Southwire, a major North American wire and cable producer and an emerging influence in the electrical industry, will soon open office space at The Battery Atlanta in Cobb County adjacent to Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves. In late March, Southwire signed a deal for roughly 23,000 square feet of offices, meeting rooms, workstations and multipurpose space.
Kooltronic, Inc. of Pennington, NJ, has rolled out a new self-service e-commerce feature that offers customers the convenience of purchasing spare/replacement parts and filters directly from kooltronic.com. The new website enhancement also enables visitors to quickly find all available replacement parts and filters for a given Kooltronic product by simply entering the model number of that product.
LAPP North America is pleased to announce it will be an exhibitor at ATX West, April 12 to 14, Booth 4454 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. LAPP develops and manufactures a full range of industrial cables, connectors and cable tracks that reliably transmit power, control and monitoring signals with the ability to withstand repetitive movements, as well as extreme twisting and bending typical in demanding robotic and automated applications.
Omron Automation Americas announces RAMP Inc. as a new partner in its Certified System Integrator program. RAMP is a technology development company that designs and builds custom automation and robotic systems. “RAMP helps customers leverage IIOT to transform their factory and integrate robotics safely and effectively,” said Peter Brouwer, vice president of sales for Omron Automation Americas.
Since March 24th, in addition to updated data EPLAN are very pleased to announce the following new partner – WISKA Hoppmann GmbH, with 1,161 new data sets with cable accessories. EPLAN also has new and updated data sets from several other current partners.
Digi-Key Electronics recently launched “Revolutionizing Automation,” a new video series that explores cutting-edge automation and control technologies. Sponsored by Omron and Siemens, the four-part video series highlights how Digi-Key processes over 5.3 million orders annually with an efficient and effective supply chain enabled by major global suppliers that are revolutionizing automation and control solutions including sensors, motors and controllers, robotics, connectors, power, RFID and more.
Allied Electronics & Automation is investing $1M to enhance its employee benefits program, holding employee costs for benefits steady in 2022 by absorbing all insurance premium rate increases, extending the company’s full suite of health and welfare benefits to employees’ domestic partners, offering paid family leave for biological and adoptive parents and adding coverage of gender-affirming services for transgender individuals to its health insurance coverage.
Sensia, a major automation specialist in oil & gas production, transportation, and processing, recently announced it has acquired Swinton Technology, a provider of metering supervisory systems and measurement expertise in the oil and gas industry. The acquisition will incorporate Swinton Technology products and solutions into the Sensia portfolio.
Allied Electronics & Automation supplies hardware for Phoenix Contact’s new PLCnext Edge Gateway software, a state-of-the-art IIoT edge computing solution designed for data collection in demanding industrial and manufacturing environments. The new PLCnext Edge Gateway software is the latest addition to Phoenix Contact’s PLCnext Technology platform and enables industrial automation and control customers to transmit data from any industrial system to any cloud without having to invest capital to adapt legacy infrastructure.
FANUC America will demonstrate two new CRX collaborative robots, and a variety of automation solutions for the warehousing and logistics industries at Modex 2022, March 28-31 in Atlanta, in booth #B6855. FANUC recently expanded its popular series of CRX collaborative robots with the new CRX-5iA, CRX-20iA/L and CRX-25iA. The new CRX cobots complement FANUC’s existing line of CR and CRX cobots that now total 11 model variations able to handle products from 4 to 35kg.
ETIM North America recently announced that nVent Electric plc has become a member of the product classification standards organization. nVent designs, manufactures, markets, installs, and services high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world’s most sensitive equipment, buildings, and critical processes.
Since March 9th, in addition to updated data EPLAN are very pleased to announce the following new partners: Hardy Process Solutions, Inc., with 9 new data sets with PLC, and Theben AG with 86 new data sets with actuators and time switches.
Following the guiding principle “On the path to signal integrity – from calculation via connection technology to the PCB with a focus on impedance,” the companies will provide expertise for optimizing impedances on the PCB. The rapidly growing demand for signal bandwidth goes hand-in-hand with increasingly rigorous requirements for data integrity.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. has recently announced that Optima Packaging Group – a major supplier of packaging solutions to pharmaceutical, consumer, non-woven and life-science markets – has been awarded Platinum OEM Partner status. Created to support OEMs across the globe, Rockwell Automation’s comprehensive Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Program offers support for the design, development, and delivery of innovative equipment, which incorporates Rockwell Automation solutions.
The focus of this year’s Virtual Fair will be on the ecosystem of industrial automation and on the optimisation of collaboration between all participants. Switchgear manufacturers, component suppliers, operators and OEMs are in constant exchange with each other and the closer the collaboration, the more successful the projects.
Graybar has recently announced the election of David M. Meyer to its Board of Directors, effective April 1, 2022. Meyer joined Graybar in 2015 as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. He was named to his current position of Vice President – North American Subsidiaries earlier this year and will become Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on April 1, 2022.