Allplastics stock, cut and machine UHMWPE Rod & Sheet for a wide range of industries and applications.
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Kraus & Naimer Koolkuna visible contact isolators
Since 1907 Kraus & Naimer has maintained high standards and quality products and has established itself as an innovator leader in the switchgear market. The company has focused on local markets and adapting to the needs of the customers has been at the forefront of each branch’s success. Maintaining the Kraus & Naimer standard of quality and customer service at the local level with local products has driven the international success of the brand.
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ATDC’s S06 Expanding Security Doors deliver high-level security
The Australian Trellis Door Co.’s (ATDC) S06 Heavy duty steel commercial Expanding Security Doors is the only door of its type that can comply with Australian Security Standards AS 5039 namely the pull test, dynamic impact test and Anti-Jemmy test.
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Cost-effective, expandable barriers to secure your business premises post-pandemic
With budgets generally tightening, the Australian Trellis Door Co.’s entry level commercial expandable barriers are a cost-effective way to secure your premises as we slowly emerge from the pandemic.
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Backplane Systems Technology presents iBase’s AGS102T Ultra-Compact IoT Gateway Edge Computing System with Intel Atom x7/x5, Pentium & Celeron Processors
Backplane Systems Technology is proud to present iBase’s AGS102T is an ultra-compact IoT gateway edge computer powered by Intel’s Apollo Lake Atom x7/x5 series, Pentium N4200 and Celeron N3350 SoCs.
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Concertina security doors for protection of commercial premises
ATDC’s S05 deluxe model concertina security doors were recently installed at the new Cellarbrations liquor store in Whallan in regional Victoria.
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Quality Australian-made static overbelt magnet
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Embedded Box PC with Socket Type 10th Generation Intel Core Processor
Interworld Electronics has released the BOXER-6642-CML Intel 10th Generation Core processor based embedded controller from Aaeon.
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Flexible EMC/VSD cables and accessories
Treotham Automation have a complete range of EMC/VSD cables and cable glands to meet all your requirements. All of the EMC/VSD products are produced in Europe to the highest standards.
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Embedded Box Computer with 6th/7th Generation Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Processor
Interworld Electronics has released the BOXER-6640 multi-core embedded controller from Aaeon.
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FieldTech Solutions 250mm Standpipe Cover made with recycled plastic
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New Variable Speed Drive (VSD) Brumby compressor
The CAPS Brumby range of rotary screw air compressors has now been extended to include variable speed compressors to compliment the current fixed speed range. Units are available in sizes ranging from 5 to 15 kW.
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Schaeffler showcases innovations for robotics and services
Increasing automation and the goal of autonomous production offer considerable growth potential for Schaeffler, especially with respect to robotics solutions and service solutions based on digital technologies. For this year’s “Hannover Messe Digital Edition”, Schaeffler is bringing their innovations in the fields of robotics and services to life virtually.
“We want to occupy a key position in the rapidly growing markets of condition monitoring and robotics,” says Dr. Stefan Spindler, CEO Industrial of Schaeffler AG. “Through strategic initiatives and close collaboration, we offer our customers innovations for the production of the future.”
Expertise generates added value
As an integrated automotive and industrial supplier, Schaeffler has considerable opportunities to create synergies. Wide-ranging technology expertise and process experience from the Automotive Technologies division of Schaeffler come together in the development of robotics innovations. Digital services by Schaeffler are based on their expertise in the field of rolling bearing design and application, among others. “Our industrial business is of particular importance to the Schaeffler Group’s strategic development,” explains Klaus Rosenfeld, CEO of Schaeffler AG. “In the medium-term, we want to grow faster with the Industrial division than global industrial production under our own steam.”
New potential areas of application for lightweight robots and cobots
With a modular portfolio of innovative bearing supports, robot gearboxes and drive motors, Schaeffler has positioned itself as a partner for lightweight robotics. These system components play a crucial part in the performance of compact robots and hold the potential for great advances in development. With the increasing power density and precision of these components, lightweight robots and cobots can be used in areas of application that require higher speeds, precision and cleanliness levels, as well as increased load-bearing capacity. Schaeffler offers the components separately or as matched systems which meet customers’ requirements for maximum compactness, dynamics and performance.
IoT solution OPTIME reduces downtimes
OPTIME is a user-friendly, wireless IoT solution that makes the condition monitoring of machines in production processes efficient and cost-effective. Installation and commissioning are so easy that several hundred units can be integrated without issue in one day. The latest update enables two more IoT-capable hardware solutions by Schaeffler to be connected: ProLink and SmartCheck. This makes condition monitoring for a very wide range of machines and often even entire plants a possibility. Status information for all systems is clearly visualised in the OPTIME app.
Schaeffler was awarded the 2021 Red Dot Design Award in two categories for OPTIME’s outstanding product design, functional configuration, and high level of innovation.
For this year’s “Hannover Messe Digital Edition”, Schaeffler is bringing their innovations in the fields of robotics and services to life virtually.
Only with innovative and high-performance system components can even more compact robots with greater working ranges and higher load-bearing capacity be developed. For the joints, Schaeffler offers a system assembly consisting of the DuraWave RTWH strain wave gear with the XZU angular contact needle roller bearing and the UPRS-series motor.
Schaeffler OPTIME: With the latest update, three IoT-capable hardware solutions can now be connected, making condition monitoring for a very wide range of machines and often even entire plants a possibility. Status reports for all systems are clearly visualized in the OPTIME app.
New short term unsecured loans for small business launching today
Small and micro businesses will be able to source fast funding similar to a buy now pay later solution thanks to Banjo Supply, a new digital loan launched today by Banjo Loans and InfraRisk.
The new loan product has been jointly developed by Banjo Loans, a leading fintech lender to SMEs and InfraRisk, a digital lending solutions specialist. Banjo Supply applies world’s best practice in automation, use of alternative, previously inaccessible data and AI driven risk models, to match the borrower’s immediate needs. Algorithms analyse daily financial data, to allow ongoing learning, innovation and a continually improved customer experience.
“Point-of-sale (POS) providers and industry participants have told us Banjo Supply is exactly the kind of short-term unsecured loan product that small and micro SME clients are crying out for,” said Guy Callaghan, CEO of Banjo Loans.
Banjo Supply loans can be funded within minutes and start from $5000. They are designed for small and micro businesses that need short-term working capital to:
• pay suppliers now
• batch up payments to multiple creditors
• potentially negotiate supplier discounts.
“This short-term unsecured loan will typically help small businesses who need to buy bulk product, or pay suppliers on delivery, but don’t have the cash in the bank right now,” explains Guy Callaghan.
“For example, a restaurant or small hotel could be preparing for a holiday weekend or big function, and wants to buy extra supplies. They can take out a Banjo Supply loan and pay for the bulk supplies up front, which could also attract a discount from the supplier. Once they offset the supplier discount against the interest on the short-term loan, they’re still ahead.”
Experienced business lender Banjo Loans has until now focused on companies with turnover $500k – $50m.
“Having provided thousands of loans to larger Australian SMEs over the past 6 years, we’re excited to enter the micro and small business sector with a product that’s designed to help them get back on their feet, and bolster the recovery of the Australian economy,” says Callaghan.
“We’re initially focusing on the hospitality and retail sectors, which have been hit hard by the outbreak of COVID-19 and in desperate need of working capital.”
Demonstrating its speed and simplicity for the borrower, the new Banjo Supply digital application form:
• fits on a single page
• takes less than 5 minutes to complete
• achieves funding in near real-time via the fast payment network.
The platform is already integrated with a number of data partners including ZiiCloud a hospitality and retail specialist, tapping into Point-of-Sale data, transaction data and taxation data, with customer consent. Banjo and InfraRisk expect to expand the data coverage reach extensively over the coming months.
Nicholas Davies, chief executive officer of InfraRisk, said, “InfraRisk’s customizable and modular digital lending solution, powered by big data analytics and AI technologies, enables a highly automated lending process that delivers the world’s best operational efficiency. The complete functionality is also readily replicable and transferrable with high efficiency and effectiveness.”
“Our go-to-market approach to this business sector is to target select proven industry verticals that are rich in alternative data. We want to provide a tailored lending product directly into their daily workflow and financial ecosystem.”
Small businesses have been one of the main driving forces of Australian economic development. Official data released by the Australian government shows the country’s SMEs create 44 per cent of jobs and contribute to 35 per cent of its domestic GDP. Research by East & Partners found out that the unmet credit demand among Australian SMEs had reached AUD$118.4 billion (USD$91.5 billion) by the end of 2019.
More information:
Gillian Tatt, PR consultant Banjo Loans, at 0413 593 568 or gtatt@banjoloans.com
Tony Chan, InfraRisk PR, at 0411 193 932 or tony.chan@infrarisk.com
What makes ATG Gloves different?
ATG’s technology platforms are continuously developed by a core team that matches market research and marketing analysis with the latest technological developments.
This forms the foundation upon which ATG continually improve the customer’s experience through constant innovation. Why? It is because ATG understand the complexity of choosing and implementing a hand protection program that works and is adopted by all. On one side, your workforce continually asks for gloves that are more comfortable whilst on the other side there is a focus to reduce injuries, the costs associated with those injuries and to improve worker efficiency.
ATG aim, via use of proprietary technology platforms, to combine comfort and worker acceptance with performance and safety features. ATG have recently added a “well being” technology platform that takes care of your hands during and after work.
ATG® products include technologies that follow one of three themes:
- Comfort
- Performance
- HandCare
These technologies are used individually or collectively to provide you with the glove that is guaranteed skin friendly thanks to ATG®’s partnership with the Skin Health Alliance. All ATG® gloves are designed to last and can be laundered to ensure that we are able to maintain a commitment to you of “value for money”.
For more information visit atg-glovesolutions.com
RS PRO Sensor Launch Expanded Range
RS PRO are proud to announce the expansion of their sensor range by 60 percent, which brings their Full Sensor offering to over 560 products.
The RS PRO range of sensing technologies includes inductive, capacitive, rotary coders and load cells for any application. All of the sensors are RS Pro-grade, thoroughly tested for quality and reliability, whilst being the most competitively priced on the market.
Some of the new sensor products in the expanded range include:
- Photoelectric Proximity Sensors
- Photoelectric Proximity Sensors
- Inductive Proximity Sensors
- Capacitive Proximity Sensors
- Ultrasonic Proximity Sensor
- Load cells
- Fibre Optical Sensor
- Rotary Encoders
- Barcode Reader
- Thermocouples
According to Ian Macgregor, RS PRO product manager for Australia and New Zealand, the expansion in the range is meeting demand in the market for affordable options for engineers looking for choice.
“We’ve seen an upswing in the sourcing of our current product range and due to interest in other product verticals we have gone to work on this expansive range,” he explained.
The doubling of the RS PRO sensor range will be welcomed by design, electrical and maintenance engineers across factory assembly lines, automation and robotics industries, who have indicated a need for new longer-term automation component solutions.
Mini Nondo 150 Flush mounted well cover for monitoring wells and soil vapour installations
The Mini Nondo is FieldTech Solution’s budget bolt-down, flush mounted well cover. It is designed to be used for monitoring wells or for soil vapour installations. With the bolts outside the inner working space, the Mini Nondo gives you maximum internal room for such a small cover.
Features:
- 2 counter-sunk flush bolts to reduce the risk of trip hazards, as there are no protruding bolt heads
- High strength cast iron in black epoxy
- White powder coated lid
- Large internal opening of 124mm (98mm Bolt head clearance)
- Small 150mm outside diameter
- Ideal for standard 50mm monitoring wells or soil vapour implants
Specifications:
- Material Ductile cast iron
- Weight 3.5kg
- OD 150mm
- ID 124mm (98mm Bolt head clearance)
- Skirt length 150mm
- Bolts M10 countersunk stainless steel, uses 6mm hex allen key
LINAK launches groundbreaking linear actuator pushing endurance to new limits
“When we look at current market needs, particularly in autonomous agriculture and industrial automation, we see a very clear need for an increase in the life expectancy of electric linear movements of up to 80,000-100,000 cycles,” says Soren Buck, business development manager at LINAK. “We’re also aware that there’s a growing demand for data for planning maintenance, diagnostics and status of the actuator,” he adds.
Designed by LINAK with these trends in mind, the new linear actuator LA36 Long Life delivers on both counts and more.
Setting higher standards: 20x longer lifetime for less outlay
Previously, when choosing an electric actuator for certain applications, it has been difficult to find a solution that both met full lifetime requirements while remaining affordable: There was a choice of specifying other more expensive technology, such as servo drives, or using an electric actuator that could not meet lifetime requirements – adding the cost of service and downtime to an application. Now, with the LA36 Long Life it is possible to achieve long-life confidence with less service and downtime.
“The new Long Life actuator has redefined the concept of longevity, having been tested to guarantee a minimum of 200,000 cycles at maximum load and maximum duty cycle. The worst thinkable conditions. This roughly extends its working life to around 20x that of conventional actuators on the market. The considerable increase is primarily due to the incorporation of a brushless motor which takes us to new heights in long-term reliability and performance,” says Buck.
A fresh approach to integration and installation
An integrated controller, and CANopen and J1939 interfaces ensure simple and quick integration. Furthermore, the new Long Life actuator comes with a choice of 24 V and 48 V motor options for a variety of demanding applications, including autonomous vehicles in material handling and agriculture. And for precision control, installing external sensors is a thing of the past. The LA36 Long Life provides full control without the need for additional components, including access to all the data required to make troubleshooting easy.
“Cutting down the costly time it takes our customers to integrate a solution has also played a part in the innovative design of our Long Life actuator. This plug-and-play solution with fewer components also means less costly service and downtime for application users. With our new Long Life actuator we make it possible to both drive down costs while adding to an application’s lifetime,” concludes Buck.
LINAK is a market leader in the production and application of electric linear actuators with some 40 years of experience and more than 30 subsidiaries worldwide.
TwinCAT IoT now also supports MindSphere
Beckhoff has offered diverse IoT communication capabilities with its TwinCAT IoT product family since 2015. Transmitting data to the cloud or between networked machines in this way creates enormous potential for increasing production efficiency. MindSphere, the Industrial IoT as a service solution from Siemens, is now one of the latest solutions that can also be integrated with TwinCAT.
TwinCAT 3 automation software can communicate with HTTP(S) servers as an HTTP(S) client, for example for exchanging data via a REST API. Establishing a connection with MindSphere is now also possible via this HTTPS communication for exchanging telemetry data. This connection is secured by TLS (Transport Layer Security) and additionally uses MindSphere – specific authentication mechanisms.
The sample implementations of the TwinCAT 3 Function TC3 IoT HTTPS/REST (TF6760) in the relevant documentation show how to establish connections with MindSphere. These examples provide a simple introduction to connecting TwinCAT with MindSphere and allow users to adapt the program code to suit individual requirements.
TwinCAT MTP: cyber-physical modularisation for the process industry
The Module Type Package (MTP) is a modern solution for modularising plants in the process industry. It defines an interface for easily orchestrating and connecting modules to a higher-level control system. With the new TwinCAT MTP, TwinCAT automation software from Beckhoff helps create MTP projects with automatic code generation, paving the way for efficient module development integrated into the TwinCAT Engineering Environment.
The MTP concept is based around intelligent modules with their own control system. It describes an interface between the module controller and the higher-level orchestration. This task can be handled by the so called Process Orchestration Layer (POL) which can be represented by for example a Distributed Control System (DCS). The MTP itself is a module description in the form of an archive file, which is exported from the module engineering and imported into the higher-level control system. It contains all information required for the POL to establish data exchange with the modules via the OPC UA communication standard.
TwinCAT MTP integrates the engineering of MTP-capable modules for processing plants directly into the familiar TwinCAT Engineering Environment. It offers the full range of options from module definition, import/export of an MTP to automatic code generation. This can be customised for specific users via multiple interfaces to enable extensive automated project planning. This new TwinCAT functionality minimises the required guideline expertise for users so that module developers can focus on the actual control logic.
The MTP concept is integrated into TwinCAT through the TwinCAT MTP Runtime and TwinCAT MTP Engineering products. The TwinCAT Engineering Environment includes a project management in which TwinCAT MTP Engineering is integrated as its own project type. The TwinCAT MTP Runtime consists of an IEC 61131-3 programming library, which is used by the generated code of the TwinCAT MTP Engineering to implement a directive-compliant interface. The function blocks described in this library ensure the representation via the OPC UA interface. As such, TwinCAT OPC UA enables the POL to access data in compliance with the VDI/VDE/NAMUR 2658 guideline definition, sheets 1 to 4.