The 'tractor plug'
Agricultural machinery and auxiliary equipment in the agricultural sector are becoming increasingly electrified. The interface between tractor and attachment is a particular challenge.
read more...read more...RJ45 versus Mini I/O - Ethernet plug in comparison
The most commonly used connector for industrial Ethernet is the RJ45, which was not originally designed for this purpose. How reliable is it? Is there an alternative? A benchmark.
read more...The hygiene challenge
The food industry relies on the hygienic design of its machines and systems. However, savings are often made on components such as cable glands or cable guides - and therefore at the wrong end!
read more...Construction kit for the display
Enclosures with matching displays from a single source - a wish of many electronics developers. A modular system including an online configurator makes it possible.
read more...Pressure-resistant encapsulation modernized
Instead of heavy cast iron and steel constructions, modern material combinations and technologies can be used to create control cabinets that hardly differ from their relatives in the safe industrial sector - and can be used without restrictions in Zone 1!
read more...M8 - in the shadow of the M12?
When we talk about industrial connectors for sensor/actuator cabling or data transmission, we are usually talking about M12 connectors. However, if the plug connection needs to be more compact, the M8 comes into play. An overview.
read more...Hybrid cables under constant stress
What properties must single-cable solutions for servomotors have to ensure that communication via the integrated encoder cable functions reliably even under mechanical stress in highly dynamic drag chain applications? Shielding is particularly important here.
read more...One cable is enough
One cable for the motor power supply and the sensor supply with communication - technologically, the associated challenges on the cable and in the connection technology have already been solved. Now the motor feedback market has to follow suit.
read more...Connecting components on the test bench
In order to ensure consistent quality of fiber optic connection components in the field, precise and reproducible measurement of insertion loss for multimode fibers is essential. What is important here in detail?
read more...New sensor concepts for predictive maintenance
Predictive maintenance is currently one of the hot topics in mechanical and plant engineering. Equipped with the appropriate sensor technology, the energy chain will make a significant contribution to this in the future.
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