equipped with the pre-installed, licensed visualisation software PASvisu. This enables professional visualisation of plant and machinery. Simple with all the information at a glance.

 

 

 

Beckhoff: Webinar – Cloud Services as a Competitive Factor
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Beckhoff: Webinar – Cloud Services as a Competitive Factor

Networked automation with cloud computing: The efficient use of cloud services is increasingly developing into a decisive competitive factor in the industrial environment. The EK9160 IoT Bus Coupler establishes a direct connection between EtherCAT I/Os from Beckhoff and the Internet of Things (IoT) without any special control program. The coupler thus offers the simple and standardized integration of I/O data into cloud-based communication and data services.

 

 

 

Siemens: 3WA Air Circuit Breakers
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Siemens: 3WA Air Circuit Breakers

Ever stricter standards and increasingly automated infrastructure and systems require fail-safe power distribution. Discover the new 3WA air circuit breakers – they let makers simply achieve what they want to achieve. Whether you are quality-conscious, demanding efficiency, forward-looking, or system-oriented – the 3WA air circuit breaker is set to be the new central component of your switchgear panel. Convince yourself how it simply and reliably supports you in all situations.

 

 

Industrial Case Systems: Enclosures for IoT Devices
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Industrial Case Systems: Enclosures for IoT Devices

Phoenix Contact’s industrial case system (ICS) encloses OEM designs in traditional and emerging industrial applications that require control, monitoring, conditioning, regulation, conversion, and other important functionality. The integrated connectivity in this ICS includes Phoenix Contact’s standard PCB mount and through-panel connectors, as well as other standard connections such as RJ45, DSUB, USB, and antennas.

 

 

 

Weidmuller: RockStar ModuPlug
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Weidmuller: RockStar ModuPlug

More for less: RockStar ModuPlug sets new standards. The modular connector system solves space problems by offering increased functionality with a reduced installation space, which in turn also helps keep the weight down. And all this with more convenient installation. Simply more of what you need and less of what you can do without.

 

 

 

Ewon Flexy – Give Life to All Your IIoT Projects
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Ewon Flexy – Give Life to All Your IIoT Projects

Unlock the data of your machines to enable remote monitoring, predictive maintenance and other value-added services. Gather data from PLCs, sensors and other devices thanks to the support of a wide range of industrial protocols, including OPC UA. In a few clicks, enable alarm notifications or performance monitoring through cloud KPIs dashboards. You might not have a data application today. But when the time comes, be confident in the fact that you can connect to a local or cloud data solution and make your machine smarter.

 

 

 

DRC Series DIN Rail AC/DC Power Supplies
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DRC Series DIN Rail AC/DC Power Supplies

XP Power expands its range of DIN rail AC/DC power supplies with the DRC30, DRC60, and DRC100. These competitively priced, lightweight, compact units have a low-profile case of a similar profile to that of circuit breakers, allowing them to fit in consumer unit style housings or control panel installations. The standard width cases allow direct substitution with other similar products.