OnRobot Soft Gripper Brings Highly Flexible, Food-Grade-Certified Handling to Challenging Pick-and-Place Applications

OnRobot Soft Gripper Brings Highly Flexible, Food-Grade-Certified Handling to Challenging Pick-and-Place Applications

Automation just got easier for food and beverage and other “clean” applications such as cosmetics and pharmaceuticals that need to handle items from eggs to fruit, to bottles or irregular-shaped containers. The flexible OnRobot Soft Gripper uses three interchangeable silicon-molded cups in star and four-finger configurations to pick up almost any small object under 2.2kg (4.8lbs) with a delicate, precise touch.

 

 

 

Simple Application Rules for Applying Line Reactors with Variable Frequency Drives

Simple Application Rules for Applying Line Reactors with Variable Frequency Drives

This webinar will review simple and easily applied criteria used to select line reactors for use on the line and load sides of Variable Frequency Drives. VFD’s are an important device in many critical commercial and industrial applications. Line reactors are a economical tool which can both protect your investment in the VFD and motor and maintain critical processes.

 

 

 

Phoenix Contact Control Cabinet Classroom Ep. 2: Power Fundamentals: Why is 24V DC Used?

Phoenix Contact Control Cabinet Classroom Ep. 2: Power Fundamentals: Why is 24V DC Used?

If you’re working in, on, or around industrial control cabinets, you’ve probably noticed that most of the devices within these panels are operating at 24 volts Direct Current. But did you ever stop to think why 24 volts is used? In this episode of the Control Cabinet Classroom, we explore the various features and benefits of this technology, and why it’s the go-to for use in control cabinet power and design.

 

 

 

WEBINAR SERIES: Expanding to Include PANEL Q&A Sessions

WEBINAR SERIES: Expanding to Include PANEL Q&A Sessions

In an effort to continue to share best practices and share their many years of technical knowledge with their customers and sales teams, nVent HOFFMAN has expanded its webinar series to include five additional PANEL Q&A Sessions. These PANEL Q&A sessions are intended to provide a 10 to 15 minute overview on the topic followed by a Q&A session with a panel of nVent HOFFMAN technical experts.

 

 

 

Yokogawa Wins Order to Provide Control System and Field Instruments for Gas-fired Power Plant in Turkmenistan

Yokogawa Wins Order to Provide Control System and Field Instruments for Gas-fired Power Plant in Turkmenistan

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has recently announced that its subsidiary Yokogawa Turkey Industrial Automation Solutions A.S. (Yokogawa Turkey) has won an order to provide a control system and field instruments for the Zerger gas-fired power plant in Turkmenistan. The order was received from Renaissance Heavy Industries, a major construction company in Turkey that is involved in the construction of this plant for Turkmenenergo, a state-owned power utility in Turkmenistan.

 

 

 

ABB to Make Digital Service Available Free of Charge to Help Customers Maintain Production

ABB to Make Digital Service Available Free of Charge to Help Customers Maintain Production

During this unprecedented crisis, ABB’s Robotics & Discrete Automation business is working to help customers and partners keep production lines going and to enable businesses to continue to function while many are working from home. From Friday March 27, ABB’s Robotics and Discrete Automation business has been making key software services available free of charge to their customers until the end of 2020. 

 

 

 

Siemens Connects Healthcare Providers and Medical Designers to Produce Components Through Additive Manufacturing

Siemens Connects Healthcare Providers and Medical Designers to Produce Components Through Additive Manufacturing

In response to the ongoing global health crisis caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, Siemens is making its Additive Manufacturing (AM) Network along with its 3D printers, available to the global medical community to speed design and production of medical components. The AM Network connects users, designers and 3D-print service providers to enable faster and less complicated production of spare parts for machines like ventilators.

 

 

 

Stuck at Home? Study for ISA’s CAP Exam Virtually with EC00M

Stuck at Home? Study for ISA’s CAP Exam Virtually with EC00M

ISA’s Certified Automation Professional (CAP) Exam Review Course (EC00M) is a self-paced, online course created to prepare automation professionals for the ISA CAP exam. Maximize your downtime and enhance your automation knowledge and skills in the comfort of your own home. As an online course, EC00M allows you to study anytime, anywhere, and at your own pace.