The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) is pleased to announce the release of the Best Practices and Benchmarks Manual v 5.0. The CSIA Best Practices and Benchmarks Manual is the industry standard for successful management of a control system integration business. It is also the cornerstone of the CSIA Certification program and the tool against which the audit for Certification is measured.
Malcolm Bird, General Manager of Fusetek, and Frank Dunnigan, CEO of Techspan Industries, are pleased to announce the proposed sale of shares of Fusetek to Techspan Industries Inc. The expected closing date is June 12, 2018.
Whether in the energy sector or manufacturing, digitization is the key to maximum energy efficiency. The challenge is to save on energy – be it in the form of heat, power, steam, or compressed air – without compromising work and production processes. Mastering that challenge requires highly sensitive measurement equipment and digital energy management systems that can work together and communicate to make split-second, precision-coordinated adjustments.
Robots that fit in with their human counterparts (and not the other way round); AR glasses that feed their wearer vital information overlays; self-learning machines that continuously self-optimize…and at the heart of it all stands one thing: people power. That’s the core message of HANNOVER MESSE 2018. Or, as Deutsche Messe’s Managing Board Chairman Dr. Jochen Köckler puts it: “The factory of the future is a factory that can think for itself and is human-centric.”
A team of engineering technology students from Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute will take its “T.R.A.S.H.” to Germany for the second month in a row. During a trip in March, the team won first place in an international automation competition for designing and building an automated trash collection system. The grand prize for their victory: a trip to Hannover Messe, the world’s largest industrial trade show, held April 23-27 in Hanover, Germany.
Brock Solutions is proud to have established our very own Women in Technology group. Fostering and empowering the women who work for our rapidly growing organization speaks directly to our core values and has a direct impact on our culture. The Women in Technology group gathers to discuss our highs and lows, and creates an open space where we can come together to seek mentorship and share knowledge and ideas about the latest and greatest developments in our industry.
The digital ANDRITZ technologies offered under the Metris umbrella brand feature the latest state of the art in the area of IIoT/Industry 4.0 and provide crucial support for customers in achieving their production and business targets: increasing efficiency and profitability of plants, optimizing the use of resources, preventing production downtimes and obtaining maximum product quality.
Realise your individual safety gate solution with the modular and Industrie-4.0-compatible safety gate system from Pilz! Flexibly combine the safety gate sensors PSENslock and PSENmlock – now optionally available with escape release or series connection – with additional Pilz components. Also using the Safety Device Diagnostics (SDD) will save you expensive separate wiring in the control cabinet.
The family-owned HARTING Technology Group is a global leader in the connector industry and has been throughout its history. Founder Wilhelm Harting invented the rectangular connector in the 1950s. Since then, developing a steady flow of exceptional innovations has established HARTING as the global market share leader in heavy duty industrial connectors.
Engineers can simplify their machine safety systems and improve safety performance using new controllers from Rockwell Automation.
OMRON named Among World’s Most Innovative Corporations for Second Consecutive Year.
The PEER Group Inc. is proud to announce that our organization has been named to the 2018 LIST OF BEST WORKPLACES FOR WOMEN. We received this honour after a thorough and independent analysis conducted by Great Place to Work.
Siemens is launching a new app for drive systems in the field of Motion Control called Analyze MyDrives, and has also introduced Manage MyMachines/Remote, a new plug-in to upgrade its tried and tested Manage MyMachines MindApp for machine tools with the addition of a smart remote feature.
More and more, canning is becoming the way craft breweries are getting their beer in the hands of customers. When it comes to canning technology, Pneumatic Scale Angelus (PSA)—one of the companies represented in Barry-Wehmiller Packaging Systems—has been a world leader for 100-plus years, with more than 16,000 installations in 132 countries.
Hammond Power Solutions (HPS) will be participating at HannoverMesse in Hannover, Germany, April 23-27, 2018.
ABB’s flagship SD Series HPC800 controller, part of the ABB Ability Symphony Plus portfolio, received Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) and IEC 62443 certifications, which recognizes that the controller has met the requirements for the software development lifecycle assessment, functional security assessment and communications robustness testing.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
