Strong Canadian Automation and IIoT Market Provides Opportunity for HARTING
Canada continues to be an excellent performer for HARTING, recording double digit revenue growth on a regular basis including the year to date.
Rockwell Automation Helps Protect Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Quality with New Hygienic Hardware
Food and pharmaceutical makers can better protect the integrity of their products using new hygienic industrial control hardware from Rockwell Automation. The new Allen-Bradley Kinetix VPH hygienic servo motors and a new stainless-steel version of the Allen-Bradley PanelView Plus 7 graphic terminal both help minimize contamination during production and ease compliance.
Ossid machinery improves reliability and performance with Mitsubishi Electric Automation portfolio
Ossid, a Battleboro, NC-based tray packaging equipment manufacturer and a ProMach company, was started back in the 1970s as a small fabrication shop that refurbished older wrapping machines before developing what would become the first Ossid 500 inline overwrapper. This product caught the attention of ProMach in 1999, which then acquired the company. Since then Ossid has been expanding its machine offerings while leveraging technology.
Yaskawa: VFD Panels and Short Circuit Current
If you ignore the short circuit current rating (SCCR) of an industrial panel it might just go away anyway. By go away I mean that the panel might just self-destruct. If the available current or energy that reaches the panel in the event of a short circuit in the panel exceeds the levels that the panel can safely interrupt or contain, that energy has to go somewhere. It is the unpredictability of what will happen first that makes an insufficient SCCR so dangerous. Maybe the circuit breaker will explode while trying to open or maybe not open at all because the internals have welded shut? What happens then? Maybe the energy will find a path to ground and a shock hazard is created.
Committing to Automation: 3 Questions Before Integration
In today’s fast-paced manufacturing world, you must be at peak productivity to compete, and the only way to do that is by integrating automated solutions. The biggest players in your industry benefit from automation, so why shouldn’t your business benefit, too?
How would an Onsite Assessment benefit your company?
JMP Solutions has a culture of ‘assume nothing’. They are an engineering company that constantly evolves the engineering of their own processes to deliver the best for their clients. One of their key tools is their Production Lifecycle Framework that employs best practices that can be leveraged in different applications.
Virtualization Enables High Availability and Lower Cost of Ownership
It used to be that information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) networks and systems operated completely independent of each other. But in recent years, as industrial manufacturing has become more connected, so have the worlds of IT and OT, converging on the plant floor in new and exciting ways.
COREngineering Programmer and Electrician, Justin Harris on his Pathway to Success
Justin Harris is a Programmer/Electrician for COREngineering, a New Brunswick based mechanical engineering firm that specializes in the design of custom equipment.
Lockout/Tagout Procedures: How Much Information is Too Much?
Lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures are designed with the safety of maintenance professionals in mind – but they also consider the workers who are typically around and/or operating the machines. Because multiple audiences need to read procedures, it is important to be intentional about the information that is provided within each LOTO procedure, and how they are presented.
There Is More Available Funding Within Reach Than You May Realize
Significant business growth challenges can be turned into growth opportunities with careful planning and use of Canadian government funding programs.
Benefits of OEM Parts and Repairs
FANUC products have a well-earned reputation for performance and reliability. Whether it’s a FANUC CNC system or robot, customers know when they turn on their machines – they will run. Over time however, parts do wear out and sometimes components need to be repaired or replaced.
Industry 4.0: The Challenges and Risks
The fourth Industrial Revolution (also known as Industry 4.0) is a trending topic today. The entire concept represents full industry digitalization and is closely related to the Internet of things (IoT) infiltrating all industrial areas, resulting in the creation of an industrial internet of things, or IIoT for short.
Top five myths about robotics
Widely represented throughout science fiction, robots (both real and fictional) have been capturing people’s imagination for decades. As robotic solutions gain popularity among manufacturers as a means of increasing productivity, several myths have arisen regarding their place in factories and in society as a whole.
Murr Elektronik: Commissioning made easy
Maschinenfabrik Berthold Hermle AG is one of the market leaders for metalworking centers. The machines from Baden-Württemberg are used for production all over the world. They rely on Murrelektronik’s Cube67 modular fieldbus system for the electrical installation. It makes automation concepts leaner and faster and, by extension, more effective. Cube67’s Machine Option Management (MOM) is particularly advantageous for Hermle.
Spark Power’s Jason Sparaga on his Career, the Industry, and their Pole-to-Product Service Model
Spark Power Corp. is one of North America’s leading independent providers of integrated electrical power services and solutions.
SEW-EURODRIVE: Pushing Boundaries
This April, while attending the Hannover Messe Trade fair, Panel Builder & Systems Integrator had the opportunity to spend some time at SEW-EURODRIVE’s impressive booth with Jochen Sauer, Head of International Marketing for the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions.
