MC Select Contrinex Photoelectric Sensors Offer IO Link Compatability 1 400

Select Contrinex Photoelectric Sensors Offer IO-Link Compatibility

 

AutomationDirect has expanded their vast offering of discrete sensors by adding Contrinex C23 standard and clear object detection sensors. These Contrinex mini rectangular photoelectric sensors are ideal for limited-space applications and are available in diffuse, diffuse with adjustable background suppression, retroreflective, and through-beam models. Sensor housings have an IP67 enclosure rating and are ECOLAB-approved for use in hygienic areas.

 

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Redefine Productivity – Introducing UR20 from Universal Robots

 

The UR20 is the result of constantly innovating and seeking to understand our customers’ needs. Manufacturers need greater payloads, larger work envelopes, faster speeds, and easier serviceability, out of their collaborative systems. We’ve gone to work and pioneered a next-generation cobot that can offer all those benefits in one product. This is cobots without compromise.

 

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EtherNet/IP® Servo Drives that Fit in the Palm of Your Hand

 

Unfortunately, there are very few low-voltage, compact EtherNet/IP®® servo drive solutions on the market. This presents a problem for engineers who want to incorporate EtherNet/IP on their low voltage mobile applications. ortunately, compact servo drives are their specialty, so Advanced Motion Controls is releasing three new FlexPro®® servo drives with support for EtherNet/IP.

 

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Nidec Machine Tool to Exhibit Two Gearmaking Machines at IMTS 2022, Booth 237036

 

Supply chain issues are driving more companies to bring manufacturing back in-house. Parallel to this trend in automotive manufacturing is the rise of electric vehicles and increasing automation. Nidec Machine Tool (Wixom, Michigan), responding to the needs of the industry, is debuting the new GE15HS gear hobbing machine at IMTS 2022 in Booth 237036. Emphasizing high speed, precision and efficiency, the new machine produces gears for electric and hybrid cars, as well as for robotic and automation applications.

 

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New! Long Life Series DH/DS NSK Linear Guides™

 

NSK linear guides are used in a wide range of applications, mainly in various types of production equipment such as semiconductor and LCD manufacturing equipment, automotive manufacturing equipment, conveyor robots, and machine tools. Customers are always hungry for products with longer service life in order to achieve high reliability and long-term stable operation. NSK’s conventional NH/NS linear guides met customer needs for high reliability by optimizing contact surface pressure distribution between rolling elements (balls) and raceway grooves.

 

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Siemens’ NX Delivers Greater Cross-Discipline Collaboration and Knowledge Capture

 

Siemens Digital Industries Software recently announced that the latest release of Siemens’ NX™ software, an industry leading product engineering solution, brings greater electronic co-design, collaboration, and intelligence capture and reuse capability. These empower engineering executives across every industry to find productivity improvements and greater efficiencies in their engineering departments.

 

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What Is New in Siemens NX | Summer 2022

 

Today, almost every product being created needs to seamlessly blend electronic and mechanical components. Every industry is experiencing this explosion of electromechanical complexity and this creates a huge challenge for the companies and teams bringing these products to market. With each new release of NX, Siemens is continuing to innovate, pushing the barriers of what product development systems are capable of. Being on continuous release gives you access to industry-leading capabilities helping you to maximize productivity and innovate more quickly than ever before. So, Siemens is going to be sharing an end-to-end workflow covering electromechanical design, mold design and analysis all the way through to manufacture.

 

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Automation Solutions in End-Of-Line Packaging from PILZ

 

In end-of-line automation in particular, robot applications are frequently used, precisely when processes such as palletizing of cartons or secondary packaging and heat sealing of pallets are involved. Personnel protection is the highest priority here and is generally provided via guards. In the event of maintenance or malfunction, it must be possible to put the machine back into operation quickly and safely, to minimize unproductive downtimes.

 

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Panduit Launches SmartZone™ Cloud Next Generation DCIM Solution

 

Panduit Corp. announces the launch of SmartZone™ Cloud Software, an enhanced cloud-based application that integrates power and environmental monitoring with asset management, rack access, and connectivity management. Datacenter operations can now monitor resources and make informed decisions related to the ever-changing critical infrastructure from any authorized device worldwide. 

 

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Beckhoff Optimizes Linear Motion with Machine Learning Solution that Eliminates Cogging

 

The highly dynamic AL8000 linear motors from Beckhoff now meet even greater requirements for accuracy and synchronization with the new TwinCAT Cogging Compensation software. This makes the linear motors particularly suitable for high-precision applications such as milling machines or laser cutting machines. The cogging compensation software makes use of machine learning, which is seamlessly integrated into TwinCAT and applied on a fully automated basis (Engineering TE5920, Runtime TF5920).

 

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HIWIN Features Torque Motor Rotary Tables at IMTS 2022

 

HIWIN Corporation, a leader in motion control and system technology, will feature families of precision motion control components this year at IMTS, with their Torque Motor Rotary Tables, (TMRT), as a highlight of their booth. IMTS will be held September 12-17, 2022, in Chicago. Designed for machine tool OEM’s and retrofitters, the TMRT series enables 3 axis machine tools to be readily upgraded to 3+1, 3+2, 4+1 or even 5 axis capability.

 

MC Endress Hauser New Wireless IIoT Sensor PRovides Tank Level Measurement 1 400

Endress+Hauser’s New Wireless IIoT Sensor Provides Tank Level Measurement from Anywhere

 

At more than 80% of all production sites, storage tank level measurement of liquids and additives is done manually, which is time- and cost-intensive. Often, it results in missing stocks only being registered when the tank has emptied and production has ground to a halt. Over-stocking to preclude such situations is usually not viable due to the added storage costs involved. Often, the measuring points are hard to access, far flung and/or difficult to supply power to.

 

MC Extremely Compact Arcworld Workcells Easily Integrate Robtics into Weld Cells 1 400

Extremely Compact ArcWorld Workcells Easily Integrate Robotics into Weld Processes by Yaskawa

 

The newest models of the ArcWorld® family of pre-engineered robotic arc welding workcells, the ArcWorld RS and ArcWorld HS, deliver a highly flexible, compact and cost-effective option for integrating robotics into current weld processes. Ideal for replacing or supplementing manual welding, such as pre-assembly before welding in larger robotic workcells, each solution is designed for optimizing small- to medium-size part production for medium volume fabrication.

 

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DoAll from Smart Vision Lights

 

The DoAll light is an all-in-one solution unprecedented in its flexibility for machine vision illumination applications. Combined in a single unit are a dome light, two angles of dark field illumination, and a four-quadrant, multispectral ring light. The DoAll is particularly useful for robotic and other flexible automation systems. The new DoAll light gives you all these functions and features in a single light enclosure. 

 

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The New Simple—Double Sheet Sensors with IO-Link Interface from Pepperl+Fuchs

 

Reliable double material detection is easier than ever before with the new range of IO-Link double sheet sensors in an M18 or M30 design from Pepperl+Fuchs, the market leader in ultrasonic sensor technology. Whether detecting paper, foil, wood, metal, or even highly reflective solar wafers, UDC-18GS-*IO-* and UDC(M)-30GS-*IO-* sensors stand out from other standard double sheet sensors on the market thanks to their incomparably simple parameterization and maximum flexibility.

 

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K50R Sensor Short-Range Radar Detection from Banner

 

Banner announces a new addition to its series of durable, reliable radar sensors. The K50R is a cost-effective adjustable-field sensor that excels in short-range applications. Radar sensors are often the best choice for outdoor applications, such as vehicle detection, because their signals are not affected by wind, sun, rain, snow, fog, or air temperature.  With almost two decades of experience producing radar sensor technology, Banner has proven to be one of the most trusted names in the industry.