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SMC Launches New Air Grippers and Flow Controller

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Today SMC launched two new products, a series of Air Grippers for collaborative robots, and a new Air Flow Controller. The Air Grippers are require just 1 air supply tube and 1 electrical wire, and have a built-in solenoid valve, exhaust throttle valve with silencer, auto switch, and fitting. The new...

Banner’s New Pressure Sensors

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Banner announced their new S15C series of pressure sensors available to measure ranges up to 5000 psi. These sensors feature 4–20 mA analog outputs and include a Modbus converter with pre-scaled value, and allows for simple integration with SNAP ID. The series launched with six stainless-steel models ideal for liquid-pumping...

Festo’s Decentralized I/O Boosts Machine Performance

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According to a new Blog on Rockwell's website, Festo 's CPX-AP-I decentralized I/O brings increased responsiveness and diagnostics to pneumatic systems and includes an L5X file export for faster and simpler programming in Studio 5000. Some of the specs listed in the article included that the CPX-AP-I I/O includes EtherNet/IP ...

Rockwell Automation and Infinitum Team Up To Make High-Efficiency Low Voltage Drives and Motors

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Infinitum, creator of the sustainable air core motor, and Rockwell Automation announced an exclusive agreement to develop and distribute a new class of high-efficiency, low voltage drive and motor tech. This solution is said to significantly reduce energy and costs for industrial customers. Energy conscious companies already implement variable frequency...

Medium Voltage Continuous Thermal Monitoring

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Many facilities around the globe are making the most of scheduled shutdowns, and they are using that time to invest in upgrades that align with their digital transformation goals. And according to Grace Technologies, one of the most significant shifts in the  industry is the growing interest in continuous thermal...

Ignition 8.1.32: New BACnet Read/Write Functions, Scripting Style Guidance

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The Inductive Automation Dev Team does it again with a another shipment of slam-dunk update full of improvements. Their latest release, Ignition 8.1.32, delivers many new features including new scripting functions and acceptable values for their BACnet Driver, guidance for parsing script functions and docstrings, and much more. See the below...

Can Modern DevOps Bridge the Manufacturing Talent Gap?

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For many years globalization and outsourcing had taken its toll on American Manufacturing, as corporations focused on profits to the determent of their customers. But in more recent years the trend of reshoring and the Manufacture Local movement has given a boost to manufacturing in America, however their is still...

Honeywell To Automate American Battery Factory’s New Gigafactory

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Honeywell announced today that American Battery Factory, makers of Lithium Iron Phosphate battery cells, has chosen Honeywell’s automation and process safety solutions for its new gigafactory located in Tucson, Ariz. The new facility is approximately 2 million square feet, and will be the largest gigafactory to produce LFP cells in...

Straton Redundancy S2 ProfinetIO

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As we previously reported, the Straton redundant runtime now supports S2 redundancy on ProfinetIO. In this configuration, the Primary and Secondary controllers both connect to devices on Profinet, allowing active switching with low latency, avoiding temporary network failures. S2 redundancy also allows a reduction of the switching time from one controller...

Beckhoff Camera, Lighting & Lensing

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Beckhoff is promoting their new camera, lighting and lensing hardware as part of a comprehensive, integrated image processing solution. With Beckhoff Vision, the company says engineers will see new possibilities for applications that require machine vision hardware and automation software that are perfectly matched. See the below video clip for our...

Cognex’s New In-Sight SnAPP

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Cognex announced the launch of their new In-Sight SnAPP vision sensor, which they market as an ease of use, accurate, and highly functional industrial vision sensor. Their new In-Sight SnAPP is designed for simplicity and ease of deployment so as to give customers a new, accessible on-ramp to machine vision. See...

Rockwell Stratix 5200 Switches

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Rockwell Automation announced the release of a new line of Stratix switches today. This new line, the Stratix 5200, is said to offer increased functionality and are easier to set up, configure. The Stratix 5200 fully managed switches offer various hardware configurations and features, including: Higher port speed options with...

Heavy-Duty, Compact 1200kg AMR

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OTTO Motors announced its new OTTO 1200 AMR, its highest performing heavy-duty AMR designed for tight spaces. This their newest AMR is designed with a narrow width and can autonomously move payloads up to 1,200 kg (2,640 lb) without compromising safety. For a summary of this article and our reflections, see...

Fully Autonomous Welding Robotics

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Path Robotics released a new press release on their new, fully autonomous robotic manufacturing system with their new autonomous Fit-up robotic system, the AF-1. Touted as "a ground-breaking robotic cell capable of performing both fit-up and welding of metal parts," they are showcasing it at FABTECH, the North American metal...

Industrial Super Capacitor Backup

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Recently, Premio published a press release on their new ECO-1000 EDGEBoost EnergyPack, stating it was, "designed to enable configurable power redundancy at the rugged edge for the most mission-critical applications that deploy industrial computers, displays, and panel PCs." For a summary of this article and our reflections, see the below...

p-Chip: Sand-Size Micro Tags

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 For a summary of this article and our reflections, see the below video clip. You can also read the original article via this link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/food-fraud-microchip

Four New Keyence Products

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 For a summary of this article and our reflections, see the below video clip. You can also read the original article via this link: https://www.keyence.com/products/vision/vision-sys/vs/index_pr.jsp

Industrial Metaverse: Five Use Cases

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 For a summary of this article and our reflections, see the below video clip. You can also read the original article via this link: https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/blog/5-use-cases-for-the-emerging-industrial-metaverse/

Augmented Reality in Manufacturing

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 For a summary of this article and our reflections, see the above video clip. You can also read the original article via this link: https://www.ptc.com/en/blogs/ar/augmented-reality-adoption-in-manufacturing

New Turck PROFINET Encoders

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Turck announced it's offering new, versatile Profinet absolute encoders for precise positioning and fast data transmission. The REM (multiturn) and RES (single-turn) series use the latest Profinet encoder profile (version 4.2,) allowing the single turn devices to offer 19-bit resolution, while the multi-turn models offerup to 24 bits of resolution. Not...

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