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Webinar: Verifying De-energization – Time to Get Serious

Webinar: Verifying De-energization – Time to Get Serious

Keep your employees safe – verify the de-energization of equipment! Keeping employees safe at work has to be responsibility number one for any company and yet electrical incidents continue to occur yearly despite awareness campaigns and best efforts. A number of these incidents occur due to unintended contact with energized conductors and one root cause could be the standard Test Before Touch approach that relies on using a meter and opening the electrical cabinet door. With changes to NFPA70E and CSAZ462 introducing a new product designation – absence of voltage tester – I-Gard has developed a product that is in full compliance with all requirements and whose application could reduce electrical injuries.

Getting Projects Started Faster and More Efficiently with an Expert System

Getting Projects Started Faster and More Efficiently with an Expert System

The EPLAN Platform is an expert engineering system with its support of worldwide norms, standards and working methods across a wide variety of industries and sectors. Even though the requirements for using the software are appropriately extensive, working with the software is made easy for users despite the complexity. The EPLAN Engineering Standard comes with templates and best-practice examples that support users from the get-go. The downloads come with much more than just actual project templates, as many examples are illustrated with videos. There’s also a brand-new building automation project being presented at the Hannover Messe, which expands on existing industry examples in machine building and the energy sector.

ROLEC: Compare Diecast Enclosures With Built-in EMC Shielding
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ROLEC: Compare Diecast Enclosures With Built-in EMC Shielding

Diecast aluminium enclosures are much better at dealing with radio frequency interference (RFI) and electromagnetic interference (EMI) than their plastic counterparts. Aluminium enclosures can provide some degree of inherent RFI/EMI shielding due to the conductive properties of the metal. But RFI/EMI can still affect the equipment. The shielding effectiveness of a metal enclosure depends on various factors.

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

75 Years – And Not a Bit Quiet

75 Years – And Not a Bit Quiet

At Pilz, the company celebrating its 75th anniversary, the focus at HANNOVER MESSE 2023 will be on high technologies and innovative solutions to meet global and industrial challenges under the central theme of “Industrial Transformation – Making the Difference”. Pilz will be demonstrating at HANNOVER MESSE 2023 how reliable safety and security can help industry meet its global challenges. The Swabians will be presenting their control systems as the key to individually adaptable processes and solutions.

UL Solutions Announces Medium Voltage Cable Field Testing Program to Help Advance Power Grid Safety

UL Solutions Announces Medium Voltage Cable Field Testing Program to Help Advance Power Grid Safety

UL Solutions recently announced its Medium Voltage Cable Field Testing Program to help wire and cable manufacturers meet global market requirements and advance cable system safety. The Medium Voltage Cable Field Testing Program helps cable manufacturers and owners proactively address potential issues by evaluating the performance of cable systems and identifying installation or service aging defects. The program includes condition assessments and commissioning tests, such as withstand and monitored withstand tests, partial discharge diagnosis, dielectric loss measurement and neutral corrosion evaluation.

In the Anniversary Year 2023 – Phoenix Contact Is Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Company’s Founding

In the Anniversary Year 2023 – Phoenix Contact Is Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Company’s Founding

A century full of passion for technology and innovation: In the past 100 years, the family-run company Phoenix Contact has evolved from a commercial agency for industrial products, founded in Essen, Germany, into a global manufacturing company. With products and solutions for the electrification, networking, and automation of all sectors of the economy and infrastructure – and with a passion for innovation and technology. Phoenix Contact continues to drive all of this forward – together with a commitment to the sustainable development of habitats and economic spaces on the planet.

Eaton Transforms Data Centers Into Active Drivers of the Energy Transition

Eaton Transforms Data Centers Into Active Drivers of the Energy Transition

The enormous global appetite for connectivity is creating the need for more data, storage and data centers – and, in turn, the need for more electricity and stronger reserves to protect critical operations for businesses, organizations and service providers. Intelligent power management company Eaton is using its Data Centers as a Grid approach to reimagine the role of the data center as an active participant in the energy transition, putting critical infrastructure to work in new ways to generate new revenue streams, enhance resiliency and reduce carbon emissions.

The Space-Performance Paradox Is Cracked

The Space-Performance Paradox Is Cracked

With the APC Smart-UPS Ultra series, Schneider Electric has now introduced an advanced 1-phase double-conversion UPS system with lithium-ion technology that is designed to deliver professional performance in the smallest possible space while maintaining flexibility. According to IDC (International Data Corporation), the global edge computing market is facing a massive growth spurt. As a result, more and more compute, network and storage resources are required locally and in close proximity to realize business-critical processes and IT applications that rely on network connectivity to the cloud.

RS Partners With Hammond Manufacturing to Provide Custom Electrical and Electronic Enclosures

RS Partners With Hammond Manufacturing to Provide Custom Electrical and Electronic Enclosures

RS Group plc offers more than 4,900 fully customizable electrical and electronic enclosures from Hammond Manufacturing, in addition more than 2,900 supporting products. Enclosures are used to connect and protect two or more electrical and electronic components and devices. They are employed in virtually every commercial and industrial application, and every enclosure gets modified in some way. The simplest enclosures, junction boxes, have just a couple of holes cut for input and output wires, while more complex enclosures can have holes cut for connectors, displays, and other components and can even be silkscreened, molded in a special color, and fabricated to a special size.

Overcoming 6 Challenges in Panel Building and Control Manufacturing

Overcoming 6 Challenges in Panel Building and Control Manufacturing

The manufacturing challenges of today can be overwhelming – from supply chain disruptions to increased customer demand, meeting production needs continues to get harder. Luckily, there is a better way to simplify the process. By combining value-enhancing process steps in engineering, design, work preparation, production, and maintenance, it is possible to create a solid foundation for efficiency improvements. It’s time to optimize your company’s performance to deliver the most value for the least cost and enhance your competitive advantage.

Omron Exhibits Collaborative Robot at Meadow Glens STEM Night to Give Students Valuable Hands-On Automation Experience

Omron Exhibits Collaborative Robot at Meadow Glens STEM Night to Give Students Valuable Hands-On Automation Experience

Recently, Omron Automation Americas attended the STEM Night event at Meadow Glens Elementary School in Naperville, Illinois. STEM Night is a highly acclaimed event that features exciting, immersive exhibits and activities that get elementary students inspired to learn more about science, technology, engineering, and math. The event features more than 30 local public services, technology businesses, and organizations, and Naperville School District 203’s students and families are encouraged to gather for hands-on experience with STEM concepts.

Panel Mounting Electromechanical Switches
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Panel Mounting Electromechanical Switches

By Troy Dixon, Global Product Manager at Littelfuse March 20, 2023 As technology and machinery evolve, the way we interface and interact with electronic equipment also advances. Many traditional human-machine interfaces (HMI) are updating to sophisticated touchscreen technologies. Even in a world where touchscreens are growing in popularity, they are not the right choice for…

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Schneider Electric: New ArcBlok Arc Flash Mitigation Tool

Last Fall Schneider Electric held it’s North America Innovation Summit. The event brought together Schneider employees and a broad range of electrical and automation clients from numerous countries. The Innovation Summit truly lived up to its name, with a consistent focus on digitization, electrification and sustainability. It is these three core drivers that Schneider is designing into all its products, solutions and plans as it focuses on developing an electrified and sustainable future. A core focus of the event was showcasing new products that are being developed around this concept. One such product was ArcBlok, a new arc flash mitigation tool.

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Enhanced Integration in Ecostruxure Solutions From Schneider Electric Responds to Rising Energy Costs and Escalating Urgency for Sustainable, Net-Zero Buildings

Schneider Electric recently announced its enhanced solutions to increase building sustainability. Included are new integration capabilities in EcoStruxure Building Operation 2023, EcoStruxure Connected Room Solutions, and EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert, which will help simplify and speed-up access to data that is essential to manage energy use, help reduce carbon emissions, and enhance building value.

Get Unwired to Unleash More Possibilities for Your Industrial Networks

Get Unwired to Unleash More Possibilities for Your Industrial Networks

Wire pulling is not always possible or ideal in every industrial application. In situations where it’s hard to wire or reconfigure industrial operations to ensure time to market, industrial wireless LANs (WLANs) provide an ideal alternative to traditional wired Ethernet LANs. Indeed, recent advances in wireless technology have contributed to industrial WLANs becoming commonplace solutions in various applications, such as automotive, logistics, and transportation systems.