On Tuesday, January 21st, employees, customers, community members, and local officials gathered to celebrate the new facility grand opening of Setpoint, A JR Automation Company. The 95,000 sq. ft. building officially opened in August of 2019 and the production floor is already filling up with projects.
Power management company Eaton recently announced it has agreed to acquire Power Distribution, Inc. (PDI), a supplier of mission critical power distribution, static switching, and power monitoring equipment and services for data centers and industrial and commercial customers. The company is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, and had 2019 sales of $125 million.
As of January 1, 2020, Phoenix Contact has pooled its digital service portfolio in Phoenix Contact Smart Business GmbH, its new subsidiary in Berlin. It encompasses all activities around cloud technology, data analytics, and software services.The former Berlin startup SmartB Energy Management GmbH, in which the Phoenix Contact corporate venture capital company acquired an interest in 2017 and most recently owned 100 percent, will be merged into this new company.
See Water, Inc., an industry-leading developer and manufacturer of innovative electronic pump control panels for water and wastewater operations, proudly announces the latest enhancements to its premium line of WS Series control panels. The new design features a larger NEMA 4X-rated enclosure, raised terminal blocks for ease of access, and an enclosed cable tray to separate and organize wiring inside the panel.
Imagine you can achieve minimal disruption and maximum efficiency for your application. This is possible via the new HART modules with Premier Integration in our FLEX 5000 I/O portfolio. The HART I/O modules with Premier Integration simplify configuration and management of HART devices directly from the Studio 5000 Logix Designer application.
In August of 2019, KEB America announced the start of a major building expansion of its US headquarters in Shakopee, Minnesota. The expansion of the current 80,000 square foot facility will increase machining capacity and storage space to meet the strong and growing demand of its automation products in North America.
Tripwire, Inc. has announced the launch of the Tripwire Industrial Appliance Industrial Appliance line of hardware for securing industrial environments. In addition, Tripwire has announced that it has joined the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance as a founding member. As a Belden company, Tripwire continues to build on the significant growth in industrial cybersecurity achieved over the past year.
Emerson has released the new portfolio of RXi industrial display and panel PC products for monitoring, visualizing and enhancing everyday production processes in life sciences, metals and mining, power and water, and manufacturing and machinery. A modular design is foundational to the industrial display platform, enabling users to select the right configuration based on application needs and minimizing lifecycle cost through flexibility, easy serviceability, and field upgradeability.
Benchmark recently announced the addition of Oscar Perero as Mechanical Engineer to develop designs for machinery using and applying engineering principles, research data and customer machine specifications. Oscar brings over 10 years of engineering experience particularly in the food, beverage and manufacturing industries.
The ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance begins the new year with several priority projects underway and an expanded group of companies and organizations as members. ISAGCA is organized into four general focus areas for cybersecurity including: Awareness & Outreach; Compliance & Prevention; Education & Training; and Advocacy & Adoption
During WEF 2020, world leaders will witness the potential of no-latency communication enabled by 5G. At the Congress Center in Davos, Switzerland, an ABB YuMi collaborative robot will carve a message in a sandbox that will be replicated at the same time by a second YuMi robot located 1.5 km away.
Sun Harvester is a fast-growing renewable energy company providing integrated solar panel and battery storage systems that provide AC power in off-grid areas. The company is particularly active in rural West Africa, where non-existent or poor quality infrastructure means that large areas have no access to a reliable electricity supply for hospital, commercial or domestic needs. The Zhyphen system is an integrated unit consisting of solar panels, control circuitry and battery storage.
The founders developed their first products in their homes. Since then, ifm has grown into an international medium-sized group of companies. But one thing has not changed: ifm has remained a family … quite a large family!
Emerson has been named the “Industrial IoT Company of the Year” by IoT Breakthrough for an unprecedented third consecutive year. The honor recognizes Emerson’s commitment to helping customers in industries such as chemical, life sciences, power, and oil and gas define and execute a practical and successful path to digital transformation.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately held Avnet Data Security, LTD, an Israeli-based cybersecurity provider with over 20 years of experience providing cybersecurity services. Avnet offers a full set of IT/OT cyber services and solutions ranging from assessments, penetration testing, network & security solutions, and training to converged IT/OT managed services.
Starting in 2020, EPLAN has increased the import frequency of EPLAN data in the recently defined EPLAN Data Standard 1.0 format, bringing you closer to your desire for a possible real-time upload.