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January 31, 2023 Electric vehicle charging stations are booming and can be an excellent business opportunity, given the current price of gasoline and Canada’s intention to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles. Interested in installing an EV charging station? Guillevin’s experts can advise you. EV Charging Opportunities for Business: A Primer Are you considering…
December 20, 2023 By Krystie Johnston Industries can reduce emissions today; navigating your way to net zero starts with digitalization solutions such as ABB Ability™ Building operations account for 30% of global final energy consumption and 26% of global energy-related emissions. This sector, if entirely net zero, would contribute a significant percentage to reduced CO2…
In conventional applications, pumps or fan should be run at full speed, then pressure or flow should be controlled with a control valves hence some energy will be wasted when you throttling control valves. One of the major usages of VFD is cost saving through energy saving. But we want to look from different angle of cost saving which is capital saving through removing some instrumentation and control valves and utilize VFD with built-in PLC.
Helping grow ops reduce energy waste February 13, 2023 AGronomic IQ needed a quick turnaround on delivering HVAC units to customers expanding their cannabis growing facility. So, when post-pandemic supply chain challenges hit their foreign drive supplier, they pivoted to find an energy-efficient, applicable no-change solution. ABB answered the call with Baldor-Reliance® EC Titanium™ motors, delivering high…
March 11, 2024 Modbus is a widely used industrial communication protocol with several variants, including Modbus RTU, Modbus ASCII, and Modbus TCP/IP. It was initially developed by Modicon (now part of Schneider Electric) in the late 1970s and has since become a de facto standard for connecting various devices in industrial automation. Technical Aspects of Modbus:…
April 18, 2023 What Is Traceability and Why It Is Important? Traceability is important for many reasons. Without it, it would be virtually impossible to mitigate quality issues in the field. Many industries require tracking and trace for components and assemblies such as automotive, life sciences, food and beverage. These industries require that manufacturers record…

Weidmüller’s scalable engineering software, u-control 2000, adapts individually to your requirements. And, the u-control is powerful, compact and fully compatible with Weidmüller’s I/O system u-remote. This article looks at what makes u-control the heart of your automation.
Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are one of the main components of any automated system. A typical control system has inputs, outputs, controllers (i.e., PLCs), and some type of human interaction with the system, a human machine interface (HMI), for example.
December 3, 2025 Market Summary: According to Research intelo,The Global Mobile Robot Safe Drives market size was valued at $2.1 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $7.9 billion by 2033, expanding at a robust CAGR of 15.2% during the forecast period of 2025–2033. The primary growth driver for the Mobile Robot Safe Drives market globally is the increasing… Read More…
December 1, 2025 By Krystie Johnston Pneumatic cylinders are the workhorses of industrial automation. They convert compressed air into linear motion, enabling tasks like clamping, gripping, holding, lifting, pushing, and pulling – tasks inherent to production lines and robotics. When these components go down, it can cause significant impacts on production. Avoid these negative consequences… Read More…
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
