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Editor's Pick
Endress+Hauser Canada Celebrates “Green” Building
 Endress+Hauser Canada has erected one of the country’s “greenest” commercial buildings for 20 million euros. The recently opened customer experience and process training center in Burlington, Ontario, roughly 50 kilometers southwest of Toronto, is energy-autonomous and CO2 neutral. The 4,400-square-meter facility – twice the size of the current location – houses a process training center, a large calibration lab, repair facility, training center and state-of-the-art office and recreational space for around 120 people. Read More |
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Featured Article
Festo's Aluminum Pneumatic Tubing for Welding Cells Outperforms
 Festo’s innovative PM aluminum pneumatic tubing offers a weld-spatter resistant solution in welding cells that outperforms laminated and steel pneumatic tubing on durability, flexibility, ease of installation and installed cost. PM tubing is ideal for new welding cells and as a cost-and-time efficient retrofit solution. PM aluminum tubing can be located closer to the welding process than laminated tubing, creating a more efficient pneumatic setup... Read More |
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Fostering the Talent that Drives Innovation – Lab One at Humber is Open!
 Ready To Discover Industry 4.0? SEW-Eurodrive’s Innovation Lab (Lab ONE) is located inside Humber’s 93,000 sq. ft. Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation. Lab ONE is referred to as a “Live Lab” because it demonstrates some of the worlds most sophisticated industrial work-flow processes in real time. The Lab is designed to validate the concepts of flexible manufacturing systems that are modular, connected, and utilize robotics to help improve... Read More |
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Festo's New One-Way Flow Control Valve
Festo’s new manually adjustable VFOE meets all the criteria users are seeking in a one-way flow control valve for either supply or exhaust air in standard industrial applications. With its compact, polymer body design, the VFOE is both smaller and up to 50% lighter than comparable metal-bodied flow control valves. That polymer difference and customized manufacturing allow Festo to offer VFOE... |
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Optimized Design, M8 & M12 Connectors from Pepperl+Fuchs
Powerful sensor technology requires equally powerful connection technology. That is why Pepperl+Fuchs offers a wide range of connectivity solutions for the integration of sensors into industrial plants. The portfolio focuses on M8 and M12 connectors—the standard in factory automation. Pepperl+Fuchs is introducing a new design for the M8 and M12 connectors: Due to numerous technical... |
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Powerful Sensors for Tiny Spaces: Banner's New Mini Q2X
Banner’s new Q2X sensors feature miniaturized enclosures, which allow them to be fit into a wide variety of confined industrial spaces and equipment. Despite their compact size, these sensors deliver reliable, competitive performance, with robust excess gain and sensing precision to detect challenging targets. The next-generation Q2X series complements the available Q12 series of miniature... |
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AutomationDirect's New Alliance Linear Position Transducers
AutomationDirect has added new stainless steel linear variable inductance transducers (LVITs) from Alliance Sensors Group to their growing lineup of linear position sensors. These sensors convert the linear displacement of an object into a proportional analog output of 0 to 10 VDC or 4 to 20mA (depending on model). The compact LZ13 series has a ½” diameter stainless steel body, a stainless... |
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Changing Scene
TE Connectivity and Phoenix Contact Announce Joint Development Agreement
 TE Connectivity will jointly develop with the Phoenix Contact new Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) M12 hybrid connectivity. The M12 connectors align with the hybrid format specified by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 63171-7 standard, which the IEC initiated under the guidance of TE in early 2021. The agreement brings together innovation from two global companies with high expertise in connectivity with the shared goal of driving... Read More |
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Weidmuller Signs Distribution Partnership with Shelley Automation
 Weidmuller Ltd. has signed a distribution partnership with Shelley Automation for the Ontario region in Canada. It is part of the growth strategy embarked on by Weidmuller Ltd. under the new leadership of Michael Daly, Managing Director. Shelley Automation will market Weidmuller's complete portfolio in the Ontario region. That includes I/O systems, industrial ethernet, relay modules, and power management, to name a few. Shelley Automation is... Read More |
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HELUKABEL Group Grows with Two New Acquisitions
 HELUKABEL, a leading international manufacturer and supplier of cables, wires and cable accessories, recently announced two acquisitions to further grow its core competency in the field of industrial automation. The two latest companies to join the HELUKABEL Group are ekd gelenkrohr GmbH, a drag chain manufacturer, and Sangel Systemtechnik, an industrial cable assembly manufacturer. For the group, the acquisitions are important steps... Read More |
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MDA Joins Lockheed Martin and GM on Lunar Rover Development
 MDA Ltd., a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, recently announced that it is working with Lockheed Martin and General Motors to integrate MDA’s commercial robotic arm technology on their planned human-rated lunar mobility vehicles. The addition of MDA to the industrial lunar vehicle development team follows the announcement of an agreement by Lockheed and GM in 2021 Read More |
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AMC: Canada’s Sole Platinum Distributor for UR
Universal Robots (UR) is trusted worldwide for its line of collaborative robots, or “cobots”, which are available in Canada from Advanced Motion & Controls Ltd. In fact, Advanced Motion & Controls is the sole Canadian Platinum award-winning distributor for UR products, with UR factory-trained sales, application, and service engineers who help customers to find the perfect UR cobot solutions... |
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UR+ Solutions Integrate Seamlessly with Cobot Tools
Advanced Motion & Controls Ltd. is the only Platinum-awarded distributor in Canada for Universal Robots (UR), which manufactures collaborative robot arms, or “cobots”, to make production operations easier. In addition, UR offers the unique UR+ ecosystem of certified accessories, add-ons, end-effectors, kits, and components to help facilities automate even more quickly. Customers choose... |
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Safety at an Attractive Price by Leuze
Leuze is bringing to market the new ELC 100 safety light curtains, which can be used to reliably guard points of operation: The devices contribute to making machine designs cost effective and are easy to integrate and install. Manufacturers and operating companies of machines and systems can now use new Leuze safety technology for contactless guarding of points of operation at an attractive price... |
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Interroll Presents New Plug-&-Play Conveyor Platform
With the new Light Conveyor Platform (LCP), Interroll is expanding its range of products with a platform- based material-flow solution that significantly increases the productivity of manufacturing processes. Designed as a plug-and-play modular system, the LCP allows all system integrators to implement scalable belt conveyor sections very easily in order to quickly meet customer-specific... |
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International News
What the Wave of Retiring Machinists Means to Plant Safety in the USA
 Within the next decade approximately 2.7 million “Baby Boomers” (b. 1946-1964) will retire, thereby ensuring that tens of thousands of skilled, well-paid positions will become available without a ready supply of American workers to fill them. Statistics paint an especially gloomy picture for the manufacturing sector, a widening of the skills gap, and a possible dilution of existing training programs. Compared to the rest of the economy, the impact... Read More |
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Allied Electronics Welcomes New Managing Director of Ventures
 Allied Electronics & Automation recently welcomed David Ross to the Allied Executive Leadership Team. As Allied's new managing director of ventures, David will lead the development and execution of RS Group's innovation and customer engagement strategy in the Americas and will report directly to Allied President Ken Bradley. David brings strong leadership skills and an advantageous blend of finance, technology and commercial expertise to... Read More |
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Featured Video
SEW-EURODRIVE Dorval, Quebec Canada Investments
 SEW-EURODRIVE in Dorval Quebec Canada is now open. With an 88,000 square foot facility equipped with the largest inventory of parts in Canada. Their 24/7/365 unstoppable service is built right in, and their state-of-the-art paint line is now open. And do not forget, their greatest investment is their investments: shipping investment, consistency investment, inclusion investment, quality control investment. It’s the people that drive them to drive the world. Watch the video HERE. |
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Featured Video
Bridging the Generations Gap
 ABB recognizes the importance of generational diversity and the advantages it brings to a company. The company’s Chief Human Resources Officer and newly appointed Executive Committee sponsor for generations Carolina Granat and head of Diversity and Inclusion Heidi Robertson discuss how generational diversity at ABB contributes to a more inclusive workplace. Watch the video HERE. |
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