Many companies struggle with the fact that they need a major technological upgrade to expand their operating efficiency, but they can’t afford the new equipment without incurring a significant capital expense. For this reason, Omron offers flexible financing options to make robotic solutions and other large investments more accesible to industry players of all sizes.
UL´s Industrial Control Panel Shop Program (ICP Program) allows control panel manufacturers, whether custom-build or mass-produce ICPs, to apply the UL Marks for the U.S. and Canada at their factories. Starting February 1st 2022, each ICP Program member requires a qualified Manufacturer Technical Representative (MTR) at each physical location manufacturing industrial control panels.
Sager Electronics stocks the most robust offering of modular configurable power supplies in North America.
GE-Prolec Transformers, Inc. (together with its affiliates, “Prolec GE”), a subsidiary of a 50/50 joint venture between GE (NYSE:GE) and Xignux, a Mexico-based private company, recently announced it has completed the acquisition of SPX Corporation’s (NYSE: SPXC) SPX Transformer Solutions business. The contract purchase price was $645 million, subject to a net working capital adjustment and other typical adjustments.
FANUC America, a major supplier of CNCs, robotics, and ROBOMACHINEs will demonstrate a variety of robot and cobot solutions at The Assembly Show, Oct. 26-28, in Rosemont, IL in booth #731. FANUC’s family of 4-axis SCARA robots has grown to include the SR-3iA, SR-6iA, SR-12iA, and new SR-20iA models with 3kg, 6kg, 12kg and 20kg payload capacities, and a 400mm – 1100mm reach, respectively.
Risk assessments are the starting point to any machine safeguarding initiative. Identifying the risks is the first step to abating them. But many individuals rely on their understanding of what equipment requires risk assessment or use a company standard that may not follow current applicable standards. Part of building a Machine Safety Mindset is creating a risk assessment program for all EHS, engineering design, and maintenance staff in your company.
Siemens Mobility has completed the acquisition of the Netherlands based company Sqills. Sqills is a major provider in the provision of cloud-based inventory management, reservation, and ticketing software to public transport operators around the world. Sqills will be managed as separate legal entity and wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Mobility, a structure that will allow Sqills to strengthen its leading position in offering innovative, smart, and comprehensive mobility solutions.
Ensuring employee safety and maintaining cost-effective production are always priorities for any manufacturing industry. The requirements for safeguarding of machinery is constantly evolving, especially with the increasing use of automation.
Allied Electronics & Automation, in collaboration with the experts at Banner Engineering, explored the dangers of purchasing “verified substitute” products through unauthorized channels. While refurbished and counterfeit products present substantial financial and physical risks to customers in their own right, “verified substitute” products represent a relatively new variation on this theme.
PC-based control for mining. Sustained cost pressures caused by low raw material prices are forcing mining companies to seek solutions that optimize productivity and reduce costs. In order to ensure competitiveness, the tradition-steeped mining industry is relying increasingly on intelligent automation solutions.
Combination Motor Controller (CMC) provide the four essential elements of motor branch circuit protection and control. Panel builders should understand the benefits and drawbacks of the five most popular CMC types.
Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, announced that it will hold an online trade show dedicated to the oil and gas industry, October 6-7, 2021.
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces a major upgrade to its Exaquantum Safety Function Monitoring (SFM) software, an OpreX™ Asset Operations and Optimization solution that helps identify whether actual operating performance meets safety design targets.
When drivers choose a service station, they usually have more options just down the road. One family-owned gas station and car wash – founded in the 1970s – aims to stand out by holding on to retro charm while using modern technology to deliver efficient service.
54 plants are to be modernised, to upgrade Vaillant’s production of hot water storage cylinders to state-of-the-art electrical and safety technology.
In this edition, we talk with Tom Ballou, sales and marketing manager for Hammond Manufacturing, about the factors involved in choosing an electrical enclosure to suit the environment it will be placed in and how playing it too safe can lead to unnecessary expenses.