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Festo’s Productivity Master Points the Way to Digitalization

 

Festo’s Productivity Master shows how digital manufacturing can revolutionize the total value experience for customers, making it feasible and cost-effective to offer them individualized products created by a fully automated process, from order placement to delivery. The Productivity Master seamlessly connects all handling hardware and software to create a digitalized production line that can be monitored by anyone from anywhere but is otherwise hands off from the vendor’s perspective. It requires no human interaction with the customer and only such intervention as is necessary to maintain the system.

 

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Introducing Snap Signal: Hardware and Software for your IIoT Evolution

 

Snap Signal is an easily deployable, complete portfolio of modular IIoT hardware and software that delivers actionable machine data from across your factory. More than just another flavor of IIoT, Snap Signal is an overlay network that can capture data signals from virtually any source. It seamlessly converts these sources to a single industry-standard protocol, then distributes the data for quick and easy consumption. Snap Signal offers you the flexibility to monitor key equipment within one area or monitor your whole facility.

 

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Flexiv Gains ‘World’s First’ CE and ETL Certification for ‘Force-Controlled Robot’

 

 Flexiv, a maker of “general-purpose” robotics, has received CE and ETL approval for their Rizon 4 robot, making it the “first-ever” seven-axis force-controlled adaptive robot to acheive both certifications at the same time, according to the company. Demonstrating the “intrinsic safety” of the Rizon 4 robot, the CE and ETL approval was awarded by the world’s foremost testing, inspection, certification and assurance provider, Intertek. Accepted in the EU and Northern America, the approval enables Flexiv to distribute the Rizon 4 in the European Union, Canada, and the USA.

 

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Meet the New E-Series Cobot from Universal Robots Featuring a Built-In Force Torque Sensor

 

Meet the new e-Series Cobot from Universal Robots featuring a built-in force torque sensor. There are boundless applications this cobot can do, from packaging and palletizing to machine tending and assembly. Universal Robots produce a collaborative robotic arm that is commonly referred to as a “cobot”. It is extremely flexible and easy to use in the day-to-day production. It differs from anything else in the market because it is lightweight, simple for any non-robot expert to re-program, and is easily moved around production facilities. This creates possibilities for small and medium-sized companies to implement robots into their production without needing robot expertise within the company.

 

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Festo’s BionicSwift: New Impulses for Factory and Process Automation

Date The BionicSwifts are agile, maneuverable, and can even fly loops and steep turn In everyday factory operations, automation technology performs typical tasks such as gripping, moving and positioning goods, and controlling and regulating processes. Nature solves all these tasks naturally, simply, and energy efficiently. What could be more logical than to examine these natural…

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Introducing Our Strongest Mobile Robot, the New HD-1500 by Omron

 

Introducing Omron’s strongest mobile robot. With a 1,500kg payload capacity, the new HD-1500 autonomously loads and transports the heaviest of objects. This ultra-strong mobile robot features studier metal skins that withstand heavier impacts and more demanding tasks. This powerful solution based on proven LD Series technology will reduce forklift usage and get more done with less equipment. Omron’s mobile robot offering is expanding by the year to meet your specific needs with easy deployment.

 

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New Generation of Clamping Force Blocks with a Wide Range of Variants

 

Always one step ahead: SCHUNK was the first company to launch clamping force blocks on the market. The TANDEM3 modular system continues the success story: The new series replaces the existing TANDEM-plus modular system and expands the portfolio with numerous variants. This means that SCHUNK is able to offer more solutions and services for workpiece clamping in its standard range than any other company, paving the way for use in automated machine loading.

 

 

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SCHUNK’s New High-Performance Universal Gripper

 

With the new optimized 2-finger parallel gripper JGP-P, SCHUNK is further expanding its family of universal grippers alongside the SCHUNK flagship PGN-plus-P. The successor of the JGP has the advantage through its increased gripping force, flexibility in application, and a variety of query options. With this development, the gripping system specialist continues to raise the bar when it comes to price/performance optimized pneumatic grippers.

 

 

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Plug & Play for Energy Storage Systems – All for Energy with Han® S Connectors and Cable Assemblies

 

Benefit from minimal wiring input on site and shorter installation times: fielding its Han® S connector, HARTING is now presenting an ideal solution for assembling energy storage systems (ESS) based on battery storage modules – thereby making vital contributions to the establishment of high-performance infrastructures for decentralised energy supply. 

 

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New RHINO Power Supplies with Integrated UPS and Power Boost Technology from AutomationDirect

 

AutomationDirect has added open frame and panel mount power supplies, with integrated UPS functionality, to their RHINO SELECT series of power supplies. The integrated UPS feature provides seamless battery switchover to keep critical operations running when there is an unexpected loss of power.

 

 

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Allied Electronics & Automation Expand Product Offerings in November

 

Allied Electronics & Automation expanded its suppliers in November with KIPP in tools and hardware products, Nachi America Hydraulics in pneumatics and fluid control offerings, and Murrplastik adding products in the wire and cable categories. The new suppliers further expand Allied’s line card of more than 550 world-class suppliers. New products from these suppliers are now available at www.alliedelec.com.