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Industry Product
EXAIR introduces Type 316 Side Mount Kits for NEMA 4X Cabinet Cooler
The Side Mount Kits maintain the NEMA 4X rating of large and small electrical enclosures. Models for use on NEMA 4 and 12 enclosures are also available. Applications include cooling PLCs, microprocessors, variable frequency drives, industrial computers, and robotics. -
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AutomationDirect announces mini stopper and stopper bolt precision limit switches from Metrol
With 10 micron repeatability and high contact force, these stainless steel switches are suitable for use in precision indexing/positioning applications. -
Industry Product
Siemens releases Analyze MyDrives and Manage MyMachines/Remote to portfolio of MindApps
Analyze MyDrives and Manage MyMachines/Remote are special MindApps designed specifically for MindSphere, the open IoT operating system from Siemens, which allow users to utilize cloud-based services. -
Industry Product
KINGSTAR announces version 3.4 of KINGSTAR Machine Automation Platform
Version 3.4 adds a variety of functionality, like IO-Link master device support, as well as support for additional hardware and expanded documentation. -
Industry Product
Rockwell Automation introduces Allen-Bradley Guardmaster GuardLink safety system
With GuardLink, safety devices are connected in series while providing access to individual device diagnostics. This system provides safety, diagnostics, remote reset and lock command over a single four conductor cable with up to 32 devices per link. -
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Case Study
Rockwell Automation helps Colorado State University automate new hands-on brewing lab
The lab is part of CSU’s Fermentation Science and Technology (FST) program. Support from both the university and members of the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork program was vital to getting the brewery operational. -
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Phoenix Contact and Wibu-Systems partner to integrate flagship technologies
CodeMeter, a solution for protection, licensing, and security, has been selected by Phoenix Contact as the technology to streamline license and entitlement management of their PLCnext control system solution. -
Industry Product
JAI announces AP-3200T-PGE and AP-3200T-PMCL prism-based area scan cameras
he two new models supplement the AP-3200T-USB with USB3 Vision interface (3 x 3.2-megapixels at 38 frames/second) released earlier this year. All three models feature 3 x CMOS Pregius IMX265 1/1.8-inch sensors with 2048 x 1544 pixels and pixel sizes of 3.45 µm x 3.45 µm. -
Industry Product
Balluff introduces BTL7-T500 position measuring system
With its international approvals, such as ATEX and IECex, the BTL7-T500 offers a range of applications and safe operation in explosion hazard areas of Zone 0 and Zone 1. This means for example it can be used as well for continuous level measurement in refinery tanks. -
Industry Product
Rittal North American introduces RiLine Compact System for power distribution
The RiLine Compact System is designed for small control panel applications. For power demands below 100 A, the RiLine system is a power distribution alternative to traditional wiring. -
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Mocana introduces Mocana TrustCenter services platform
Mocana TrustCenter is designed to ensure supply chain integrity, offering full management of cybersecurity across the entire IoT device security lifecycle – embedded systems and software development, manufacturing, device enrollment, and secure firmware updates. -
FeatureThe Impact of Theft, Accidents, and Natural Losses From Pipelines
Modern leak detection equipment can prevent pipeline theft. -
Industry Product
Teledyne DALSA announces Genie Nano-M2450-Polarized camera
The Genie Nano-M2450-Polarized model features a monochrome quad polarization filter, resolution of 2448 x 2048 pixels, and image capture of 35 frames-per-second. -
Industry Product
Electromate announces Sankyo Automation RollerDrive Reducers
The unit is constructed from an input shaft and a turret (output shaft) that is assembled with roller followers. Sankyo servo indexing tables provide motion, with the added capability to move medium to heavy loads. -
Industry Product
Phoenix Contact introduces FL SWITCH 2000 line of managed switches
The 2000/2100 series gives machine builders a switch with multicast filter functions and redundancy mechanisms to reduce the data load in the network and maintain communications even in the event of a Layer 1 failure. -
ComicOtto Mation Comic Caption Contest - April 11, 2018
The winning caption for this comic caption contest was submitted by Brad H. in South Carolina, USA. Congratulations, Brad! -
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Supporting the American Manufacturing Renewal: Inside Oakland University’s ISE Department
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The ISE program offers a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, designing a curriculum that allows students to think laterally, envision and analyze multiple perspectives in the creative design process. -
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Open Systems Come to Process Automation
By Benson Hougland, Opto 22 Products developed using open systems technologies are in widespread use throughout the commercial sector, providing a host of benefits to vendors and their customers. But the open systems movement has been slow to penetrate the often closed and proprietary world of industrial automation—denying end users, OEMs and system integrators the same types of benefits. -
News
Tompkins Robotics announces partnership with SI Systems to create t-Sort parcel sortation system
Tompkins Robotics announced its partnership with SI Systems, a global provider of the picking robots for order fulfillment and kitting. The partnership was formed to create faster, space optimized ''no pick labor required'' solutions.