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IoT-Based Innovations From Siemens Transform Buildings Into Smart Ecosystems

At this year’s ISH trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany, Siemens will showcase its cloud-based platforms, IoT-enabled products and solutions that make buildings smarter, leveraging the potential that digitalization offers. Exhibiting under the motto “Your fast lane to smart buildings”, the company is focusing on turning buildings into smart ecosystems that respond to the business goals of building owners and operators for improved building performance, as well as to tenants’ needs for comfortable and healthy buildings.

RS Offers Hundreds of Thousands of End-to-End Solutions for Material Handling & Packaging Applications
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RS Offers Hundreds of Thousands of End-to-End Solutions for Material Handling & Packaging Applications

RS, a trading brand of RS Group plc, offers an extensive selection of end-to-end solutions for material handling & packaging applications. Material handling & packaging equipment plays a vital role in the global logistics and supply chain industries. These applications support crucial tasks extending from forecasting, resource allocation, and production planning to flow and process management, inventory management and control, customer delivery, and even after-sales support and service.

Southwire Opens New Space at The Battery Atlanta

Southwire Opens New Space at The Battery Atlanta

On Wednesday, Feb. 15, Southwire, one of North America’s leading wire and cable producers and an emerging influence in the electrical industry, celebrated the opening of its new hub at The Battery Atlanta in Cobb County adjacent to Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves. Approximately 200 team members, customers, partners and community leaders commemorated the occasion with a ribbon cutting, tours, networking and a special guest appearance by Atlanta Braves mascot, Blooper.

Omron Announces Xigent Automation Systems as a Certified Systems Integrator Partner

Omron Announces Xigent Automation Systems as a Certified Systems Integrator Partner

Omron Automation Americas recently announced Xigent Automation Systems as a new partner in its Certified Systems Integrator program. Based in Lewis Center, Ohio, Xigent has been providing innovative solutions for nearly 20 years. Xigent Automation Systems has been collaborating with Omron in developing fully integrated assembly and testing systems. Recently, they delivered a multi-year program in the automotive industry that utilized Omron control technology, including those for laser markers, barcode readers, robots, and motion control.

ABB: New REX610 Relay Retrofit Program
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ABB: New REX610 Relay Retrofit Program

Since the 1980s, ABB has installed more than 700,000 SPACOM relays used for power system protection and reliable power system operation world-wide. With the older generation of relays now aging, ABB has been actively developing new technology and expanding its service portfolio to replace select SPACOM relay types with REX610 relays. REX610 is the first all-in-one protection relay to support all basic power distribution applications with only six variants, making it easy to order, set up, use and service. This relay can be easily adapted during its entire lifetime to meet the shifting requirements for protection, communication and network.

Pilz: Revision of Standards ISO 13849 and IEC 62061

Pilz: Revision of Standards ISO 13849 and IEC 62061

Both standards had to be updated to continue to represent the “state of the art”. The latest edition of IEC 62061 was published on 22 March 2021. ISO 13849 has reached FDIS status; that means that the content can no longer be changed. The impetus to revise both standards stemmed not just from the routine revision and upgrade to the state of the art, but also from the many discussions that took place during the failed attempt to unify the two standards within IEC ISO 17305.

Red Lion Controls Acquires MB Connect Line

Red Lion Controls Acquires MB Connect Line

In early April of 2022, Red Lion Controls was pleased to announce the acquisition of MB connect line GmbH, a provider of secure connection of machines and plants for remote access, data collection, and M2M-communication. The addition of MB connect line supports Red Lion’s strategy to deliver secure, easy-to-use edge connectivity solutions – enabling organizations worldwide to gain secure real-time data visibility that drives productivity.

New Leadership at Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing

New Leadership at Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing

Phoenix Contact recently announced the promotion of Davis Mathews and Heath Scoggin as the new leadership team for Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing, Inc. Mathews and Scoggin will lead the Industry Management and Automation (IMA) and Industrial Components and Electronics (ICE) business areas, respectively. In addition, Mathews will lead the company’s overall development efforts, and Scoggin will lead the company’s overall manufacturing efforts.

Southco Launches New Handbook
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Southco Launches New Handbook

Southco, Inc. has recently published its new handbook (HB72), a comprehensive guide to every product the manufacturer has to offer. This marks the first time Southco has released a handbook in print since 2015. HB72 contains a wealth of information about Southco’s access solutions, including product drawings, performance details, available options and installation notes. Everything you need to know about any Southco product is contained in HB72, and the print version puts that information at your fingertips.

RS Hosts Brand Launch Event

RS Hosts Brand Launch Event

RS is celebrating the rebranding of RS as RS with an event for employees and local media. The RS rebrand is a key element of an extensive ongoing rebranding strategy engineered to establish a better connection across RS Group’s product and service solutions. Today’s event celebrates this significant milestone in RS history, the newly expanded footprint of the globally recognized RS brand, and the many benefits that operating as a truly collective organization will provide for our people, customers, suppliers, communities, and shareholders.

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Schneider Electric Simplifies Single-Phase UPS Fleet Management With New Services Membership

Schneider Electric has recently developed a new EcoCare for Single-Phase UPS services offer. Members of this innovative EcoCare plan benefit from exclusive access to experts, who ensure customers optimize their overall maintenance activities while reducing their carbon footprint. Companies are drastically expanding their edge computing environments, but lack the expertise, staff, and visibility to manage a fleet of geographically distributed single-phase UPS sites.

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RS Adds Three New Suppliers to its Industry 4.0 Technology Portfolio

RS, a trading brand of RS Group plc, recently added three new suppliers to its selection of industrial automation solutions: ILME, ABB Robotics, and Madison Company. These latest additions to the RS line card further extend its portfolio of Industry 4.0 technologies, including industrial connectors, robotics, switches, and sensor products, and provide customers with even more tools to turn “what ifs” into “why nots.”

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Rockwell Automation Elects Alice L. Jolla to Board of Directors

Rockwell Automation, Inc. has recently announced that Alice L. Jolla was elected to its board of directors effective Feb. 8, 2023. Jolla is the Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Corp. “Alice’s proven track record serving as the management liaison to the Microsoft Audit Committee makes her an excellent addition to Rockwell’s Board of Directors,” said Blake Moret, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rockwell.