Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Expanded interlocking safety switch line

AutomationDirect’s safety products offering includes additional interlocking safety switches.

November 12, 2015

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Controls & Machine Components

Lenze Americas appoints Mark Collins Director of Engineering

Collins joins the Lenze Americas business leadership team to support global inverter sales.

November 11, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Liquid-tight connectors

RACO liquid-tight connectors are designed for use on flexible metallic liquid-tight conduit and Type B flexible non-metallic liquid-tight conduit in outdoor or indoor locations.

November 6, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: G-thread pneumatic fittings

AutomationDirect’s NITRA line of pneumatics products now offers G-thread push-to-connect fittings and flow control valves; components are made with strong thermoplastic (PBT) or nickel-plated brass bodies and stainless steel tube gripping claws and have a pre-applied O-ring to seal.

November 6, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric shows off flexible automation for machine control

Segment marketing manger Mark Duncan walks through the systems on display at PACK EXPO, including PLCs for machine control with embedded web servers, an HMI controller and new wireless push button technology.

November 5, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation ties robots to the cloud

Daymon Thompson demonstrates how Beckhoff controls are running kinematic calculations on hardware while sending robot data to the cloud as another enabler of Industry 4.0.

November 5, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric Motion: Small integrated motors

NEMA 17 Lexium MDrive products now feature M12 connectors and IP65 rating.

November 5, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Numerex: Smart sensor interface

Numerex Corp. launched the nxLINK, a ruggedized, compact, battery-operated "smart sensor interface" that connects to literally thousands of sensors used in capturing important iIoT data.

November 5, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

IDEC Corp.: Micro-programmable controller

IDEC announces a new model in its FT1A Touch micro programmable controller series of combo HMI+PLC units, the FT1A Touch 14 I/O.

November 3, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Wago: Fuse and disconnect terminal blocks

Wago introduces the industry’s only pivot style fuse terminal blocks in a 3-conductor variant. The newest addition to the TOPJOB®S family allows a second conductor to be connected on the field side.

November 3, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech: Commercial motion controller

EasyTune from Aerotech is the most advanced autotuning tool available in a commercial motion controller; entirely data-driven, the algorithm largely mimics the process followed by an experienced controls engineer.

November 3, 2015

Conveying & accumulation

Intelligrated opens district office in Southern California

The automation and software supplier opens new location in booming logistics hub to meet demand for localized solutions support.

November 2, 2015

Conveying & accumulation

Peter Pilz Production and Logistics Center opens in Germany

Renate Pilz says "Values create our future” as the company grows and expands.

October 31, 2015