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Moxa and Allied Electronics Partner To Enable Industrial Automation with Enhanced Connectivity Solutions for Harsh Environments

Faced with harsh operating conditions, and an increased demand for remote monitoring and automation during the global COVID-19 pandemic, industrial customers need edge connectivity, industrial computing and network infrastructure solutions that can establish and maintain secure connectivity in the face of moisture, extreme heat, freezing temperatures, vibration, and more.

 

 

 

Eaton Invests More Than $100 Million to Expand North American Electrical Manufacturing and Distribution Centers for Commercial and Residential Customers and Distributors

Eaton Invests More Than $100 Million to Expand North American Electrical Manufacturing and Distribution Centers for Commercial and Residential Customers and Distributors

Power management company Eaton recently announced major infrastructure investments to increase the supply of its residential and commercial electrical solutions across North America. Eaton is expanding manufacturing capacity, modernizing production and adding a new plant, in addition to a new distribution center. Other facility expansions and modernizations are taking place through 2022.

 

 

 

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Schneider Electric Invests $40 Million to Strengthen U.S. Supply Chain

Schneider Electric recently announced an additional $40 million investment towards modernizing its U.S manufacturing plants in Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, and Texas. The monies will go towards innovative technologies and new production lines that will help increase Schneider Electric’s capacity of operations in the U.S. for its customers, as well as further develop its local workforce.

 

 

 

Rockwell Automation Combats Industrial Cyber Threats With New Security Certifications and Products

Rockwell Automation Combats Industrial Cyber Threats With New Security Certifications and Products

Companies continue to need help securing their industrial operations as they connect production and IT systems and contend with cyberthreats targeting industrial control systems. To meet this need, Rockwell Automation continues expanding its cybersecurity certifications and incorporating advanced security capabilities into more of its products.

 

 

 

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Rockwell Automation Announces Next Evolution of its OEM Partner Program

Rockwell Automation, Inc. recently announced the next evolution of its global Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Program. The enhanced offering now provides increased market access opportunities, simplification, and standardized product alignment for manufacturers, enabling participants to fully leverage Rockwell Automation technology.

 

 

Siemens and Merck Drive Forward Modular Production in Industry

Siemens and Merck Drive Forward Modular Production in Industry

Siemens and science and technology company Merck will work together in future at Merck’s headquarters in Darmstadt to develop a technical backbone for the modular production of the future. The aim is to create a production line that flexibly combines various individual process modules and to use Modular Type Packaging (MTP) and Process Orchestration Layer (POL) technology to drastically reduce engineering effort.

 

 

 

Rexel France to Distribute Trace Software’s Electrical and PV Design Solutions

Rexel France to Distribute Trace Software’s Electrical and PV Design Solutions

Trace Software was recently pleased to announce the signing of a distribution contract with REXEL France, a global energy expert. The contract covers the entire offer of the French publisher: elec calc, elec calc EP, elec calc BIM and the archelios suite. These software solutions enable to size and operate low and high voltage electrical installations as well as all types of solar installations.

 

 

 

Three Trends That Will Make Functional Safety More Adaptable

Three Trends That Will Make Functional Safety More Adaptable

Flexibility is one of the most sought-after qualities in manufacturing systems this year. In recent years, manufacturers and automation suppliers have found that they could simultaneously increase flexibility and reduce costs by moving from a safety-by-wire solution to a safety network, adopting an approach dubbed “integrated safety.” The concept of integrated safety became mainstream for OEMs and end-users just within the past year or so.

 

 

 

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Centralized Factory-Level User Management

B&R has made centralized, factory-level user management substantially easier. With the new software component mapp UserX, it is now possible to use services based on LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) to implement centralized management of users and user groups, for example using Active Directory from Microsoft.

 

 

 

Webinar: Integrated Monitoring for Wind Turbines
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Webinar: Integrated Monitoring for Wind Turbines

PC-based control technology from Beckhoff, which has already been used successfully for almost three decades in all areas of industrial automation, has recently become an integral component of smart wind turbine automation. Beckhoff will present mainly measurement and condition monitoring as integrated parts of New Automation Technology.

 

 

 

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Automation Fair From Rockwell Automation Returns Today as New Hybrid Live and Virtual Event: Automation Fair At Home

Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, along with its PartnerNetwork, opens the 29th year of its signature showcase event: Automation Fair At Home from Nov. 16-20. While this year’s event has been dynamically re-imagined as a primarily virtual experience to safeguard customer, partner, and employee health and safety during the pandemic, Automation Fair At Home attendees can still count on a wide range of exhibits, attend dozens of sessions, hear from global thought leaders, and more.