Product Catchup

September 2025

Omron NX1P2

Omron NX-series NX1P2 CPU Units are advanced machine automation controllers designed to enhance machine performance and facilitate IoT integration on the factory floor.

  • Advanced Motion Control: Supports up to four axes with electronic cams and interpolation, enabling faster and more precise operations
  • Built-in EtherCAT Port: Simplifies wiring by connecting up to eight servo systems, including single-axis position control, through a single cable.
  • Seamless IoT Integration: Connects I/O devices, motion devices, safety controllers, and vision systems with a single cable, enabling real-time machine monitoring.
  • Cloud Connectivity: Easily connects to the cloud using the MQTT Communication Library, ensuring secure data collection from the manufacturing site.
  • Sysmac Studio Software: Provides an integrated environment for setting, programming, debugging, and maintenance of machine automation controllers, supporting multiple programming languages and advanced security features.

Festo MS Series

Festo MS Series Filter Regulators are versatile air preparation units designed to ensure optimal compressed air quality and precise pressure control across various industrial applications.

  • Efficient Particle Separation: The filter unit ensures effective particle removal even at high flow rates, maintaining air purity and protecting downstream equipment.
  • Precise Pressure Regulation: Features excellent control characteristics with low hysteresis, ensuring consistent and accurate pressure delivery.
  • Integrated Functions: Standard inclusion of return flow function and secondary vent enhances system efficiency and reliability.
  • Modular Design: Can be seamlessly integrated into service units using the MS series’ simple modular system, offering flexibility in various configurations.
  • Durable Construction: Housings made from die-cast aluminum with optional metal or polycarbonate filter bowls, compatible with all condensate drain systems.
  • Compliance and Certifications: Optionally configurable for use in hazardous areas (zones 1, 2, 21, and 22) and available with UL approval, ensuring adherence to safety standards.

Yaskawa Arcworld

Yaskawa Motoman’s ArcWorld® Robotic Welding Cells are pre-engineered, pre-assembled systems designed to integrate seamlessly into your welding processes, offering flexibility and cost-effectiveness.

  • Versatile Configurations: ArcWorld systems can be tailored with multiple robots, heavy-duty positioners, or servo-controlled external axes to accommodate various welding requirements.
  • Comprehensive Range: The ArcWorld series includes models suitable for different part sizes and production needs:
    • ArcWorld 2000 Series: Ideal for large parts, supporting one or two robots with positioners or tables, and cell spans of 2 to 5 meters.
    • ArcWorld 6000 Series: Features a ferris wheel positioner for large-sized parts, accommodating up to three robots within a compact footprint.
    • ArcWorld 1000 Series: Designed for medium-sized parts with a turntable positioner, supporting one or two robots.
    • ArcWorld 200 and 500 Series: Suitable for small to medium parts, offering table (AW200) or headstock (AW500) positioners.
    • ArcWorld 50 Series: Compact cells for small to medium parts, featuring table or headstock positioners, and single robot configurations with one or two workstations.
  • Compact Options: For limited floor space, ArcWorld offers compact workcells like the ArcWorld RS and ArcWorld HS, requiring as little as 1.4 to 2.3 square meters, ideal for small to medium parts.
  • Customizable Features: Popular options include tip-change boxes, spool kits, fume exhaust hoods, various fencing types, stack lights, transformers, secondary enabling switches, and HMI operator stations to tailor the system to specific needs.

Wittenstein Inira

WITTENSTEIN’s INIRA® System revolutionizes rack assembly by combining innovative concepts for simpler, safer, and more efficient processes.

  • INIRA® Clamping: Integrates the clamping device within the rack, reducing assembly time by up to 50% and minimizing physical strain on the assembly team.
  • INIRA® Adjusting: Ensures micrometer-precise alignment between rack segments, enhancing positioning accuracy and reducing assembly and inspection efforts.
  • INIRA® Pinning: Offers a chipless pinning process that cuts assembly time from 45 minutes to just one minute, eliminating the need for drilling and reaming, and enhancing safety by producing no chips.

Weintek cMT X

Weintek’s cMT X Series HMIs are advanced human-machine interfaces designed to enhance industrial automation with robust performance and seamless connectivity.

  • High-Performance Processing: Equipped with a powerful Cortex A8 1GHz CPU, ensuring rapid boot times and efficient PLC data operations. 
  • Enhanced User Experience: Features multi-touch gestures and transition effects for intuitive operation. 
  • Versatile Remote Monitoring: Supports multiple remote monitoring methods, including VNC Viewer, WebView, and the cMT Viewer app, facilitating flexible access. 
  • Comprehensive Integration Capabilities: Offers seamless integration with databases (MySQL/MS SQL), standardized protocols (OPC UA, Modbus TCP), and major IoT cloud platforms (AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud).
  • Customizable Features: Supports JavaScript programming for feature customization and connection to Web APIs, expanding application possibilities.

Bosch Ctrl X Drive

Bosch Rexroth’s ctrlX DRIVE System is an ultra-compact, modular drive solution designed to optimize automation with flexibility and efficiency.

  • Space-Saving Design: Achieves up to a 50% reduction in installation space, minimizing control cabinet requirements.
  • Scalable Performance: Offers a power range from 6 A to 375 A, accommodating both simple single-axis and complex multi-axis applications.
  • Flexible Configuration: Features single and double-axis inverters, converters, and various cooling concepts for tailored solutions.
  • Advanced Connectivity: Supports Multi-Ethernet and Multi-Encoder interfaces, ensuring seamless integration into diverse systems.
  • Enhanced Safety: Provides functional safety up to SIL3, adaptable to various safety topologies.
  • High Torque Density: Delivers up to 30% more torque density, enhancing machine performance.

Dorner Pallet Conveyor

Dorner’s Pallet System Conveyors are engineered to streamline product flow and enhance control in various industrial applications.

  • Accurate Positioning: Ensures precise product placement, ideal for assembly processes and inspections.
  • Unique Pin Tracking System: Provides a simple and cost-effective method for guiding pallets through turns.
  • Industry-Compatible Pallet Sizes: Offers standard and customizable pallet dimensions to meet diverse application needs.
  • Modular Design: Allows for easy customization and integration into existing systems.

Bell Everman Robotic Transfer Unit (RTU)

Bell-Everman’s Robot Transfer Units (RTUs) integrate a linear actuator with a six-axis articulated arm or collaborative robot, creating a seventh axis of movement to enhance flexibility and efficiency in various industries.

  • High Throughput: RTUs eliminate the need to reposition multiple robots and workpieces, maximizing uptime and maintaining a steady workflow.
  • Greater Flexibility and Safety: Capable of floor, elevated, and inverted mounting configurations, RTUs support more flexible factory layouts and can be set up away from workers to boost safety.
  • Extended Work Area Coverage: The seventh axis allows a robot to cover a larger area on the factory floor, enabling it to perform multiple tasks across different workstations.
  • Cost Efficiency: A single robot on an RTU can perform the work of multiple stationary robots, reducing the need for additional robotic systems.
  • Ease of Integration: Compatible with a wide range of robot models, RTUs allow manufacturers to upgrade their systems without extensive equipment overhauls

CCS HPR2

CCS Inc.’s HPR2 Series High-Power Ring Lights are designed to deliver intense illumination for machine vision applications, ensuring high-quality imaging and inspection.

  • High-Power Illumination: Provides significantly increased brightness compared to standard ring lights, enhancing image clarity and inspection accuracy.
  • Versatile Mounting Options: Features multiple mounting holes and brackets, allowing for flexible installation to accommodate various inspection setups.
  • Robust Construction: Built with durable materials to withstand demanding industrial environments, ensuring long-term reliability.
  • Multiple Size Options: Available in various inner and outer diameters to suit different field-of-view requirements and working distances.
  • Color Variations: Offers multiple LED color options, including red, white, blue, and infrared, to match specific application needs.

Wago Cloud

WAGO Cloud is a centralized platform designed to collect, analyze, and manage data from various machines and systems, streamlining industrial automation processes.

  • Centralized Data Management: Collects and analyzes data from diverse machines and systems in one location, providing a comprehensive overview of operations.
  • Remote Monitoring and Control: Enables secure remote access to local configurations and visualizations of PFC Controllers, allowing control and monitoring of production systems from any location.
  • Automated Updates: Facilitates simultaneous updates of applications and firmware across multiple PFC Controllers, ensuring systems are up-to-date with minimal effort.
  • Customizable Alerts: Allows setting of specific alarm rules for controllers and applications, with immediate email notifications upon threshold breaches, enhancing proactive maintenance.
  • Flexible Data Export: Supports various export options, including RESTful API and CSV, for seamless integration with other programs and further data analysis.
  • User-Friendly Interface: Designed for users without extensive IT knowledge, offering a simple and intuitive operating experience.
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