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IoT-Based Innovations
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IoT-Based Innovations From Siemens Transform Buildings Into Smart Ecosystems

At this year’s ISH trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany, Siemens will showcase its cloud-based platforms, IoT-enabled products and solutions that make buildings smarter, leveraging the potential that digitalization offers. Exhibiting under the motto “Your fast lane to smart buildings”, the company is focusing on turning buildings into smart ecosystems that respond to the business goals of building owners and operators for improved building performance, as well as to tenants’ needs for comfortable and healthy buildings.

Wieland Electric: Emergency Stop Buttons with M12 Connection for Easy Integration Into Plants and Systems
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Wieland Electric: Emergency Stop Buttons with M12 Connection for Easy Integration Into Plants and Systems

In times of a shortage of skilled workers, technical devices that can be installed in a time-saving manner and, if possible, without the need for highly qualified personnel, come into their own. Wieland Electric has such a solution ready for safety technology in mechanical engineering and intralogistics: New emergency stop buttons are available for the safe, manual shutdown of machines and systems. Thanks to the M12 connection, they can be easily integrated into plants and systems using pre-assembled M12 standard cables.

binder: M12 Connectors with Comprehensive Corrosion Protection
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binder: M12 Connectors with Comprehensive Corrosion Protection

binder offers M5, M8, and M12 products for sensor cabling that feature threaded locking rings – and other design parts – made of stainless steel. Unlike conventional connectors, with nickel-plated locking rings and housing parts made of die-cast zinc or brass, they are suitable for use under conditions that explicitly require media resistance. Connectors in stainless-steel design withstand corrosive environmental influences, such as contact with chemicals or aggressive detergents.

Phoenix Contact: Robust TRIO POWER Power Supplies with IP67
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Phoenix Contact: Robust TRIO POWER Power Supplies with IP67

Phoenix Contact’s robust TRIO POWER power supplies with IP67 degree of protection are ideally suited for distributed supply in the field. The weather-resistant die-cast aluminum housing protects the devices against dust and water. This enables the power supplies to ensure high system availability even in harsh ambient conditions.

RS Offers Hundreds of Thousands of End-to-End Solutions for Material Handling & Packaging Applications
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RS Offers Hundreds of Thousands of End-to-End Solutions for Material Handling & Packaging Applications

RS, a trading brand of RS Group plc, offers an extensive selection of end-to-end solutions for material handling & packaging applications. Material handling & packaging equipment plays a vital role in the global logistics and supply chain industries. These applications support crucial tasks extending from forecasting, resource allocation, and production planning to flow and process management, inventory management and control, customer delivery, and even after-sales support and service.

Schmersal: SLB440 Series Safety Light Barriers
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Schmersal: SLB440 Series Safety Light Barriers

Schmersal has developed a new series of SLB440 safety light barriers that are suitable for hygiene-sensitive applications in the packaging and food-processing industries, such as milk and meat processing. With a diameter of 62 mm and a height of 115 mm, the single-beam light barriers in the SLB series are extremely compact. This makes them ideal for thermoforming machinery for food packaging, for use on cutting equipment or on other machinery with narrow installation spaces.

ABB: New REX610 Relay Retrofit Program
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ABB: New REX610 Relay Retrofit Program

Since the 1980s, ABB has installed more than 700,000 SPACOM relays used for power system protection and reliable power system operation world-wide. With the older generation of relays now aging, ABB has been actively developing new technology and expanding its service portfolio to replace select SPACOM relay types with REX610 relays. REX610 is the first all-in-one protection relay to support all basic power distribution applications with only six variants, making it easy to order, set up, use and service. This relay can be easily adapted during its entire lifetime to meet the shifting requirements for protection, communication and network.

PITreader (S) Card Unit
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Pilz: PITreader S Card Unit – Greater Flexibility Thanks to New RFID Transponders in Card and Sticker Format

PITreader (S) card units offer the same wide application area you have come to expect from PITreader (S). However, the transponder type is new. The PITreader card and PITreader sticker use RFID transponders in card or sticker format. The company’s existing RFID-capable cards, plus the familiar PITreader keys, can also be used for authentication, offering you even greater flexibility when choosing the transponder.

Finder OPTA: The Unique New Programmable Logic Relay
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Finder OPTA: The Unique New Programmable Logic Relay

The 2022 edition of SPS Smart Production Solutions trade show in Nuremberg (Germany) opened up with a new product launch from Finder. The company unveiled its first ever OPTA PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC RELAY (PLR), a new and innovative option for engineers, designers and whoever wishes to add smart logic to a control cabinet, machine or any other industrial automation or building automation project.

WAGO: POWER CAGE CLAMP Terminal Blocks
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WAGO: POWER CAGE CLAMP Terminal Blocks

The POWER CAGE CLAMP provides the proper clamping force for conductors up to 35, 50, 95 and 185 mm2 (2, 2/0, 4/0 AWG and 350 kcmil). WAGO’s high-current, rail-mount terminal blocks are ideal for energy-intensive applications in machinery and equipment manufacturing, as well as energy production. These terminal blocks are also approved for Ex e applications.

Banner Engineering: ZMX Series 3D Time of Flight Sensor
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Banner Engineering: ZMX Series 3D Time of Flight Sensor

The ZMX Series 3D Time of Flight Sensor can measure and monitor objects within a three-dimensional area. It provides a single-sensor solution for filling applications and can detect both the peak height and average fill level. The ZMX Series features a large 60° × 45° field of view, with a range of 200 to 2,500 mm (7.9 in. to 8.2 ft.). Because the sensor can detect items of any size, shape, or orientation, it is an ideal tool for automated industrial applications in which materials, products, or packages accumulate within a defined area.

Southco Launches New Handbook
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Southco Launches New Handbook

Southco, Inc. has recently published its new handbook (HB72), a comprehensive guide to every product the manufacturer has to offer. This marks the first time Southco has released a handbook in print since 2015. HB72 contains a wealth of information about Southco’s access solutions, including product drawings, performance details, available options and installation notes. Everything you need to know about any Southco product is contained in HB72, and the print version puts that information at your fingertips.

B-Line Accessories
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Eaton: B-Line Series Enclosure Accessories

Eaton offers a wide range of accessories compatible with B-Line series electrical enclosures. These accessories range from fixed and hinged window kits, clamp locks, padlock kits and folding shelf kits, to casters, barriers, component mounting devices, block strip kits, terminal blocks, hardware packages and ground lugs. Take a look to see all that Eaton has to offer.

OKW: Updated RAILTEC SUPPORT Modular DIN Rail PCB Holders
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OKW: Updated RAILTEC SUPPORT Modular DIN Rail PCB Holders

OKW’s RAILTEC SUPPORT open PCB holders for TH35, TH15 and G32 DIN rails are now available in light gray as standard. They are part of OKW’s RAILTEC C range of DIN rail enclosures for automation, Industry 4.0/Smart Factory, building and safety technology, and HVAC systems. Applications also include automatic timers, sensors, relays, signal distribution, lighting controls, subrack interfaces, electronics modules, amplifiers and transformers.

IDEC BTBH-H
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IDEC: BTBH-H easy-stack Terminal Blocks Provide Flexible Wire Termination Option

IDEC Corporation announces the new BTBH-H easy-stack product line of surface mount terminal blocks in a compact form factor with multiple amp ratings. These terminal blocks can be easily stacked together or ordered preassembled to meet the needs of any commercial or industrial application. BTBH-H blocks are available in four different amp ratings—10A, 15A, 30A, and 50A—and can be ordered as individual components, or as complete assemblies by amp rating for 2 to 30 poles.