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Enclosures facilitate easy rewiring as manufacturing plants evolve

Enclosures facilitate easy rewiring as manufacturing plants evolve

Until recently, rewiring automated plants as production requirements change and evolve could be a daunting prospect. Each change to the plant was likely to make the wiring a little more complicated and a little less efficient, with the danger that after a number of changes it comes to resemble an explosion in a spaghetti factory. Now Spelsberg, has developed a solution that means wiring layouts can be kept neat through any number of changes, making both reconfiguring and fault tracing easy and efficient.

1st August 2016
High top versions added to enclosures range

High top versions added to enclosures range

OKW has extended its Railtec C DIN rail enclosures range with a new high top version. High top Railtec C is suitable for applications including automation, building and safety, HVAC, timers, sensors, relays, lighting controls, subrack interfaces, modules, amplifiers and transformers.

1st August 2016
Rittal extends busbar range

Rittal extends busbar range

A range of market-leading power distribution systems for enclosures has just been extended. Rittal’s popular 185mm Ri4Power busbar provides trusted, safe and compact power distribution within enclosures.

1st August 2016
Miniature enclosures optimised for USB

Miniature enclosures optimised for USB

When USB3.0 was introduced, offering theoretical data signalling rates of 5Gbits/s compared with the 480Mbits/s available from USB2.0, the protocol became significantly more useful across a variety of applications. The latest standard to be published, USB3.1, further increases performance to 10Gbits/s and reduces line encoding overhead. All flavours use a Type A standard plug as the interface to the host machine. 

1st August 2016
Extra efficiency in panel planning, installation and operation

Extra efficiency in panel planning, installation and operation

Can an innovative new portfolio of terminal blocks deliver more productivity in panel building? Weidmüller believes it can, and has reintroduced the Klippon brand name.

1st August 2016
Embedding intelligence into motion plastics

Embedding intelligence into motion plastics

One of the keys to Industry 4.0 will be condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. Embedding intelligence into its motion plastics, Igus is offering exactly that, increasing plant availability.

1st August 2016
Micro PLC offers IoT capability provided by custom web pages

Micro PLC offers IoT capability provided by custom web pages

Offering a compact and modular format, multiple expansion modules, nano-second performance, on-board Ethernet communications as standard and built-in web pages, the latest controller from Idec offers maximum flexibility.

1st August 2016
RS Components enters into global distribution agreement with Pfannenberg

RS Components enters into global distribution agreement with Pfannenberg

RS Components has signed a long-term distribution partnership agreement with Pfannenberg (UK) Ltd for the supply of the company’s range of enclosure thermal management solutions including devices such as filterfans, cooling units, heaters, thermostats, sounders and beacons.

29th July 2016
Rittal automation system delivers commercial benefits to panel builders

Rittal automation system delivers commercial benefits to panel builders

When the directors of Peterborough-based panel builders Pneumatechnique were looking at ways to improve efficiency and offer better production consistency they turned to Rittal and its automation systems for switchgear construction. Pneumatechnique’s aim was to find ways to lower both overheads and operational costs.

20th July 2016
CC-Link IE and CC-Link adoption soars as industrial world becomes ever more connected

CC-Link IE and CC-Link adoption soars as industrial world becomes ever more connected

Over 2,000,000 CC-Link IE and CC-Link devices were installed in industrial automation applications during 2015, bringing the total number of nodes around the world to almost 17,000,000 by the end of the financial year in March 2016.

15th July 2016
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