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Can cabinet-free automation lower shipping costs?

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When machine builders talk about the benefits of cabinet-free automation, the conversation usually focuses on faster installation and simplified maintenance. What often goes unnoticed is a commercial advantage that starts well before a machine even reaches the factory floor: shipping costs. In a logistics environment increasingly shaped by volumetric pricing models, machine footprint is becoming just as important as machine weight. Here Neil March, MX Product Specialist at Beckhoff, explains how this shift makes control architecture a surprisingly relevant cost driver.

Can cabinet-free automation lower shipping costs?

The taxing reality of integration in industrial automation

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Ben Lloyd, Product Manager at Festo, argues that invisible engineering effort is becoming an unsustainable cost in modern automation systems. So what can be done to avoid this hidden 'integration tax'?

The taxing reality of integration in industrial automation

Cost-effective series of DIN-rail mount power supplies

1 day ago

TDK Corporation announces the expansion of the TDK-Lambda D1SE series of cost-effective DIN-rail mount power supplies with 12, 48, and 72 V output models.

Cost-effective series of DIN-rail mount power supplies

ATEX couplings guarantee maximum protection in potentially explosive atmospheres

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Strict safety regulations apply to machine components wherever flammable gases, vapours, or dusts can create an explosive atmosphere. To meet these critical requirements, JAKOB Antriebstechnik now offers a wide range of its proven servo couplings with official ATEX certification.

ATEX couplings guarantee maximum protection in potentially explosive atmospheres

Free Guide to the New Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230

Free Guide to the New Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230

European Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 is replacing Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. Technically, it has already come into force but there is a transition period during which machinery is still being CE marked to the old Directive. You can download a free copy of the Guide to the New Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 by completing the form here.

Free Guide to Food & Beverage Industry Machine Design

The MachineBuilding.net Guide to Food and Beverage Industry Machine Design provides information, hints and tips to help designers create state-of-the-art yet cost effective systems that meet applicable regulations and standards, while also providing the necessary levels of productivity, quality and reliability.

Free Guide to Food & Beverage Industry Machine Design

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