SCHUNK Market and Technology Report: Deft Hands
Today still, the human hand is regarded as the benchmark when it comes to flexibility of gripping tools.
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Modernize Your Power System, Boost Productivity
As an oil and gas producer, you may be feeling the effects of relying on an outdated power-distribution system. You’re facing reduced productivity, increased safety risks or additional stress due to the constant need for troubleshooting.
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Best for healthy babies – Baby food production reliably automated with Siemens technology
Hochdorf Swiss Nutrition AG specializes in the manufacture of foods made from ingredients such as milk, oilseed and cereals. In its new 30-meter high production facility, Tower 9, the Swiss company processes around 75 million liters of milk to produce some 30,000 tons of baby food every year.
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5 Business Cases for Using AC Drives with Integrated Safety
If you still only view safety as a matter of compliance, you’re missing the bigger picture in the era of smart manufacturing.
Smart, networked safety can deliver measurable business benefits. And it can push the boundaries of what’s possible in your operations.
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Weighing Your Options for Simple Motor Control
Smarter, easier, cleaner…
When a person looks at how everything has changed over time, it is amazing. Some things have changed for convenience, some out of necessity. Sometimes for both reasons. In the case of motor starting, it is both.
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Festo Group Overview
Festo supplies pneumatic and electric automation technology to 300,000 customers in the field of factory and process automation.
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Putting People First: Mining Executives Weigh in on Digital Transformation
Protecting human safety is a huge undertaking when it comes to operating a mine. With regulations in place, safeguards on machinery and in-depth training, we put a major emphasis on keeping workers safe, but is it enough? Is there more than can be done?
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ASEAN Safety Sensors and Switches Market Forecast: Mounting Consumer Electronics Sales to Thrust Demand for Electromagnetic Relay
The market for safety sensors and switches in ASEAN countries is likely to grow by more than 8%, yearly, in 2019.
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Virtualized Process Automation System Increases Sleeman Breweries Production Capacity by 50%
The explosion in craft beer popularity had one company – Sleeman Breweries – bursting at its production seams. The third-largest brewer in Canada, Sleeman brews and distributes popular beers from lagers to pale ales.
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Circular Connectors – A Round Thing
The metric system of units was introduced for the first time in 1793 during the French Revolution and is used even today in almost all countries worldwide. The metric round plug connectors are also based on this system of units and are a known standard in raw industrial applications.
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Secure Data Transmission for Industrial Facilities
The threat posed by cyber-attacks is highly problematic in the face of old systems and their data connections which lack their own protection mechanisms. This is where HARTING comes in with its MICA Edge Computer.
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Leading Danish Sawmill Achieves Performance Improvements with CC-Link IE
When Dansk Træemballage A/S (DTE) looked at how to increase the precision and productivity of its sawmill one of the major challenges was to establish the right automation control network.
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Rittal Takes Hannover Messe to the Next Level
As many know the annual Hannover Messe trade fair was held in Germany at the beginning of April. Each year this immense fair provides the latest trends and product insights in the fields of integrated automation, control, drives and energy. This year Drives & Control Solutions was privileged to attend the fair with Rittal.
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Cost Reducing Modern Pneumatics
As modern pneumatic components become more complex knowing what to look for in plant becomes more critical. Identifying costs savings and issues that can be remedied before they become major system issues can save thousands of dollars in downtime and rebuild.
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Stay Resilient Against Resonance with AC Drives Adaptive Tuning
It can be a scary moment on the plant floor: A machine starts shrieking and shaking so violently, you think it might break. This incident can result from mechanical resonances caused by a load attached to a motor. Many design factors attribute to the resonances such as physical size, material selection, and instillation procedures. And while workers can usually make a control adjustment to resume production, resonance issues have lasting consequences on your machines and your business.
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The importance of the Speed-Torque Gradient in DC Motor Sizing
The speed / torque gradient is an indicator of a motor’s performance. The smaller the value, the more powerful the motor and consequently the less motor speed varies with load variations. It is based on the quotient of ideal no-load speed and ideal stall torque.
