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MEET: Trade Show Success Guide – Networking Tips

Trade shows are one of the best places to meet people face-to-face and grow your professional network. They bring together like-minded folks from all corners of your industry — and the country. Whether you’re going solo, with your team, or exhibiting, it helps to show up with a few networking goals in mind. Building real connections can do wonders for your business, so here are some networking tips to help you make the most of your next trade show.

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Rockwell Automation: Improve Electric Arc Flash Safety in Oil & Gas

Motor Control Centers (MCCs) are the technological hubs controlling critical rotating equipment – such as submersible pumps, compressors, and pipeline boosters – across upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas operations. Given the enormous energy requirements and often hostile operating conditions characteristic of this sector, motor control centers are ground zero for one of the industry’s most serious electrical safety threats: the electric arc flash.

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Brady: Predictive Maintenance – How to Harness Data for Improved Reliability

The best strategy for guaranteeing equipment reliability is to use preventative maintenance and use scheduled tune-ups and cleaning instead of a reactive maintenance strategy. Meanwhile, equipment offering peak performance can increase output while limiting energy use. In other words, it can improve profits while lowering operating expenses, such as electricity and repair costs. Companies can invest in new equipment or upgrade current machinery to include sensors and analytics systems. These measure performance and provide early warning about maintenance needs.

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Latest News | Circuit Protection | Enclosure Solutions

ITC 101: NEMA vs. IP Ratings – What’s the Difference?

ITC 101 has already explored NEMA and IP ratings individually, each vital for understanding how electrical enclosures and components are protected. Now, let’s take it a step further by comparing these two systems side by side. NEMA Ratings define enclosure protection against dust, water, corrosion, and more. They are mostly used in North America and often include mechanical integrity and environmental resistance. IP Ratings, set by the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), use a two-digit code to specify protection against solid objects (first digit) and water (second digit).

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OMRON: Why Automation Is Only as Smart as Your Data

The DX100 Data Flow Edge Device transforms raw machine signals into contextual insights with minimal setup and minimal coding expertise required. By seamlessly integrating with existing equipment and delivering real-time visualizations, it empowers teams to stop guessing and start knowing. Many manufacturers invest in automation only to find their machines speak a language they can’t interpret. Sensors record vibration, temperature, pressure, and event data, but without a reliable way to capture and contextualize those signals, teams end up chasing ghosts. When a sensor drifts out of tolerance or a changeover goes sideways, operators resort to guesswork rather than data-driven insights.

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Rockwell Automation: Boost Productivity & Uptime with a Unified Control Platform

In today’s manufacturing landscape, reliable production is non-negotiable. So, Rockwell Automation created a unified power control platform to help solve the problems companies face when relying on legacy and fragmented process and power control systems. By combining process, power and motor control in one architecture, you get a connected, intelligent system that simplifies operations, delivers real-time decision-making data and keeps your business moving. This combined core provides clear visibility to real-time production and energy data in one place, making your facility more efficient, productive and profitable.

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Canada’s Potash Powerhouse: How EB Horsman & Siemens Supports Growth in a Critical Industry

Potash is a key part of Canada’s resource economy—and Saskatchewan leads the world in its production. As demand for global food production increases, potash remains essential in supporting agriculture, and Canada continues to be a trusted source of this critical mineral. With long-term growth forecasted in this sector, there’s a growing need for reliable, scalable, and smart automation solutions. That’s where Siemens products come in.

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Mouser: Future Trends in Control Panels

As Industry 4.0 gives way to 5.0—and even early ideas of 6.0—control panels are becoming more intelligent, more connected, and far more adaptable. Industry 4.0 introduced digitalization and connectivity to manufacturing. It brought us smart factories where machines talk to each other, collect real-time data, and make automated decisions. Industry 5.0 builds on that by putting people back in the center—combining human creativity with advanced robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to create more personalized, sustainable production. Industry 6.0, though still conceptual, looks even further ahead. It imagines a future of hyper-personalized manufacturing where machines not only collaborate with humans but evolve in real time—driven by AI, seamless human-machine integration, and the potential of quantum computing.

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Latest News | Circuit Protection | Industrial Technology

PULS: MCB vs eFuse – Which Is the Best Solution for Properly Securing DC Circuits?

In times of unregulated transformer power supplies, traditional miniature circuit breakers (MCB) have established themselves as the main protection modules. However, when primarily switched-mode power supplies were introduced in the 1990s, they quickly replaced transformer power supplies in industrial applications. The new technology enabled more efficient and compact power supplies that better met the increased demands of the industry. The era of transformers was thus over, but the MCBs remained and continued to be used in conjunction with switched-mode power supplies, even on the DC side. However, there are now much better and, above all, more reliable protection mechanisms, such as electronic circuit breakers.

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Streamline Control Cabinet Design with WSCAD ELECTRIX

Creating intricate control cabinets can be a breeze with WSCAD ELECTRIX. The more meticulous your designing gets, the smoother and less error-prone the entire production process becomes. WSCAD ELECTRIX goes beyond with its Cabinet Expert module. This module unlocks the full potential of control cabinet engineering and empowers you to automate tasks, saving you valuable time and resources.

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Registration Now Open for the 2026 MEET Show

The MEET (Mechanical Electrical Electronic Technology) Show is making its highly anticipated return to the Moncton Coliseum Complex this Spring, May 6th through 7th. This biennial two-day event features over 400 companies from the mechanical, plumbing, electrical, lighting, DataCom and automation industries. Featuring the latest equipment, products, and technology on the horizon, 2026 will be the twenty-sixth edition of this key trade event. You can expect to see cutting-edge innovations, informative seminars, and engage in unique networking opportunities with industry leaders. Don’t miss your chance to join thousands of fellow industry professionals and see what lies ahead in your sector.

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Brady: Why Every Maintenance Plan Needs Infrared Thermography for Electrical Inspection

In manufacturing environments, you can’t manage what you can’t see. And when it comes to the safety and reliability of your electrical systems, there can be a lot hiding just out of sight. A loose connection in a control panel, for instance, won’t spark or make a sound. But it will generate heat — and that heat is a silent warning of a looming failure and, ultimately, a safety incident. That’s where infrared (IR) thermography comes in. It’s a simple yet incredibly effective way to see these hidden thermal signals, giving you the power to find and fix warning indicators before they become expensive and dangerous problems.

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Mouser: Understanding the Fundamentals of HMIs

Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) act as gateways between human operators and complex machinery in industrial environments. As automation becomes more present across industry settings, these devices facilitate the use of machine and sensor data to help operators use industrial control systems efficiently. This article explores different types of information displayed on HMIs and describes the functionality of passive displays and active control hubs. Additionally, it discusses the importance of human factors in designing HMIs.

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OMRON: How to Achieve Next-Level Clarity for Complex GenAI Server Boards

As GenAI hardware gets more advanced, only 3D CT X-Ray inspection can keep up with the pace and complexity. OMRON’s VT-X750 is built for this challenge, delivering fast, reliable, and crystal-clear results for increasingly demanding AI hardware.

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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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SmartD: The HVAC VFD Trade-off No One Talks About

Reliability, power quality, and retrofit reality rarely coexist. Most HVAC plants are forced to compromise — unless they change the approach. Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) don’t just save energy — they define uptime, maintenance, and plant stability. SmartD removes the tradeoff instead of managing its consequences. No academic deep dive. Just the physics that matter.

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MEET: Trade Show Success Guide – Networking Tips

Rockwell Automation: Improve Electric Arc Flash Safety in Oil & Gas

Brady: Predictive Maintenance – How to Harness Data for Improved Reliability

ITC 101: NEMA vs. IP Ratings – What’s the Difference?

OMRON: Why Automation Is Only as Smart as Your Data

Rockwell Automation: Boost Productivity & Uptime with a Unified Control Platform

Canada’s Potash Powerhouse: How EB Horsman & Siemens Supports Growth in a Critical Industry

PULS: MCB vs eFuse – Which Is the Best Solution for Properly Securing DC Circuits?

Streamline Control Cabinet Design with WSCAD ELECTRIX

Registration Now Open for the 2026 MEET Show

Brady: Why Every Maintenance Plan Needs Infrared Thermography for Electrical Inspection

Mouser: Understanding the Fundamentals of HMIs

OMRON: How to Achieve Next-Level Clarity for Complex GenAI Server Boards

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

SmartD: The HVAC VFD Trade-off No One Talks About

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