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New industrial network solution Digi IX15 combines gateway and router

New industrial network solution Digi IX15 combines gateway and router

Bressner Technology, a leading provider of hardware and software solutions, expands its IoT portfolio with the Digi IX15. It is the only fully functional industrial cellular gateway with Zigbee support. The Digi IX15 serves as both a gateway and a router, providing mission-critical applications with a suitable network platform.
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Advanced industrial motion control

Advanced industrial motion control

Dynetics presents the SOMANET servo drives from Synapticon: Integrated motion for robotics, machine building and autonomous industrial systems. Synapticon, based in Schönaich near Stuttgart, Shanghai and Redwood City (Silicon Valley), is reshaping the world of motion control for robotics and machines at the point of motion. The company is introducing an entirely new approach to motion axes by integrating formerly discrete components such as motors, drives, sensors and gears into seamless units,...
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Rugged connectors for tough requirements

Rugged connectors for tough requirements

CPC-connector series overmoulded – single outlet, double outlet & termination caps. CONEC has expanded its range of agricultural connectors to include overmolded versions of the CPC connector series. In addition to agricultural and automotive engineering, CPC connectors are frequently used in control cabinets, robotics, injection molding machines and machine tools.
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Industry 4.0 and Additive Manufacturing

Industry 4.0 and Additive Manufacturing

CoreTechnologie's 3D printing software 4D_Additive enables quality check, repair and preparation of models in accordance to CAD‑engineering standard. Considering the demographic development and the fact that the baby boomers will retire within the next fifteen years, industrial production will have to be guaranteed in the future with increasingly scarce human resources. A drastic population decline is also forecast in China. Thus, the disappearance of the world's extended workbench is a very...
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Image processing in a new dimension

Image processing in a new dimension

Spectra PowerBox 5000: Scalable high-end GPU computing system. Modern processes in industrial AI and machine vision are closely linked to image processing. This requires industrial PC systems with CPU and GPU performance large enough to process the tasks in real time.
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Increased efficiency of device production

Increased efficiency of device production

M12x1 insulation body and housing, L-coded, THR. CONEC has expanded its portfolio of M12 connectors to include L-coded axial THR variants (THR = Through Hole Reflow), thus offering a compact, powerful solution for supplying power to automation devices.
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Human Digital Twin: The digital counterpart to the human worker

Human Digital Twin: The digital counterpart to the human worker

Wearables from ProGlove make humans a driving force of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. The Digital Twin is a digitized model that maps the physical characteristics of a production environment as well as the processes. But this mapping has its limitations, as it only includes data from machines and not from humans. At the same time, human employees will continue to play an important role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0. The challenge lies in combining the...
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The future of fast data transmission

The future of fast data transmission

With the Y-FLEX high-speed FPC you can establish data rates of 56 Gbps (PAM4) over a cable length of 100 mm. Conventional technologies such as Flexible Flat Cables and Flexible Printed Circuits (FFC/FPC) or micro-coaxial cables cannot cope with requirements for extremely high reliability and continuously increasing data transmission rates between internal printed circuit boards. The Y-FLEX technology of Yamaichi Electronics solves this problem.
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Panasonic IoT solutions

Panasonic IoT solutions

With a broad automation product portfolio and technology solutions, Panasonic Industry is the partner for setting up solutions for fully connected production lines.
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Industrial Raspberry Pi® alternative

Industrial Raspberry Pi® alternative

If you have developed your application on a Raspberry Pi® basis and are now faced with the problem of having to use it in an industrial environment, ICP Germany offers with the ND108T an adequate replacement.
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Ready to robot – Combination of different connection systems

Ready to robot – Combination of different connection systems

Weidmüller Klippon® Connect terminal blocks AITB for building installation. The requirements for building installations are manifold: Energy efficiency and safety are among them, as are flexibility and convenience, to name only the most important. The necessary infrastructure in a building requires numerous main, sub-distribution and small distribution boards as well as meter cabinets. What they all have in common is that they must accommodate very many functions in a very limited space.
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Creating value from machine and process data

Creating value from machine and process data

iTAC.​SMT.​Edge: Efficient solution for standardisation and centralisation of data in SMT production. Data is becoming more and more important in electronics manufacturing. It is the basis for increasing efficiency, avoiding errors and creating more value, for example through prevention and prediction services. SMT manufacturers and other manufacturing companies are faced with the challenge of having to collect and analyze data accordingly in order to be able to develop such services. Especially...
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Bosch Rexroth performs handling tasks mechatronically – the quick and easy way

Bosch Rexroth performs handling tasks mechatronically – the quick and easy way

An intelligent multi-axis system – quicker, more convenient and more cost‑effective than ever before: Bosch Rexroth now makes this possible with the new Smart Function Kit for Handling. After the Smart Function Kit for Pressing and Joining, the linear motion technology experts are expanding the Smart MechatroniX solution platform with a second predefined subsystem which can be operated intuitively.
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SENSOR+TEST 2021 – the digital innovation dialog!

SENSOR+TEST 2021 – the digital innovation dialog!

The leading trade fair for sensor and measurement technology SENSOR+TEST will take place digitally from 4-6 May 2021. On the three days of the trade fair, participants can expect a plethora of exciting topics dealing with the entire spectrum of measuring technology.
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4 kW power supply with 3-phase delta or WYE input

4 kW power supply with 3-phase delta or WYE input

TDK-Lambda expands the TPS series with a power supply unit with 48 V, 83.3 A and 4 kW output power. The TPS4000-48 operates from an industrial three-phase input. It can automatically run from 400, 440, or 480 Vac nominal delta or WYE inputs, without wiring changes or the need for large, costly step-down transformers.
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Intelligent mobile remote monitoring of industrial plants

Intelligent mobile remote monitoring of industrial plants

The mobile app easymon from in-tech enables real-time monitoring of machines and plants - worldwide and locally. The app supports the open control platform PLCnext Control and is available from Phoenix Contact's PLCnext App Store. On request, the engineering specialist in-tech can develop customer-specific extensions. Modification to other control families is planned.
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Professional GPU accelerator with ten expansion slots

Professional GPU accelerator with ten expansion slots

Bressner Technology, a leading provider of specialized high-performance computing (HPC), has expanded its PCI Express Gen 4 product line with the introduction of the 4U Pro, a professional Gen 4 expansion platform that offers twice the performance of the previous Gen 3 standard.
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Powerful miniature servo motors from NPM

Powerful miniature servo motors from NPM

Nippon Pulse Motor (NPM) – represented by Dynetics – presents a new compact series of direct drive servo motors.
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Expansion of the HMI‑product family

Expansion of the HMI‑product family

The Panel Mount HMI TANARO 7.0 BX PCT is designed for applications with high performance requirements. Garz & Fricke introduces the TANARO 7.0 BX PCT, the latest evolution of its existing family of Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs). The TANARO 7.0 BX PCT is the first HMI based on Garz & Fricke's new TANARO board.
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Customized touch‑tables Made in Germany

Customized touch‑tables Made in Germany

The Wooden Touch Table is the latest application from Printec-DS. High-quality workmanship and extensive features enable fascinating applications. With its new touch table, the southern German manufacturer has created a scalable design that can be easily tailored to customer-specific requirements.
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Industrial Panel‑PC in IP66/69K stainless steel housing

Industrial Panel‑PC in IP66/69K stainless steel housing

Spectra-Panel Z-Series meets requirements of the food, pharmaceutical and medical industries. Hygiene requirements are particularly high in the food, pharmaceutical and medical industries. Since the spread of particles, germs and other contaminants must be prevented at all costs, materials are used in the production process whose contamination potential is as low as possible.
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Interactive 7-inch All-in-One PC with PoE+

Interactive 7-inch All-in-One PC with PoE+

With the new interactive All-in-One PC AFL3-W07-AL2 ICP Germany extends its portfolio of compact PoE capable PCAP touch PCs for industrial use as operating and display unit.
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Smart Embedded Displays for HMI

Smart Embedded Displays for HMI

Highly integrated, intelligent displays are in high demand these days. Most of the time, the modern HMI (Human Machine Interface) is complex and requires more processor resources than the control of the actual application. With a smart embedded display product, DMB Technics covers a large part of the requirements for current HMI and makes computing power available where it is needed.
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Mars helicopter's 40-second flight makes history

Mars helicopter's 40-second flight makes history

Maxon precision motors control the pitch of the rotor blades. Space fans are thrilled: NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has successfully completed its pioneering flight on Mars. This is the first time in the history of powered, unmanned spaceflight that a device has flown in a controlled manner on another planet – also thanks to DC motors that have been modified for this challenge.
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