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The automotive industry can learn from the aviation industry when it comes to optimizing billable operating hours and fleet availability. There, many processes relating to operations have been optimized. After all, new mobility concepts in the automotive sector based on the "pay per use" principle can only be economically successful if the vehicles are on the move as often as possible.
read more...The new F3SG-SR light curtain series from Omron offers finger, hand, arm, leg and body protection, from machine openings to the outside of equipment.
read more...Designing the right shaft for an application is not easy without CAD software and in-depth expertise. This is why Igus has developed the Drylin shaft configurator, a new free and freely accessible online tool.
read more...Di-soric offers space-saving and high-resolution laser angled light barriers that detect objects as small as 0.03 mm quickly and reliably.
read more...Gripping, moving, depositing - all this is unthinkable in automated processes without the right gripper. The vacuum specialist Schmalz therefore develops flexible systems and supports the user in selecting and configuring the right components: a challenge because the number of variants is constantly increasing and batch sizes are converging towards one.
read more...Vision Components supplies its MIPI camera modules with a shielded FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit) cable, which was specially developed for the MIPI modules and has a high data transmission rate.
read more...Plugging and connecting. David Wetzel, Product Manager at Icotek, was interviewed by the handling editorial team to find out what is important when it comes to reliable cable routing and where developments are heading.
read more...Tox Pressotechnik's modular gun system already contains the control unit as a central component. Now the intelligent bus node ZVK has been added as a component. It supplies sensor-based data to the multi-technology controller, allowing systems for predictive maintenance to be set up, for example.
read more...With PA-infosys, IEF-Werner has developed an intelligent unit for data monitoring and communication for machines and components. With this intelligence, a timing belt axis monitors its own condition and performance and can analyze its own wear, among other things.
read more...Electronics housing for the mounting rail
The requirements for future-oriented automation devices are diverse. Today, device manufacturers are looking for highly flexible and multifunctional enclosure systems. A new system therefore offers graduated sizes, extended connection technology and optional bus connectors.
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