Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH News

Cepsa, one of Spain's largest integrated energy companies, operates two energy parks in the south of Spain. For years, employees at the plants have relied on Pepperl+Fuchs products to communicate with each other and document daily tasks such as maintenance. The introduction of 5G has now created new standards in terms of availability, network coverage, and latency, opening an opportunity to gradually replace the existing Smart-Ex® 02 inventory with the intrinsically safe Smart-Ex® 0...

Thanks to robust, intrinsically safe smart devices, employees benefit from data harvesting, smart maintenance, and remote assistance even in hazardous areas. At SPS - Smart Production Solutions from 8 to 10 November in Nuremberg, the Pepperl+Fuchs brand ECOM Instruments will be demonstrating a multi-faceted ecosystem as the link between mobile workers and the hazardous areas of a smart factory in hall 7A at booth 411. Smartphones, tablets, and smart glasses provide mobile workers with almost un...

Pepperl+Fuchs is Expanding its Product Portfolio for Ultrasonic Sensors in the Area of Factory Automation with the Safe USi-safety Ultrasonic Sensor System. A safe ultrasonic sensor system The innovative USi-safety ultrasonic sensor system is a modern and certified sensor technology that is used to safeguard hazard areas on mobile machines such as robots, industrial trucks, machines, and plants according to EN ISO 13849-1 category 3 PL d. The USi-safety system protects people and objects from...

Comtrol Corporation, a manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products, and a provider in industrial Ethernet communication and IO-Link gateway products known for its RocketPort® product family, among others. Comtrol announces as of February 1, 2019, it will join the Factory Automation Division of Pepperl+Fuchs, and will be known as Pepperl+Fuchs Comtrol, Inc. Pepperl+Fuchs Comtrol will continue its presence in Minneapolis and will begin to increase its headcount in 2019. Pepperl+F...

Smart sensors, intelligent drives, modular production, automated logistics systems and holistic solutions for intelligent manufacturing – Hannover Messe has it all. The world’s premier trade fair for industrial technology will open its gates under the motto ‘Integrated Industry – Industrial Intelligence’. The motto reflects the organiser’s desire to show how the close integration of automation, power transmission and fluid power and software and IT can superc...