A Focus on Customers Drives AutomationDirect
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A Focus on Customers Drives AutomationDirect

Value, variety, and convenience define a commitment to supporting industrial automation end users, OEMs, and systems integrators. AutomationDirect has been named “Top Automation Products Distributor 2024” by Manufacturing Outlook magazine for “groundbreaking contributions to the manufacturing sector”. In a the Manufacturing Outlook April 2024 cover story titled AutomationDirect: Where Value, Variety and Convenience Align, AutomationDirect’s…
Don’t Be Another Statistic—Protect Your Machinery and Personnel
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Don’t Be Another Statistic—Protect Your Machinery and Personnel

In 2022, OSHA reported 5,486 fatal industrial accidents. Many more accidents resulted in injuries or lost work productivity. These accidents may have been avoidable. Proper training and machine safeguarding could’ve prevented many of these accidents, reducing injuries, downtime, and deaths. Industrial safety starts with training. In addition to training, proper machine protection is another layer…
Supplier Profile: Balluff
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Supplier Profile: Balluff

What do manufacturers in the packaging, food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and personal care industries have in common? How would you answer this question if it was asked during a restaurant trivia game? If you bet all your hard-earned trivia points on “E,” then you would be collecting your prize! Balluff is a fourth-generation, family-owned sensor and…
Murrelektronik Modlink Panel Interface Connectors from AutomationDirect
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Murrelektronik Modlink Panel Interface Connectors from AutomationDirect

May 29, 2024 – AutomationDirect has added new Murrelektronik Modlink panel interface connectors that provide various styles of interface inserts, frames, and optional protection covers that can be easily configured for a custom data and/or power panel interface connector. Modlink panel interface inserts are available in nine connection combinations that may include RJ45 Cat5e, female/male…
Endress+Hauser Ceraphant Series Digital Pressure Sensors from AutomationDirect
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Endress+Hauser Ceraphant Series Digital Pressure Sensors from AutomationDirect

May 15, 2024 – AutomationDirect has added Endress+Hauser Ceraphant series digital pressure transmitters featuring a compact stainless steel construction, a 4-digit LCD display, and IO-Link compatibility for easy setup, integration, and on-the-fly configuration changes. Ceraphant PTP31B series digital pressure transmitters offer dual 1/2” NPT male / 1/4” NPT female process connections and are available in…
PLCs: Predicting the Next 10 Years
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PLCs: Predicting the Next 10 Years

Improved technologies and expanded user demands have pushed the evolution of industrial automation technologies, and PLCs continue to advance and meet these needs. Almost a decade ago, Jeff Payne at AutomationDirect wrote a Control Engineering article titled Future of the PLC . At that time, PLC technology was already 50 years mature but still a…