Flexibility is one of the most sought-after qualities in manufacturing systems this year. In recent years, manufacturers and automation suppliers have found that they could simultaneously increase flexibility and reduce costs by moving from a safety-by-wire solution to a safety network, adopting an approach dubbed “integrated safety.”
Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures 2020 were announced today, and Electromate was recognized as a national winner in the Emerging Market category. This national program, sponsored by Waterstone Human Capital, recognizes best-in-class Canadian organizations for fostering high performance corporate cultures that help sustain a competitive advantage.
Since the onset of Covid-19, there have been few opportunities for business people to meet face-to-face. While most major trade fairs and industry events adopted virtual formats Endress+Hauser is giving its version a different twist. Rather than running for a few days, the company’s new virtual exhibit booth will be available 24/7 throughout the winter, so customers can visit it at their leisure.
The Son Amat quarry is located on the Spanish island of Mallorca. It has a long history and is deeply rooted in the region. In the quarry, the requirements for safety standards, transport routes and production machines used are particularly high.
Dracon Automatisation from Levis, Quebec has recently become a new member of our Solution Partner Program. Authorized Solution Partners have been carefully selected as part of an initiative to market Phoenix Contact’s innovations and capabilities in the field of Industrial Automation and Industry 4.0.
On October 6th, 2020, the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) was advised that the federal government had adjusted the wording of the Strategic Assessment on Climate Change (SACC). The adjustments address the uncertainty created by some of the wording of the initial release in July.
B&R has made centralized, factory-level user management substantially easier. With the new software component mapp UserX, it is now possible to use services based on LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) to implement centralized management of users and user groups, for example using Active Directory from Microsoft.
Columbus Insurance, Inc., has honored Yaskawa with the Risk Control Award of Excellence in the manufacturing sector. This is the second consecutive year that Yaskawa has received an award as a manufacturer who has implemented risk controls that yield an industry-leading workers compensation claims frequency rate for the past five years.
Panel builders operate in exceedingly tough competitive markets, which mean that reducing time spent on designs and excluding errors and reworks – in other words – keeping costs down – is of paramount importance. But, how can you meet this challenge? If these are just a few of your issues, then there is a solution.
Brock Solutions has been selected to implement an enterprise based Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for a major provider of flexible packaging. The company has over 20 global manufacturing plants that specialize in extrusion, lamination, printing, and converting.
Festo will introduce to Rockwell Automation customers at Automation Fair@Home, November 16-20, a unique pneumatic valve manifold that enables up to Performance Level (PL)-d Category 3 safety through an integrated serial bus backplane for pneumatics.
Utilizing the capabilities that reside in their modern compressor control panels, Spartan Controls can successfully test all aspects of their compressor control systems with you in real-time, without being in the same room, city or country.
The Phoenix Contact Dialog Days are taking place for the second time this year. From November 16 to 20, 2020, customers and business partners will be digitally invited to virtual conferences with technical presentations, interviews and expert rounds. Afterwards, interested parties will have the opportunity to look around the digital trade show booth.
Festo has packaged a mix of innovative products with live product demonstrations for Pack Expo Connects November 9-13.
Festo is expanding its industry-leading technology for energy conservation and early leak detection in pneumatic production with two more intelligent energy efficiency modules – the MSE6-C2M and MSE6-D2M. They join the MSE6-E2M to form a comprehensive lineup of condition monitoring devices that optimize compressed air usage during normal operations and halt or reduce consumption during scheduled stoppages as a further economy.
CO2 is fast becoming food retailers’ refrigerant of choice. Supermarkets are currently switching to transcritical CO2 refrigeration systems at a rate of 10,000 per year—and that number continues to grow. And for good reason. CO2 offers substantial benefits, particularly to those looking to limit their impact on the environment.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
