Acquisition announced
Spring, wire form and assembly specialist, William Hughes, has purchased AC Services (South West) of Yeovil, to enhance the component cleaning side of its business.
Heat treatment and hard coatings services
Wallwork Group will be championing the benefits for customers from a major expansion programme that sees the company offering a broader range of heat treatment, hard coating and development services than last year. In many areas the company has also increased processing load size too.
Profibus health check
A Profibus health check carried out by ABB Measurement & Analytics Service is now available to industrial plants keen to operate their plants efficiently and maximise their up time.
Remote monitoring and control platform has worldwide cellular coverage
Red Lion Controls has announced that its Sixnet series RAM industrial cellular RTUs now provide high-speed global 4G LTE network support for use with many cellular carriers worldwide. This follows the company’s announcement of 4G LTE multi-carrier cellular support for major North American carriers.
Flexible rental solution
Following the recent launch of the YourKonecranes integrated customer interface, Konecranes has introduced Konecranes RENTALL solutions.
Miniature accelerometer operates to 180°
According to PCB Piezotronic, its new triaxial ICP accelerometer is the world’s smallest to be capable of operation to 180°C.
Wanted: Oldest operating servo valve
As part of a celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of Moog’s operations in Europe, Moog Industrial Group has launched a contest to find the oldest operating Moog servo valve.
Plan early for Christmas
B&B Attachments, supplier of forklift truck attachments and distributor of KAUP equipment, is ready to help businesses prepare for the busy pre-Christmas period.
Interlocks get networked
Most interlocks are either not electrically connected (deliberately so in the case of some mechanical, trapped key interlocks) or are ‘wired at gate’, meaning all electrical connections go via a control PLC and safety relay. This can mean up to 20 wires from each device going to the control panel. To overcome this scenario, Fortress has developed a number of products that utilise either AS-i industrial networking or PROFIsafe communication technology.
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