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Battery-free smart passive sensors turnkey solution kit
In this video, ON Semi introduces the newly released SPSDEVK1 smart passive sensor development kit for IoT applications.
Reinventing the muting process
Muting processes are now being made more economical, simpler and safer, with the new process from Leuze electronics, ‘Smart Process Gating’.In intralogistics as well as in the automotive and packaging industry, material locks often need to be safeguarded against unauthorised access by means of safety sensors.
The future of production at SPS Drives 2017
Production is a large part of the engineering industry, and everyone is concerned and focussed on the future; Industry 4.0 and digitalisation. Therefore, aSmart Production Tour at SPS Drives seemed very fitting and exciting. Engineering Specifier went along to the three hour event to find out from a range of companies all there was to know about ‘smart production’ from WSCAD, Beckhoff, Balluff, Bosch Rexroth and B&R.
Addressing the need for series machinery manufacturers
With the KDS-FP flange plate, CONTA-CLIP take the tool-free click-and-push concept of their cable entry system KDSClick to a larger scale for control cabinet construction, and launched the new, patent-pending solution at the SPS IPC Drives trade show in November. With this system extension, the connection technology experts primarily address the needs of series machine and special purpose machinery manufacturers, who are dealing with wiring requi...
Pushbutton switches cope with harsh environments
A major expansion of switching products from C&K has been announced by RS Components. It includes devices for mounting on both panels and printed circuit boards. The extension of the portfolio available from RS includes a full selection of PCB- and panel-mounted pushbuttons, DIP switches, key switches and tactile switches.
SPS IPC Drives 2017: IT security in automation tour
The SPS IPC Drives 2017 show, which took place last month in Nuremberg, this year offered guided toursfor the first time, which saw specially trained tour guides show visitors directly to the booths of select exhibitors. Electronic Specifier went along to the tours, and during the two hour walkabout we were able to experience the most important innovations and exhibits for certain topics.
Dev kit allows for quick installation of passive IoT sensors
A complete wireless battery free sensing solution kit (SPSDEVK1) has been announced by ON Semiconductor that allows the company’s Smart Passive Sensors (SPS) to be rapidly integrated into IoT applications. The SPSDEVK1 solution kit is plug-and-play ready for users to immediately measure, aggregate and analyse the data for various IoT applications.
SPS unites leaders to drive interoperability for IIoT and Industry 4.0
At the SPS Drives show in Nuremberg, the Avnu Alliance (Avnu), Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), and OPC Foundation took this as an opportunity to announce their collaboration with IT-OT industry leaders to advance industrial device interoperability and to show the progress made in bringing the open, unified communication standard OPC UA over Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) to market.
Eplan Cogineer is heading to the cloud
First presented at Hannover Messe, Eplan Cogineer is now a fully-fledged member of Eplan Platform. This software for easy and fast generating of schematics and fluid-power designs gives automation an extra boost.At the SPS IPC Drives, Eplan presented the software’s first cloud application as a sneak preview. Based on Microsoft Azure, Eplan Cogineer will now also be offering the added value of a cloud-based engineering solution.
CLPA pleased with SPS show after successful collaborations
The CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA) described the recent SPS Drives show as a great success this year, as the level of interest from visitors was a high testament to the increasing global acceptance of CC-Link IE and CC-Link.Double-digit growth year on year for the last decade has seen the installed base of CC-Link IE and CC-Link devices approach the 20 million mark, and the number of partner companies has now passed 3,000, making CLPA one of ...