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.
Innovative solution for hazardous areas. The New Zealand system integrator, Automate-X, has used Beckhoff components to automate the tank farms of a leading global operator.
Washdown environments found in food, beverage, medical, pharmaceutical, and other industries need watertight electrical enclosures that can withstand high-temperature, high-pressure spray of water or chemicals. Hammond Manufacturing and Allied Electronics & Automation are helping companies in these industries select the electrical enclosures that are well-suited for these conditions.
EPLAN updates data portal with 357 manufactureres and more than 1,030,000 data sets.
TT Electronics, a global provider of engineered electronics for performance critical applications, will be exhibiting at Sensors Converge 2021, the only event to reunite the sensor and electronics industry. TT will showcase its extensive portfolio of optoelectronic sensors including discretes, optoisolators,
Rockwell Automation, Inc. and Ansys recently announced that the enhanced Studio 5000 Simulation Interface now connects with Ansys digital twins. This gives automation and process engineers new ways to use simulation to improve the design, deployment, and performance of industrial operations.
Everyone is well aware of the current supply situation with steel and chips becoming tighter worldwide. Now, plastics have been added to the list as well. This has resulted in extended delivery times or even complete supply failures.
The factory of the future has arrived. Integrators, machine builders, and packaging and processing companies will experience how to combine automation and robotics with AI and real-time data to drive efficiency, flexibility and overall process visibility.