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RS Components announces global distribution agreement with Fischer Connectors

RS Components announces global distribution agreement with Fischer Connectors

RS Components has signed a global distribution agreement with Fischer Connectors, a world leader in high-performance circular connectors and cable assembly solutions. The agreement allows the direct distribution worldwide by RS of Fischer Connectors’ extensive portfolio of products in the Fischer UltiMate series and Fischer Core series of high-quality rugged push-pull circular connectors.

6th July 2016
Testing cable carriers in realistic situations

Testing cable carriers in realistic situations

Kabelschlepp Metool tests cable carriers for crane systems on the company’s own outdoor testing facility. Travel lengths of more than 100 meters and travel speeds of up to 5m/s can be automatically simulated there. A system developed in-house for monitoring the pull/push forces in energy chains ensures the system works safely around the clock seven days a week.

16th June 2016
Rapid Electronics adds to its Fibox offering

Rapid Electronics adds to its Fibox offering

Distributor Rapid Electronics has expanded its range of Fibox enclosure solutions to ensure its customers have a wider choice of quality enclosures that are sufficient for their increased needs.

16th June 2016
Toyota selects EtherCAT

Toyota selects EtherCAT

Toyota Motor Corporation has selected EtherCAT as its Industrial Ethernet technology of choice and will base its new factories around the world on EtherCAT. The global announcement was made by Morihiko Ohkura, General Manager of the Production Engineering Innovation Division at Toyota Motor Corporation during an EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) press briefing at Hannover Messe 2016.

16th June 2016
Addressing the challenge of panel downsizing

Addressing the challenge of panel downsizing

The challenges facing panel builders and machine designers to reduce costs, increase flexibility, and meet user requirements to optimise plant floor space, have seen trends to reduce panel sizes. And yet at the same time end users want increased functionality, often built around whole new control architectures. In this article, Jodie Commercial of Omron discusses how a new breed of compact panel components can help in addressing these challenges.

16th June 2016
Cable entry made easy with support arms

Cable entry made easy with support arms

Support arm systems for machine operation don’t just need a smart design and high load-bearing capacity; they should also offer operators easy and straightforward cable management capability. 

16th June 2016
Rittal's heavy current busbar systems approved for use on board ships

Rittal's heavy current busbar systems approved for use on board ships

The safe use of electrical equipment on board ships brings with it particular challenges. It’s an area that Rittal continues to invest in, not least to ensure its systems function effectively under the test conditions which are required by the marine industry.

26th May 2016
Automated metal-finishing benefits from Igus energy cable management

Automated metal-finishing benefits from Igus energy cable management

Manufacturing and processing machinery that handle large, long items, frequently use overhead gantries to transfer the material to, through and from the processing line. Often these gantries have to travel significant distances, whilst requiring electrical cabling to power their motors and sensors. The conventional cable management method is to have the cables mounted above the line using festoons supported by steel rails. As the gantry traverses down the line, it pulls the cables along with it on multiple trolley mechanisms.

26th May 2016
OPC Foundation to work with CLPA

OPC Foundation to work with CLPA

Digitalisation in all areas of industrial automation requires consistent communications across all levels while using Internet technologies, both inside and outside of the factory, for example to cloud-based services. This is precisely what the OPC Foundation and the CLPA hope to achieve by developing an interface specification with harmonised access.

18th May 2016
LED Luminaire brightens up the market

LED Luminaire brightens up the market

With over 25 years’ experience in the industry, Lojer Products is launching its new range of energy saving LED battens to the UK market. Highly efficient and robust, the British designed fittings provide a more natural lighting whilst saving up to 60% in electricity consumption.

18th May 2016
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