Beckhoff: 40 Years of Innovations
The challenge: Integrating a temperature controlled ventilation system with a very limited available space in an industrial control panel equipped with variable frequency drives. The application: PI Distribution in the food and beverage industry required the development of a new stand-alone system of cooktops that can be installed without the constraints of an overhead ventilating canopy.
Intelligent power management company Eaton has announced significant investments in its North American manufacturing and operations to support rapidly growing demand for its electrical solutions. The company is expanding manufacturing and bolstering resilience to increase the supply of its solutions for customers in utility, commercial, healthcare, industrial and residential markets across North America. The majority…
For most panel builders, the biggest bottleneck isn’t the design phase, it’s the handoff to the shop floor. When production technicians are left to interpret complex schematics, manually calculate wire lengths, and guess component layouts, production slows down and errors creep in. This article will explore how connecting Eplan Electric P8, Eplan Pro Panel, and Eplan Smart Production bridges the gap between engineering and manufacturing.
The new C6027 ultra-compact Industrial PC (IPC) from Beckhoff is a fanless device that offers high computing power in a compact form factor with Intel Core i U series processors. Compared to the C6025 IPC already on the market, this model adds a second circuit board level for customization with a variety of optional interfaces or an integrated 1-second UPS. Further variants are in preparation.
Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) are a popular way to make storage space usage more efficient and cut down on manual labor. Although these systems also improve safety by eliminating the need for people to manually access shelving, safeguarding is still required to keep people out of hazardous areas. Safety light curtains are a key element in any AS/RS safety solution. The main challenge in AS/RS safeguarding is that the safety system needs to allow totes to enter the danger zone while keeping people out.
Immersion cooling, first commercialized in the early 2000s, has generated a lot of attention and a host of eager advocates over the years. Compared to the more traditional liquid cooling solutions bringing cooling to IT appliances or directly onto the chips, immersion cooling essentially gives it a bath, submerging the equipment – lock, stock and barrel – into a pool of dielectric fluid.

This webinar presented by Beth Lessard and Keith Cordero will be highlighting three Panduit solutions that will optimize network equipment and cabling to ensure that your spaces are efficiently and properly managed to support ever-evolving business needs of today and beyond. Products that will be featured include PanZone TrueEdge Wall Mount Enclsoure, Cable Managers, and Adjustable Depth 4-Post Rack.

The Siemens SIMOVAC medium-voltage non-arc-resistant and SIMOVAC-AR arc-resistant controllers have a modular design incorporating up to two 12SVC400 (400 A) controllers, housed in a freestanding sheet steel enclosure. Each controller is UL 347 class E2, equipped with three current-limiting fuses, a non-load-break isolating switch, and a fixed-mounted vacuum contactor (plug-in type optional for 12SVC400). The enclosure is designed for front access, allowing the equipment to be located with the rear of the equipment close to a non-combustible wall.

Power is vital to production, and well-designed control cabinets are key. Allied Electronics & Automation offers a comprehensive collection of control cabinet solutions including PLCs, HMIs, contactors, miniature circuit breakers, terminal block connectors, DIN-rail power supplies, pushbutton switches, motor starters, overloads, power relays, industrial Ethernet switches and AC drives engineered to keep your operations running safely, reliably and efficiently.
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LS ELECTRIC America will showcase switchgear, switchboard and transformer solutions for data centers at Yotta 2026, from September 28–30 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas. Visitors at Booth 1020 can explore LS ELECTRIC’s MCSG Metal Clad Switchgear, Susol UL low-voltage arc-resistant switchgear, Susol UL891 Switchboard Solution and Beyond X Cast Resin Transformer. LS ELECTRIC’s MCSG… Read More…

Mouser Electronics, Inc. is now shipping the new Pluto Safety programmable logic controllers (PLCs) from ABB. The Pluto Safety PLCs feature a powerful, user-friendly, and cost-effective design for industrial machine safety applications. The ABB Pluto Safety programmable logic controllers, available from Mouser, are compact and easy to program via the accompanying Pluto Manager software, making… Read More…