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SIPA Berchi develops custom machinery for bottlers and packagers throughout the world. “Today, 80% of sales come from outside Italy,” says Luca Tedeschi, technical and manufacturing director for the company.

Today’s most common safety network engineering practice involves running three-phase power into a central control cabinet, then distributing this power to motors as needed through the safety monitors’ output contacts. Because the safety monitor is required to directly cut power to the motors in a safety event, this practice of connecting power to the central control cabinet forces engineers to lay multiple runs of three-phase power cable, often tens of feet long, in cable trays along with control lines and communication cables. It also means running three-phase power for motors through the control cabinet next to sensitive electronic units, such as PLCs.

Samsonite works with Siemens on retrofit and green field automation, safety, and wireless warehouse projects to address current and future growth issues.

People travel. And despite the market fluctuations of recent years, the travel industry, in many aspects, remains strong. Just ask travel goods manufacturer Samsonite.

Have you heard? It is official: the European Union has extended the use of machine guarding standard EN 954-1:1996—again—this time to the end of 2011. It has also changed the name of its proposed replacement, EN ISO 13849-1:2006, to EN ISO 13849-1:2008.