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Honeywell has recently announced that its board of directors has elected Robin Watson, 55, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of John Wood Group PLC, to its board of directors as an independent director.
Watson was appointed CEO of Wood in 2016 after serving as both chief operating officer and an executive member of the Wood Group Board of Directors since 2013. During his tenure as CEO, Watson led the transformation of Wood from an oil field services company to an integrated engineering and consultancy company, spanning a variety of growing end markets in energy and the built environment, with a focus on sustainable technologies.
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Brock Solutions is happy to announce that SmartBag Grouping has successfully gone live at Vancouver International Airport. SmartBag Grouping provides YVR a tool for managing their Manual Early Bag Storage. The tool uses real-time data and allows users to create groups for baggage based on criteria such as time, flight, and airline.
There is a clear and open movement toward automating Canada’s industrial sectors to gain more efficient and sustainable operations. At the heart of much of that automation implementation is the industrial control panel. Advancing industrial sectors must be done in a calculated and safe manner.
Signal tower lights play a critical role in protecting the safety of people and equipment in manufacturing and process control environments, providing visual and audible indications of system status and alerts of dangerous conditions.
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Aztec will be hosting an Oktoberfest themed Open House/Trade Show in all branches on the following dates below...
High-rise buildings in France, tunnels in Switzerland, prestressed concrete ceilings in Germany – one source of their stability is wire products from Kehl in Baden-Württemberg. Badische Drahtwerke GmbH (BDW) supplies reinforcing steel mesh, reinforcement cages, lattice girders and many other rebar and reinforcement products to the region and neighboring countries.
Read more: Just Like Before, Only Better! An International...
As a system engineer, it is important to have a reliable and long-lasting power supply on which you can rely. Failure of the unit after a short time is annoying, costly and time consuming.
RFID: Noncontact identification based on radio waves is considered a versatile technology and one of the keys to production environments based on the Industry 4.0 principle. The range of applications is by no means limited to discrete manufacturing—RFID is also becoming increasingly popular in process plants.
Debuting what it terms Sensitive Cobotics, KUKA Robotics will show IMTS attendees the future of automation in the form of its new LBR iisy cobot. As ready-to-use automation, the LBR iisy quickly and easily integrates into any manufacturing application from pre-defined production processes to open, unstructured work environments with unpredictable conditions from one job to the next.
Read more: KUKA Brings the Future of Cobot Automation to IMTS
While digitalization has become a crucial goal across sectors, the application of digital solutions in manufacturing comes with added complications. Given the material nature of industrial process assets and equipment, the emphasis for manufacturing investment has still been predominantly hardware based.
The new Eplan Platform 2023 is streamlining and accelerating project planning with new cloud-based device management and multi-standard support for schematic macros. This means that users can get results more quickly – especially when working on international projects – due to the simplified device data management system while increasing overall project quality.
Read more: The New Eplan Platform 2023: Simply More Speed...
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EY Canada is pleased to welcome AFARA and its team of multidisciplinary consultants to the firm to ...
Rockwell Automation, Inc. recently announced that Tessa Myers has been named senior vice president, ...
Rittal Systems Ltd. has announced that its valued partner, Tusk Automation Inc. has been named a ...
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Weidmuller Ltd. has signed a distribution partnership with Shelley Automation for the Ontario ...
Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. of Mississauga, ON, has appointed Dany Lavoie and Brett Horst to its ...
Omron Automation Americas announces RAMP Inc. as a new partner in its Certified System Integrator ...
Skilled tradespeople in British Columbia will benefit from a made-in-B.C. system to support and ...
Rittal Systems Ltd. is pleased to welcome their first Rittal Certified Systems Integrator of ...
Panduit Corp. recently announced the promotion of Marc Naese to Chief Commercial Officer. A ...
EY Canada Acquires Sustainability Consulting Firm, AFARA
EY Canada is pleased to welcome AFARA and its team of multidisciplinary consultants to the firm to deepen existing resources and expertise in sustainability, and environment, social and governance (ESG) services.
“Businesses around the world are now embracing societal change and sustainable development as road maps to long-term success — and we are excited to play a role in that journey,” says Kent Kaufield, Chief Sustainability Officer and ESG Markets Leader at EY Canada. “At the end of the day, sustainability is everybody’s business. With AFARA, we look forward to helping clients build resilient, sustainable companies and economies, while furthering the energy transition.”
Honeywell Appoints Robin Watson To Board Of Directors
Modern Niagara Partners With Global Sustainability Platform Worldfavor
Worldfavor is a global sustainability platform, digitizing and automating the collection, calculation, aggregation and visualization for analysis and reporting of ESG data. Now, Worldfavor is proud to welcome Modern Niagara as a new customer. Modern Niagara is the first Canadian construction company to partner with Worldfavor.
“Worldfavor was founded to be the best platform for sharing, accessing and gaining insights from corporate ESG information. Worldfavor’s mission is to make sustainability mainstream and with that we offer solutions to accelerate sustainability through the value chain. Modern Niagara is the first Canadian construction company to partner with Worldfavor.
JMP Parent Company, CONVERGIX Acquires AGR Automation, Expanding Global Reach
Convergix Automation Solutions has completed the acquisition of AGR Automation (“AGR”), a UK-based provider of custom, high-performance automation design and systems integration primarily to the life sciences industry.
Following Convergix’s acquisitions of JMP Solutions in August 2021 and Classic Design in February 2022, AGR marks the third investment in Crestview’s strategy to build Convergix into a diversified automation solutions provider targeting the global $500+ billion market, with a particular focus on the $70 billion global systems integration and connectivity segments. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
SmartBag Grouping is Live at YVR
Brock Solutions is happy to announce that SmartBag Grouping has successfully gone live at Vancouver International Airport. SmartBag Grouping provides YVR a tool for managing their Manual Early Bag Storage. The tool uses real-time data and allows users to create groups for baggage based on criteria such as time, flight, and airline. Critical information is delivered to baggage handlers in the field when they need it, on their handheld device, or on an information display.
Baggage is handled more efficiently during loading, and tracking information can be shared with other authorized SmartSuite users.
Just Like Before, Only Better! An International Application by WAGO
High-rise buildings in France, tunnels in Switzerland, prestressed concrete ceilings in Germany – one source of their stability is wire products from Kehl in Baden-Württemberg. Badische Drahtwerke GmbH (BDW) supplies reinforcing steel mesh, reinforcement cages, lattice girders and many other rebar and reinforcement products to the region and neighboring countries.
When the machines used to produce lattice girders had to undergo a safety update, the engineers took advantage of the communication capabilities of an intelligent power supply from WAGO to improve process efficiency.
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