In the fall of 2019, Modern Niagara received the 2019 Canada’s Best Health + Safety Culture Award (Silver) and the 2019 Canada’s Safest Employers Award in the Building and Construction category (Gold) from the Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) magazine. Founded in 1959, Modern Niagara is one of Canada’s leading mechanical, electrical, buildings controls, and building services companies.
Johnson Controls is the “Overall IoT Company of the Year” from IoT Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes top companies, technologies and products in the global Internet-of-Things (IoT) market today.
Tscharner Technik (Tscharner) equips cable cars and ski lifts with control systems, combining their own software developed in-house with failsafe controllers from Siemens. As part of the software advancement, the visualization has been updated. The first project that uses the new solution includes two single ski lifts and one double ski lift in the Rosswald near Brig ski resort. The new control system impresses with its intuitive handling and clear display.
Participants in the 24toCode hackathon had just hours to do it all and at the end, there was more at stake than a prize pool of $10K.
Through a new partnership with Yaskawa America Inc., Motoman Robotics Division (Yaskawa), Intelitek is now the official and exclusive distribution channel for Yaskawa’s robotic workforce training solutions for the STEM education market. Through this strategic partnership, Intelitek and Yaskawa will promote and grow the use of industrial robotics for career and technology education in secondary and postsecondary institutions.
Emerson has added two new IIoT solutions to its Plantweb Insight data analytics platform that will enable industrial facilities to transform the way they manage their enterprise-level wireless network infrastructure.
In what is a nice Advent surprise, for the fourth year running the HARTING Technology Group has been awarded gold status by rating agency EcoVadis for its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Dr.-Ing. e. h. Dietmar Harting has been honoured with the Karmarsch Medal of the Leibniz University Society Hanover e.V. for his outstanding commitment as a shaper and supporter of technology, science and industry. The speech of congratulations was given by former German President Christian Wulff.
Ontario is supporting the province’s automotive and advanced manufacturing industries by investing $3 million in training to help workers upskill to ensure they keep pace with innovations in those sectors.
The type of fruitful development partnership and trusting, reliable relationship that has existed between Canadian machine manufacturer Husky Injection Molding Systems and control system supplier Beckhoff for roughly 20 years is a rarity these days. Husky recently underscored this by honoring Beckhoff with its EMEA Supplier Award at the K 2019 trade show held in Düsseldorf, Germany, in October.
X Tronics is now representing Avtron Encoders in Canada.
Born at JFK in 1999, and now with over 1,000 flights per day, from over 100 destinations, JetBlue is the first carrier to fully integrate their Weight and Balance (WAB) system (provided by AeroData), with SmartSuite. The SmartLoad integration with WAB enables the automation of JetBlue’s legacy manual processes that rely on multiple systems, for a more efficient aircraft loading process. This allows JetBlue to maximize fuel efficiency and help drive a streamlined aircraft turn to support on-time departure performance.
Helping New York celebrate the festive season, twelve ABB robots are interacting with visitors to Bloomingdale’s iconic holiday celebration at their 59th Street flagship store. ABB’s robots are the main attraction in three of Bloomingdale’s twelve holiday window displays at Lexington and Third Avenue, as ABB demonstrates the potential for its robotics and automation technology to revolutionize visual merchandising and make the retail experience more dynamic and whimsical.
Affiliated Distributors (AD)’s Electrical Business Unit hosted its U.S., Canada and Mexico members, supplier partners and service providers in Aurora, Colorado for a successful North American Meeting in Oct, 2019. The theme of the year’s meetings was “All In,” described as absolute commitment, pushing the status quo, getting fully involved and having an unwavering drive with customers, business partners and fellow associates. One highlight of the meeting was the unveiling of the 2019 AD Spirit of Independence Awards.
Rockwell Automation continues to add to its list of achievements in industrial cybersecurity to help industrial companies focus more on transforming their business and worry less about potential cybersecurity risks. The company recently received ISA/IEC 62443-2-4 certification, which defines security requirements for service providers.
Today, Rockwell Automation and members of its global PartnerNetwork program opened the 27th annual Automation Fair held in Chicago. The event sees record-breaking attendance of over 19,000 makers, builders and innovators from across the globe to attend industry forums, networking events and learn about the newest innovations in automation.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
