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Nel Hydrogen Relies On Beckhoff for Environmentally Friendly Hydrogen Filling Stations

Hydrogen is considered to be the energy source of the future. It is a component of water and of almost all organic compounds. Therefore, molecules containing hydrogen are found in every living organism. As an energy source, it does not produce carbon dioxide if it is collected using renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power. The Danish company Nel Hydrogen is a long-standing pioneer in the field of hydrogen technology.

 

 

 

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Digitalization Helps Craft Breweries Establish a Competitive Edge

Today’s craft beer producers face many challenges, including aging infrastructures, sourcing raw materials, and navigating government standards and regulations. They must also achieve high productivity and operational flexibility to ensure their new products achieve faster time-to-market to meet ever-changing customer expectations. Product development becomes a key differentiator for successful firms in this market space.

 

 

 

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Panduit: noosa yoghurt Case Study

Panduit IIoT ecosystem helps noosa yoghurt speed production at maximum efficiency while increasing network reliability and productivity. noosa yoghurt’s commitment to making a superior product propelled the company to invest in a $5 million plant upgrade that was completed in 2015. This project allowed noosa yoghurt to increase production and nationwide awareness of the brand while remaining a leader of current dairy and food trends.

 

 

 

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Metric Vs. AWG Size Conductors

One big difference between European cables made for the US market and American-made cables for US consumption is the use of metric size conductors and their American Wire Gauge (AWG) size counter parts. European cables are usually manufactured with metric conductors (identified by a mm2 cross section) while US-manufactured cables use the AWG size standard indicated by a hashtag (#).

 

 

 

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Rittal North America Celebrates 40 Years of American Manufacturing

This year, Rittal North America celebrates its 40th year of manufacturing in the United States. The global company, which is known for its pioneering role in modular enclosure technologies and its partnership in developing what has become the standard 19-inch server rack for the IT industry, launched its U.S. operations in Urbana, Ohio in 1981.

 

 

 

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What Makes A Quality Control Panel: Three Questions With UCEC’s Garrod Massey

Why does a panel get UL Listed? 

Our UL listings are a big deal at UCEC and something I think about all of the time. Customers request a UL listing for their panel project for a variety of reasons, but usually it’s because the listing is required by a local municipality. We also build panels to UL standards regardless of the listing requested.

 

 

 

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Taking Your Factory to the Connected Edge: Converting Legacy Factory Equipment Into an Edge-Connected System

Having an edge-connected factory allows you to access your data at anytime, on or off the factory floor. No more manual reports, no more wondering what’s happening on the factory floor while you’re away. You can track efficiencies and identify weak points in your factory as well as bring together data from multiple sites to manage resource distribution and maintenance and compare performance across facilities. Sounds great, right?

 

 

 

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Kenny Electric: Empower Field at Mile High Stadium

Kenny had the opportunity to upgrade several of the concession areas within Empower Field at the Mile High Stadium, most often used by the Denver Broncos. Our team was tasked with keeping the building automation systems fully function while significant demolition took place on the concessions and control wires. The function was necessary to continue monitoring the 1.8 million square foot facility.

 

 

 

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Encore Electric Teams Expand UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, CO

Nonprofit health care system UCHealth is known for its innovative and state-of-the-art facilities where staff provide care to more than 1.9 million unique patients each year. Encore Electric has been privileged to work with UCHealth on several complex and demanding projects and is now building a new inpatient tower at the University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus.

 

 

 

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Why Is System Integration Important for Your Business?

System integrators create throughlines that allow automated systems to more efficiently communicate with each other and with operators. Many industries, especially those that rely on information technology, computer networking, and automated machinery, implement system integration to achieve more efficient processes. Integrating your systems also helps make devices compatible with the Internet of Things (IoT).

 

 

 

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Variable Frequency Drives and the Impact of IIoT – VFD Control Panels

Variable frequency drives (VFDs) are electronic devices that manipulate electrical current in specific ways. In industrial settings, VFDs are used to funnel AC power, convert it into DC power, and temporarily store converted current until it is needed. VFDs are also an important component in IGBTs (insulated-gate bipolar transistors). In these devices, VFDs allow the rapid modulation of incoming and outgoing current.

 

 

 

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Four Ways to Dramatically Improve Your Logistics Applications

In the logistics industry, it’s always a race to be the fastest company to get deliveries out the door while also maintaining a standard of impeccable accuracy at the lowest possibl cost. With heated competition all around, it’s no wonder that next-generation technologies are essential to becoming a trendsetter in this industry. Let’s take a look at four major technology trends that are currently transforming the logistics industry.

 

 

 

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Molex Unveils Results of Global ‘State of 5G’ Survey

Molex recently released the results of a global survey of decision makers from telecom carriers exploring the “state of 5G” and the significant transformational opportunities it presents, along with its impact on deployment progress, current delivery challenges and emerging business prospects. Overall, carriers are optimistic: more than half of those surveyed expect to deliver substantial end-user benefits within two to five years while 47% reported that users already are seeing value or will within one year.

 

 

 

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How Rittal and EPLAN Achieve Your Automation Goals

Not so long ago, when you wanted to take a road trip, you had to break out a map and plot your route manually. You could not account for the wealth of variables that could seriously disrupt or even derail your journey. There was no way to anticipate road construction, accidents resulting in long delays or detours, weather-related occurrences, or missed turns yielding delays in arrival.

 

 

 

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Digital Services Save Time in Design

Behind every electrical engineering project are many individual components and thus a whole collection of data: 2D/3D CAD data, data sheets, type sheets and certificates are all part of any decent documentation. “Comparatively more time is spent on article research and the collection, conversion and storage of related documents than on the design itself,” says Andreas Wedel, Director of Digital Transformation at the HARTING Technology Group.

 

 

 

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What Are the Effects of Harmonics and EMI on the Increasing Amount of Industrial Ethernet Found in Manufacturing Facilities?

First, let’s clarify that ‘Industrial Ethernet’ is a blanket term covering Profinet, Ethernet/IP, Modbus TCP, EtherCAT, and any other industrial fieldbus utilizing Ethernet as a physical layer. Industrial Ethernet is inherently resistant to EMI, as the standard twisted-pair cable used for transmission cancels out most differential-mode noise between the conductors. Transformer coupling on the Ethernet card itself cancels out most common-mode noise as well.