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- Industry Focus: Food & Beverage, Marine/Offshore, Transportation
- Product Type: Switches/Indicators/Relays/Solenoids
EAO has extended the robust and attractive Series 82 with an overmoulded option and M12 connector. The new version is available for selected illuminated pushbuttons within the Series 82 and offers fast mounting as well as complete front and rear IP67 protection. It is common to expose actuators and indicators to extremely harsh operating conditions. For example in the food & beverage industry, where alkaline cleaning agents and corrosion severely affect HMIs.
- Brand: Yokogawa
- Industry Focus: Food & Beverage, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical
- Product Type: Control Software
Yokogawa Electric Corporation recently announced that it will begin providing OpreX Batch Solution on March 17. This solution for batch manufacturing applications eliminates the overlap between process control system (PCS) and manufacturing execution system (MES) related work and helps to enhance efficiency through all phases of the plant lifecycle, from design and engineering to actual operation, modification, and expansion.
Read more: Yokogawa to Begin Offering OpreX Batch Solution...
- Brand: Pepperl+Fuchs
- Industry Focus: Automotive, Food & Beverage, General Manufacturing, Industrial, Pharmaceutical, Transportation
- Product Type: Sensors
In material handling applications―i.e., indoor warehouses, manufacturing facilities, automotive plants, airports, cold storage―pallets carrying products down a conveyor is a standard application. While standard, there are frequently complex problems that require exact product measurement solutions during this automated process. Conveyor speed and control, anti-collision (ZPA), safeguarding, and of course pallet profiling are among the most common challenges.
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- Brand: Emerson
- Industry Focus: Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical
- Product Type: Thermal Management
Emerson recently introduced its new Lumity brand of analytics software and digital solutions to help safeguard critical products like food and temperature-sensitive medications. Emerson’s Lumity portfolio is connecting a suite of products to create customizable solutions to enable the highest level of visibility and control of consumer goods throughout the entire supply chain.
- Brand: Yokogawa
- Industry Focus: Automotive, Food & Beverage, General Manufacturing, Industrial, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Power Distribution & Energy, Water & Waste Water
- Product Type: Control Software
On January 20, 2021, Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it would be releasing CENTUM VP R6.08, an enhanced version of the CENTUM VP integrated production control system for industrial plants, and released it two days later on January 22. CENTUM VP is a core product in the OpreX Control and Safety System solutions family. This release delivers enhancements that drastically reduce the amount of work needed to upgrade a control system's CPU module, including a newly developed utility kit and standards certification for individual CPU modules.
- Industry Focus: Automotive, Building Controls, Data, Food & Beverage, General Manufacturing, Healthcare, Industrial, Marine/Offshore, Mining, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Power Distribution & Energy, Transportation, Water & Waste Water
- Product Type: Tools for Panel Builders
The innovative MARKINGENIUS® MG3 technology offers a universal and fast identification system. The thermal transfer printer quickly marks any brand of terminal blocks, and also creates wire markers, panel rating plates, push button legends and more.
- Industry Focus: Automotive, Food & Beverage, General Manufacturing, Industrial, Pharmaceutical
- Product Type: Sensors
Datalogic was recently pleased to announce the new S8 IO-Link sensor models. These sensors come in two models, featuring specific advantages: for example, the S8-B53 model features a polarized retro-reflective function with coaxial optics and laser emission, representing the best solution for customers needing to rely on a high detection precision at long distance, including on very small objects.
Read more: The New S8 IO-Link Sensors Enhance Detection and...
- Brand: Rockwell Automation
- Industry Focus: Automotive, Food & Beverage, General Manufacturing, Industrial, Power Distribution & Energy
- Product Type: Switches/Indicators/Relays/Solenoids
The new Allen-Bradley Guardmaster 440G-EZ electromagnetic interlocking switch can help protect people, processes and equipment. By providing the physical interlocking of guard doors, the safety switch allows access to a potentially hazardous area only when the area is safe. This can help keep people safe and protect a process from unplanned downtime to improve productivity and efficiency.
- Brand: Pepperl+Fuchs
- Industry Focus: Food & Beverage, General Manufacturing, Industrial
- Product Type: Sensors
With the UC18GS series with IO-Link, Pepperl+Fuchs now presents a series that combines all the features and advantages of advanced ultrasonic technology in a compact housing. The individually-adjustable sound beam width, the extra-small dead band and the integrated interference target suppression allow the sensors to be optimally adapted to a wide range of applications. Users have numerous programming options, such as via push buttons, IO-Link or infrared interface (IrDA).
- Brand: Schurter
- Industry Focus: Food & Beverage, General Manufacturing, Healthcare, Industrial, Marine/Offshore, Water & Waste Water
- Product Type: Switches/Indicators/Relays/Solenoids
Designed for harsh environments, the PSE piezoelectric switch comes with a pre-assembled polyurethane cable to offer maximum flexibility and the highest IP protection during installation. The housings of the factory assembled piezoelectric PSE family are made of stainless steel 1.4462. This steel is characterised by its particularly high resistance to corrosion, which is essential in areas with high humidity. The PSE switches offer maximum reliability and a long service life (20 million actuations). Hermetically sealed housings make the PSE with cable predestined for use in particularly harsh and inhospitable applications.
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AX Enclosures: Now Also Ready for Outdoor Use
Rittal is replacing its previous KS series with the new fibreglass enclosures AX and so completely redefining fibreglass enclosure technology. The development is based on Rittal’s technology for sheet steel and stainless-steel enclosures, which can be used to greatly simplify and speed up manufacturing processes in panel building and switchgear manufacturing. Now, for the first time, fibreglass enclosures also feature this system technology. This is a win-win situation for plant constructors:
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Serve As a Bridge Between IT and OT
Much has been said about the potential of big data and artificial intelligence (AI), and there's still a hope that some AI technologies will eventually become plug-and-play solutions. At the moment, however, false positives and false negatives remain prevalent, and it's likely that these may never completely stop occurring.
That said, AI is still a useful technology with the right business case, and it’s likely to play a major role in the factory of the future. Already, the growing amount of data available from factory equipment has made it possible to successfully use AI for predictive maintenance purposes. It’s time for companies to start thinking about how to harness AI for their facilities.
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