December 3, 2024 The VEFC is designed for use in electronics manufacturing, food production, and anywhere shielding gas is required. Festo introduces the VEFC mass flow controller, the company’s latest entry into its Controlled Pneumatics family of solutions. The VEFC features precisely controlled flow of inert gases of up to 200 l/min and is one…
December 3, 2024 Medical technology and laboratory automation companies can now benefit from replacing proportional solenoid valves with piezo technology, reducing their energy consumption by up to 95%. Piezo technology also operates silently without any heat built up. Up to now, it has not been possible to simply replace proportional solenoid valves since piezo technology…
December 3, 2024 CO2 emissions associated with electricity generation will also decrease and reduce the Fab’s carbon footprint. Research conducted by Festo finds a new generation of its low-energy flow-control valves utilized by Front Opening Unified Pods (FOUPs) purge systems can reduce Nitrogen gas (N2) consumption by as much as 75%. A new Festo white…
December 3, 2024 Controlled Pneumatics combines proportional technology, sensors, and control algorithms into a closed-loop control system. Festo introduces Controlled Pneumatics, a digital closed-loop control strategy for delivering energy efficiency, high dynamic response, and precision movement. Controlled Pneumatics is an ideal solution for web tensioning; welding; surface processing; flexible gripping, including vacuum gripping; dispensing and…
December 3, 2024 Manufacturers gain design and energy benefits plus productivity quality from this moderate air-flow solution. Festo introduces the VTEP, the world’s first proportional valve terminal. The VTEP is an ideal solution for flexible gripping, web tensioning, force-controlled polishing, precision piloting, dispensing, dosing, and diaphragm pump control. The VTEP valve terminal provides closed-loop control…
December 2, 2024 Endress+Hauser is launching a smart, easy way to incorporate water quality monitoring throughout utilities and process plants: Factory-assembled analytical panels equipped with the latest Memosens 2.0 sensor technology. These compact panels, for either drinking water quality or disinfection monitoring, are ready-to-go. Installation and commissioning are extremely simple, requiring operators to just affix…
December 2, 2024 Phoenix Contact is changing its item packaging over to unprinted folding cartons, both nationally and internationally. The packaging can therefore be reused – in the spirit of a sustainable circular economy. The colorful packaging used by Phoenix Contact for decades will soon become a thing of the past. Unprinted packaging is the way into…
November 28, 2024 UL listing in the “Programmable Safety Controllers” category Plant and machinery manufacturers in the USA, but also those based internationally with an export market in the USA, will be delighted: the configurable safety controller PNOZmulti 2 has received UL listing in the “Programmable Safety Controllers” category. This listing makes it much easier for plant…
November 27, 2024 Festo introduces an innovative suite of safety products, including its new CIP safety module, that ensures the safe operation of pneumatic systems and lowers the risk of injury and system and product damage. Festo pneumatic safety solutions are compatible with the top industrial Ethernet protocols – EtherNET/IP, PROFITNET, and EtherCAT – which…
November 26, 2024 ANCA’s advanced grinding solutions offer seamless finished tool grinding in a single setup, including blank preparation. This setup features the P-axis Arobotech, which supports blanks at the grind point, enabling the efficient production of various tools with a surface finish below 0.2 Ra. This process significantly reduces cycle time while boosting productivity….
November 26, 2024 XKLD31006: Newly EN50155-Certified Railway Solution celduc’s XKLD31006 is EN50155 certified and is an ideal choice for use in the demanding rolling stock environment as well as in harsh industrial applications. Their XKLD31006 has recently obtained railway certification after a series of rigorous tests, designed to simulate the extreme conditions in railway environment: such…
November 21, 2024 FLO confirms that all FLO commercial charging stations remain eligible for ZEVIP funding under this new federal directive Canada recently announced trade measures impacting vehicles from China and limiting eligibility under the Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program (ZEVIP) to electric vehicle (EV) charging products manufactured in countries that have negotiated free…
November 21, 2024 Next-generation, non-contact safety interlock switch for most common safety applications. The D40A-2 Non-Contact Safety Door Switch is designed to enhance safety and efficiency in industrial environments. This advanced switch exceeds safety standards and is ideal for manufacturing settings, featuring a coded magnetic mechanism that improves reliability and prevents bypassing. It includes 2-color…
November 21, 2024 CODI Manufacturing’s new compact, flexible 12-cycle-per-minute case packer for small to mid-sized food and beverage companies achieves an industry leading price/performance ratio. The Littleton, CO-based machine builder utilized the Festo Handling Guide Online (HGO) engineering tool to design the two-axis handling system, the core of the new machine’s package handling. By having…
November 15, 2024 For applications requiring especially high speeds and dynamics, Beckhoff offers the water-cooled AM8300 servo series with standstill torques three times greater than conventional options With the AM8300 servomotor series, Beckhoff expands its drive technology portfolio to include modular motors with integrated water cooling. Compared to conventional convection-cooled motors, these devices support higher…
November 14, 2024 Small product, big impact: Five decades ago, the company revolutionized connection technology in electrical installation with the splicing connector. The phrase “Got to have a WAGO” has been firmly anchored in the vocabulary of every professional electrician since its launch in 1974. Even today, “WAGO” stands for speed, safety and maintenance-free operation…