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Eaton’s mVEC
Automation and Robotics Key to Overcoming Labor and Other Industry Challenges Business strategies should include automation and robotics to help extend the careers of experienced employees while also making work easier and safer.
Economical CAN Network Oversight for High-Power Circuits
The Multiplexed Vehicle Electrical Center (mVEC) is a rugged power distribution node on the J1939 network. responses provided by (top) Will Healy III, Marketing Manager Americas, Balluff Worldwide, and (bottom) Dennis Lewis, Managing Director, Sales and Marketing, Balluff Inc.
Data, IoT & Connectivity What potential do you see in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR)? Healy: By using AR/VR, we can dramatically shorten the cycle of operator training. Many of these technologies have proven that they can reduce training from weeks to days or days to minutes. What challenges remain for the continued adoption of data, IoT and connectivity related technologies or systems? Healy: Skillset. We have a silver tsunami washing over us right now with baby boomer retirements in...the U.S. workforce as a whole. We’ve not done a good job bringing millennials, generation Z, women or minorities into our industry and until we find ways to recruit and retain large segments of these groups, we will struggle to successfully implement technologies into our companies. Lewis: Creating standards for data will be a challenge, especially in the industrial world. There are so many industrial networking protocols already in operation that make creating one platform for transmitting, receiving and storing data difficult. |
Features include relay control as well as diagnostic reports for fuses, relays and circuit breakers via the vehicle’s CAN bus
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OEM Off-Highway | OCTOBER 2021
With the use of patented Bussmann VEC “power grid” technology, the mVEC is ideal for high-current circuits found in the heavy truck and commercial vehicles industries.
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