In this edition, we talk with Tom Ballou, sales and marketing manager for Hammond Manufacturing, about the factors involved in choosing an electrical enclosure to suit the environment it will be placed in and how playing it too safe can lead to unnecessary expenses.
Innovative solution for hazardous areas. The New Zealand system integrator, Automate-X, has used Beckhoff components to automate the tank farms of a leading global operator.
Washdown environments found in food, beverage, medical, pharmaceutical, and other industries need watertight electrical enclosures that can withstand high-temperature, high-pressure spray of water or chemicals. Hammond Manufacturing and Allied Electronics & Automation are helping companies in these industries select the electrical enclosures that are well-suited for these conditions.
EPLAN updates data portal with 357 manufactureres and more than 1,030,000 data sets.
TT Electronics, a global provider of engineered electronics for performance critical applications, will be exhibiting at Sensors Converge 2021, the only event to reunite the sensor and electronics industry. TT will showcase its extensive portfolio of optoelectronic sensors including discretes, optoisolators,
Rockwell Automation, Inc. and Ansys recently announced that the enhanced Studio 5000 Simulation Interface now connects with Ansys digital twins. This gives automation and process engineers new ways to use simulation to improve the design, deployment, and performance of industrial operations.
Everyone is well aware of the current supply situation with steel and chips becoming tighter worldwide. Now, plastics have been added to the list as well. This has resulted in extended delivery times or even complete supply failures.
The factory of the future has arrived. Integrators, machine builders, and packaging and processing companies will experience how to combine automation and robotics with AI and real-time data to drive efficiency, flexibility and overall process visibility.
Power management company Eaton recently announced that it is working with Microsoft to identify ways for data centers to monetize existing assets and integrate more renewable energy sources to help create a more sustainable and stable grid. The findings of this collaboration were published today in the joint white paper, Grid-interactive data centers: enabling decarbonization and system stability.
Excelitas Technologies Corp., a global technology provider delivering innovative, customized photonic solutions, will showcase its latest detection and sensing innovations at Sensors Converge.
Molex, a global electronics and connectivity provider, recently unveiled the results of a global survey polling manufacturing stakeholders to identify the top trends and technologies shaping the future of mobile devices.
Convergint, a global provider of service-based systems integration, recently announced the acquisition of two business units from ATS Companies—ATS Alaska and ATS Facility Systems. This acquisition will expand Convergint’s Northwest presence and bring Convergint its first technology center in Alaska.
Pepperl+Fuchs has strengthened its Mobile Computing and Communication business unit by acquiring Aava Mobile Oy. The Finland-based company is a specialist for the design and manufacturing of latest technology, ruggedized industrial smartphones and tablet computers, and has been sold to Mannheim/Germany-based Pepperl+Fuchs Group.
The factory of the future has arrived and Omron is thrilled to bring a small-scale but working warehouse and production facility to PACK EXPO this year. Integrators, machine builders and packaging and processing companies will experience how to combine automation and robotics with AI and real-time data.
The current supply situation of steel, chips and plastics has become tighter worldwide. Extended delivery times or supply failures can be a consequence of this. The suppliers of plastic granulate have stopped the production of specific granulates and colours or postponed it indefinitely.
How can new machine and plant concepts that are superior to conventional solutions in terms of sustainability, flexibility, and efficiency be implemented in packaging? As a long-standing automation partner to the packaging industry,
