Festo: Electric Cylinder ESBF
Up to 17 kN dynamic forward force: the extremely powerful electric cylinder ESBF shines wherever heavy-duty, reliable positioning is required together with precision and dynamic response.
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Overcoming the Top Two Barriers to Predictive Maintenance
Predictive maintenance is a powerful condition-based strategy that lets manufacturers remotely monitor critical machinery using IIoT sensor devices that supply real-time data like voltage, vibration and temperature.
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Weidmuller: PROtop – the Powerboost for Your Production Environment
PROtop combines highest efficiency and compact housings with high durability and direct parallel connection without diode modules. This reduces costs and creates space in the cabinet.
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Why IO-Link Is Like an Industrial Version of USB
Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave for the past few years, you’re probably running into a lot more sensors and I/O components offering IO-Link to communicate with the PLC.
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Steppers Surpass Servos in Many Motion Control Applications
Industrial machinery commonly incorporates many moving elements which need to be driven with precision and force. Designers can choose from pneumatic options to save cost, or hydraulic alternatives when ultimate force is needed.
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Why You Might (or Might Not) Need an Industrial Managed Ethernet Switch
Many industrial engineers and IT staff understand the need for industrial grade networking equipment. AutomationDirect has provided resources on that here. What might not be as obvious is when to choose a managed Ethernet switch.
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It’s Official, Proax Is a Great Place to Work
Proax is proud to announce that they have been certified as a Great Place to Work after a thorough, independent analysis conducted by Great Place to Work Institute Canada. This certification is based on direct feedback from employees, provided as part of an extensive and anonymous survey about their workplace experience.
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Schneider Electric Unveils New Research and IT Innovation to Meet the Demands of a Digital-First Future
Schneider Electric, a major provider in digital transformation of energy management and automation, recently released a research report to foster an understanding of how digitized and smart applications will be powered in the future.
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Become and Remain Certified: Certification of Components and Systems With Safety Function
As a developer and manufacturer of safe automation technology, Pilz is legally required to minimise risks when using its products and to focus on the current state of the art. Ultimately it’s about protecting humans, machines and the environment.
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SEW-EURODRIVE: New Inverters in the Modular Automation System
Since the beginning of the year, MOVITRAC advanced frequency inverters have completed the MOVI-C modular automation system. A MOVITRAC advanced not only saves space in your control cabinet, the high level of operating convenience also saves you time during startup and diagnostics.
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Schmalz Vacuum Products for Pneumatic Systems from AutomationDirect
AutomationDirect now offers a selection of pneumatic vacuum grippers and related parts from Schmalz, widely used in pick-and-place applications. Vacuum products are an efficient means of moving products large, small, and of varying sizes.
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Pepperl+Fuchs’ New M-LB-2000 System Easily Protects Against Surge Transients
Worldwide, there are nearly 50 lightning strikes every second, almost 1.4 billion strikes per year. Overvoltage due to lightning strikes or switching operations is one of the most common causes of electronic damage, to which the process industry is very vulnerable.
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How to Choose the Right Safety Software?
Software for programmable logic controllers can vary greatly from the programming language they use to the testing and documentation tools they offer. There are a lot of them out there, with many manufacturers having proprietary software that works with their devices only.
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Researchers From Germany and Canada Work on New AI Methods for Picking Robots
Production, warehouse, shipping – where goods are produced, stored, sorted or packed, picking also takes place. This means that several individual goods are removed from storage units such as boxes or cartons and reassembled.
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Kaiser Raman Analyzers Now Sold by Endress+Hauser Canada
With Endress+Hauser assuming sales responsibility in Canada for the Kaiser Raman spectrographic instrumentation portfolio from Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc. (Kaiser), the timing simply couldn’t be better.
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Free Live Web Seminar on July 8: Dimensioning Linear Guides Quickly and Easily With eTools
In Bosch-Rexroth’s free web seminar, learn how you can save time and money with eTools. Get the most out of your linear guides and screw drives right from the start, during dimensioning, selecting, and configuring.
