Industrial Technology

Robust connector housing for extreme requirements

The new Han M Plus range of connectors from Harting incorporates effective protection against extreme environmental influences through the use of an additional polyurethane coating. This new coating not only increases the connectors' impact resistance but also protects them from extreme mechanical and chemical influences.

12th December 2014

Siemens team up with Ben Ainslie Racing to launch innovation partnership

Siemens PLM Software in the UK have teamed up with Ben Ainslie Racing to announce a landmark technology and innovation partnership ahead of the team's plan to compete in the world renowned America's Cup, to be held in 2017.

9th December 2014

Air Design supplies AHUs for Forth Golf Club

At the prestigious Renaissance Club, one of the newest golf courses in Scotland, four innovative air handling units supplied by Air Design are presently recovering heat in the clubhouse.

9th December 2014

SolidCAM helps JL Racing to reduce machining times by 50%

CEO and Founder of SolidCAM, Dr. Emil Somekh, paid a special visit to Brazilian racing Stock Car manufacturer JL Racing. The visit, organized by SolidCAM's distributor in Brazil, IST Sistemas, was aimed at strengthening the partnership between the companies. Since SolidCAM's installation in JL Racing by IST Sistemas in November 2013, shorter cycle times by 50% were achieved in the manufacturing of JL Racing metal parts.

9th December 2014

Modicon M221 - The Small Yet Powerful Logic Controller

See how to achieve benchmark performance while increasing profitability and discover the new Modicon M221 logic controller for hardwired architectures. The Modicon M221 is the most complete controller in the new Modicon range. It requires minimal installation, offers tremendous versatility and is available also in book format.

3rd December 2014

SoMachine Basic - Software for Modicon M221 Controllers

See how to program any functionality of your machine as easy and as fast as possible and discover SoMachine Basic- Schneider Electric's lightweight software solution dedicated to our new Modicon M221 controller. The intuitive automation of simple machines within just four steps: Hardware configuration, programming, display configuration, commissioning -- and your machine is running.

2nd December 2014

Connect and go with the new readychain speed from Igus

Continuing the readychain concept, energy chain specialist Igus launches 'readychain speed' - a pre-harnessed energy chain system that is ready to fit directly onto a machine without the need for specialist tools.

28th November 2014

When good metal goes bad

When a designer is faced with the specification of an enclosure to house and protect a specific device or control system, there is an art to getting the exact enclosure product to fulfil the requirement exactly, as the experts at Fibox explain.

23rd November 2014

Counting the costs of poor quality

In any machine or system, some components are more important than others. However, sometimes the importance of a particular part is underappreciated; a typical example being an electrical enclosure, where it is usually a false economy to go for the poor quality option.

23rd November 2014

Reduce your design time

To assist in reducing busbar design and installation time Rittal's RPE design software has been developed for the design and creation a parts list for a distribution system. The RPE software has been designed to integrate the RiLine60 shrouded busbar system into standard Rittal enclosures.

23rd November 2014