Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop App
The Webex Meetings desktop app allows you to start and join meetings quickly and easily. You can schedule, start, and join meetings from your desktop or directly from Microsoft Outlook.
Pepperl+Fuchs Announces Extended Live Chat Hours for Customer Support
As COVID-19 has significantly altered the way business is currently being conducted, Pepperl+Fuchs is striving to keep customers’ needs at the forefront. To this end, Pepperl+Fuchs has announced extended hours for its live chat customer support.
FANUC Automation Webinar Series: The Ever-Changing Manufacturing Landscape for Small to Medium Shops
FANUC America is now offering free automation and robotics webinars across various industries and applications, designed to help you learn more about our unique product features.
ABB Motion Canada and HVAC Partners Nationwide Introduce Special Program for the Canadian Medical Sector
ABB Motion Canada alongside our HVAC Partners nationwide has introduced a special program for our medical sector in Canada. This program introduces 24/7 support free of charge when you call ABB’s helpline 1-800-HELP-365 or any of their partners when they mention “Medical Sector Emergency”, express manufacturing and delivery services for emergencies, and afterhours support with waived fees for the shipment of their products out of their 5 warehouses outside of normal business hours.
Balluff Webinars Courtesy of Manufacturers Automation Inc., 2020
Manufacturer’s Automation Inc. (M.A.P.P.) are excited to announce their new series of Balluff virtual webinars.
Important Announcement: ISA’s 2020 In-Person Events
All of ISA’s face-to-face conferences in 2020 will be cancelled or moved into virtual platforms. The health and safety of our members and customers is most important, and they will leverage digital and virtual platforms to deliver valuable content instead of holding in-person events.
Allied Electronics & Automation Expands Trusted Supplier Network With Addition of Baldor-Reliance, SCHNEEBERGER & IKO
Allied Electronics & Automation has added more trusted suppliers to its 300-strong network, including Baldor-Reliance, SCHNEEBERGER, and IKO International. Products from these brands are available now for shipping to the United States, Canada and Mexico through the Allied website, www.alliedelec.com.
Festo and MassRobotics to Create Innovations in Robotics and Automation Through New Partnership
Festo has entered into a strategic partnership with MassRobotics, based in Boston, to further global market growth and innovation initiatives dedicated to the development of the next generation of robotics.
Arc-Flash Knowledge Center
While an arc flash is sometimes used interchangeably with “arc fault”, an arc flash is more accurately defined as the light produced during an arc fault. An arc fault is a type of electrical fault that results from the breakdown of an insulating medium between two conductors where the energy is enough to sustain an arc across the insulator (often air) and can cause extreme amounts of light (arc flash), immense heat upwards of 19,000 °C, and a resulting explosive pressure wave (arc blast).
Industrial Connectivity Webinar Series Presented By Moxa
Our partners at Moxa have launched a new webinar series featuring topics such as industrial communications infrastructure, industrial networking, and industrial edge computing. Register for one or all three. You do not want to miss these.
Endress+Hauser Offers Free Access to Remote Visual Support During COVID-19 Crisis
Endress+Hauser customers can have free access to the company’s remote visual support during this time of pandemic restrictions on industry. Customers can interact with an Endress+Hauser technician via the company’s “Visual Support” App on their mobile phone, maintenance laptop or Endress+Hauser FieldXpert Device Configuration tablet to address urgent service needs.
Online Training Program
In an effort to best serve you, Pilz has designed a comprehensive, free, online training program that will help you learn more on how to keep your employees safe and your plant compliant.
High-Tech Battles Viruses – Engineering Team Develops Disinfection Robot in Just One Week to Battle the Virus
In just one week, Siemens and Aucma have developed an idea into a prototype for an intelligent disinfection robot, which will soon join the battle against Coronavirus and other viruses in hospitals. The electric robot can disinfect up to 36,000 square meters in one hour and features a robust chassis that can overcome obstacles and navigate slopes.
Rockwell Automation Provides COVID-19 Business Update
Rockwell Automation, Inc. recently provided an update on actions it is taking to align costs with anticipated market conditions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Panduit and General Cable to Showcase Campus Connectivity Solutions at BICSI
Panduit, a global manufacturer of innovative electrical and network infrastructure solutions, and General Cable, a global manufacturer of aluminum, copper, and fiber optic wire and cable, will introduce new solutions that enable connectivity between campus buildings during BICSI Winter 2020 Feb. 9-13 in Tampa, Fla.
When the Robot Sorts the Garbage for You
At the international Smart Green Island Makeathon engineering competition, 13 students were given three days to build a machine that uses robots to sort garbage. Austrian automation specialist B&R supported an interdisciplinary team of students from Brno University of Technology (CZ), the Kempten University of Applied Sciences (DE), the Technical University of Ostrava (CZ), the University of Applied Sciences in Bremerhaven (DE) and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (DE).
