Controls & machine components

nVent Hoffman Celebrates 75th Anniversary

nVent honors Hoffman Enclosures’ leadership legacy of continued innovation, quality, and service excellence.

October 2, 2020

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Controls & machine components

Regal Beloit's Gear Reducer Receives IP69K Certification

Regal Rexnord Corporation

Regal Beloit Corp. announced that its Grove Gear Stainless Steel Worm Gear Reducer achieved third party IP69K certification.

September 28, 2020

Controls & Machine Components

What’s Keeping CPGs from Remote Access?

Planning to expand remote access technology use in response to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic is one thing; overcoming the long-standing barriers of resistance to this technology is another.

September 28, 2020

Digital Transformation

Banner Engineering Launches Business Unit

Banner Engineering Corp.

Banner Engineering launches new business unit, SmartSolutions, featuring easy-to install, integrated, and customizable IIoT kits of its sensors, wireless solutions, and LED lighting.

September 16, 2020

Robotics

Yaskawa and Phoenix Contact Announce Partnership

Yaskawa America, Inc.

Yaskawa and Phoenix Contact announce an agreement to utilize PLCnext Technology from Phoenix Contact in the development of the next generation machine controller and PLC platform realizing the i3-Mechatronics solution concept lead by Yaskawa.

September 14, 2020

Controls & machine components

PI North America Announces Website Expansion to the Spanish Language

PI North America

PI North America, the non-profit member-supported organization for PROFIBUS and PROFINET technologies in North America, announces an expansion of its website to the Spanish language.

September 14, 2020

Robotics

RōBEX Names New President

RōBEX

Craig Francisco was named President of RōBEX. He will lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the company and its three business units: Automation & Robotics, Industrial Services and Annealing Lehr installation & maintenance for glassmakers.

September 11, 2020

Controls & machine components

Motion Industries Acquires Applied Machine and Motion Control

Motion

Motion Industries, Inc. completed the acquisition of Applied Machine and Motion Control, Inc.

September 2, 2020

Controls & machine components

Beckhoff Technology Sets Vendor ID Record

Beckhoff USA

The EtherCAT Technology Group issued its 3,000th EtherCAT vendor ID in July 2020. Beckhoff introduced the EtherCAT real-time Ethernet system to the market in 2003 and disclosed its details within the ETG the same year.

September 1, 2020

Robotics

Bosch Rexroth Announces Management Changes in North America

Bosch Rexroth Corporation

Paul Cooke, President and CEO of Bosch Rexroth North America, will retire on December 31, 2020 after 38 years with Bosch. His successor as of December 1, 2020, will be Greg Gumbs.

August 31, 2020

Controls & machine components

Allied Electronics and Schneider Electric Team Up to Help Engineers Build Better Industrial Control Panels

RS

Allied Electronics & Automation and Schneider Electric are partnering to deploy a suite of digital resources, hosted on Allied’s Build a Better Control Cabinet digital hub, that can help customers design, build, and maintain industrial control panels.

August 11, 2020

Controls & machine components

Beckhoff Employee Appointed to IEEE Committee

Beckhoff USA

Beckhoff's Dr. Karl Weber is the first representative from EU appointed to the IEEE Committee. He will represent the German Federal Ministry in the international Government Engagement Program on Standards

August 6, 2020

Controls & machine components

Motion Industries Announces Two Acquisitions

Motion

Motion Industries, Inc., entered into agreements to acquire TRC Hydraulics, a Canadian-based supplier of hydraulic products and services, and F&L Industrial Solutions, Inc., a distributor of T-slotted aluminum extrusion components.

August 3, 2020