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What role can equipment hire play amid data centre supply chain dilemma?

Data centre operators and providers should consider the benefit of critical equipment hire, following multiple reports of disruption and delays of infrastructure projects and to the lead times of vital equipment.

Schmersal News

Cybercrime: Schmersal Group operational again following cyber attack

The call came at 4.45 pm on 20 May – the Schmersal Group was officially informed that cyber criminals were planning to launch a targeted attack on the company’s network. The call was verified (it could have been a fake) and it was then down to the IT managers to think fast and take action. Their decision was ultimately to shut down the entire network – a hugely significant action. The connection to the internet was terminated within ten minutes, and within 90 minutes, the entire IT network worldwide was offline. Everything had been disconnected, from the telephone system to the entire ERP system infrastructure, as well as the entire production process and fully automated storage, at all locations.

Bauer gears News

Specifying geared motors to reduce HACCP risk factors

Geared motors are found throughout food and beverage production sites, used to drive conveyor belts, stirrers & agitators, packaging machinery and other equipment along the production line. The geared motor design lends itself to energy efficiency and reliability, a must for any modern production facility. However, the food & beverage industry also requires strict hygiene compliance, meaning that specialised geared motors are a wise choice for such facilities.

NUM News

Powerful new software from NUM provides manufacturers of CNC cylindrical grinding machines with an elegant means of adding non-circular grinding capabilities to their products – without incurring significant development time and cost

Non-circular grinding is used in a wide variety of automated manufacturing applications, such as the production of camshafts, crankshafts, cams and eccentric shafts. However, it is an extremely complex task, because the non-circular contour leads to constantly changing engagement and movement conditions between the grinding wheel and the workpiece.

Ecocooling News

On the verge of a green and clean era in the metal tool industry: Ionized, cooled air to replace metalworking fluids

Expensive metalworking fluids are no longer needed to cool and lubricate workpieces and cutting tools in the machine tool industry. Instead, there is now a proven green and clean method, EcoCooling, that uses only ionized and cooled air and has none of the environmental hazards and costs related to oil-based fluids.

BOSCH News

Bosch recharging services: key to more than 150,000 charge spots throughout Europe

Fuss-free recharging. In a nutshell, there is nothing drivers of electric cars want more. They want to quickly find a vacant charge spot, access it without the hassle of authorization and passwords, pay for the electricity without fuss, and make good use of the time it takes to recharge.

Comau News

COMAU LAUNCHES “SMART DIGITAL RESTART” AND “IN.GRID/LINK” IN COLLABORATION WITH MICROSOFT ITALY TO HELP COMPANIES MOVE FORWARD

Now that industrial activities are resuming after the Covid-19 pandemic, Comau launches “Smart Digital Restart” in collaboration with Microsoft, supporting companies by providing in.Grid/Link, a new web app for the remote monitoring and diagnostics of its robots and machining centers. A light version of the application will be available for free for a period of six months, first in Italy and then in other countries.

NSK

NSK saves nearly €3 million at steel mill

A steelmaker based in Poland is saving nearly €3 million per year after switching to NSK’s sealed-clean KVS bearings in its roll mill. Such has been the superior performance of these four-row tapered roller bearings that the company has adopted this solution for all of its tandem cold mills.

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