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VIA Rail Delivers New Levels of Comfort, Accessibility, and Sustainability with Its New Corridor Fleet

 

VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail) marked a historic milestone recently with the unveiling of the first trainset of its state-of-the-art new fleet that will serve the Québec City – Windsor corridor. With the new test train parked on the platform of the LEED certified Ottawa station behind them, VIA Rail President and Chief Executive Officer, Cynthia Garneau and the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Françoise Bertrand, introduced Canadians to the first of 32 new trains in VIA Rail’s new Corridor fleet  – a building block of VIA Rail’s modernization program which will help to create the VIA Rail of tomorrow.  

 

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HANNOVER MESSE Will be Postponed | New Date 30 May – 2 June 2022

 

Deutsche Messe AG, in close cooperation with the HANNOVER MESSE exhibitor advisory board and partner associations VDMA (Association of German Mechanical and Plant Engineering) and ZVEI (Central Association of German Electrical Engineering and Digital Industry), has rescheduled HANNOVER MESSE 2022 for 30 May–2 June. The show was originally planned for April. Experience shows that summer is best for face-to-face events, so the new date offers all participants the greatest possible safety and planning security. Taking into account the current concentration of events in the summer months, as well as vacation and travel times, HANNOVER MESSE will be carried out once as a four-day event.

 

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Exciting News at Proax

 

SMC Automation Canada, Ltd will move its Canadian warehouse to Noblesville, Indiana in an effort to consolidate certain business functions.  We are pleased to announce that Proax Technologies Ltd, Canada’s fastest growing automation distributor, will take over our 76,000 sq. ft. facility at 6700 Millcreek Dr. in Mississauga.  In addition, SMC’s existing Canadian warehouse & assembly team will be joining Proax effective January 1, 2022.

 

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Government of Canada Supports Scale-up and Growth of Southern Ontario’s Manufacturing Sector

 

The manufacturing industry has shown great resilience despite the challenges of the last few years. By adapting to new technologies, production methods, marketing strategies, and business processes, it is becoming more competitive and transitioning to a greener economy. The Canadian government is working to ensure businesses and communities in every region of the country have the tools and support they need to recover, create new jobs, and to seize new opportunities to strengthen the economy. 

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Drive Obsessed. Safety Obsessed.

 

At Control Techniques, we take safety very seriously. Our engineers put a lot of effort into the development phase of our products to make sure they are as safe as possible to the customer. We’re drive obsessed and equally obsessed about the safety of our drives. Integrated safety is the new paradigm of system design. The modern industrial processes face a significant challenge – the constant demand for increased machine throughput and a parallel need to reduce points of failure, all while ensuring the health and safety of human operators.

 

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Digi-Key Electronics Adds Over 500 New Suppliers and 125,000 SKUs in 2021

 

Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world’s largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, announced that it significantly expanded its portfolio in 2021 by adding more than 500 new suppliers across their core business, Digi-Key Marketplace and Fulfilled by Digi-Key program. They also added more than 125,000 new SKUs to their core business unit in 2021.

 

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IO-Link Accelerates Digitalization of Process Plants

 

IO-Link is enjoying increasing popularity, with demand for the communications standard growing rapidly, especially in the food & beverage industry. The fieldbus-independent technology for point-to-point communication is easy to use and provides a cost-effective way to digitalize industrial plants. Endress+Hauser, a leading provider in the industry, offers a wide range of IO-Link products for a large selection of process parameters.

 

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Digi-Key Hosts Strategic Procurement Fireside Chat Dec. 16

 

 Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world’s largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, will host a live fireside chat on strategic procurement on Thursday, Dec. 16, at 11 a.m. CST. This free virtual event is open to all professionals who are involved in procurement and purchasing in any business area or industry.”

 

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Digi-Key Partners with CalcuQuote to Integrate Quote API and Allow Customers an Easier Path to Securing Pricing for 30 Days

 

 

 Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world’s largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, has partnered with CalcuQuote to integrate its technology with Digi-Key’s Quote API, providing customers with an even easier entry point to connecting with the company’s leading APIs with less development investment.

 

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Control Techniques Finds Way Around Global Microcontroller Shortage

 

Control Techniques Engineers step up to the plate, in record time, to tackle the global microprocessor shortage.When your company manufactures products that rely on advanced microcontrollers at the heart of the product and these components are in very short supply globally, you have two choices. You let the crisis that is affecting the rest of the world affect you or you do something about it!

 

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How ABB Ability™ eMine Allows Industry to “Do Mining in a Better Way”

 

ABB’s Head of Mining, Process Industries, discusses the electrification of mining in the latest episode of ABB Decoded and explores how mines can become more sustainable themselves while extracting the minerals essential to creating climate-friendly solutions. The game-changing solution ABB AbilityTM eMine helps make the all-electric mine possible.