SCHURTER Inc is gearing up for the rapidly approaching EDS Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 10-13, 2022. This summit is an important forum where manufacturers and distributors in the electronic components industry come together in one location to meet and strengthen their business relationships.
TTI, Inc. announced the promotion of John Drabik to President, TTI Americas. Drabik, who joined TTI in 2020, previously held the position of Senior Vice President, TTI Americas Sales and Product Management.
C&K Switches, an affiliated portfolio company of Sun Capital Partners, Inc., is pleased to announce that it is to be acquired by Littelfuse, Inc. for an enterprise value of $540 million. Founded in 1928, C&K has been at the forefront of technological evolution in electromechanical switches.
WAGO founded its production facility in Sondershausen in 1990. Following the construction of the logistics center in 1999, it has since functioned as WAGO’s global shipping hub. Now, WAGO’s ‘Gateway to the World’ in the Hainleite industrial park will see significant additional expansions. The supplier of interconnection and automation technology is investing 40 million euros in a modern high-bay warehouse, which clearly proclaims its support for the facility in Thuringia.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. recently announced that registration is now open for ROKLive, a Rockwell Automation and Plex Systems event taking place June 13-16 in Orlando, Fla. Joining with newly acquired Plex’s annual PowerPlex event, the in-person ROKLive experience will bring together operations, maintenance, engineering and technology leaders and innovators to explore how Rockwell Automation’s enterprise-wide solutions are linking OT and IT like never before.
Which trends will distinguish the engineering of the future? How has EPLAN aligned its solutions and services for the coming challenges its customers will be facing? These and many other questions will be addressed by the experts from solutions provider EPLAN over two full days and several time zones.
388 manufacturers and more than 1,930,000 data sets are available with the update on 7 April 2022. Companies with new and updated sata sets include AVAT Automation GmbH, Bosch Rexrth AG, B&R Industrial Automation GmbH, Conta-Clip Verbindungstechnik GmbH, and Danfoss Drives A/S.
Schneider Electric has recently appointed Amit Chaturvedy as Managing Partner, SE Ventures. In this new role, Amit will drive and strengthen Schneider Electric’s long-term value creation in energy management and industrial automation.
Whether robust electromechanics or highly sensitive electronics, all 24 V DC consumers are often supplied by a single regulated switched-mode power supply. To prevent faults at a single consumer from paralyzing the entire system, the control circuit is divided into individual branches and selectively fused.
Southwire, a major North American wire and cable producer and an emerging influence in the electrical industry, will soon open office space at The Battery Atlanta in Cobb County adjacent to Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves. In late March, Southwire signed a deal for roughly 23,000 square feet of offices, meeting rooms, workstations and multipurpose space.
Kooltronic, Inc. of Pennington, NJ, has rolled out a new self-service e-commerce feature that offers customers the convenience of purchasing spare/replacement parts and filters directly from kooltronic.com. The new website enhancement also enables visitors to quickly find all available replacement parts and filters for a given Kooltronic product by simply entering the model number of that product.
LAPP North America is pleased to announce it will be an exhibitor at ATX West, April 12 to 14, Booth 4454 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. LAPP develops and manufactures a full range of industrial cables, connectors and cable tracks that reliably transmit power, control and monitoring signals with the ability to withstand repetitive movements, as well as extreme twisting and bending typical in demanding robotic and automated applications.
Omron Automation Americas announces RAMP Inc. as a new partner in its Certified System Integrator program. RAMP is a technology development company that designs and builds custom automation and robotic systems. “RAMP helps customers leverage IIOT to transform their factory and integrate robotics safely and effectively,” said Peter Brouwer, vice president of sales for Omron Automation Americas.
Since March 24th, in addition to updated data EPLAN are very pleased to announce the following new partner – WISKA Hoppmann GmbH, with 1,161 new data sets with cable accessories. EPLAN also has new and updated data sets from several other current partners.
Digi-Key Electronics recently launched “Revolutionizing Automation,” a new video series that explores cutting-edge automation and control technologies. Sponsored by Omron and Siemens, the four-part video series highlights how Digi-Key processes over 5.3 million orders annually with an efficient and effective supply chain enabled by major global suppliers that are revolutionizing automation and control solutions including sensors, motors and controllers, robotics, connectors, power, RFID and more.
Allied Electronics & Automation is investing $1M to enhance its employee benefits program, holding employee costs for benefits steady in 2022 by absorbing all insurance premium rate increases, extending the company’s full suite of health and welfare benefits to employees’ domestic partners, offering paid family leave for biological and adoptive parents and adding coverage of gender-affirming services for transgender individuals to its health insurance coverage.
