Balluff’s new pressure sensors with integrated displays provide a programming function, a visual display of the current pressure, and a diagnostics window into the sensor.
As automation continues to transform manufacturing productivity, competitiveness often comes down to maintaining “lights out” processes and lowering engineering time and costs. While robotic systems can provide undeniable benefits like efficiency and labor savings, not every task is ideally suited for automation.
Emtelle, global manufacturer of pre-connectorised, blown fibre cabling and ducted network solutions, announces today the first instalment of its focused expansion at the
Emtelle GmbH manufacturing facility in Erfurt, Germany. New extrusion lines have been purchased to increase manufacturing capabilities at the German factory.
The brand-new HVF-E visual flow indicators with flow-meter sensor find applications on machines requiring flow measurement, like irrigation systems, heating/cooling systems, machines mixing water and detergents or automatic fluid loading the tanks.
A leading UK manufacturer of soft drinks that was experiencing premature bearing failures on its automatic bottle sleeving machine, resolved the issue by adopting non-contact, shielded, greased-for-life deep groove ball bearings from NSK. The move has increased the operational life of the bearings by a factor of 52, which in turn is generating annual savings of €10,874.
With WebSentinel Predict, Datalogic is launching a new Cloud-based data gathering and analytics suite, crucial for customers to maximize their investments in Datalogic devices and services, increase uptime, and minimize cost of operations.
OEM equipment builders require a single source of robust sensors for integration within machines for producing N95 face masks. Material feeds must be synchronized prior to assembly and, during the process, the part-completed mask must be positioned correctly.