Controls & Machine Components

Pepperl+Fuchs: Absolute encoders

CVM42H CANopen Multi-Turn Absolute Encoders feature a stainless steel housing, flange, and shaft, and utilize magnetic sampling to deliver 24-bit resolution position value through the CANopen protocol.

April 19, 2016

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Controls & Machine Components

Balluff: Bi-directional inductive coupler

Balluff has expanded its IO-Link enabled Inductive coupling product family to include bi-directional IO-Link communication; the inductive coupling solution enables transfer of power and data over a small air gap, making it ideally suited in the industrial space, where getting I/O in hard to reach places or to moving components is a challenge.

April 19, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationControl: Drive couplings

AutomationDirect’s SureMotion drive couplings are available in four styles: jaw/spider, double loop, Oldham, and beam-style servo; bore reducers are also offered to fit a coupling when the exact bore is not available.

April 18, 2016

Conveying & accumulation

A Focus on IT in Logistics

Automating logistics processes, the continuous logistics chain from supplier to end user, software and hardware represent important trends.

April 18, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

HepcoMotion: Ball bushings

HepcoMotion releases new range of linear ball bushings.

April 18, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Emerson: Brake motors

Emerson Industrial Automation presents its new line of Leroy-Somer FFB brake motors; a robust, innovative concept that offers an extensive range of options associated with safety and variable speed as standard, making the FFB brake motor ideal for a multitude of applications.

April 15, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

JVL Industri: Stepper motors

MIS23 QuickStep stepper motors are a series of versatile, compact, economical integrated stepper motors from JVL.

April 13, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Balluff: 16 Port IO-Link Master with PROFINET

Scalable, distributed controls architecture for high I/O density applications.

April 12, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Fiber optic amplifiers

AutomationDirect’s OPT series of single and multi-fiber photoelectric amplifiers are available with wide detection and working ranges that support transparent object recognition capability.

April 12, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Festo: Mobile app to order components

The Festo Mobile App delivers quick and easy access to the Festo FAST Catalog of industrial automation components that are available for shipping on either the same day an order is placed, in three days, or in five days.

April 12, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

The Internet of Things to Transform Healthcare Packaging

IoT-enabled packaging can track shipments and missed medications, improving supply chain workflow and the quality of life.

April 11, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC introduces user-specific PackML training

The Organization for Machine Automation and Control (OMAC) is introducing two new user-specific sessions in its annual half-day PackML workshop.

April 10, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Compact controller

With the new Allen-Bradley compact GuardLogix 5370 controller from Rockwell Automation, users no longer need separate networks and controllers for safety and motion in applications with up to 16 axes, making it easier to design safety into a wide range of standard and custom machines, and resulting in simpler system architectures.

April 8, 2016