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Schneider Electric News

Software-centric Automation Transforms Consumer-Packaged Goods and Logistics Operations

Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, today released version 21.1 of EcoStruxure Automation Expert, its software-centric universal automation system. Adoption of the new technology is proving immediately beneficial for consumer-packaged goods, pharmaceutical and logistics enterprises.

Kuka News

KUKA small robot enables handover made to measure

At a southern German automotive manufacturer, a KUKA KR 6 R900 sixx robot from the KR AGILUS series precisely picks up unsorted clutch discs out of wire baskets and transfers them to the honing machine for further processing. This is made possible by the transmission of coordinates via 3D vision sensor.

PEPPERL+FUCHS PROCESS AUTOMATION

SIL 3 Current Drivers for Hazardous Areas

With new SIL 3 current drivers, Pepperl+Fuchs is completing its portfolio of SIL 3 isolated barriers for all types of signals—both as modules for DIN rail mounting and as isolating components for termination boards. Positioners in a SIL 3 application—which have always been available for digital signals from or into the field, and for analog measuring signals—can now be connected directly to the controller with a single interface module. A SIL 3 application must no longer be realized via the elaborate path of redundant SIL 2 devices.

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