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Automotive Engineering Show

The exhibition offered a great opportunity for automobile & auto-component manufacturers to interact with automation solution providers and system suppliers

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“It has been a very challenging and interesting experience so far”

…says A K Nathan, Managing Director of Rittal India Pvt Ltd, in an interview with Shekhar Jitkar

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Winning strategies and best practices for process industries

ARC’s Fifth India Forum (July 10-12, 2008 - Hyderabad) will discuss about the strategies that help manufacturing companies emerge successful

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“I foresee an increased demand for the robotic and automation products in India”

A&D interview: Rajesh Nath, Managing Director, VDMA-India, in an interview with Shekhar Jitkar

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Hannover Fair 2008

Success with focus on technical innovation and creative application of existing knowledge

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Automatica 2008

An international trade fair on innovation and solutions in automation and robotics

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Celebrating two decades of its presence in India

With a strong global track record, Pepperl+Fuchs today offers products which find applications in a variety of industrial segments of the manufacturing sector in India

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“Achieving the growth faster than the market growth”

V V Paranjape, Head – Automation & Drives Division, Member of the Managing Board, Siemens Ltd, and Executive Council Member - AIA, in an interview with Shekhar Jitkar...

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Asset performance and reliability

The path to asset performance and reliability excellence can be viewed as a journey through multiple platforms of maturity and growth. Each platform can contribute significant performance and reliability benefits although the commitment in terms of time and resources increases accordingly.

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Talking about the challenges in the power sector

A&D India invited professionals with expertise in the power domain, to share their views on this topic

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Communication for power industry

Integrating wind parks or power stations seamlessly into a control station or into a network

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Conserving energy in induction motors

Operating three-phase induction motors at the maximum efficiency help conserve energy

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Saving energy through automated power monitoring

Learn how power or any other parameter be monitored in an automated fashion

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Convergence in the control room

Integrating transmission, distribution and outage management systems

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‘Global Control’ for plasma cutting machines

Messer Cutting Systems relies on Beckhoff technology for global control concept

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Combining motion and logic control with robot control

Rexroth offers its controller-based control system IndraMotion MLC in a new version, that uses Ethernet-based SERCOS III as standard drive interface No matter whether the desired drive and control technology is based on hydraulics, electronics, pneumatics or mechanics – all the current relevant technologies can be appropriately combined today. Rexroth’s latest IndraControl L65 control platform combines motion and logic control with robot control on a uniform platform which uses Ethernet-based SERCOS III as standard drive interface

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The drive for simplicity

Progress in AC drives technology make life easier for operators ABB offers one of the world’s largest portfolios of AC drives, serving an expanding horizon of applications. By combining functions and cutting part counts, ABB has reduced the size of its drives while enhancing their reliability. The company has also developed a simplified set-up procedure using a harmonised keypad and software wizards that can be used across the ABB drive family

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The basics of safety networks

CIP Safety provides the ability to mix safety devices and standard devices on the same network or wire for seamless integration and increased flexibility.

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Wear margin optimally used

A small and compact vibration sensor from ifm can allow to reliably evaluate the condition of a bearing.

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Streamlining the design of packaging machinery

3D CAD software can help you dramatically improve the design of packaging machinery, by reusing past designs, components built by suppliers, and standards-driven parts

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The next dimension in electrical engineering

EPLAN Electric P8 gives its users an edge to complete their engineering projects in a very short period of time

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Robots bring safety to machines

The article discusses how new technology from Kuka meets safety requirements

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I/O fieldbus systems

The development of BL67 and BL20 modular I/O exemplifies modularity, flexibility and networkability with multiple fieldbus choices

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