Efficient Power Supplies – An Investment in the Future

Efficient Power Supplies – An Investment in the Future

In the search for a suitable power supply, the costs play a major role, alongside the technical requirements. The focus is often on the initial purchase price, while other potential costs that may be incurred during the operation of the power supply are not taken into consideration. In this blog post, we demonstrate why the decision to purchase a high-quality power supply is a profitable investment for your company, by taking a close look at all the costs involved.

Q&A with HELU: Oil & Gas Instrumentation Cables

Q&A with HELU: Oil & Gas Instrumentation Cables

Reliable data transmission is a must, even under the most extreme mechanical and environmental conditions such as those found in the oil and gas industry. Cables must be versatile to perform whether it is on a ship at sea or in a refining plant on land. Instrumentation cables are the backbone to keeping the industry’s sophisticated machines online and operating at peak performance. Regional Sales Manager Andrew Gill answers some of the questions he hears in the field regarding these low-voltage cables.

Guillevin: Your Trusted Distributor of Breakers and Panels

Guillevin: Your Trusted Distributor of Breakers and Panels

Guillevin is one of Canada’s largest distributors of electrical products in Canada. Founded in 1906 by François-Xavier Guillevin in Montreal, Quebec, they have enjoyed considerable expansion to become a leading distributor of electrical materials and products. Growth is something Guillevin is familiar with, and since their founding, they have opened numerous locations across Quebec and the rest of Canada. During the company’s growth in the electrical industry, they have also become a major distributor of safety products and equipment as well as industrial supplies.

Getting Serious About Workplace Electrical Safety – Electric Shock Edition from I-Gard

Getting Serious About Workplace Electrical Safety – Electric Shock Edition from I-Gard

Keeping employees safe at work has to be responsibility number one for a company. What is the rationale for being profitable if unsafe, or delivering product quickly to the customer if the workplace is unsafe and so everyone agrees that workplace safety is a priority but then we need to ask why are the incident rates of electrical injuries and in some case fatalities not reducing year over year, if keeping employees safe is a priority?

Beckhoff Celebrates 20 Years of EtherCAT

Beckhoff Celebrates 20 Years of EtherCAT

Beckhoff Automation proudly commemorates the 20th anniversary of EtherCAT, the industrial Ethernet system that transformed the world of industrial networking. Since its introduction at Hannover Messe in 2003, EtherCAT has emerged as a powerhouse in speed, flexibility and openness, solidifying its position in the global market through its reliability and continuous technical advancements. Today, EtherCAT remains an open IEC standard and empowers companies across industries to leverage its key technological advantages.

Rockwell Automation Announces Strategic Partnership with autonox Robotics to Enable New Manufacturing Possibilities

Rockwell Automation Announces Strategic Partnership with autonox Robotics to Enable New Manufacturing Possibilities

Rockwell Automation, Inc. and autonox Robotics have recently announced a strategic partnership that enables companies in North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa to achieve new manufacturing possibilities through unified robot control solutions. The two companies have collaborated to bring the Kinetix motors and drives of Rockwell with the robot mechanics of autonox together in a customer-friendly catalog-number-approach. The robot solutions are programmed and controlled in a single environment using Logix-based controllers and the Studio 5000 automation system design software.

Improve Business Outcomes with Data Analytics

Improve Business Outcomes with Data Analytics

Data analytics is a vital component of today’s manufacturing, offering real-time visibility, process improvements, predictive maintenance, quality improvement, reduced downtime and more. Industrial data visualization has evolved significantly in recent years due to advances in new technology and the increasing demand for data-driven decision-making. A modern approach to industrial data visualization involves real-time monitoring, interactive dashboards, data integration, predictive analytics, data security and mobile accessibility.

Universal Robots (UR) Debuts the World’s First Cobot Spot Welder and New Cobot-Powered Palletizing and Machine Tending Cells at Automate 2023

Universal Robots (UR) Debuts the World’s First Cobot Spot Welder and New Cobot-Powered Palletizing and Machine Tending Cells at Automate 2023

Universal Robots is not only one of the most widely used collaborative robot arm in the manufacturing industry, the UR cobots have also become the platform of choice for a fast-growing ecosystem of innovative OEM solutions. Nowhere is that more apparent than this year’s Automate, where 60+ UR cobots will be exhibited in more than 30 booths at the show, taking place in Detroit, MI, May 22-25, 2023. UR’s Automate booth #3623 showcases the latest innovation in a rapidly expanding application field, including the world’s first cobot spot welder, designed and manufactured by Pro Spot International.

What Does the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) Tell You About System Component Reliability? An Analysis From PULS

What Does the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) Tell You About System Component Reliability? An Analysis From PULS

The term MTBF appears in the data sheets of various technical system components and often causes confusion. This is mainly due to the different calculation methods and the risk of confusion with the service lifetime of a device. At PULS, many R&D specialists deal with both parameters on a daily basis. With this knowledge, PULS brings a little light into the darkness in this blog article.

Ideal Supply Tradeshow Successful in its Return to an In-Person Event

Ideal Supply Tradeshow Successful in its Return to an In-Person Event

Ideal Supply returned to an in-person event for their annual trade show held this past week in Stratford, ON. The Welcome Back Tradeshow also featured a weeklong virtual portion to accommodate those that were unable to make the trip the Stratford Rotary Complex where the event was held. The show is unique because many shows of this size are held in the GTA, giving the industry in the southern region a unique opportunity to get a firsthand look at the latest products, tools, and solutions from many of the industry’s leading manufacturers.

Nexii Building Solutions – Reinventing the Way the World Builds

Nexii Building Solutions – Reinventing the Way the World Builds

Nexii Building Solutions is a green construction company that is reinventing the way the world builds. It designs and manufactures high-performance green buildings and building products that are sustainable, cost-effective, and climate resilient. In this article, we sit down with Zosia Brown, VP of Sustainability, Nexii Building Solutions, to discuss the company’s innovative technologies and how it is breaking new ground and going beyond expectations.

Endress+Hauser’s Annual Media Conference 2023: Change is the Only Constant

Endress+Hauser’s Annual Media Conference 2023: Change is the Only Constant

Endress+Hauser recently concluded their Annual Media Conference in Basel, Switzerland on April 4th, 2023. Like past media conferences, they reviewed the previous financial year and provided an outlook for the current financial year. But this conference was special: It was the last press conference Klaus Endress would take part in as President of the Supervisory Board. At the end of 2023, Endress will end his active role, and Matthias Altendorf will assume his position on the Board.

Central Motion Control Facilitates Modularity and Reduces Overall Effort

Central Motion Control Facilitates Modularity and Reduces Overall Effort

For more than 50 years, Bausch+Ströbel SE + Co. KG, headquartered in Ilshofen, Germany, has been developing packaging and production systems for the pharmaceutical and related industries. The company’s goal is to offer the best technical and economical solutions for the challenges of the modern market. The new ESA1025 labeling machine for various pharmaceutical containers shows exactly how this is implemented with PC-based control from Beckhoff as the central motion controller.

Five Ways That Automation Improves Quality in Blow Molding

Five Ways That Automation Improves Quality in Blow Molding

Blow molding is an essential process within the packaging industry that is used to create hollow plastic parts like plastic bottles. After raw plastic is heated, it gets turned into a parison, which is a tube-like plastic shape that can be filled with compressed air through a hole at one end. This air is used to inflate the plastic inside a mold to the desired shape.

“Verifying De-energization – Time to Get Serious” Webinar Presented by I-Gard Corporation Outlining Absence of Voltage Testing
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“Verifying De-energization – Time to Get Serious” Webinar Presented by I-Gard Corporation Outlining Absence of Voltage Testing

Webinar Overview: Keeping employees safe at work has to be responsibility number one for any company and yet electrical incidents continue to occur yearly despite awareness campaigns and best efforts. A number of these incidents occur due to unintended contact with energized conductors and one root cause could be the standard Test Before Touch approach…

Traceability 4.0. How Omron Can Help You Get More Out of Your Digital Transformation
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Traceability 4.0. How Omron Can Help You Get More Out of Your Digital Transformation

What Is Traceability and Why It Is Important? Traceability is important for many reasons. Without it, it would be virtually impossible to mitigate quality issues in the field. Many industries require tracking and trace for components and assemblies such as automotive, life sciences, food and beverage. These industries require that manufacturers record and store data…