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Allied Electronics & Automation Parent Company Sponsors Texas A&M University’s Global Innovation Competition to Tackle Real-World Issues; Winners Announced

Electrocomponents plc, the global parent company of Fort Worth-based Allied Electronics & Automation, is a key sponsor of ‘Invent for the Planet 2020’, and recently participated on the judging panel to select the winners of this global engineering innovation competition, which challenges university students from all over the world to devise solutions to tackle some of our planet’s toughest issues.

 

 

 

Allied Electronics & Automation Achieves Supplier Expansion Milestones for 2020 with Addition of Product Lines from Koyo, POBCO, Fresh-Aire UV, CW Industries, and Bihl+Wiedemann

Allied Electronics & Automation Achieves Supplier Expansion Milestones for 2020 with Addition of Product Lines from Koyo, POBCO, Fresh-Aire UV, CW Industries, and Bihl+Wiedemann

As part of the continuous expansion of its range of ready-to-ship products, Allied Electronics & Automation, has added more than 10,000 new product lines, $3.5 million in inventory and 30 new suppliers to date in 2020.

 

 

 

HARTING Han 1A Receives iF DESIGN AWARD 2020

HARTING Han 1A Receives iF DESIGN AWARD 2020

HARTING Technology Group has won this year’s iF DESIGN AWARD, the world-renowned design prize. The winning product, HARTING’s Han 1A connector series, won in the discipline “Product” (in the category “Electrical Connector”). Each year, the world’s oldest independent design organization, Hannover-based iF International Forum Design GmbH, organizes the iF DESIGN AWARD.

 

 

 

Beckhoff USA Names Paxton Shantz Fabrication Industry Manager

Beckhoff USA Names Paxton Shantz Fabrication Industry Manager

Beckhoff USA has recently hired Paxton Shantz to serve as Fabrication Industry Manager. Shantz will use his extensive automation and fabrication experience to direct Beckhoff sales and support efforts for manufacturers and machine builders in forming, welding, cutting, additive manufacturing and many other applications across the U.S.

 

 

 

Graybar Names Tom Twitty as District Vice President-Business for Phoenix and California Districts

Graybar Names Tom Twitty as District Vice President-Business for Phoenix and California Districts

Graybar, a distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, recently named Tom Twitty as District Vice President-Business for the company’s Phoenix and California Districts, effective August 24, 2020.

 

 

 

Partnership Brings Innovative Automated Filtration System to Croatian Brewery

Partnership Brings Innovative Automated Filtration System to Croatian Brewery

Parker Hannifin was recently pleased to announce that the Zagrebačka pivovara brewery in Zagreb, Croatia is benefitting from innovative new filtration technology, thanks to a partnership with Agidens Process Automation. Zagrebačka pivovara, which is part of Molson Coors, commissioned Belgium-based Agidens Process Automation to implement a Cold Stabilisation Module (CSM) at its brewery site.

 

 

 

Beckhoff Real-Time Ethernet System Sets Record With 3,000 Vendor IDs

Beckhoff Real-Time Ethernet System Sets Record With 3,000 Vendor IDs

Beckhoff introduced the EtherCAT real-time Ethernet system to the market in 2003 and disclosed its details within the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) the same year. The ultra-fast communication system has taken the automation world by storm ever since, says Thomas Rettig, Senior Manager of Control Systems and Communication Architecture at Beckhoff – a fact that was underscored further when the ETG issued its 3,000th EtherCAT vendor ID in July 2020.

 

 

 

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Allied Electronics & Automation and Schneider Electric Team Up To Help Engineers Build Better Industrial Control Panels

Schneider Electric and Allied Electronics & Automation are partnering to deploy a suite of digital resources, hosted on Allied’s Build a Better Control Cabinet digital hub, that can help customers more effectively design, build and maintain industrial control panels and cabinets.

 

 

 

Emerson and MHPS Collaborate on Power Industry Digital Transformation

Emerson and MHPS Collaborate on Power Industry Digital Transformation

Emerson and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas have recently joined forces again to develop digital technologies, software and services to help utility customers drive operational excellence in North America. The companies will collaborate on digital solutions to optimize performance and reliability, enable predictive and AI-driven maintenance strategies, and automate operational decision-making.

 

 

 

Siemens Launches an Advanced Microgrid Demonstration Environment at Its New Jersey R&D Hub

Siemens Launches an Advanced Microgrid Demonstration Environment at Its New Jersey R&D Hub

Siemens USA has recently launched an advanced microgrid research and demonstration environment at its U.S. Corporate Technology headquarters in Princeton, NJ. The living lab will validate the latest technologies in order to provide the market with a comprehensive blueprint of how microgrids can be flexibly operated in similar applications such as universities, office parks and industrial sites while reducing the adverse impacts of energy uncertainty.

 

 

 

Electrocomponents Joins the Valuable 500 Global Effort to Advance Disability Inclusion in the Workplace

Electrocomponents Joins the Valuable 500 Global Effort to Advance Disability Inclusion in the Workplace

Electrocomponents plc, a global omni-channel solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers, has joined The Valuable 500, a global organisation committed to advancing disability inclusion in the workplace. The goal is to persuade 500 influential multinational companies that have 1,000 employees or more to make a public commitment to advancing disability inclusion in their organisation and take the lead in encouraging governments and societies to follow suit.