COVER STORY: Is Safety in Your DNA?
Staying ahead of your competitors requires a strategic approach involving quality, risk and safety in addition to productivity. Here's how integrated safety automation technologies help. Read the cover story...

How to Improve Lockout/Tagout Safety
Learn how permanent electrical safety devices help protect workers from arc flash and other hazards in accordance with NFPA 70E and OSHA requirements. Read more about LOTO safety...

Partner of the Month
Low-Cost Helical Servo Planetary Gearhead
The Apex AE Helical stainless steel design provides a low backlash, high torque planetary at a very economical cost. 100% stainless steel option for the AB MPS servo. 5-year warranty. 100% on time or its free! Learn more from Apex Dynamics...

VIDEO! New Rack and Pinion System
Useful video from WITTENSTEIN, Inc. at Automation Fair 2011 demonstrates the RPM+ rack and pinion system that incorporates the rack and pinion, gearbox and motor into one unit and can be integrated with a CompactLogix controller using Kinetix or Ultra drives. Watch the video...

White Paper: Why Electrical CAE is a Designer's Best Friend
Download this free white paper to find out the how and why of electrical computer-aided engineering software and how it can save you time and money. Download the free white paper...

Sponsored Products

Fiber Optic Comm. Modules for Assured Network Performance
Approved for hazardous locations, Ultra Electronics' ControlNet SHR/DSHR Fiber Optic Repeaters with advanced diagnostics provide multiple communication paths between control system elements. If a failure occurs, communications are maintained along a secondary path or, in the case of a dual ring, tertiary paths. Learn more from Ultra...

Automation Control Migration from ProSoft
ProSoft Technology’s Rockwell Automation PAC migration solution reduces the risk of programming and configuration errors. Connection of PACs to I/O devices on legacy networks via a phased approach mitigates the risk of downtime. Test PAC logic early and create I/O tags. Learn more from ProSoft...

Right-Angle Gearboxes for Linear Rack Applications
The gearbox is a critical component in your rack application and WITTENSTEIN has a range of alpha gearboxes to match your requirements. Pictured is the V-Drive worm gear on rack - now available in size 040. Request more information online. Learn more from WITTENSTEIN...

Safety Hard Guarding and Special Enclosures
item North America can help you improve your employee safety program by helping to design and build a range of safety guarding to protect employees from dangerous conditions, noise, fumes and other safety issues. Learn more from item North America...

You'll Love What We've Done with Your Calibrator
The new Fluke 754 Documenting Process Calibrator lets you do the work of several tools. Calibrate temperature, pressure, voltage, current, resistance and frequency. Easily troubleshoot HART instrumentation. Record and document your results. Work smarter. Work faster. Learn more from Fluke Corp....

Anybus Communicator
The Anybus® Communicator serial gateway from HMS Industrial Networks Inc. allows users to easily interface CIP-based fieldbus and Ethernet protocols to almost any device using a serial protocol that runs on RS232, RS422 or RS485 on an Allen-Bradley “DF1” protocol interface. Learn more from HMS...