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SNAP IN – Weidmüller Explains How to SNAP INto the Future
June 24, 2025
SNAP IN – The fastest and most secure connection technology on the market. Weidmüller shows you the numerous advantages of the new connection technology, invented by Weidmüller. Simply. Fast. Secure. Ready to Robot. When do you SNAP INto the future?
With SNAP IN, installation and maintenance work can be performed as quickly as snapping your fingers. The new connection is as simple in principle as it is to use: the stripped conductor is plugged directly into open connection points and the snap connection snaps into place with a click. And it‘s just as fast the other way round. By simply activating the lever, the operator can open the connection point again and remove the connected conductor.
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Weidmuller Canada Unveils a New Customer Experience Centre and Introduces the Innovative WOW Van for the Eastern Canada Markets
Weidmuller Canada proudly opens its new Customer Experience Centre at its headquarters in Markham, Ontario on September 12, 2024. This state-of-the-art 600 sq. ft. facility is designed to provide customers and distribution partners with an immersive, hands-on experience of Weidmuller’s latest products and solutions.
Kevin Blair, National Sales Manager at Weidmuller Canada, expressed his excitement: “We are thrilled to offer this dedicated space. Our sales representatives can now invite customers into our facility to explore the extensive range of our offerings, particularly our Wire Processing Centre and Printers. It has been challenging to convey the true value of these products without demonstrating them in person. Now, it’s much easier.”
Vice President, Jenny Raguimov added, “For customers in remote locations, we introduce the WOW (Weidmuller-On-Wheels) Van. As the name suggests, it brings Weidmuller products directly to our customers. We recognize that many of our clients are stationed at plant sites, and it’s crucial for them to see, touch, and interact with our products firsthand.”
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ABB Energy Transition – The Power to Adapt
June 20, 2025
ABB Energy Transition – The Power to Adapt
The ways we generate, store and distribute electrical power are changing. This once-in-a lifetime energy transition demands new technology and new ways of thinking to address a rapidly evolving grid.
ABB partners with businesses to adapt and navigate these changes by ensuring a reliable flow of electricity, and with their next-generation sulfur hexafluoride free (SF6-free) medium voltage switchgear portfolio, they support utilities and industries on their journey to more sustainable energy sources.
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ABB Receives CDP’s ‘A’ Score for Transparency on Climate Change
ABB has been recognized for leadership in corporate transparency and performance on climate change by the global environmental non-profit organization Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for the second consecutive year, securing a place on its annual ‘A List’. ABB is one of a small number of companies that achieved an ‘A’ – out of over 22,000 companies scored. ABB also improved its CDP Water score to A-. Over 700 financial institutions with over US$142 trillion in assets requested companies disclose through CDP on climate change, forests and water security.
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ABB Energy Transition – The Power to Adapt
June 20, 2025
The ways we generate, store and distribute electrical power are changing. This once-in-a lifetime energy transition demands new technology and new ways of thinking to address a rapidly evolving grid.
ABB partners with businesses to adapt and navigate these changes by ensuring a reliable flow of electricity, and with their next-generation sulfur hexafluoride free (SF6-free) medium voltage switchgear portfolio, they support utilities and industries on their journey to more sustainable energy sources.
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The Time is Now: An Industrial Energy Efficiency Action Plan
In a whitepaper released on June third, ABB has set out the scale of the challenge facing the global industrial sector and emphasizes the critical role of industrial energy efficiency in meeting rising energy demand while strengthening energy security & affordability and driving industrial competitiveness. With 45% of the world’s electricity converted by industrial electric motors into motion1, industrial energy efficiency is a part of the solution that cannot be overlooked.
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Introducing the D40A-2 Non-Contact Safety Door Switch
June 19, 2025
Designed to meet the highest safety standards, the D40A-2 offers:
- Reliable protection with a coded magnetic mechanism to prevent bypassing
- Versatility with an IP67-rated, ECOLAB-certified design, perfect for hygiene-sensitive industries like food processing
- Efficiency by connecting up to 30 switches over 200 meters, reducing installation and maintenance costs
- Durability with a wide operating temperature range (-25°C to +70°C)
Whether you’re in manufacturing or food processing, the D40A-2 is a cost-effective, easy-to-install safety solution built to optimize your operations. Key Features:
- IP66/67 Rated Enclosure
- Category 4 / PLe Compliance
- 2-Color LED Indicators for Simplified Troubleshooting
- Coded Magnetic Mechanism for Unmatched Reliability
Learn how Omron’s D40A-2 Non-Contact Safety Door Switch can transform your production line:
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Omron’s D40A-2 Non-Contact Interlock Door Switch
Omron’s Non-Contact Safety Door Switch is designed to enhance safety and efficiency in industrial environments. This advanced switch exceeds safety standards and is ideal for manufacturing settings, featuring a coded magnetic mechanism that improves reliability and prevents bypassing. It includes 2-color LED indicators and allows for up to 30 switches to be connected over 200 meters, reducing installation and maintenance costs.
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Airship Hangar | Essen-Mülheim Airport | SEW-EURODRIVE
June 15, 2025
Engineering Meets Architecture: The New Airship Hangar at Essen-Mülheim Airport
Measuring 92 by 42 meters and standing 26 meters tall, the new airship hangar for Westdeutsche Luftwerbung (WDL) is an architectural and technical landmark – built almost entirely from wood. Designed from the outset as both a functional airship base and a versatile event venue, the structure features a striking centerpiece: its massive gates.
Each of the two 72-ton gate wings of the airship hangar is powered by precise drive technology from SEW-EURODRIVE, implemented by automation experts INperfektion. Using powerful planetary gearmotors from SEW’s P2 series and coordinated control systems, the gates can be safely and efficiently operated – even in strong winds or snow.
Built using predominantly renewable and recyclable materials, the hangar has received both the Gold certification from the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) and the North Rhine-Westphalia Architecture Award.
Whether housing two airships or welcoming 1,500 guests, this structure is a unique blend of engineering excellence, sustainability, and architectural design.
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SEW-EURODRIVE Canada Secures New Location for Canadian Headquarters
SEW-EURODRIVE’s commitment to exceptional service is what got them here. For over 50 years, they have been providing top-tier drive system solutions to Canadian businesses—helping not only their own company grow but their customers as well.
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Making AI Ready for Industry with an Industrial Foundation Model
June 10, 2025
Siemens is making AI ready for industry with an Industrial Foundation Model.
AI is transforming everyday life — but its understanding remains largely limited to text, images, and audio. It still falls short when it comes to the modalities that matter most in industry: complex 2D diagrams, 3D models, and time-series data.
Siemens’ vision is to change that — with an Industrial Foundation Model designed to understand the language of industry. This teaser video offers a first glimpse into their journey to build a domain-specific foundation model tailored for industrial applications.
This is just the beginning. Join Siemens as they build the future of industrial-grade AI.
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Learn more about Siemens’ Industrial Foundation Model: https://www.siemens.com/ifm
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Siemens Introduces AI Agents for Industrial Automation
At Automate 2025 in Detroit, Siemens is announcing an expansion of its industrial AI offerings with advanced AI agents designed to work seamlessly across its established Industrial Copilot ecosystem. This new technology represents a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respond to queries towards truly autonomous agents that proactively execute entire processes without human intervention. Siemens’ new AI agent architecture features a sophisticated orchestrator. Like a craftsman, it deploys a toolbox of specialized agents to solve complex tasks across the entire industrial value chain. These agents work intelligently and autonomously – understanding intent, improving performance through continuous learning, and accessing external tools and other agents as needed. Users retain complete control, selecting which tasks they wish to delegate to AI agents.
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Electric Automation Test Bench from Festo
June 6, 2025
Electric Automation Test Bench from Festo
Get Hands-On with Key Electric Automation Technologies from Festo! The Electric Automation Test Bench is a portable and convenient solution for learning, demonstrating, testing, validating, and integrating electric automation components from Festo. Designed for system integrators and industrial users, it provides a versatile platform to train on Festo products while reducing the technological risks associated with integrating new electric automation components.
Highlights of Festo’s electric automation test bench:
- Turnkey, ready-to-operate system
- Multi-protocol ready (EtherCAT, Profinet, EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP)
- Easily transportable
- Ready to connect to third-party PLC
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Contact services.didactic@festo.com for details.
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Festo Canada Celebrating 50 Years of Helping Make Canada an Automation Nation
The year was 1975. Newly created Festo Canada joined an industrial eco-system feeling the stirrings of accelerating technological change, a transformation that would become known as Industry 3.0. PLCs, articulated robots, computer numerical control systems were beginning to proliferate. The first US patent for Ethernet was filed that year. (That was also the year Festo launched the world’s first standard pneumatic cylinder series).
So much more was to follow, leading up to Industry 4.0 as we are experiencing today – digitalization, the Industrial internet of Things, cloud computing – and beyond, as industry begins widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a growing emphasis on sustainability.
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Expedite – Skills for Industry
June 4, 2025
Expedite – Skills for Industry
With Expedite – Skills for Industry, a forthcoming microcredential developed by Siemens, early-career engineers gain an edge with marketable skills like product lifecycle management, sustainable engineering, project management, AI tools, using the digital twin and more.
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Siemens Empowers Future Workforce with New Industry Credential
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced on June 2 its ‘Expedite – Skills for Industry’ credential, a four-course, fully online microcredential which prepares students for industry by connecting engineering theory with practical skills. The new credential covers key trends, business processes and tech-based work environments, providing an essential foundation in industry-relevant skills and empowering graduates to confidently enter the workforce equipped to meet the future demands.
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Circularity and Eco-Design at SEW-EURODRIVE
June 2, 2025
Circularity and Eco-design
Attractive products in all three dimensions: technical, economical and ecological
SEW-EURODRIVE has always been committed to good eco-design: Durable and efficient products, easy to repair with first-class services that extend service life, all from a modular system and worldwide. Based on their experience over the past decades, they are taking an even more systematic approach to the topic in order to continue to improve and are firmly anchoring eco-design in their processes.
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SEW-EURODRIVE – Unstoppable, Integrated, United
Since the start of SEW-EURODRIVE nearly 100 years ago, the importance of being aligned with the needs of the market and the customers it serves has remained their focus. The quality of products and a consistent and timely supply have helped make them a trusted manufacturer of gearmotors, drives, and modular systems. Their passion for technology has served them well over the years: new products designed and manufactured, the adoption and creation of technology and solutions for industry, as well as steadied expansion in the face of challenges. Driving the world is what they do.
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Elevate Your Network Resilience with Moxa’s EDS-4000/G4000 Series
June 2, 2025
Discover the power of Enhanced Security, High Performance, and Unyielding Reliability with Moxa’s cutting-edge switches. These solutions are your pathway to a futureproof network—designed to meet the evolving demands of today’s industrial automation landscape. Embrace the future with confidence and build stronger, more resilient connections.
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Visualize the Wireless Networks of Your AGV and AMR Systems with MOXA Solutions
As the demand for automated material handling (AMH) systems continues to rise—driven by the expansion of e-commerce and smart factories—the importance of stable wireless networks in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) has never been more significant. With AMRs projected to grow at a CAGR of 43%* and AGVs at 24%* from 2022 to 2027, uninterrupted operations for these mission-critical systems are paramount.