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Users of the Simatic S7-200 programmable logic controller (PLC) from Siemens need to note that it will be discontinued from October 2014. The replacement available from RS Components is the new generation Micro-SPS Simatic S7-1200 controller, which offers significant price and performance advantages over the previous model.

A portal machining centre with gantry drive for the production of large, high accuracy components has been launched by SHW Werkzeugmaschinen. The machine features a new, dynamic toolchanger that exchanges HSK A 100 or equivalent tools while machining is in progress, and an operating platform that can travel with the spindle into the working area. Both are believed to be world firsts.

Printing sensors is one way to make them cheap enough for widespread IoT applications, and Europe is leading the way in developing this technology, Sally Ward-Foxton writes for ES Design magazine.

B&B Electronics has appointed Gary Sheedy as the General Manager of its EMEA operations based in Galway, Ireland. Mr. Sheedy will manage the EMEA sales teams and have P&L responsibility for the EMEA operation. He will also take on an international business development role for B&B Electronics, drawing from his two decades of high-tech industry experience on the international stage.

The three-year “eRamp” project, led by Infineon Technologies, has been launched to strengthen and expand Germany and Europe as centres of expertise for the manufacture of power electronics. Focused on energy efficiency, 26 research partners from six countries are participating in the €55m project.

Hoping to shapethe future of electromobility, an electric motor constructed by the 4 German partners in the European research project “MotorBrain" will be presentedat the Hannover Messe “MobiliTec” fair, stand of the German federal government (Hall 27, Stand H51). The 4 partners of the project includedInfineon Technologies, Siemens, the Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology at the Technische Universitä...

Aiming to help in the trade body’s stated aim of creating sustainable growth strategies for the industries it serves, REO has announced that it has joined the industry think tank 'Power Electronics UK'. The think tank also aims to create a sustainable supply of high quality, industry prepared graduates.

PROVERTHA has revealed that it supplies a customized compact M12 bus connector, which has been designed specifically for Siemens’s new control system Sinumerik NCU 7x0.3. Meeting the requirements of the control system’s particular form factor, the new Profibus Compact 2 M12 bus connector joins the M12 Profibus lines with the NCU control unit’s D-Sub, X126 and X136 Profibus DB interfaces to connect other bus devices.

NEXCOM have announced the release of a new series of fieldbus-enabled industrial panel PCs which are compatible with most PLCs in the world. The NEXCOM fieldbus-enabled industrial panel PC series is suited for monitoring and management of equipment, production lines, environments, power, and facilities.

Fairfield will be completely relaunching its brand and debuting a knowledge sharing University to further assist its increased reach in RFID. It has also announced that the business has been appointed as a Siemens solution partner for RFID and Identification in the UK and Ireland.