A new solution for automating most repetitive production tasks is now available. Omron Automation Americas, an industry leader in automation technology, has announced the release of its new TM Series Collaborative Robot to facilitate collaboration between humans and machines.
 
Industry-leading automation solution benefactor Omron Automation Americas recently revealed the release of an advanced yet simple-to-use solution for automating repetitive tasks in manufacturing. With built-in vision and a user-friendly, plug-and-play programming interface, the new TM Series Collaborative Robot works seamlessly with humans to enhance productivity and provide safety.
 
Designed to set up an innovative manufacturing environment, this highly transportable robot complies with safety requirements for -robot collaboration specified in ISO 10218-1 and ISO/TS 15066. It can be easily trained to perform almost any repetitive task in any location thanks to a manual teaching function that allows operators to teach the robot with hand-guidance without needing for Software.
 
Programming surface is intuitive and quick to set up. The robot reduces installation and setup times contrasted with traditional industrial robots thanks to a flowchart-based programming interface and intuitive teaching. No prior robot programming experience is necessary.
Integrated on-arm vision system further reduces setup time. The robot goes with built-in vision and incorporated lighting for taking products with a wide viewing angle. Image sensing functions include pattern matching, barcode reading, color identification and more.
Compliance with all human-machine collaborative safety standards. The robot insures safe cooperation between humans and machines and reduces installation time by removing the necessity for industrial safety guarding.
The introduction of the new Collaborative Robot is developed towards manufacturers seeking to boost production and reduce employee fatigue by automating repetitive tasks such as machine tending, loading and unloading, assembly, screw driving, gluing, testing or soldering.


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Dorner has set up a new sales and engineering office in Paris to better serve its French customers. Dorner (https://www.dornerconveyors.com/) is an industry leader in the design, application, manufacturing and integration of precision industrial and sanitary conveyor systems.
 
The choice of the Paris office is the current step in Dorner's continued growth in Europe and the Middle East. In 2018, Dorner Europe accomplished an expansion of its Jülich, Germany facility, and is now developing additional conveyor lines there, including its popular-selling 2200 Series conveyor platform. The 2200 Series is an flexible conveyor line engineered for numerous applications and industries, including accumulation, small-part transfers, inclines and declines, automated and manual assembly, packaging and industrial.
Dorner also has locations in Burlington, Ontario, Canada; Penang, Malaysia; Guadalajara, Mexico; and headquarters in Hartland, Wisconsin, USA. 
 
Dorner is a world leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of high-quality conveyors and related equipment. Since 1966, companies from around the world have turned to Dorner conveyors for greatly improved efficiency and productivity. With locations in Germany, the United States, Malaysia, Mexico and Canada, Dorner offers support to customers world-wide.


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The Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the leading global advocate for the benefits of automating, today announced a call for startup companies in robotics, machine vision and motion control to enter the 2019 Automate Launch Pad Startup Competition. The competition gives the industry's most inspiring young companies the chance to vie for a $10,000 cash award and the spotlight at the Automate 2019 Show and Conference — North America's largest showcase devoted to automation industry trends, leading-edge technology and business innovation, taking place April 8-11 in Chicago, Illinois. Entry deadline is January 31.


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SINGAPORE, 15 January 2019 - The Blockchain Robotics Engineering Consortium (BREC) has today announced they will utilize Enjin's blockchain platform and ERC-1155 token standard for their upcoming robotic engineering system Makerverse.
 
In addition to a virtual 3D engineering and simulation space, Makerverse will provide engineers, enthusiasts, and gamers of all levels the ability to participate in the robotics revolution within an incubated environment, with access to market as soon as a viable digital prototype is created.
 
Makerverse's engineering marketplace will permit inventors to monetize their work while using transparent, immutable blockchain technology to protect their intellectual property rights. Users will have the ability to integrate new designs and innovations by purchasing the IP from an integrated peer-to-peer marketplace and dropping it straight into any project they are developing in the Makerverse workshop.
 
The Makerverse ecosystem will showcase a virtual, collaborative engineering workshop, an expansive multi-player game experience similar to Star Citizen where players can liberally use and collaborate with their simulated robots, and a marketplace for engineers to buy, sell, and trade their parts and engineering designs. As users build, assemble, and buy their robot IP, they will be able to store these tokenized assets securely in their Enjin Wallet app.
 
This will open up the world of automated robotics to a whole new audience and provide any new robotic engineering concept with a frictionless route to market and user testing with significantly reduced risk and costs, as well as wider access to a global marketplace and community of supporters, investors, and customers outside of the Silicon Valley ‘closed-shop.'
 
 
With its possibilities to reinvent the economic incentives and organizational models of how engineering solutions are produced and sold, the long-term implications of Makerverse are significant. As the founder of BREC, Mockridge will draw upon BREC's mission as the Makerverse aims to bridge the economic incentive gap between robotics engineering within the incumbent industry verticals of major corporations and the military, and the open source robotics and software engineering community, providing everyone worldwide with a digital incubator and direct route to market.
 
World famous robotics and AI pioneer John Sokol is also excited about the prospects for Makerverse. 'I know better than anyone how challenging it can be creating new commercial robotics ventures. Even living in Silicon Valley with over 30 years of knowledge and experience, I am still limited by the few venture capital firms and viable commercial routes, which have not changed significantly since the 1980s,' explained Sokol.
 
'Likewise in education, children desperately need access to tools that will prepare them for the technological realities of the future,' Sokol continued. 'A thought like Makerverse would not only help me to unleash my dreams, but also level the playing field globally, generating a digital robotics education and incubation space for experts, non-experts, adults, and children alike—and giving them the power to learn and go out and create great products that solve real problems in their lives, communities, and industries.'
 
Makerverse will also put into action a transparent and auditable training and competency proof service for engineers, as well as a cryptocurrency accounting system, which will make the real-time spending and details of Makerverse's accounts available to the public in real time.
 
Makerverse will be built with Unity, the world's largest game development platform. As a Unity partner, Enjin's blockchain development tools will be listed on the front page of the Unity Asset Store, enabling 4.5 million Unity developers to mint ERC-1155 crypto items and manage advanced gameplay mechanics through transactions on the Ethereum blockchain.
 
About Enjin
Founded in 2009 and based in Singapore, Enjin provides products and solutions to the blockchain and gaming industries. The Enjin Smart Wallet, which has over 500,000 users and a 4.7 out of 5 rating on the Google Play store, features more than 700 cryptocurrencies, ERC-1155 game collectible support, and NSA-grade security, making it one of the most secure mobile wallets available.


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Taby, Sweden – Piab’s Kenos® KVG series of vacuum grippers is extended to include the option of using suction cups as an alternative of the technical foam pads offered as standard. The well-known vacuum grippers can now be configured with suction cups from Piab’s flexible and durable suction cup series DURAFLEX® BX as well as the generic Value Line® series.
 
“This new suction cup option for Kenos® KVG vacuum grippers will help our customers to better address certain materials or items that might be particularly difficult to grip. It is designed as an alternative to the foam grip used in standard models, and will extend the range of applications that can be served by Kenos® KVG vacuum grippers,” says Josef Karbassi, Vice President of Piab’s Automation Division.
 
Using Piab’s proprietary air-driven multi-stage COAX® technology to give highly productive vacuum generation, the Kenos® KVG gripper series is developed to safely grip, lift and handle objects, with focus on packaging and furniture industries. Standard models use an easily exchangeable technical foam pad that molds itself around objects to give a strong grip regardless of shape or dimensions. FDA approved foam pads are available, and the number of pitch holes and the thickness of the foam can be varied to suit different applications.


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MERLIC 4 will be released on February 15, 2019. With this release, we are approaching the strongest demands of the machine vision market:
parallelization, PLC integration, and 3D vision.
 
Parallelization
 
One highlight of the new version is the parallel processing and execution of different tools. This simplifies the implementation of multi-camera setups and allows for a more efficient use of the system's computing power. Different machine vision tasks can now be executed in one single instance.
 
3D vision tools
 
The software also offers 3D vision tools based on height images. This enables users, for example, to read embossed text, check heights, and perform other 3D machine vision tasks. For this, four new tools are included that make it possible to prepare images from 3D sensors or 3D cameras so that inspections can be subsequently carried out using MERLIC’s existing 2D tools.
 
Process integration with real-time Ethernet and fieldbus systems and recipes
Moreover, MERLIC 4 provides optimized process integration via Hilscher cifX cards of all current form factors. The software can thus communicate with common fieldbus and real-time Ethernet industrial protocols, such as EtherCAT, PROFINET, and many others, via Hilscher PC cards. This makes it possible to seamlessly include machine vision systems running MERLIC with a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC).
 
Besides, MERLIC now supports “recipes” which allow for the rapid reconfiguration of different machine vision tasks.
 
Improved usability with optimized tool flow
MERLIC 4 provides users with an even sharper and more spontaneous user interface with a completely redesigned tool flow. Thanks to the tool flow it is possible to easily arrange and connect tools and logic elements utilizing known principles like drag&drop, copy&paste, and multi-selection. Automatisms to connect tools have been optimized. Branches between the strands (Branch on Condition) are now displayed more clearly. Using 'Triggers', the user has an additional possibility to control the program flow logically.
 
A quick search for tools has been installed, allowing for better usability. For camera parameters a quick search is available now, simplifying the setup of camera settings greatly.
 
Customized translations
Moreover, MERLIC 4 allows customized translations of standard texts in the front end for all languages.


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Pleora’s iPORT™ SB-GigE-EV7520A External Frame Grabber improves the usability of Sony block FCB-EV7520A cameras by allowing engineers to treat them as native GigE Vision® cameras. With this external frame grabber, Sony block FCB-EV7520A cameras can leverage the simple, long-distance cabling of GigE for both video and control signals. The cameras can also be used with a broader selection of lower cost computing platforms.
 
The SB-GigE-EV7520A transmits full-resolution video with low, predictable latency over a GigE link for distances up to 100 meters using standard CAT5e/6 cabling. The connection at the PC is a standard GigE port, eliminating the need for a desktop PC with an available peripheral card slot for a traditional frame grabber. As a result, designers can reduce system size, cost, and power consumption by using smaller form factor computing platform, such as laptops, embedded PCs, and single-board computers.
 
The SB-GigE-EV7520A offers a user friendly interface to the Sony® VISCA™ protocol set, both graphically and in the eBUS SDK (software development kit). This grants system designers to rapidly prototype interactions between the SB-GigE-EV7520A, the Sony block camera, and their software to easily deploy production-ready software.


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OCTOPUZ Inc. features the latest technologies in automatic toolpath solving. For years, OCTOPUZ has provided the robotics advertise with a intelligent offline programming and simulation solution ideal for a wide range of industrial robots including KUKA, FANUC, ABB, and Yaskawa Motoman.
 
Today, OCTOPUZ 2.1 redefines the standards in offline robotic programming by offering a simplified approach to solving toolpath trajectories. The new OCTOPUZ PathFinder suite of tools, automatically identifies AND solves limits and errors within the program. PathFinder is comprised of seven tools, two of the key tools being: PathAnalyzer and PathSolver.
 
PathAnalyzer will automatically review original toolpaths while detecting and identifying collisions joint limits, reach limits and singularities. Using the developed report, users can easily self-resolve issues or allow OCTOPUZ to automatically solve on behalf of the consumer.
 
PathSolver will control the PathAnalyzer tool to identify limitations and systematically manage errors and present the ideal toolpath to the consumer. Once the process is done, the new toolpath can be approved and is ready to be uploaded to the robot.
In addition to the two key tools, PathFinder also includes additional tools designed for Auto Configurations on CAM Import, Error Visualization, Targeted Error Resolution, Foundational Reference Point Assignment, and Simplified External Axis Configuration.
 
With the release of OCTOPUZ 2.1, PathFinder users can now easily import CAM paths, and with a simple click of a button, it creates a robot path which is clear of limitations and singularities. By leaving the complicated aspect of OLP to OCTOPUZ, individuals can take more time manufacturing and less time programming.
 
OCTOPUZ Inc., headquartered in Waterloo provides intelligent offline programming and simulation software for businesses of all sizes, from small shops to global corporations. Our focus is to provide a robotic software solution that not only allows companies to reach a higher level of efficiency with their processes but also opens opportunities for them to enter new markets and expand their business potential. Our business was built on the concept of taking complex robotic programming and making it simple.


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3M relates science in a more collaborative ways to benefit lives daily. With $32 billion in sales, our 91,000 employees connect with clients all around the world.
 
For nearly 100 years, 3M has been a supplier of innovative, value-added solutions to the automotive industry. Hundreds of 3M products are used in the manufacture of vehicles, ranging from consumable products in assembly plant operations, to many others engineered into body, exterior, interior, powertrain and chassis components. 3M Automotive and Aerospace Division sales and application engineering centers and/or manufacturing facilities are located in over 40 countries around the world, wherever vehicles are manufactured. In addition, automotive research and development centers located in the U.S., Germany, Japan, China and India strive to maintain close ties with automotive OEMs and tier suppliers globally. Learn more about automotive solutions from 3M at 3M.com/AutomotiveOEM.

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ACEINNA's OpenIMU answer consists of three key parts.
 
First is a family of Inertial Measurement Units consisting of three high-accuracy accelerometers, three high-accuracy gyros, and a powerful ARM Coretex. Zoom in on OpenIMU and OpenIMU CAN. Second is an OpenSource tool chain and resource code for developing the IMU. It is made up of everything from basic download and debug to reference implementations of loosely-coupled GPS/INS. Third is a full Developer Site and tools with charting, graphing and even algorithm simulation.
 
'OpenIMU enables advanced, easy-to-deploy localization and navigation algorithm solutions for a part of the time and cost of standard methods. OpenIMU's combination of open-source software and low-cost hardware enables rapid development of advanced solutions for drones, robotics, and autonomous applications,' explains Mike Horton, CTO of ACEINNA. 'OpenIMUTM is a first of its kind, professionally supported, open-source GPS/GNSS-aided inertial navigation software stack for low-cost precise navigation applications.'
 
The OpenIMU Development hardware development kit includes JTAG-pod, precision mount fixture, EVB, and an OpenIMU300 module. The OpenIMU module features ACEINNA's 5 deg/Hr, 9-Axis gyro, accelerometer, and magnetometer sensor selection with an onboard 180MHz ARM Coretex floating-point CPU. The IMU is delivered in a small (24x37x9.5mm), easy to integrate module that operates from 2.7-5.5VDC.

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Mersen, a global consultant in electrical power and innovative materials, has joined into a technical partnership agreement with French ice-racing championship Trophée Andros for the 2018/2019 season.
                                               
Under the deal, Mersen will supply the four electric race cars set to test the internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in the various legs of the Trophée Andros, starting at Val Thorens on December 8 and 9, 2018 and ending with the final at Stade de France on February 9, 2019.
 
The electric vehicles were manufactured by Exagon Engineering, which Mersen has for years granted with battery cell connection components (monitoring laminated bus bars) and protection fuses – solutions developed to withstand extreme driving and environmental conditions.
 
Mersen leverages its expertise among all electric vehicle industry players by providing tailored battery connection and protection solutions, particularly for high-voltage models.

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TOKYO, December 19, 2018 - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) publicized today that it will start the ML562G86 pulse laser diode (LD) for projectors, presenting a vibrant 638-nanometer (nm) red light, world-record output power of 3.0W under pulse operation and mean time to failure1 (MTTF) of over 20,000 hours, on April 1, 2019. The ML562G86's high output power and big operating temperature range will contribute to enhanced projector luminance and miniaturization. Sample sales will launch on January 11, 2019.

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Making two types of PCS to reduce facility cost and minimize power loss
 
  In common solar generation systems with storage batteries, both the solar panels and the storage batteries require PCS for electric power alteration.
  This model has structured component inverter circuits and controllers to combine the functions of the two PCS into one. This has reduced the number of the PCS and coupled transformers needed as well as the man-hours needed to setup them, noticing an approximately 20% reduction of cost examined to conventional systems.*3
  It also saves the solar power in the batteries without the need for AC conversion, lowering the power loss by four to five percent compared to previous models.
 
High-precision output control aids stabilizing the power grid and generation capacity
 
  Fuji Electric is a forerunner in storage battery control for wind generation facilities, with expert expertise gained by undertaking experiments and practical applications ahead of the industry. In this way, FE has developed a control model that achieves a power generation capacity variance (the measurement of power generation capacity fluctuation within a unit time period) within one percent per minute, the highest level in the world. The new product can be equipped with this control model*4, which provides support for the stabilization of power grid systems and generation capacity.

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                Amidst the trees at the foot of Japan's sacred Mount Fuji, many yellow spots shine. The work suits are as yellow as the vehicles and the processing halls. The robots that develop new yellow robots around the clock are also yellow. Buzzing, her arms grip new individual parts, insert them into each other, and tighten screws. The limited supervisors can hardly tell which robot is building and which robot is being built. Therefore, the parent machines are labeled with a green band on the gripper.
 
Many of the 7000 industrial robots that leave FANUC's factories in Oshino every month will weld and paint vehicle bodies. And not only in Japan. The company exports its machines to China, North America - and increasingly also to Germany. 'A few years ago our robots were only used at Opel, but that has changed drastically,' says CEO Yoshiharu Inaba, who happens for a talk in the yellow blazer. Meanwhile, many German car manufacturers are operating the Japanese machines.
 
So far, another manufacturer has clearly dominated their factories. However, the position of Augsburg robot manufacturer Kuka is no longer accepted. 'Market shares have shifted,' says Munich automation expert Professor Horst Wildemann. One possible reason for this in the industry is the change of ownership at Kuka. Two years ago, the Chinese electronics group Midea acquired a majority stake in the company. Since then, car manufacturers have been afraid that strategically important production data could flow off to China and come to be the property of competitors.
 
In principle, expert Wildemann believes that these concerns are reasonable. However, since Midea had presented itself to strict rules when buying, there would be no concrete reason for these fears. 'The contract excludes any access to our customers' data', confirmed Kuka boss Till Reuter recently in an interview with WirtschaftsWoche.
 
But a bit of mistrust remnants. 'We take care not to become too dependent on a company that is in Chinese hands,' says a major car manufacturer. Ralf Winkelmann also acknowledges the reservations. 'I can't look into the minds of the car manufacturers,' says the managing director of Fanuc in Germany. 'But the fact is that we have been able to acquire many projects.'
 
With sales of around 226 million euros in Germany, the Japanese manufacturer set a new record last year, selling more than 5,000 robots for the first time. Its market share is thus more than 25 percent. Fanuc is already number two in Volkswagen's factories. According to an insider, the Wolfsburg-based company recently ordered just as many machines from the Japanese as from Kuka for parts of the production.
 
The reach of the Chinese for the Augsburg robot manufacturer had fix the German automotive industry on fire in 2016. The machines, which are networked via the Internet, allow the deepest insights into production. Thousands of robots constantly transmitting data about products, quantities and quality to Kuka are a perfect seismograph for the entire industry.
 
For Chinese manufacturers, who are now known by the industry as quite serious competitors of tomorrow, this info would be of hardly estimable benefits. In order to articulate their fears, a number of German car managers made representations to the Berlin Ministry of Economics in 2016. However, no car boss publicly opposed the takeover. The fact that the government in Berlin has now made Chinese company acquisitions in Germany more difficult and has just prohibited a takeover for the first time is also a consequence of the discussion at the time.
 
Never stop
 
Fanuc boss Inaba does not see himself as a profiteer of widespread Chinese scepticism. He rather consult to the high reliability of his machines. The company promises customers lifelong service, no matter how old the robots get: 'Our top priority is that factories never have to stop with our machines,' says Inaba. New Fanuc robots run at full speed throughout the night before delivery to test their functions under full load.
 
The company is little known in Germany to date. Globally, however, it has long been a power. With 400,000 machines installed worldwide, Fanuc leads in industrial robots ahead of Yaskawa (360,000 units) and ABB (300,000 units). Fanuc is also the world's largest manufacturer of milling and drilling machines used in the production of smartphone housings, for example. In 2017, sales jumped 35 percent to a record EUR 5.7 billion, with a net margin of 25 percent, well above the industry average. Kuka achieved a turnover of 3.5 billion euros last year.
 
The company name Fanuc stands for Fuji Automatic Numerical Control and refers to the origin of the company that manufactured controls for machine tools. In 1956 the engineer Seiuemon Inaba founded the company as a department of Fujitsu, since 1972 it has been independent. A little later, the Japanese also manufactured engines for machines, followed by industrial robots and small machine tools. Together with its Japanese customers, Fanuc finally expanded into China and North America.
 
'We don't want to be too dependent on a Chinese company'
A GERMAN AUTOMOTIVE MANAGER
 
The yellow robots soon encountered their way into General Motors' car factories and eventually appeared in the factories of German vehicle manufacturers in the USA and Mexico. Fanuc used the contacts to the German car manufacturers and adapted its machines to German and European standards. In the summer of 2017, the company opened a distribution centre in Luxembourg, and in the autumn Fanuc inaugurated a German development site in Neuhausen near Stuttgart.
 
Founder Inaba once attributed the global success to the extreme isolation. Robot sales are like war, he stated, and therefore had information about businesses, customers and machines guarded like military secrets. For a long time, for example, employees were only allowed to send e-mails from special terminals. Since 2015, however, his son and successor has opened up the company to some extent. 'We are not a yellow cult behind a mysterious veil,' stresses the 69-year-old Fanuc boss. Such an image would only frighten off foreign customers.
 
The signs orient to further enlargement: a new plant in Chikusei, Japan, will start trial operation in August and increase capacity to 4000 units by the end of 2019. Fanuc plans to use it to produce up to 11,000 robots per month.
 
And the Japanese offensive goes even further. In 2019 Fanuc wants to show the software platform FIELD for the complete networking of machines, robots, controllers and sensors in a factory in Germany. This should extend the concept of zero downtime, with which Fanuc has been scoring in the USA for two years. The robots then provide real-time data on their operation. This enables preventive maintenance through timely replacement of worn parts. 'We have the most advanced technology and are therefore part of the transformation to Industry 4.0,' explains CEO Inaba confidently. Fanuc does not store the data collected close to the machine in the data center of a so-called cloud provider, but processes it directly itself. This is intended to increase safety. Fanuc cooperates closely with Preferred Networks, Japan's most important start-up for artificial intelligence.
 
Inaba sees no growth limits, the market for industrial robots will be much larger in the forthcoming. For example, robots could be used in the final assembly of vehicles and could replace every second worker there in the medium term. How to do this can be viewed in a demonstration room in Oshino. There, a so-called collaborative robot places a spare wheel in the boot, a worker only has to tighten it. The 'Cobot' stops automatically if the human being comes too close. Man and machine are already working together in the Fanuc factories for testing purposes. A gripper arm lifts a heavy wire harness, guides it to a half-finished robot frame and gives the command 'Please start work' orally. Then the worker may fasten the rope. 'The machines still have difficulties with all soft materials, but technological development is currently exponential,' says Inaba. To mark the Cobots, Fanuc wraps them in green foam. Competitor Kuka cannot expect such a protective cushion.

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                The SEMIKRON creativity Award and the SEMIKRON Young Engineer Award is awarded for outstanding innovations in projects, prototypes, services or novel concepts in the field of power electronics in Europe, combined with notable societal benefits in form of supporting environmental protection and sustainability by improving energy efficiency and conservation of resources.
 
Both prizes have been initiated and are donated by the SEMIKRON Foundation which is awarding the prizes in cooperation with the European ECPE Network.
 
The SEMIKRON Innovation Award and the SEMIKRON Young Engineer Award is given for outstanding innovations in projects, prototypes, services or novel concepts in the field of power electronics in Europe, combined with notable societal benefits in form of supporting environmental protection and sustainability by improving energy efficiency and conservation of resources.
 
Both prizes have been initiated and are donated by the SEMIKRON Foundation which is awarding the prizes in cooperation with the European ECPE Network.
 
With the award the SEMIKRON Foundation wants to motivate people of all ages and organizations of any legal status to deal with innovations in power electronics, a key technology of the 21th century, in order to improve environmental protection and sustainability by energy efficiency and conservation of resources.
 
The SEMIKRON Innovation and Young Engineer Prizes 2019 will be given in the frame of the ECPE Annual Event in March 2019 in Erding/Munich. A single person or a team of researchers can be awarded.
 
SEMIKRON Innovation Award includes prize money of EUR 10,000.00.
SEMIKRON Young Engineer Award for researchers who have not yet completed their 30th year of age includes prize money of EUR 3,000.00.

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The COMBIVERT S6 and F6 drive controllers produced by KEB Automation support the implementation of latest machine designs with extended demands in terms of capacity, communication and integrated safety.
 
With the new drive generation, the action of different types of motor, real-time communication to higher-level control, choice of integrated drive safety functions or the cooling design in the switch cabinet can be individualized personally to meet the machine manufacturer's requirements.
 
They blend the functionality of open-loop and closed-loop frequency inverters for asynchronous machines and powerful servo controller features with high-efficiency sensorless control methods such as sensorless closed loop (SCL) and asynchronous sensorless closed loop (ASCL).
 
COMBIVERT S6 / F6
The COMBIVERT S6 is a modern, compact and also pliable servo drive for ranked current of 2.6 amps up to 16.5 amps in two housing sizes. The direct mains connection is available for 230 volt and 400 volt networks. The COMBIVERT F6 is available for applications with single-axis controllers in the force range 4 kilowatt to 400 kilowatt.
 
Both drives are prepared with a multi-real-time Ethernet field bus connection for Powerlink, which also supports EtherCAT and ProfiNET. The standard configurable safety functions, complying with IEC and ISO standards with motion-based, safe monitoring directly in the drive, and complete the machine design.

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NEWBURYPORT, MA (JANUARY, 2019) - Global Electrical Power and Advanced Materials leader Mersen is thrilled to announce the launching of the first-to-market Class RK1 Reducer Fuse product series. This advanced product is the present member of the Class J Reducer Fuse and Class J and R Fuse Reducer product offerings, extending Mersen’s solutions to help the rapidly growing North American manufacturing and process industries.
 
 
 
Certified as a Special Purpose UL/CSA Listed Class RK1 fuse, these reduced current rating fuses are manufactured to fit into the next larger size fuse holders, supplying the same high reliability performance, durability, and arc flash mitigation as standard Class RK1 fuses.
 
 
 
Reducer Fuses are ideally appropriate for start-up or newly expanded manufacturing facilities that are ramping up production and electrical power demand. Upon approaching full capacity, the reduced rating Reducer Fuses can be readily replaced by higher standard rating fuses of the same body size, thus eliminating the need to replace the fuse panel.
 
 
 
Another key benefit of the Class J and RK1 Reducer Fuses is that they are set to install and replace directly out-of-the-box, lowering production down time.
 
 
 
The Class RK1 Reducer Fuse series is available instantly, along with the Class J Reducer Fuse and Class R and Class J Fuse Reducer extras.

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·        Revolutionary hot-swappable uninterruptible power supply (UPS) integrates high-performance Saft lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries
 
·        Electronic management and high excellence enable Total to cover the operations of its High-Performance Computer (HPC) data center
 
 
 
Paris, November 26, 2018 -
 
Battery leader Saft and industrial group Socomec have produced a high-performance UPS featuring lithium-ion data batteries for Total’s HPC data center which hosts one of the world’s biggest industrial supercomputers.
 
Total’s supercomputer is a unique decision-support system used for oil & gas investigation and field management. It allows to improve the accuracy of subsurface imaging, optimize the development and production of Total’s fields as well as save time, by shortening the duration of studies.
 
To protect critical information and calculations for the supercomputer Total required a high-performance UPS and battery system. The main criteria were low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), hot-swappability and integration with its monitoring systems. The scope also included the enhancement of the environmental performance of the data center through increased energy efficiency and the ability to re-inject power from the UPS into the grid or to support other loads.
 
To meet these requirements, Saft and Socomec worked collectively to integrate a Saft Flex’ion battery system into Socomec’s DELPHYS XTEND GP UPS. Both components are modular and energy efficient so that the UPS can be scaled to meet new additional power and energy requirements over time. A program of functional testing and certification demonstrated the electrical performance of the system as well as the electronic control interface between the battery and Socomec’s UPS.
 
Made in Europe, the lithium-ion battery system is sized to deliver 550 kW for up to seven minutes within the voltage window required by the UPS after an operational life of 15 years.
 
François Danet, Saft’s global business development manager for data centers said: “As a critical component of the UPS for Total’s data center supercomputer, Saft’s Flex’ion battery systems are supporting Total’s drive towards technological innovation and environmental sustainability.”
 
Socomec’s technology is hot-swappable to enable extension or maintenance without interrupting data center operations. The UPS system was installed on a turnkey basis in October 2018 at Total’s Centre Scientifique et Technique Jean Féger (CSTJF) in Pau, France and can be extended by up to 2,400 kW with additional 200 kW modules.
 
The partners integrated two identical UPS with Flex’ion Li-ion batteries for redundancy. The battery system is based on Saft’s proprietary Super Lithium Iron Phosphate (SLFPTM) technology and was developed specifically for data centers and other mission-critical industries. Saft’s lithium-ion battery technology offers the benefits of low maintenance, safety, and high power density, as well as a long life at elevated temperatures, which reduces the need for cooling and ventilation.
 
A major reward is that Flex’ion’s electronic battery management can be integrated with control and management, such as building management and SCADA systems, to enable smart monitoring and free up data center operators to focus on their servers.
 
Note to editors: François Danet, Saft’s global business development manager for data centers, and Xavier Mercier, Socomec’s market segment director, will share insight into the state-of-the-art technology at the Equipment, energy efficiency and DCIM conference room, at Data Center World Paris on 27th November at 11:20.