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DigiKey to Showcase Full Automation Offerings and Value-Add Services at Automate 2024

Manufacturing Tomorrow

DigiKey’s automation offerings include a roster of more than 450 industry-leading suppliers in categories including PLCs, robotics, sensors, safety and more.

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RS adds Schneider Electric’s Factory Visual tool to its portfolio

Automation Mag

Both the default and custom Factory Visual environments reportedly feature five colour-coded product categories grouped by functionality to make selection simple and showcase every core Schneider Electric industrial automation and control product engineered to optimize manufacturing operations.

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Leading edge machine safety controls solutions

Control Engineering

These safety functions can be evaluated to meet a certain performance level and category level using internationally recognized standards such as ISO 13849. Safety PLCs can be integrated with a machine’s control system, allowing for real-time monitoring and control of equipment, improving production efficiency, and reducing downtime.

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Building on analytics foundations to improve operations

Control Engineering

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) were developed in the late 1960s. PLCs were a significant improvement over hard-wired relay logic, providing easy automation logic control changes and leading to the rapid adoption of digital technology in discrete and process automation manufacturing. . Profibus by Siemens. . Courtesy: Adisra.

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IT/OT convergence creates opportunities for industrial code

Control Engineering

The world of industrial code is marked by: Fragmentation: From programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and robots to computer numerical control (CNC) machines and 3D printers, the spectrum of industrial automation is vast. Each category boasts 10-50 competitors, each reliant on proprietary coding systems.

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HMS Networks Expands Range of Next-Generation Gateways with Anybus Communicator EtherCAT Main Device

i4.0 today

Users can also exchange significantly more data between the networks as the gateways transfer up to 1 500 bytes to and from connected PLCs. HMS is listed on the NASDAQ OMX in Stockholm, category Large Cap, Information Technology. HMS employs over 780 people and reported sales of SEK 2,506 million in 2022. Today Magazine.

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Advice on how to apply controllers: Control Engineering research

Control Engineering

Subjectively grouping comments into four categories showed a main topic of concern was software and programming. Find programmable logic controllers (PLCs) with more advanced hardware and capabilities, such as expanded data logging and communications. It’s easier when you stay within one manufacturer’s product line.