Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:

Today we’re covering news about Cognex, Advantech, Siemens, Aspentech, Thermosystems and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Monday, February 13, 2023.

First up we have an announcement from RS here detailing the addition of new suppliers including ILME and ABB Robotics.

Next up is a new product announcement from Cognex here about their new high speed barcode reader, the DataMan 580.

Advantech also announced a new product here, the UTC-300 line of Industrial Panel PCs. They state this new line of IPCs has the latest technology which gives them the top performance spot in the market today.

Antaira is back with a new blog here about 8.02.3BT, and why it can be a real game changer for Industrial POE Switches. If you’d like to learn more about Antaira’s line of industrial switches, check out our podcast with them here.

As for our product spotlight, today we’re highlighting The Automation Blog’s 2013-2020 Video Collection here. This is a great way to show your support for the work we do here at The Automation Blog, and it’s available on either a physical USB memory stick or as a digital download.

Today in our pub crawl we came across one document of interest here, which is a new manual for the Siemens Sinamics G115D VFD. If you’d like to learn more about Siemens VFDs, check out our previous Podcasts with them on the Siemens VFD Line and on using Siemens VFDs on Ethernet/IP

Today in our Q & A and Tech Tips section we discuss a question the came in here at The Automation Blog about what a user should do if their PLC doesn’t show up in the RSLinx RSWho window.

And finally, in our “what’s coming up” segment, we’re highlighting a new Q&A video about messaging a PowerFlex 52x series VFD from Logix, and this video releases at 3:30pm ET here.

And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)

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