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Walmart and Schneider Electric Announce Groundbreaking Collaboration to Help Suppliers Access Renewable Energy

Walmart and Schneider Electric Announce Groundbreaking Collaboration to Help Suppliers Access Renewable Energy

Walmart Inc. and Schneider Electric have recently announced a new collaboration that will provide increased access to renewable energy for Walmart’s US-based suppliers, enabling them to lead on climate action. The groundbreaking initiative, called the Gigaton PPA (GPPA) Program, is designed to educate Walmart suppliers about renewable energy purchases and accelerate renewable energy adoption by participating suppliers through aggregate power purchase agreements (PPA).

 

 

 

HELUKABEL Upgrades PROFINET and PROFIBUS to PLTC-ER Rated

HELUKABEL Upgrades PROFINET and PROFIBUS to PLTC-ER Rated

HELUKABEL recently announced that select PROFINET and PROFIBUS cable products have earned a Power-Limited Tray Cable – Exposed Run (PLTC-ER) certification to stay ahead of the curve as industry trends change. The product specific cable types being upgraded are: PROFINET Type A, PROFINET Type B, and PROFIBUS DP.The original PLTC certification allowed the products to extend outside of the cable tray 6 ft (1.8 m).

 

 

 

Leadership Through Innovation: Get Ready for New Automation Technology
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Leadership Through Innovation: Get Ready for New Automation Technology

This year the SPS Smart Production Solutions exhibition will be held virtually as SPS Connect. As a specialist for integrated automation concepts, Beckhoff would like to enter into an intensive exchange on this digital platform with you, the customers, business partners and interested parties from a wide range of industries, from November 24 to 26, 2020.

 

 

 

Talking Integrated Control Panels with Mike Burke, Siemens Target Market Manager for Electrical Products

Talking Integrated Control Panels with Mike Burke, Siemens Target Market Manager for Electrical Products

As we inch closer to the upcoming Industrial Control Panel Symposium, an event that we are sure all panel builders are well aware of, Panel Builder US had the opportunity to chat with Mike Burke, Target Market Manager for Siemens Electrical Products, covering all electrical infrastructure products for Industrial Control Panels.

 

 

 

Allied Ask The Expert: Industrial Control Panel Design

Allied Ask The Expert: Industrial Control Panel Design

In this edition of Allied’s “Ask The Expert” series, the topic is industrial control panel design with Jim Davis, director of advanced solutions & technical support at Allied Electronics & Automation. Jim leads the technical support and application engineering teams Allied, collaborating with customer support and sales teams to ensure a best-in-class experience for the company’s customers.

 

 

 

How Permanent Electrical Safety Devices Affect Safety

How Permanent Electrical Safety Devices Affect Safety

For more than a decade, many Fortune 500 companies have been installing permanent electrical safety devices (PESDs) into electrical panels as a safety-by-design practice for both their mechanical and electrical lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures. The voltage indicator (see Figure 1) lies at the center of these PESDs. It can illuminate when voltage (20-750VAC/30-100VDC) is present on any phase or neutral conductor, without the need for a battery or separate power supply.

 

 

 

GraceSense Case Study: Preventing Critical Breaker Failures and Extending Equipment Life Using Continuous Temperature Monitoring

GraceSense Case Study: Preventing Critical Breaker Failures and Extending Equipment Life Using Continuous Temperature Monitoring

Excessive inrush currents combined with harmonics triggered by Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) in large motor applications put severe thermal burden on electrical components that are connected in the system. These conditions often lead to unpredictable early failures in key electrical components such as circuit breakers, bus bars and other terminations.

 

 

 

Allied Electronics & Automation Expands Power Transmission, Linear Motion and Bearings Product Offerings

Allied Electronics & Automation Expands Power Transmission, Linear Motion and Bearings Product Offerings

Allied Electronics & Automation continues to grow its list of more than 450 world-class supplier partners with the addition of bearings, linear motion and power transmission components from THK, Ringfeder, Timken, Contitech, Rexnord, INA and FAG. As part of its ongoing effort to deliver even greater selection and service to customers, Allied has expanded the capacity of its Fort Worth distribution center, added more than 10,000 new product lines and debuted nearly 50 new suppliers to date in 2020.

 

 

 

DesignSpark Online Engineering Community Reaches Milestone With One Million Members Around the World

DesignSpark Online Engineering Community Reaches Milestone With One Million Members Around the World

Allied Electronics & Automation is recently marking a significant milestone as the company recorded more than one million members on its DesignSpark engineering platform. This impressive number of registrations has been achieved in the same year that the company celebrates 10 years of DesignSpark and signals the platform’s importance and popularity amongst the global engineering community.

 

 

 

Liquid Cooling vs. Immersion Cooling Deployment
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Liquid Cooling vs. Immersion Cooling Deployment

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.

 

 

 

Rockwell Automation Acquires Cybersecurity Company
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Rockwell Automation Acquires Cybersecurity Company

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.

 

 

 

Agility Is the Key in IIoT Innovation – Says Advantech at Major Global Event

Agility Is the Key in IIoT Innovation – Says Advantech at Major Global Event

Agile innovation in the area of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will be the key in driving forward digital transformation in industrial applications into 2021 and beyond. That was the message delivered by Advantech IIoT President, Linda Tsai, to more than 2,000 delegates at the company’s first ever global IIoT Virtual Summit, entitled ‘Connecting Industrial IoT Innovation’, today (Tuesday 22nd September).

 

 

 

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Industrial Automation Can Help Critical Manufacturers Adjust to Disruptions Like COVID-19

As the pandemic sent shockwaves through economies and supply chains across the world this year, manufacturers in critical sectors were forced to adjust quickly. To better weather unexpected crises, as well as industry shifts beyond COVID-19, manufacturers need to increase flexibility and resiliency in their supply chains. Increased automation and data availability in the plant can help.