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Flexibly adaptable components ensure reliable operation in environmental technology applications
Ultra-thin barrier layers on packaging effectively protect food and medicine from oxygen, moisture, and contaminants. The Film-Inspect sensor, developed at Fraunhofer IPM, measures the quality of these barriers during the coating process, enabling process control for the first time.
AMA Association honors innovative developments in sensor and measurement technology
Ethernet-APL enables fast, standardized Ethernet communication down to field level, even in hazardous areas. While the technology simplifies engineering, commissioning, and diagnostics, the real value lies in integrated solutions. With engineered, certified systems tailored to customer needs, operators benefit from reduced complexity, faster deployment, and higher system availability.
Capazative Sensors for use in high-temperature areas up to 180 °C
Accurate energy consumption data is essential for companies aiming to achieve climate-neutral production. To support this goal, a consortium of organizations has recently published a groundbreaking specification for interoperable and efficient energy management in industrial and process automation.
Minimising downtimes with predictive maintenance
Jens Torkel and Linbin Zeng appointed new Managing Directors of the Romaco Group
Established in 1973, today the ABB factory in Quebec, Canada manufactures market leading products for industrial analytical measurement.
Mechanical bearings and gearboxes — like those used in electric vehicles and wind farms — are often treated with lubricants to avoid friction and wear. The voltage the components might be under impairs the effectiveness of the lubricants to such a degree that the tribological contacts are damaged. As part of the Lube.Life joint research project, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM have developed a virtual lubricant lab, which can be used to predict the effects of electrical fields on lubricant stability.
Ideal for applications that require tight pressure tolerance and centralized control and monitoring
With a modern office building, the company is preparing for the future of its Liquid Analysis branch.
German Fraunhofer researchers have developed an extremely heat-resistant ceramic-based ink. For the first time, this enables metal components processed in the automotive industry at temperatures over 1,000 °C to be marked with a code. This opens up wide-ranging possibilities for designing process chains in the industry more efficiently and reducing their carbon footprint significantly.
Pilot project aims to demonstrate the scalability of PCF (Product Carbon Footprint) data exchange across an entire industry
For improved energy efficiency and minimum Total Cost of Ownership
Upgraded configuration environment features backwards compatibility and adds support for FDT3 web-based DTMs and FDI Device Packages
Secondary packaging for pharmaceutical products is subject to stringent product protection and labelling requirements. A consistently high-quality, reliable, safe and controlled packaging is therefore absolutely essential in the pharmaceutical sector.
PCN Europe talked with Matthias Garbsch, Product Manager Safety at JUMO about the company’s JSP portfolio and the advantages for users.
Monitoring Structural Integrity of LNG Storage Tanks
Visor-Ex® 01: the unique smart glasses – smartphone solution
For smart devices, use in the oil industry, for example on an offshore oil platform, represents a real endurance test. The Pepperl+Fuchs brand ECOM Instruments subjected the Visor-Ex® 01, the first system consisting of smart glasses and smartphone certified for use in hazardous areas, to this endurance test during its development phase. The practical test reveals great potential for rollout in future applications.
Pharma PAT software and manufacturing automation specialist acquired by global scientific instrumentation and solution provider
DUO PLAST and BASF cooperate to launch the world’s first stretch film approved for use in potentially explosive areas
Variable measuring ranges from -40 to +330 °C for capture and analysis of thermal images
Coperion Partners in Development of Manufacturing Technologies for Graphite-Polymer Based Bipolar Plates
For repetitive inspection tasks in harsh and potentially dangerous areas
Safe and precise delivery of ammonia solution into static mixers
Efficient and economic separation of hydrogen and natural gas with membrane technology
Predict the condition of the machines from their sound
For retrofitting of ball and butterfly valves
Design with self-centering piston prevents media backflow
New sensors enable easy online collection of pressure and temperature data
Creating a new hygienic production facility that includes ATEX zone 1 areas is a complex task, especially when the facility will need over 1,400 control valves.
Powerful and affordable unit enhances hands-free throughput and reproducibility
Owing to its excellent insulating properties, sulphur hexafluoride or SF6 is primarily used in medium to high-voltage gas-insulated switchgears (GIS). As one of six greenhouse gases, it must not be released into the atmosphere.
JUMO launched the new brand JSP (JUMO Safety Performance), to face all the complex challenges that safety brings to users and get SIL and PL safety performances. The single-channel safety controller is the key element of the JSP portfolio
In ATEX versions
This new company, headquartered at the ZAL TechCenter in Hamburg-Finkenwerder, is an equally owned joint venture and aims to research, develop and sell innovative automation solutions for the aviation industry
Generate a flow rate of 420 m³/h
The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT led the EU research project “ambliFibre” focusing on the manufacturing of special pipes and pressure vessels able to withstand the extreme conditions for oil and gas transport in ultra deepwater
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