Driving Smarter Production with Festo Electric Automation
In modern manufacturing environments, speed, precision, and flexibility aren’t just nice-to-haves, they’re essential. As more manufacturers embrace smart factories, Industry 4.0, and digital transformation, the choice of motion technology has a direct impact on competitiveness. While pneumatics remain a cornerstone in many plants, electric automation is growing due to its programmability, energy efficiency, and scalability.
The RiLineX busbar system from Rittal is the latest in direct-current technology leveraging the core value proposition of a Rittal product: modularity.
✅ Tool-free design
With RiLineX’s click-in components and adapters, you can expand usable space by 15%, and installation is 100% tool-free.
✅ Unmatched safety
Continuous contact protection lets you work live when needed. Built-in safeguards virtually eliminate configuration mistakes.
✅ Easy configuration
The RiPower configurator for generating assembly drawings and parts lists along with Eplan macros can lead to a 30% time saving on engineering.
Make status unmistakable and informative with a single innovative device that merges the instant visibility of a multicolor beacon with the clarity of a dynamic status display, with audible models available to capture attention and inform response across a full 360 degrees.
When delays can compromise production and project timelines, having timely access to vital automation components isn’t just a matter of convenience—it’s critical.
Festo FAST℠ is your new solution, combining speed, dependability, and customer-oriented service to get you the products you need when you need them.
New from Turck, an inductive coupler with more transmission power. With latency-free communication, wear-free coupling and multiprotocol flexibility, the NIC-Q86-ETH pair of inductive couplers enables the next generation of motion-based automation.
This solution is ideal for motion-intensive applications, and those with frequent tool changes or fast cycle times.
You may live and breathe low voltage VFDs, but do you know how we got here?
Finnish engineer, Martti Harmoinen, developed the LV drive (originally for the Helsinki Metro) and the first units (for sawmill and nuclear power plant applications) were delivered in '75 by the firm that would later become ABB.
AC drive technology proved to be so impactful that ABB brought production to the US in '89 with a manufacturing facility in New Berlin, WI.
With AI offering transformative opportunities for drive control, diagnostics, and energy management, what will the next 50 years look like?
Looking for an interlocking solution that combines multiple safety and control functions in one device?
Fortress’ tGard range is highly configurable, allowing you to easily build a customized solution for your application needs. tGard helps to prevent unauthorized access, reducing risk for personnel working with machinery with slim, space-saving devices that are:
✅ Quick to configure and install ✅ Cost-effective for a wide range of applications ✅ Suitable for use up to PLd/Cat. 3 or even PLe/Cat. 4, depending on configuration
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