80 Years of Instrumentation Innovation
This year Weschler Instruments celebrates its 80th year as a supplier of meters and instrumentation. Much has changed in electronic measurement equipment and technology since 1941.
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The New Normal in Canada’s Wire Cable Industry
In just 18 months, our industry has seen businesses locked down and borders closed. Lead times have grown from weeks to months and orders have been cancelled.
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WESCO Canada Designated a Bosch Certified Excellence Partner
WESCO Distribution Canada LP recently announced that it has earned the Bosch Certified Excellence Partner designation. The Certified Excellence (CE) designation is an international program in the Partner Management of Bosch Rexroth.
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Panduit: Grounding Failure Case Study – Verifying Absence of Voltage
Situation: Worker approaches the enclosure and the disconnect switch for the 480V power source is in the OFF position. The disconnect switch has failed with one phase (L1) in the closed position (L2, L3 are open).
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Dirty Power – The Invisible Risk for Your Electronics
“Dirty Power” means an unclean supply system. This does not concern the means (environmental aspect) how your utility company generates power, but rather how certain electrical/electronic units are “contaminated”, often unknowingly.
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Make Your Work Easier With Well-Designed Human Machine Interface Solutions
A key consideration for plant engineers and operators when choosing the right solution for industrial automation applications, is designing the right Human Machine Interface (HMI) for production programs.
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Beckhoff Canada Opens Office in Greater Vancouver
Beckhoff Canada opened its Western Region Sales and Training Centre in the well-known Metrotower Office Complex in Burnaby, British Columbia. The new office location boosts training, sales and support in western provinces and houses XPlanar motion lab.
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AutomationDirect Releases New Contrinex M18 Short-Body Photoelectric Sensors and Sensor Tester
AutomationDirect has added a new series of Contrinex M18 photoelectric sensors to their ever-growing selection of discrete sensors, as well as a new sensor tester used with various sensor types to verify operation in the field.
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Utility Safety: Supplying Headlamps as Critical PPE in Hazardous Environments
Whether the utility provides electricity, gas, water, or sewage treatment, management has a duty to protect employees by providing a safe work environment and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required for the job in the facility and in the field.
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Made4CNC Launches World’s First Completely Automatic CNC Door Opening Solution for Robots
A new Danish company has solved a well-known and previously unsolvable challenge in the metal industry; Made4CNC has developed the world’s first completely automatic door opening solution for robotic machine tending, fitted to any robot and CNC machine in under an hour.
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Why Authorized Employee Training Is Important
Authorized employee training is one of the most important aspects of a complete energy control program. Training delivers the knowledge that employees need to effectively lock out equipment for servicing or maintenance.
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Food and Beverage Industry: 3 Reasons You Should Invest in Robotics and Automation
There are many reasons companies in the food and beverage industry choose collaborative robots when they increase the level of automation in their operations. Here are three factors for you to think about when considering automation in your own facility.
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Whitepaper: Fan-and-Filter Units to Cool Industrial Enclosures
As electronic components become increasingly smaller and are positioned closer together in the enclosure, they become ever more sensitive to external factors such as dust, oil, and temperature.
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Friedhelm Loh Turns 75 – Entrepreneur and Visionary in the Progress of Digital Transformation
Professor Friedhelm Loh has received the highest recognition for his success and commitment – from the top levels of business and politics and far beyond Germany’s borders. Through his personal achievements, his top political honours and great entrepreneurial courage, he has nevertheless remained – as he says himself – a “simple worker” and above all: grateful.
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Pilz Releases New Software for Automation System PSS 4000
Download projects without any software. Now you can prepare the data for operating your machine via an indirect project download, without any connection between the software PAS4000 and your devices.
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Tradition Meets Technology: Robots Provide Support in Joineries
In joineries, we can see how state-of-the-art technology complements traditional craftsmanship in a meaningful way. About ten years ago, the Eigenstetter joinery in Rehna, in the north-west of Germany, was faced with a huge project – a KUKA robot was the solution.
