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Editor's Pick
Challenges and Strategies Shaping Traceability in Food and Beverage Packaging
Authenticity is essential in the food and beverage packaging industry. Food allergies, as well as expired or contaminated foods, can cause serious illness and possibly death, so consumers need to know that the products they’re purchasing are safe. If manufacturers don’t guarantee the safety and authenticity of their products...
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Advancing Tech Support
Pilz Care – Technical Support
Pilz Care offers high-quality technical support for all Pilz products across your plant and machinery. Components of the Pilz Care packages include, for example: - Help and advice available quickly when you have technical questions about applications, - On-site support or - Fast repair and express spare part delivery...
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Safety Considerations
How to Avoid Lost Time Accidents and Increase Plant Safety
In a world where plant productivity is everything, a lost time accident is the last thing anyone needs. Such an incident becomes an OSHA recordable event, adding a blemish to a company’s safety record, and leads to unplanned downtime. Considering the time off, incident investigation, paperwork, and production loss...
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Featured Video
The planar motor system XPlanar
From Beckhoff
The planar motor system XPlanar combines the advantages of conventional transport technologies with magnetic levitation. The levitating 2D product transport enables a wide range of new options for handling products within a machine and also between several machines. Similar to automated guided vehicle systems, the user benefits from the freedom of movement of the object carriers: Individual goods can be transported to any location via any route. XPlanar combines this flexibility with the dynamics of conventional linear motors and offers added value through cycle-time-optimized linking of individual production steps.
Watch the video HERE.
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Growing Networks
Omron Announces Armo-Tool as Certified Systems Integrator Partner
Omron Automation Americas recently announced Armo-Tool Ltd., an automation solution provider in North America, as a new partner in its Certified Systems Integrator program. Armo-Tool’s strong knowledge of automation and tooling combined with extensive experience in machinery and systems design provides manufacturers with a much-needed understanding of various challenges’ root causes.
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Vention and OnRobot Partner to Bring a One-Stop-Shop for Cobot Applications to Manufacturers Globally
Vention, a manufacturing automation platform (MAP), recently announced its partnership with OnRobot, which makes tools for collaborative applications. This partnership combines Vention’s online-first manufacturing automation platform with OnRobot’s library of plug-and-play end-of-arm tools to accelerate the design and deployment of end-to-end cobot applications.
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Upcoming Event
ROKLive - Get Inspired to Innovate!
Join Rockwell Automation for ROKLive 2021, happening June 29-30, to explore the explosion of digital technologies in manufacturing today. They’ll discuss how leading companies are applying analytics for actual insights, the newest collaboration tools designed for operations teams, and how they’re tackling uncertainty...
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Machine Safety Handbook
Machine Safety Issue
Machine Safety: Protecting Your Assets By Owen Hurst: This month Automation Canada is focusing on Machine Safety. There is no question that this is and has been a primary focus of attention over the last few years, and for good reason. Advancements in technology, and in particular motion, have driven a need...
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In Case You Missed It: May Connectivity Corner
Decoding the Most Versatile Industrial Connector in the World
If you were around in 1980’s you will probably remember walkmans, vcrs, mix tapes and big hair bands on MTV, amongst other things. The decade started with the release of PacMan, the Rubiks Cube and a Hollywood actor called Ronald Reagan winning the US Presidential election. It ended with the first episode...
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Parker’s High Performance Flange System Gains New Certification for Marine Applications
Parker Hannifin, a global manufacturer of motion and control technologies, has recently announced that its mechanical flange system for machines and plants (with working pressures of up to 420 bar) - “HPF - Parker High Performance Flange System” - has gained DNV GL approval for marine applications. The DGUV approval...
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Wieland Electric Presents MOLA, a New Device Connector for the RST Mini System
The new device connector clearly sets a signal for the future in the area of pluggability, as there is no comparable system on the market. The special features of the new product all revolve around flexible and simple assembly. This is achieved by double conductor connections, which are equipped with a push-in spring, the...
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Emerson Introduces World’s First Non-Contacting Radar Level Transmitter Designed Specifically for Food and Beverage Applications
To meet the need for highly accurate and reliable level measurement in hygienic applications, Emerson has developed the Rosemount 1408H Level Transmitter, the world’s first non-contacting radar device designed specifically for the food and beverage industry. Dedicated features include a hygienic compact design, fast...
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From Concept to Market: The First Ethernet-APL Field Switch for Process Automation
When it comes to Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things and digital transformation, the process industry —especially the field within the process plant—has been the blind spot of the industrial landscape. An innovative technology developed in cooperation with twelve companies and four standards organizations is...
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Mouser Electronics: Lumberg Automation Sensor/Actuator Connectors
Lumberg Automation Sensor/Actuator Connectors include M8 and M12 connectors and cordsets with flexible and robust design as well as a large number of standard and special options. Lumberg's offerings of sensor/actuator connectors are suitable for a wide variety of application markets such as food and beverage...
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New Versions of the Safety Laser Scanner PSENscan - For Productive Area Monitoring
New versions of the safety laser scanner PSENscan enable even greater productivity for safe area monitoring: The 17-pin versions and ME version (master encoder) of PSENscan provide further digital inputs and outputs to implement up to 70 switchable configurations and monitor up to three separate safety...
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Easy Ways to Increase Production Line Flexibility
Flexible manufacturing doesn't have to mean implementing advanced technologies like the Omron LD Series mobile robots. If you're trying to boost flexibility on a budget, there are plenty of simpler devices that can dramatically increase production line layout options. Let's take a look at some of these. The A2W Series...
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PULS: Field Power Supplies
The decentralized FIEPOS field power supplies with high protection classes IP54, IP65 or IP67 were developed for flexible use directly in the field. The efficient 300W and 500W field power supplies fit in a very robust and compact housing. Various versions are available from stock – including current-limited outputs for...
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