Uwe Gräff, board member responsible for New Technologies and Development at the HARTING Technology Group, retired from his position by mutual consent end of September. Gräff took up his initial managing director position at the Technology Group at the beginning of 2015 and joined the Group’s management board at the beginning of 2019.
Seneca College officially opened the Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship on September 27th, 2019. The facility houses a large portion of Seneca’s advanced technology and automation equipment. Students enrolled in the Electromechanical Engineering Technology – Automation (EMA) advanced diploma program will have the opportunity to learn from the latest industrial equipment, and discipline specific software.
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) announced a new program designed to stimulate IIoT adoption across industry to help IT and OT users solve real problems they face in their businesses.
On September 17, 2019 Weidmüller Canada held a re-opening ceremony at its Canadian facility in Markham, Ontario. The location is home to Weidmüller Canada’s administrative staff, customer service representatives, technical support group, inside sales and a complete product warehouse and distribution centre for Canada. Weidmüller was initially founded in 1975 in Germany and has been in operation in Canada since 1986.
Hatch is excited to announce that a team of its young professionals has been selected to participate in the inaugural Young SDG Innovators Program, an initiative of the United Nation’s (UN) Global Compact. This elite program engages young professionals in a ten-month program to advance sustainability efforts, drive innovation, and create solutions that challenge the status quo.
MD Packaging Inc. recently announced that Kevin Kronberger has joined the MD team full time as SBU Manager for both their Consumable Division and Western Canada machinery division. Kevin is based out of Calgary and will be tasked to expand the Western Canadian sales/service presence in the very short term.
Eramosa has successfully become an Omron Certified System Integrator. Becoming Omron certified compliments their certification and accreditation with other SCADA and automation products.
BeAM and the global technology company Siemens announced at EMO 2019 their plans to further intensify their already successful collaboration. This is based on the successful piloting of Sinumerik One, the new CNC generation from Siemens. As a “digital native”, the new controller features software for the creation of digital twins, which supports the seamless integration of hardware and software.
Successfully operating in more than 450 cement and mining sites worldwide, the ABB Ability System 800xA Minerals Process Control Library is a ready-to-use, tailor-made automation software solution for the mining and cement industries. It is designed to achieve the highest plant productivity, availability and safety, as well as the best operator efficiency.
Siemens is planning to acquire Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), a technology- leading global supplier of software and services for advanced process modelling. Advanced models are used within digital R&D, design and operations in the process industries to help make fast, safe and more efficient decisions through rapid and effective exploration of the decision space.
Even as a young boy, Dietmar Harting wanted to grow up to “become a boss”. And he became a veritable boss. For nearly five decades, Dietmar Harting commandeered the company founded by his parents in 1945, today’s HARTING Stiftung & Co. KG, and turned the small mid-sized enterprise into a successful global player during his era.
Beckhoff Automation recently expanded its footprint in the Northeast region with new offices in Greater Boston and Philadelphia. Both locations, strategically selected based on growing customer demands and market share in these areas, will provide additional applications engineering, sales and training resources.
Industrial companies trying to keep up with today’s complex requirements for machine-safety systems while staying as productive as possible now have more help available to them through the Machine Safety System Integrator program.
To simplify website access and improve user experience on digital channels, Schneider Electric has updated its web domain from www.schneider-electric.ca to www.se.com/ca. Easier to write and to remember, the new web address ensures quicker access to Schneider Electric online platforms.
The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum-Forum Canadien sur l’Apprentissage (CAF-FCA) has announced a task force to develop a national strategy for women in trades.
Automation, networking and robotics are rapidly gaining ground in metalworking – and in storage and sawing technology. Storage systems and sawing machines are increasingly being integrated into a uniformly controlled material flow in which all processes between incoming and outgoing goods are fully automated – from the storage of the long goods raw material to the dispatch of the palletized finished parts.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
