Schneider Electric recently announced an additional $40 million investment towards modernizing its U.S manufacturing plants in Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, and Texas. The monies will go towards innovative technologies and new production lines that will help increase Schneider Electric’s capacity of operations in the U.S. for its customers, as well as further develop its local workforce.
Companies continue to need help securing their industrial operations as they connect production and IT systems and contend with cyberthreats targeting industrial control systems. To meet this need, Rockwell Automation continues expanding its cybersecurity certifications and incorporating advanced security capabilities into more of its products.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. recently announced the next evolution of its global Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Program. The enhanced offering now provides increased market access opportunities, simplification, and standardized product alignment for manufacturers, enabling participants to fully leverage Rockwell Automation technology.
Siemens and science and technology company Merck will work together in future at Merck’s headquarters in Darmstadt to develop a technical backbone for the modular production of the future. The aim is to create a production line that flexibly combines various individual process modules and to use Modular Type Packaging (MTP) and Process Orchestration Layer (POL) technology to drastically reduce engineering effort.
Trace Software was recently pleased to announce the signing of a distribution contract with REXEL France, a global energy expert. The contract covers the entire offer of the French publisher: elec calc, elec calc EP, elec calc BIM and the archelios suite. These software solutions enable to size and operate low and high voltage electrical installations as well as all types of solar installations.
Flexibility is one of the most sought-after qualities in manufacturing systems this year. In recent years, manufacturers and automation suppliers have found that they could simultaneously increase flexibility and reduce costs by moving from a safety-by-wire solution to a safety network, adopting an approach dubbed “integrated safety.” The concept of integrated safety became mainstream for OEMs and end-users just within the past year or so.
Beckhoffs comprehensive power supply portfolio offers 1-phase and 3-phase DIN-rail power supply units with a power spectrum from 2.5 A to 40 A. They are universally usable for both small and cost-optimized applications as well as for demanding 24 and 48 V DC applications – and all of this in a compact housing design.
Allied Electronics & Automation and Schneider Electric team up to help engineers build better industrial control panels.
Even more exciting technology, even more valuable information, even more direct discussion – and even closer contact with Beckhoff’s PC-based control experts. As a supplement to their appearance at the SPS Connect 2020, Beckhoff cordially invites you to a completely new, highly attractive event format: the Interactive Automation Days.
Web-based Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) solutions deliver a new level of simplicity in installation, configuration, and usability.
B&R has made centralized, factory-level user management substantially easier. With the new software component mapp UserX, it is now possible to use services based on LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) to implement centralized management of users and user groups, for example using Active Directory from Microsoft.
PC-based control technology from Beckhoff, which has already been used successfully for almost three decades in all areas of industrial automation, has recently become an integral component of smart wind turbine automation. Beckhoff will present mainly measurement and condition monitoring as integrated parts of New Automation Technology.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, along with its PartnerNetwork, opens the 29th year of its signature showcase event: Automation Fair At Home from Nov. 16-20. While this year’s event has been dynamically re-imagined as a primarily virtual experience to safeguard customer, partner, and employee health and safety during the pandemic, Automation Fair At Home attendees can still count on a wide range of exhibits, attend dozens of sessions, hear from global thought leaders, and more.
Everything from a single source, from the CCS charging inlet to a charging management solution: As of now, Phoenix Contact bundles a wide range of coordinated charging technology components for both the electrification of vehicles and setting up a powerful charging infrastructure – everything under the name CHARX. All CHARX products have specially been designed for use in e-mobility applications and are classified according to their function in the charging process.
JM Electrical (JME) has recently announced the launch of a new division focused solely on maintenance and recurring service. “We are thrilled to introduce this new offering which focuses on high-level recurring service and timely customer support,” says Matthew Guarracino, Principal at JM Electrical. “The same highly trained, licensed electricians who handle onsite project installations are now available as an on-call partners, ready to meet our clients’ electrical and energy efficiency needs.”
Emerson has recently been awarded a $14 million contract to provide automation technologies for the new Azeri Central East offshore platform in the Caspian Sea, the latest development in the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli oilfield. Emerson will serve as the main automation contractor, providing its Project Certainty methodologies and digital technologies that transform capital project execution to help BP bring this fast-track project onstream in 2023.