Industrial Technology

ODVA schedules 2012 industry conference

ODVA has announced the 2012 Industry Conference and 15th Annual Meeting will be held from 16-18 October at the Evergreen Marriott Conference Resort in Stone Mountain, near Atlanta. Conference attendees can anticipate technical presentations, workshops and networking events that will focus on improving the usage of information and communication technologies in industrial automation. The annual meeting will include keynote speakers on topics of interest, including security, energy optimisation and determinism.

7th August 2012

Mitsubishi wins award for simplifying communications

The Food and Beverage Industry has voted a unique Mitsubishi Electric integrated communications solution as the most important technological development of the year. The C-Controller solution provides a direct real-time connection between shop floor production assets to the enterprise level, interfacing to SAP, Oracle, DB2 and other business systems.

7th August 2012

UK manufacturer invests in aerospace expansion

Reliance Precision has announced a multi-million pound manufacturing investment. "In spite of the difficult economic trading environment world-wide," observes managing director, Roger Kenworthy, "we have seen consistent growth in our business and expansion of our customer base. With a strong order book and significant recent contract awards we have set out a major investment plan to expand and develop our core precision manufacturing and assembly capabilities."

7th August 2012

Reduce costs with effective enclosure climate control

Maintaining the operating temperature of control systems can play an important role in decreasing the risk of premature component failure, optimising component life expectancy and ultimately reducing costs.

7th August 2012

Floor mount cable conduit system from ETA Enclosures

A neat solution to the problems of effective cable management on the factory floor is now brought to you by ETA Enclosures in the form of E-RIVI. This sturdy floor mount cable conduit system is robust enough to handle all the knocks that a challenging factory floor environment can offer.

7th August 2012

Environmentally friendly enclosures provide broadband solution

The digital divide between remote and rural communities' verses large conurbations has long been a concern in the countryside of the UK. In order to tackle this problem, local residents of eight East Lancashire parishes set up a not-for-profit organisation called Broadband 4 Rural North (B4RN), which provides them with a modern fibre-optic network to rival any city.

7th August 2012

Flexible coding system for D-Sub miniature connectors

Harting has developed a highly flexible coding system for the D-Sub miniature connector series. This coding system prevents cable connections from being connected to the wrong port in an I/O front panel incorporating several identical D-Sub miniature connectors.

20th July 2012

New additions to Harting's Han-INOX stainless steel connector family

The Harting Han-INOX industrial connector family - made from high-quality stainless steel to withstand harsh industrial environments - is being extended with a number of new additions to provide more application flexibility.

12th July 2012

Ethernet switch allows creation of manageable next-generation networks

Harting has extended the capability of its Ha-VIS mCon 3000 range of managed industrial Ethernet switches to allow the creation of convergent and manageable next-generation networks.

29th June 2012

White paper on hinging from Elesa

Elesa are delighted to have increased their range of plastic, metal and stainless steel hinges with many standard variants, including specialist types. The Elesa range now includes:

26th June 2012