Industrial Electronics

Power supply component failures are perhaps the most common malfunctions affecting electronic devices. This is due to several reasons. First of all, the systems supplying current to the rest of the circuit are directly exposed to all kinds of input interferences – voltage surges, power shortage, etc. Another reason is the use of poor quality components in stabilizers and converters ...

  A ”smart automation warehouse” enables complete visibility, reduces complexity, improves operational performance, increases the productivity process in the industry by operating smart machines including robots, AGVs, RGVs, carton shuttle, forklift, etc. These devices are typically powered by batteries or cables or trolley wire, which require charging regularly, a place to charge as well as maintenance. And for outdoor systems ...

Amphenol’s Conec range of M8x1 D-coded circular connectors are optimised for industrial automation applications. “These connectors present engineers with all the attributes necessary to meet the ISO11801 Class D standard for up to 100Mbit/s fast Ethernet signal transmissions,” according to RS Components, which is stocking the parts. They have 0.8mm diameter contact pins rated at up to 4A at 40°C, work at 50Vac ...

Flex Power Modules has added 30W dual output variants with 4:1 inputs to its PKE range of through-hole encapsulated board-mounted dc-dc converters. PKE532x series has an 18-75Vdc (100V peak) input range suitable for 24, 28 or 48 V nominals PKE332x series input range is 9-36Vdc (50V peak) Both parts are available with either ±12V or ±15V regulated dual outputs, and ...

Axiomtek’s IPC970 is a four-slot industrial PC for Intel Comet Lake S processors: Xeon or 10th generation Core i7/i5/i3 processors up to 80W, with Intel’s W480E chipset. Nvdia’s high-end GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is supported, which has 10,496 CUDA cores and 24Gbyte of GDDR6X memory. The PC has one I/O module slot (’11’ in diagram), three PCIe slots (PCIe x8 ...

Conrad has become an authorised distributor of Arduino products, stocking the whole product line – boards, modules, shields and kits – rather that the selection of parts that it had been carrying. “Working together now also means each and every new product will be available from Conrad on the very day it’s being released,” said Arduino sales director Daniel Kilian. ...

Industrial control language Codesys will now run on Kontron’s Raspberry Pi compute module-based Pi-Tron CM3+ PCB computer (pictured). “The integrated development environment Codesys for programmable logic controllers according to the IEC 61131-3 standards is hardware-independent software for application development in industrial automation,” according to Kontron. “Thanks to its open interfaces and security features, Codesys has distinguished itself as an industry ...

Connector and cable manufacturer, Japan Aviation Electronics (JAE) has awarded TTI its EMEA Fastest Growing Distributor 2020 award. The award is in recognition of the distributor’s “2020 outstanding performance across EMEA” with design-in activities, which have resulted in “exceptional growth” for JAE. The distributor stocks JAE products for factory automation, robotics, test and measurement, e-mobility, mobile devices and audio-visual (AV) equipment. ...

Researchers at Fraunhofer IZM have joined forces with TecVenture, Optrontec and KAIST to create a high-speed camera fitted with a unique multi-lens array that can capture images with a far greater depth of field than its conventional counterparts. The system is suitable for efficient damage analytics in industrial use or for many research activities. As production processes are accelerating everywhere ...

Hiber, the Industrial IoT-as-a-Service company, has turned to Inmarsat to provide the satellite connectivity backbone for its own low-cost, low-power network for IoT offering. The recently announced agreement pairs Inmarsat’s ELERA L-band network – a global satellite network for IoT – with Hiber’s IoT-as-a-service ecosystem. This is aimed at transport, logistics, agriculture and mining industries. While Hiber says it will ...