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Allied Electronics & Automation Debuts Enhanced Employee Benefits Offering to Attract Top Industry Talent

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.

 

 

 

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Sensia Acquires Swinton Technology, a Market Provider of Metering Supervisory Systems for the Oil and Gas Industry

Sensia, a major automation specialist in oil & gas production, transportation, and processing, recently announced it has acquired Swinton Technology, a provider of metering supervisory systems and measurement expertise in the oil and gas industry. The acquisition will incorporate Swinton Technology products and solutions into the Sensia portfolio.

 

 

 

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Allied Electronics & Automation Supplies Hardware for Phoenix Contact’s New PLCnext Edge Gateway IIoT Software Solution

Allied Electronics & Automation supplies hardware for Phoenix Contact’s new PLCnext Edge Gateway software, a state-of-the-art IIoT edge computing solution designed for data collection in demanding industrial and manufacturing environments. The new PLCnext Edge Gateway software is the latest addition to Phoenix Contact’s PLCnext Technology platform and enables industrial automation and control customers to transmit data from any industrial system to any cloud without having to invest capital to adapt legacy infrastructure.

 

 

 

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FANUC Demonstrates Automation Solutions for Warehousing and Logistics at Modex 2022

FANUC America will demonstrate two new CRX collaborative robots, and a variety of automation solutions for the warehousing and logistics industries at Modex 2022, March 28-31 in Atlanta, in booth #B6855. FANUC recently expanded its popular series of CRX collaborative robots with the new CRX-5iA, CRX-20iA/L and CRX-25iA.  The new CRX cobots complement FANUC’s existing line of CR and CRX cobots that now total 11 model variations able to handle products from 4 to 35kg.

 

 

 

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Signal Integrity and Impedance – Educational Webinar From the Companies Polar, NCAB, and Phoenix Contact

Following the guiding principle “On the path to signal integrity – from calculation via connection technology to the PCB with a focus on impedance,” the companies will provide expertise for optimizing impedances on the PCB. The rapidly growing demand for signal bandwidth goes hand-in-hand with increasingly rigorous requirements for data integrity.

 

 

 

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Rockwell Automation Announces Optima Packaging Group as its First EMEA-Based Platinum OEM Partner

Rockwell Automation, Inc. has recently announced that Optima Packaging Group – a major supplier of packaging solutions to pharmaceutical, consumer, non-woven and life-science markets – has been awarded Platinum OEM Partner status. Created to support OEMs across the globe, Rockwell Automation’s comprehensive Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Program offers support for the design, development, and delivery of innovative equipment, which incorporates Rockwell Automation solutions.

 

 

 

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David Meyer Elected to Graybar’s Board of Directors

Graybar has recently announced the election of David M. Meyer to its Board of Directors, effective April 1, 2022. Meyer joined Graybar in 2015 as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. He was named to his current position of Vice President – North American Subsidiaries earlier this year and will become Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on April 1, 2022.

 

 

 

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Molex Releases Findings of ’Data Center on Wheels’ Global Automotive Survey

Molex recently announced the results of a global survey that examines the pace of innovation accelerating the development of next-generation vehicle architectures and driving experiences. While participants expressed optimism over increased adoption of digital technologies, they also identified tough technology, industry and ecosystem challenges that must be overcome.

 

 

 

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Optimizing Your Control Panel Design & Construction

There’s more demand than ever to reduce control panel footprint and costs. The challenge comes with designing smaller panels and components with innovative features, without compromising system quality or safety. Read on to learn about five ways Eaton can help reduce control panel space and associated costs using modern and innovative control components, wiring systems, and more.

 

 

 

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Rockwell Automation Names Nicole Darden Ford Chief Information Security Officer

Rockwell Automation, Inc. has recently announced that Nicole Darden Ford is joining the company as vice president and Chief Information Security Officer on March 21. She will report to Chris Nardecchia, senior vice president and Chief Information Officer at Rockwell Automation. Darden Ford succeeds Dawn Cappelli, who retired in February.

 

 

 

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Phoenix Contact Awarded IEC 62443 Certificate for PLCnext Control by TÜV SÜD

Phoenix Contact is the first company to receive a certification for a controller (PLC) in accordance with IEC 62443-4-1 ML 3 Full Process Profile in combination with IEC 62443-4-2. This confirms that the secure development life cycle was fully applied in developing the PLCnext Control devices.

 

 

 

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Rockwell Automation to Showcase Warehouse and Fulfillment Solutions at Company’s Inaugural MODEX Exhibition in March

Rockwell Automation, Inc. has recently announced that it is doubling down on its commitment to the warehouse and fulfilment industry by exhibiting for the first time at MODEX 2022, in Atlanta, Ga., March 28-31. The company will demonstrate its proven solutions that will help customers’ operations be more intelligent, connected, and productive.