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Manish Kumar

From day dreaming designs at IIT, Delhi lecture halls to building his own furniture, this avid woodwork artist knows design like the back of his hand. In his more than two decades at SOLIDWORKS, Manish Kumar has led early development of translators, surfacing, modelling, sketcher, assembly, weldments, sheet metal, drawings and more.

In his current role as CEO, Manish spearheads the synergy between R&D and the brand’s vibrant community of users and helps in accelerating the adoption of the expanding SOLIDWORKS portfolio. As the Vice President of SOLIDWORKS R&D, he has played a key role in the development of SOLIDWORKS product and technology strategies

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Case Study

PCB Piezotronics supplies accelerometers to NOAA weather satellites

PCB's accelerometers were used by Lockheed Martin to measure the dynamic environment of the instrument platform in flight, and to characterize that environment to improve the interpretation of instrument data.

01 June, 2017 | 2 minutes
Industry Product

PI introduces N-331 walking motor drive

The units are available with 3 standard travel ranges from 25 to 100mm in both open and closed-loop configurations. The closed-loop models incorporate a incremental encoder with nanometer resolution.

01 June, 2017
Industry Product

Hardy introduces HI 6020IT and HI 6020JB summing box models

Hardy HI 6020 models use two core Hardy technologies: C2 electronic calibration and Integrated Technician (IT). Weighing applications include: batching/blending, filling/dispensing, level-by-weight, inventory management and product inspection.

01 June, 2017
News

Wood Group announces acquisition of CEC Controls Company

This follows the acquisition of the Automated Technology Group (ATG), one of the UK’s largest independent suppliers of control and power solutions for industrial automation, in September 2015.

01 June, 2017 | 1 minute
News

ISA and the Automation Federation to work with US and the UK on initiatives to reduce risks of industrial cyberattack

The objective of the gathering was to examine operational technology/Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) cybersecurity challenges facing both the US and the UK.

01 June, 2017 | 3 minutes

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News

Fluke announces launch of Fluke Pressure Calibration Tool Grant Program

The Fluke Pressure Calibration Tool Grant Program lets educators have a chance to win Fluke pressure calibration tools for their labs by giving Fluke’s product design team input on the specific challenges facing technicians working in the process industries.

01 June, 2017 | 1 minutes
Feature

How to Leverage ISA Standards to Achieve Sustainable Benefits During Industrial Project Design

Leveraging ISA standards during the industrial project design phase can enable companies to achieve sustainable benefits.

By: Contributing Authors

31 May, 2017 | 3 minutes
Industry Product

Microchip Technology introduces 32-bit PIC32MZ DA microcontroller family

This combination from Microchip Technology is designed to give customers the ability to increase their application’s color resolution and display size (up to 12 inches) with MCU-based resources and tools including the MPLAB Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and MPLAB Harmony software framework.

31 May, 2017
Industry Product

Digi Security Systems releases line of manufacturing surveillance systems

With features like megapixel cameras, integrated electronic access control, and perimeter intrusion detection with real-time central station monitoring, the systems are designed to meet the unique security demands of a manufacturing environment.

31 May, 2017
Industry Product

NOARK Electric announces Ex9S32 Manual Motor Starter

The Ex9S32 Manual Motor Starters are electro-mechanical devices that combine a number of functions in one unit, including disconnect for motor branch circuit, manual motor control, branch-circuit short circuit protection (magnetic protection), overload protection (thermal protection - Trip class 10) and switching (manual).

31 May, 2017
Industry Product

Abaco Systems introduces MMS8010 Micro Mezzanine System (MMS) 3U VPX carrier card and MMS6245 XMC carrier card

Up to six ECMs can be mounted on the MMS8010 3U VPX carrier, while the MMS6245 XMC can host up to four ECMs. ECMs can also be mounted on PMCs, such as the MMS5918.

31 May, 2017
News

Nordson ASYMTEK earns two innovation awards at NEPCON China 2017

Dual-simultaneous dispensing enables two Nordson ASYMTEK dispensing valves or jets mounted on a single Z-head to simultaneously dispense fluid at two locations to increase throughput. Automatic Dual Simultaneous (ADS) systems automatically adjust the relative positions of the two valves in X, Y, and Z axes.

31 May, 2017 | 1 minute
News

Sepro announces three-phase, €11 million expansion plan

In the U.S., the plan will add large-robot assembly capabilities to the systems integration and service operations already in place at the Sepro America operation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

31 May, 2017 | 2 minutes
Industry Product

Antaira introduces LNX-2602G-SFP industrial Ethernet switch

The LNX-2602G-SFP series is industrial-grade equipment that is Ethernet ready to fulfill various markets’ edge-level networking applications in harsh environments, such as, manufacturing automation, security surveillance, power/utility, water wastewater treatment plants, oil/gas/mining, and transportation. This switch is also designed for setting up a dedicated network for optimizing VoIP and video application.

31 May, 2017
Industry Product

Teledyne DALSA releases line of CMOS line scan sensors

Positioned at the heart of the company’s line scan cameras, this class of sensors enables monochrome, color, and near-infrared (NIR) imaging for document scanning, parcel sorting, glass, and wood inspection

31 May, 2017
Industry Product

Fujitsu releases FID-11x series touch panels

To meet the demands of most industrial environments, the FID-11x series has a standard operating temperature range of -5° to +60°C and 3H pencil hardness.

31 May, 2017
Industry Product

NEXCOM introduces new sizes of Industrial Panel PCs

NEXCOM has increased the industrial panel PC family with the addition of 15”, 15.6” and 21.5” sizes to meet the need of advanced human machine interface (HMI) terminals in automated manufacturing.

31 May, 2017
News

How to address Safety, Reliability, and IoT in your Material Handling applications

This free June 6 session will explore emerging trends in material handling and the best ways to ensure that equipment is designed and operates reliably and safely.

31 May, 2017 | 1 minute
News

Puget Sound Electrical JATC wins the Fluke Connect Student Contest

The Puget Sound Electrical JATC team — students Matthew Pulk, Andrew Wissink, Pavel Lutsyuk, and Xerxes Shelly, and advisor Steve Uhrich — used Fluke Connect Wireless Sensors and software to provide the information necessary for re-commissioning a customer's solar photovoltaic system and confirming that the photovoltaic system generated the power anticipated.

31 May, 2017 | 1 minutes
Case Study

ABB helps automate Quebec lithium mine

Nemaska Lithium is developing the Whabouchi spodumene deposit to meet the growing global demand for lithium batteries to be used in electric vehicles and energy storage systems, as well as in various consumer electronics.

31 May, 2017 | 2 minutes