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Eaton Offers Efficient Power Management Solutions

Jan 18, 2025 | eepower.com | Austin Futrell

The demand for reliable, sustainable power management solutions continues to increase across industries. Companies must tackle evolving challenges with innovative products, from ensuring uninterrupted power in critical applications to enabling scalable energy distribution. These demands show the importance of modular design, enhanced monitoring capabilities, and battery technologies to deliver solutions that meet today’s requirements while preparing for future needs.
Keeping It Fast and Safe: No Ifs, Ands, or Bots About It!

Jan 17, 2025 | control.com | Austin Futrell

Collaborative robots (cobots) have gained significant traction in robotics and automation over the past decade, offering the unique advantage of allowing humans and machines to work side by side. However, maintaining safety while achieving high-speed precision has long been a challenge. Traditional cobots often compromise speed to ensure safety, resulting in a lack of efficiency, and in some cases, they still pose a risk of injury to nearby workers.
The Copilot is Taking Control: Introducing Genix AI - News

Jan 16, 2025 | control.com | Austin Futrell

In manufacturing environments, errors and mishaps occur frequently due to various factors such as human mistakes, equipment malfunctions, and supply chain disruptions. These issues lead to inefficiencies that can be challenging to identify and manage, especially since the primary goal of manufacturing is to consistently increase workloads. ABB, in collaboration with Microsoft, has launched ABB Ability Genix Copilot to address these challenges.
EVs Expand With GaNPower and Next-Gen Batteries

Jan 11, 2025 | eepower.com | Austin Futrell

Transitioning to electric vehicles has challenged the automotive and energy industries significantly. As the demand for sustainable transportation increases, manufacturers must optimize EV powertrains while balancing efficiency and cost. At the same time, battery technologies and production methods must evolve to meet performance and scalability goals. These interconnected demands call for innovation in power electronics, manufacturing, and battery development.
Baumer Releases Space-Saving, High-Performance Process Sensor Series

Dec 11, 2024 | control.com | Austin Futrell

As industrial automation continues to push the limits of speed, precision, and space efficiency, manufacturers require measurement tools that deliver consistent performance under increasingly constrained conditions. Industrial sensor provider Baumer has released a new series of process sensors that address these needs with compact and reliable pressure, temperature, and conductivity measurements.
PG&E Tackles Energy Demand With AI and Grid-Edge Computing

Dec 10, 2024 | eepower.com | Austin Futrell

As energy demand grows due to the rapid adoption of electric vehicles and data center expansions, utilities face mounting pressure to modernize infrastructure without compromising reliability or sustainability. Traditional solutions, such as costly panel upgrades for home EV chargers and fossil-fuel-reliant data centers, are proving inadequate to meet goals of accessibility and environmental responsibility. Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has released two initiatives to address these challenges.
Igus DR1000: The Speedy Solution for Precision Automation

Dec 9, 2024 | control.com | Austin Futrell

To address the speed and precision issues prevalent in modern manufacturing, igus has introduced the DR1000, a 4-axis delta robot that combines high-speed performance with user-friendly control systems and a modular design, making it a cost-effective and adaptable solution for evolving production environments.
Festo Valve Terminal Streamlines Electrodes With Controlled Pneumatics

Dec 1, 2024 | eepower.com | Austin Futrell

Festo is becoming the electric vehicle industry’s one-stop mechatronics shop. It has presented solutions for recycling valuable materials while producing EV batteries, automated degassing, and now, dry-room electrode production. Dry-room electrode production is significant because moisture can negatively impact the quality of battery electrodes. The display simulates making electrodes, including unrolling, cutting, aligning, and layering processes of anodes and cathodes.
Precision Power: Danisense and CERN Collaborate on Current Sensor

Nov 28, 2024 | eepower.com | Austin Futrell

CERN’s North Area plays a pivotal role in particle physics experiments, relying on magnet systems to accurately guide particle beams. These magnetic fields must be carefully regulated to ensure particle trajectories remain stable throughout complex experimental setups. Even the slightest deviation in current control can result in beam instability, undermining the precision of the experiments and affecting data reliability.
Shine Bright Like a Beacon: PATLITE’s GL10 Lights Up Industrial Efficiency

Nov 26, 2024 | control.com | Austin Futrell

PATLITE has long been recognized for its reliable and forward-thinking industrial solutions, and the newly released GL10 series is no exception. This compact flashing beacon is designed to provide exceptional performance in environments where clarity, versatility, and durability are paramount. Unlike traditional signaling devices, which often require multiple units to display different colors, the GL10 combines red, yellow, and green illumination in a single unit.