Graybar has recently been named to the 2026 America’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces list, developed by Best Practice Institute (BPI) and featured in The Wall Street Journal. The recognition reflects how employees experience their workplace, including the extent to which they feel respected, believe in the company’s future and see their own values reflected in the organization.
Rittal was honored with the Strategic Growth Excellence Award at the 2026 Global Leaders Forum & Industrial Excellence Honors as a recognition of the company’s commitment to strategic growth, innovation, and continued investment in the industries it serves. Hosted by ALTIX Consulting, the event brought together industrial executives and business leaders at the Cincinnati Open Clubhouse in Mason, Ohio, to celebrate outstanding achievements in industrial leadership, transformation, and operational excellence. Rittal was among 14 companies recognized for their contributions to advancing industry.
Ulrich Leidecker, member of the Group Executive Board and Chief Operating Officer, has decided to leave Phoenix Contact effective March 31, 2027. Leidecker joined the company in 1994 as a sales engineer and has been a member of the Group Executive Board since 2020. “After more than three decades, the time has come for me to embark on a new path”, Leidecker said, explaining his decision. “I am grateful for my years at Phoenix Contact and for everything we have accomplished together”.
RS offers Banner Engineering’s extensive portfolio of sensor solutions, including its broad and growing line of advanced non-contact sensors natively optimized for Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 technologies, like industrial automation systems and IIoT networks, are proven to enhance personnel and equipment safety, improve process efficiency, consistency, reliability, and profitability improvements, and minimize downtime and maintenance costs. As such, industrial organizations continue to accelerate their deployment of Industry 4.0 technologies and scale existing industrial automation systems and IIoT networks in their discrete and process manufacturing and material handling and packaging applications.
RS supports panel-centric MRO strategies with an extensive selection of high-quality standardized, serviceable control panel components engineered, tested, and proven to reduce industrial control panel lifecycle costs without sacrificing quality or performance. Control panels are indispensable for industrial automation — integrating the power distribution, control logic, motor switching, and industrial communications components that essentially serve as the brains and central nervous systems of these systems within a single protected enclosure.
Panduit will present its portfolio of technologies for HPC and AI environments at SC26 (Supercomputing 2026), The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Nov. 15 – 20 at McCormick Place in Chicago. At booth #4000, Panduit will demonstrate how power, cooling, connectivity, resiliency, and visibility work together to help organizations scale next-generation computing environments.
Hammond Manufacturing’s Rack Mounting Solutions Division is pleased to announce the appointment of Fogarty Technical Sales Associates, Inc. as its new manufacturer’s representative for the Mid-Atlantic region. Fogarty will represent Hammond’s rack mounting products, supporting the division’s continued growth in the structured cabling, networking and information technology infrastructure markets.
RS offers Schneider Electric’s new TeSys Tera intelligent motor management system. Engineered to modernize aging plant infrastructure, TeSys Tera form-fits into standalone control cabinets and intelligent motor control center (iMCC) panel buckets — adding digital intelligence to legacy pumps, fans, and motor drives and enabling a seamless transition from reactive troubleshooting to predictive maintenance.
Mouser Electronics, Inc. is offering a wide selection of products from Banner Engineering, a global automation provider delivering sensors, safety, vision, and connectivity for smart factories. Mouser stocks more than 3,000 Banner products, in addition to almost 20,000 part numbers available to order. The RSio Remote Safe I/O, now at Mouser, includes six inputs each supporting up to 32 ISD-enabled devices and up to 192 devices per RSio block. The RSio Remote Safe I/O Block is easily configured in Rockwell Automation’s Studio 5000®, enabling integration with CIP Safety systems without additional software.
Robroy Industries has recently established a new Commercial Systems department within its shared services organization and announced the promotion of Tawny Metz to Senior Manager, Commercial Systems, and Laci Hasler to Commercial Systems Coordinator. The new department reflects Robroy’s continued investment in the systems, data, and digital experiences that support demand creation and connect its Sales and Marketing teams, channel partners, and customers to Robroy products and solutions.
RS offers an extensive selection of Omron Automation industrial control panel products engineered to enable more efficient, resilient control systems, maximize uptime, and reduce operating risks in demanding next-generation AI data center, edge AI, and IIoT applications. The rapid rise of AI is fueling an unprecedented wave of data center development and a $1 trillion global infrastructure supercycle, leading hyperscale providers to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into high-density data capacity and push rack densities into the megawatt range.
RS recently earned three top awards at the 2026 Moxa Global Distributor Summit. Held in Nashville, Tennessee, September 8–11, this exclusive summit welcomed Moxa team members and partners from all over the world to “Collaborate to Lead” and discuss business and strategy updates, emerging industrial infrastructure trends, secure OT connectivity, and next-generation technologies like AI data centers and energy storage.
Graybar has announced that it has been recognized by Energage with four Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards, three Featured awards and the Distribution Industry award. “Employee ownership is at the heart of Graybar’s culture,” said Kathleen M. Mazzarella, Graybar’s chairman, president and chief executive officer. “It gives our employees a personal connection to our company and a shared stake in our success. This recognition reflects the pride and commitment they bring to Graybar every day.”
Schneider Electric and SKILLED Nation, an organization that expands access to education and training for high-demand skilled careers, are inviting students across the United States to apply for $3,000 scholarships through the Schneider Electric SKILLED Scholarship Program. As investment in electrification, building modernization and critical infrastructure accelerates across the U.S., developing the skilled workforce needed to support these industries has become an increasingly important priority for America’s energy future.
Lovato Electric USA is proud to announce that its Quality Management System (QMS) has been officially certified to the internationally recognized ISO 9001:2015 standard for the marketing, assembly, and distribution of low-voltage electrical and electronic devices for industrial applications. The certification reinforces LOVATO Electric USA’s commitment to quality, operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement while supporting the company’s continued growth in the U.S. market.
OMRON Corporation and OnLogic have recently announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which OMRON will acquire OnLogic. Manufacturers are increasingly using data and AI-enabled compute at the industrial edge, driving demand for reliable computing power that works alongside real-time automation and control. By combining OnLogic’s industrial computing expertise with OMRON’s proven automation solutions, the two companies can help customers address increasingly complex applications that require greater processing power, connectivity and intelligence at the edge.