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ABB Introduces Automation Extended: Enabling Industrial Innovation with Continuity

ABB has introduced its Automation Extended program, a strategic evolution of its distributed control systems (DCS), designed to help industries modernize without disruption. Industrial operations today face volatile markets, cyber security challenges, regulatory pressures and a rapidly changing workforce. ABB’s Automation Extended addresses these realities by enabling innovation with agility and pace without disruption to production, supporting advanced analytics and IoT integration, and simplifying operations for diverse skill levels.

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Specialized Power Solutions Announces Tony Simmonds as New Sales Manager for Sales & Business Development in Alberta

Specialized Power Solutions (SPS) is pleased to announce that Tony Simmonds has joined the company as Sales Manager, where he will be responsible for Sales & Business Development in Alberta. As part of its continued growth in Western Canada, SPS is expanding its team to ensure continuity, expertise, and strong customer engagement across the region. “This addition to the team reflects our continued focus in Alberta and our commitment to maintaining the level of service our customers expect from SPS,” said Herb Yang, Principal Sales Manager. “Tony’s expertise and leadership will allow us to provide a better support and continue to deliver reliable, high-quality solutions”.

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50 Years of Innovation: How Festo Customer Solutions Help Canadian OEMs Do More with Less

After having reached Festo Canada’s 50th anniversary in 2025, it marks more than five decades of helping Canadian manufacturers build smarter, faster, and more efficient automation. Over that time, the demands on OEMs have intensified: tighter timelines, leaner teams, and higher performance expectations. Festo’s Customer Solutions (CS) capability developed hand in hand with the Canadian market to meet those challenges, helping OEMs speed up development and deliver fully integrated subsystems.

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Beckhoff: PC-Based Control & EtherCAT Accelerate OLED Material Development for OTI Lumionics from Canada

In the race to develop next-generation display technologies, one of the biggest challenges is creating and validating new materials. OTI Lumionics from Canada is accelerating this time-consuming process with automation technology from Beckhoff. Through increased efficiency in test production, the company is now able to complete the validation process for its high-end OLED materials more quickly.

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Mouser: Solar-Powered Industrial Automation – Efficiency Off the Grid

In an era where sustainability and decentralization are reshaping industrial operations, solar-powered automation is emerging as a vital solution. This technology harnesses solar energy to drive variable speed drives (VSDs) and motor control systems, enabling efficient and reliable operation in remote or off-grid environments. Whether it’s powering irrigation pumps in agricultural fields or running ventilation systems in rural facilities, solar-powered automation offers a compelling alternative to diesel generators and fixed-grid infrastructure.

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Eliza Vrbanac Named Managing Director of Endress+Hauser Canada–A New Chapter of Growth & Innovation

For Eliza Vrbanac, stepping into the role of Managing Director at Endress+Hauser Canada marks several historic firsts: the first woman and the first internal nominee to lead the Canadian organization in its 35-year history. Her appointment highlights Endress+Hauser’s ongoing commitment to recognizing and promoting internal talent to leadership positions. Eliza officially took the helm on January 1, succeeding Anthony Varga, who oversaw a decade of major market and facilities expansion in Canada for the family-owned global name in process and laboratory measurement technology.

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Featured | Industrial Technology | Power Distribution & Energy

ManuAuto: Moxa – Monitor Your Power Systems Smarter

In industrial settings, effective power monitoring plays a vital role in ensuring operational efficiency. It involves the real-time tracking of power quality, energy consumption, and equipment conditions. However, due to the varied nature of power grids, often composed of multiple energy sources and communication protocols, designing a unified power monitoring solution can be complex. Moxa addresses this challenge with an extensive selection of protocol gateways, engineered to deliver dependable, secure, and intuitive connectivity for numerous applications.

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Protect Your Production with Festo’s Interchangeable Pneumatic Cylinders

Pneumatic cylinders are the workhorses of industrial automation. They convert compressed air into linear motion, enabling tasks like clamping, gripping, holding, lifting, pushing, and pulling – tasks inherent to production lines and robotics. When these components go down, it can cause significant impacts on production. Avoid these negative consequences with interchangeable pneumatic cylinders from Festo and simplify machine design and maintenance in your facility. Festo, a major name in motion, offers standardization of popular pneumatic cylinders to national and international standards, simplifying procurement, reducing downtime, and saving time and money. With standardization, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and end users do not need to worry about substitution challenges or supply chain vulnerabilities such as availability, pricing, or an individual manufacturer’s distinctive mounting or design. And, with Festo FASTSM, they are in stock and ready to be shipped out the next day, helping businesses eliminate bottlenecks and the frustrations that come with halted production.

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Industry | Featured | Industrial Technology | Latest News | Smart Factory | Whitepapers

Cloud vs Edge Computing – Driving Predictive Maintenance, Remote Diagnostics & Device Safety

Cloud computing and edge computing are reshaping how industrial organizations manage connected devices, analyze data, and maintain operations. While both architectures process and store data, they differ significantly in where that processing occurs—centrally in the cloud or locally at the edge. Understanding these differences is critical for companies evaluating strategies for predictive maintenance, remote diagnostics, and safety. This paper compares cloud and edge computing, examines their role in modern predictive technologies, and outlines the safety and operational benefits of adopting the right approach.

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Schneider Electric & Albesol Unveil New State-Of-The-Art $20M Facility in Mississauga, Specializing in Production of Medium-Voltage Switchgear Equipment

Schneider Electric Canada has announced the inauguration of a new $20M state-of-the-art Albesol facility in Mississauga, Ontario. Launching on November 20, the new location marks a key milestone in their shared mission to strengthen Canada’s energy infrastructure and supply chain resilience. The new facility is set to expand its workforce from 28 to 50 employees over the coming year and will specialize in the manufacturing and assembly of medium-voltage switchgear—critical for electricity distribution. In addition, the site will produce modular electrical cabinets and heavy industrial process drives, essential for advancing process electrification and integrating power and process systems to meet Canada’s growing electrification demands.

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ManuAuto: Efficient Power Monitoring at the Edge – Moxa’s DCI Solutions for Data Centers

As data centers grow in higher densities to support AI-enabled workloads and more complicated operations, keeping the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) at optimum is critical at this time. Downtime is never acceptable. Also, without being able to see electrical systems in real-time, such as substations, UPS, switchgear, and HVAC, failures will take place, and reaction times will be delayed. Newer generation data facilities will face more and more constant pressure to maintain low PUE alongside the increasing pressures of power consumption. Continuity of power depends on smart and resilient connectivity across data center infrastructure (DCI). All energy systems need to operate in concert for continuous operations. Moxa industrial-grade networking solutions keep data center power systems connected, efficient, and secured through reliable, secure, and scalable communications. Engineers can download the solution guide and success case for more information or meet with a solution expert to receive customized recommendations.

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Rockwell Automation: SecureOT Platform – OT Endpoint Protection Whitepaper

Are you still tracking OT assets on spreadsheets? OT endpoint protection is a necessity to protect the world’s infrastructure, but in many cases, it’s not deployed due to several key challenges. The unique characteristics of OT networks make running traditional endpoint protection solutions very difficult if not impossible. Recognizing these challenges, Rockwell Automation has leveraged more than 25 years of ICS engineering experience to build SecureOT Platform. SecureOT Platform delivers complete OT endpoint protection and directly addresses the visibility and complexity of the challenges you face every day. Their team has experience operating SecureOT Platform in various plants and control systems across all vendors. They have been in your shoes and understand the unique complexities of these systems. SecureOT Platform was intentionally built to be an OT-safe, effective solution to address the unique challenges of industrial environments.

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Emerson’s New Tank Monitoring Hub Optimizes Inventory Management & Operational Efficiency

Emerson has announced the release of the Rosemount 2405 Monitoring Hub, a simple yet powerful device that delivers full inventory control and monitoring of multiple storage tanks. The Rosemount 2405 is designed to simplify tank monitoring system architecture, enabling organizations to automate applications previously deemed too complex or costly. The insights provided by the hub help to optimize inventory management, leading to improved decision-making, increased operational efficiency and reduced costs. Many organizations within the chemical, refining, oil and gas, metals and mining, and food and beverage industries still rely on manual inventory checks and lack the capability to implement an automated tank monitoring system. This can be compounded by the complexity and cost of integrating system components such as a display, a communication unit and a data concentrator. By integrating these three components into a single device, the Rosemount 2405 simplifies system architecture, making it easier and less costly to upgrade to an automated solution.

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Schneider Electric Canada Opens New Distribution Centre in Halton Hills, Strengthening Local Operations & Supply Chain Resilience

Schneider Electric has officially opened a new 130,000 square-foot distribution centre in Halton Hills, Ontario. This strategic investment strengthens Schneider Electric’s Canadian operations by improving delivery timelines and contributing to national energy sustainability. The facility is located at 6 Cleve Court in Georgetown, and will serve customers across commercial, industrial, residential, and infrastructure sectors. Operated in partnership with CEVA Logistics, the centre is designed to contribute to Canada’s energy security by ensuring faster and more reliable delivery of essential electrical components and equipment across the country. CEVA’s Halton Hills facility is also among the first of several global locations deploying Manhattan Associate’s Active Warehouse Management and Order Management systems. The advanced platforms accelerate the integration of new technologies for improved operational efficiency —further strengthening Schneider Electric’s supply chain resilience in Canada.

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A New Era: Towards Industry 5.0 & 6G

The transition to Industry 5.0 represents a profound and necessary evolution—one that steers global industry toward a paradigm that is sustainable, resilient, and human-centric. This shift is not a rejection of the technologies introduced in Industry 4.0, but rather a redefinition of their purpose: to augment human potential and advance societal well-being alongside economic growth. At the heart of this transformation lies 6G, the technological fabric capable of weaving this vision into reality. Its architecture is being purposefully designed to deliver dependable, high-bandwidth, and ultra-low-latency communication—enabling immersive, multi-sensory interactions between humans and intelligent systems. 6G will form the backbone of trustworthy AI, distributed intelligence, and advanced human–machine collaboration that underpin the Industry 5.0 ecosystem

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WAGO Canada Brings Its Scalable Automation Solutions to ADM Toronto

WAGO will display its open, scalable automation platform at the Advanced Design & Manufacturing (ADM) Expo. (WAGO Booth #1505, Automation Hall, Toronto Congress Centre, October 21–23). WAGO’s solutions combine multi-protocol integration, edge computing/IIoT readiness, and industry recognized reliability in I/O and controller systems. From the invention of CAGE CLAMP push-in technology that eliminates screw terminal re-torquing to today’s portfolio of 30,000 products and global solutions, WAGO delivers a one-stop shop for automation, connectivity, and control panel solutions. Canadian OEMs benefit from reduced complexity, faster assembly, and simplified bills of material through WAGO’s single-platform approach. End users gain increased uptime thanks to 100% vibration-proof, gas-tight, and shock-resistant connections that never require re-torquing. And with coast-to-coast Canadian sales and distribution backed by deep inventories, WAGO assures reliable product availability and supply chain continuity. WAGO’s solutions are vital for machine builders, packaging lines, and energy applications such as data centers and HVAC systems.

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ABB Introduces Automation Extended: Enabling Industrial Innovation with Continuity

Specialized Power Solutions Announces Tony Simmonds as New Sales Manager for Sales & Business Development in Alberta

50 Years of Innovation: How Festo Customer Solutions Help Canadian OEMs Do More with Less

Beckhoff: PC-Based Control & EtherCAT Accelerate OLED Material Development for OTI Lumionics from Canada

Mouser: Solar-Powered Industrial Automation – Efficiency Off the Grid

Eliza Vrbanac Named Managing Director of Endress+Hauser Canada–A New Chapter of Growth & Innovation

ManuAuto: Moxa – Monitor Your Power Systems Smarter

Protect Your Production with Festo’s Interchangeable Pneumatic Cylinders

Schneider Electric & Albesol Unveil New State-Of-The-Art $20M Facility in Mississauga, Specializing in Production of Medium-Voltage Switchgear Equipment

ManuAuto: Efficient Power Monitoring at the Edge – Moxa’s DCI Solutions for Data Centers

Rockwell Automation: SecureOT Platform – OT Endpoint Protection Whitepaper

Emerson’s New Tank Monitoring Hub Optimizes Inventory Management & Operational Efficiency

Schneider Electric Canada Opens New Distribution Centre in Halton Hills, Strengthening Local Operations & Supply Chain Resilience

A New Era: Towards Industry 5.0 & 6G

WAGO Canada Brings Its Scalable Automation Solutions to ADM Toronto

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