Featured Articles

Featured Articles

Allied Electronics & Automation Expands Power Transmission, Linear Motion and Bearings Product Offerings

Allied Electronics & Automation continues to grow its list of more than 450 world-class supplier partners with the addition of bearings, linear motion and power transmission components from THK, Ringfeder, Timken, Contitech, Rexnord, INA and FAG. As part of its ongoing effort to deliver even greater selection and service to customers, Allied has expanded the capacity of its Fort Worth distribution center, added more than 10,000 new product lines and debuted nearly 50 new suppliers to date in 2020.

Read More Allied Electronics & Automation Expands Power Transmission, Linear Motion and Bearings Product Offerings
Automotive | Featured Articles

SPS Connect – This Year It’s Purely Virtual

Rising infection rates and travel restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic meant that many of this year’s exhibitions and events were cancelled or postponed. After intense discussions with exhibitors and trade visitors, the automation industry’s international exhibition SPS – Smart Production Solutions – in Nuremberg was cancelled.

Read More SPS Connect – This Year It’s Purely Virtual
Featured Articles

DesignSpark Online Engineering Community Reaches Milestone With One Million Members Around the World

Allied Electronics & Automation is recently marking a significant milestone as the company recorded more than one million members on its DesignSpark engineering platform. This impressive number of registrations has been achieved in the same year that the company celebrates 10 years of DesignSpark and signals the platform’s importance and popularity amongst the global engineering community.

Read More DesignSpark Online Engineering Community Reaches Milestone With One Million Members Around the World
Featured Articles | Power Distribution & Energy

Discussing Automation and Power Measurement in the Utility Sector with Bitronics

Recently, Panel Builder US had the opportunity to speak with Bitronics, a NovaTech company, that is focused on delivering power measurement, process control, and substation automation.

Read More Discussing Automation and Power Measurement in the Utility Sector with Bitronics
Featured Articles

EPLAN Data Portal Update 2 / September 2020

As of September 30, 2020, 968,458 data sets and 314 manufacturer are available in the EPLAN Data Portal.

Read More EPLAN Data Portal Update 2 / September 2020
Data Centers | Featured Articles

Liquid Cooling vs. Immersion Cooling Deployment

Immersion cooling, first commercialized in the early 2000s, has generated a lot of attention and a host of eager advocates over the years. Compared to the more traditional liquid cooling solutions bringing cooling to IT appliances or directly onto the chips, immersion cooling essentially gives it a bath, submerging the equipment – lock, stock and barrel – into a pool of dielectric fluid.

Read More Liquid Cooling vs. Immersion Cooling Deployment
Data Centers | Featured Articles

Rockwell Automation Acquires Cybersecurity Company

Rockwell Automation, Inc. recently announced that it has acquired Oylo, a privately-held industrial cybersecurity services provider based in Barcelona, Spain. Oylo is dedicated to providing a broad range of industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity services and solutions including assessments, turnkey implementations, managed services and incident response.

Read More Rockwell Automation Acquires Cybersecurity Company
Featured Articles

Agility Is the Key in IIoT Innovation – Says Advantech at Major Global Event

Agile innovation in the area of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will be the key in driving forward digital transformation in industrial applications into 2021 and beyond. That was the message delivered by Advantech IIoT President, Linda Tsai, to more than 2,000 delegates at the company’s first ever global IIoT Virtual Summit, entitled ‘Connecting Industrial IoT Innovation’, today (Tuesday 22nd September).

Read More Agility Is the Key in IIoT Innovation – Says Advantech at Major Global Event
Automotive | Featured Articles | Food & Beverage | Industrial

Industrial Automation Can Help Critical Manufacturers Adjust to Disruptions Like COVID-19

As the pandemic sent shockwaves through economies and supply chains across the world this year, manufacturers in critical sectors were forced to adjust quickly. To better weather unexpected crises, as well as industry shifts beyond COVID-19, manufacturers need to increase flexibility and resiliency in their supply chains. Increased automation and data availability in the plant can help.

Read More Industrial Automation Can Help Critical Manufacturers Adjust to Disruptions Like COVID-19
Automotive | Building Controls | Featured Articles | Industrial

Intelligent Building Automation

PC-based control technology from Beckhoff, which has already been used successfully for almost three decades in all areas of industrial automation, has become an integral component of intelligent building automation. The demands on the intelligence of buildings have increased constantly in recent years, such that the energy efficiency as well as a good “return on investment” is the priority.

Read More Intelligent Building Automation
Featured Articles | Water & Waste Water

Plant Modernization Ensures Future-Proof Water Supply

In the public water utilities sector, plant operators must ensure a reliable water supply to all consumers, while at the same time getting by with tight budgets. Their requirements include reliability through redundancy and safe communication of all components with the control system.

Read More Plant Modernization Ensures Future-Proof Water Supply
Data Centers | Featured Articles

Digital Data Boosts Efficiency in the Engineering Process

When it comes to optimizing and designing seamless processes in control cabinet manufacturing, the process steps and interfaces must be considered even before the actual engineering. Finding, obtaining, preparing, revising, and adapting item data for use in a CAE program eats up valuable resources and increases lead times for many companies that specialize in control cabinet manufacturing.

Read More Digital Data Boosts Efficiency in the Engineering Process
Featured Articles

Manual Work Meets Modern Automation to Empower Workers With Handicaps

In spite of advancing digitalization, the following still applies: Manual workstations are indispensable, because automation is not always profitable with small batch quantities or complex processes. Such workstations are preferred at the Martinshof Werkstatt Bremen, a sheltered workshop for a mixed workforce including people with handicaps, as they are ideally suited for integrating persons with physical or cognitive handicaps into working life.

Read More Manual Work Meets Modern Automation to Empower Workers With Handicaps
Featured Articles

HARTING: Electronic Assemblies Without PCBs

Laser direct structuring (LDS) is a special success story. For almost 20 years, it has been possible to apply electronic conductor paths directly onto plastic parts during series production. LDS enables the production of electronic assemblies with flexible geometric shapes. This process enables electronic products (such as smart phones, sensors or medical devices) to become even smaller and more powerful. Automated manufacturing processes also make this process more economically attractive.

Read More HARTING: Electronic Assemblies Without PCBs
Featured Articles

Volkswagen Integrates Newest Eplan and Rittal Solutions

Volkswagen has recently released the sixth generation of its VASS (Volkswagen Audi Seat Skoda) Standard, which includes an update to Eplan Version 2.9. The standard – used in production plants for models on the MEB platform – has also been expanded with 3D functionality in switchgear system engineering and with data for bi-directional exchange with PLC project planning tools. The new VX25 control cabinet system from Rittal has additionally been integrated into the standard.

Read More Volkswagen Integrates Newest Eplan and Rittal Solutions
Featured Articles

Eplan Announces Subscription Model for New Licences

The industrial transformation is in full swing. As a result, the market conditions are changing. Eplan is consistently adapting to these changes: As of August 2021, new software licences will be offered exclusively on a subscription basis. Companies will especially benefit from more flexibility.

Read More Eplan Announces Subscription Model for New Licences

Subscribe to our Free Weekly Newsletter

Subscribe to Our Brands…

Visit our Brand Sites…