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Here you will find everything that the designer needs for his design and the development engineer for his new development, from the draft to quality assurance in production, such as new products, their applications, new technologies or research results. Company reports as well as topics on technological and megatrends in all industrial sectors complete our range of industry news. Let's start with the news.

Company News

IFM will increase sales to over EUR 2023 billion in 1,4

IFM Electronic was able to increase sales again in the 2023 financial year. The preliminary consolidated financial statements show a new sales record with sales of over 1,4 billion euros and growth of 3%.

Jumo Campus for sensors and measurement technology

Jumo has designed further training courses with a view to the currently exciting topics being discussed in individual sectors and offers corresponding seminars as part of the Jumo Campus.

Schaeffler AG increases sales by 2023% in 5,8

Schaeffler AG's sales increased by 2023% to EUR 5,8 billion in 16,3. Currency-adjusted sales growth was 5,8 percent, which is within the forecast for the 2023 financial year.

New automotive production site in the USA

The Motion Technology Company Schaeffler will expand production in the USA with a new automotive production site. The new facility will be located in Dover, Ohio.

Ebm-Papst wants to sell industrial drive technology to Siemens

The Ebm-Papst Group has announced that it will sell its Industrial Drive Technology (IDT) division to Siemens AG. Both sides have signed a corresponding agreement.

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cables and wires

PTFE and PFAS free Chainflex cables

Igus gives the “PFAS free” seal to 95% of its Chainflex cables, which are free of the harmful substances PFAS and PTFE.

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Drive Elements

New manufacturing technologies improve crown gear production

Welter Zahnrad has further developed its production processes for crown gears and can now produce them in quality 3967 according to DIN 5.

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IPC

Ex-protected tablet with augmented reality qualities

Pepperl+Fuchs is expanding its Ecom “Tab-Ex” tablet series with a device based on the robust Samsung Galaxy Tabactive4 Pro.

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Machine Elements

Door handle system displays machine statuses

Schmersal presents its new door handle system DHS. The door handle functions are combined with the display of machine states in the handles.

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Mobile Machinery

Cylindrical roller bearings for heavy industrial gearboxes and construction machinery

Schaeffler is introducing new cylindrical roller bearings in which the service life has doubled and the load capacity has increased by 24%.

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Automobile

IO module secures hydrogen filling stations from Resato

Resato Hydrogen Technology has implemented a modular and scalable concept for H2 filling stations with Turck and its IO modules.

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food technology

Lubrication and sealing-optimized linear guide

Schaeffler presents linear guides for food technology with optimized seals, wipers and long-term lubrication units.

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Mobile Machinery

Flexible, customizable gateway for agricultural technology

IFM Electronic is presenting the Isobus Gateway at the Hannover Messe, which is designed for agricultural equipment and can be specifically adapted.

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Industry fair news

Hannover Messe promotes energy for sustainable industry

As a networked industrial ecosystem, the exhibitors demonstrate how climate neutrality can be achieved through the use of electrification, digitalization and automation under the guiding theme of Energizing a sustainable Industry.

Control Fair 2024 | The industry is already looking forward to Stuttgart

Control 2024, the important international trade fair for quality assurance, will take place from April 23rd to 26th in Stuttgart. The trade fair places a particular focus on automation and digitalization.

SPS Nuremberg: Now in 16 halls!

The SPS – Smart Production Solutions from November 14th to 16.11th. 2023 will see significant growth in the trade fair compared to the previous year and is on the way to pre-Corona levels.

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The functional safety of machines and systems is of central importance in production. The option module "SK TU4-PNS" from NORD supports easy implementation of safe reactions. Together with a safe PLC, the drive electronics communicate reliably in the existing Profinet network via Profisafe.

functional safety is becoming more and more important as a fundamental component in contemporary machine and system design. The drive specialist is currently supplying frequency converters with integrated STO and SS1 in this area. Safety-related communication and safe movement functions in accordance with IEC 61800-5 are operated with the Profisafe SK TU4-PNS module. Functions such as SLS (Safety Limited Speed), SSR (Safe Speed Range), SDI (Safe Direction), SOS (Safe Operation Stop) and SSM (Safe Speed Monitor) can be integrated and expand the safe stop functions of the drives.

Frequency converter innovations: decentralized, networked with app and much more.

The Profisafe bus interface monitors the safe compliance with the limit values and provides the safe inputs and outputs. If a limit value is exceeded or fallen below, the bus interface switches to a safe state. All outputs are de-energized, input information is reset and transmitted to the higher-level safety-related controller. This is basically necessary for the use of the Profisafe module.

The integration of the safety functions in the drive offers numerous advantages over a drive solution with discrete safety technology. Less installation space is required, the number of external safety components is lower and the system is modularly scalable. Also he will wiringEffort is reduced to a minimum as only one network cable is required. Another advantage is the global availability of the safety-related machine data.