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WAGO's New Harsh Environment Modules Maximize Uptime & Productivity

Posted by Kelly Howe

Dec 17, 2015 9:00:00 AM

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Topics: WAGO, XTR Series

WAGO's Top 20 Asked Questions About Cage Clamp Connection System Pt. 4

Posted by Kelly Howe

Nov 12, 2015 9:00:00 AM

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Part 4 of 4

As long as the surfaces are clean and free of oxides at the time of wire insertion (low voltage signals can’t “punch through” oxidation), the gas tight nature of CAGE CLAMP® will maintain the connection quality.

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Topics: WAGO, Cage Clamp, Questions

WAGO's Top 20 Asked Questions About Cage Clamp Connection System Pt. 3

Posted by Kelly Howe

Nov 10, 2015 9:00:00 AM

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Part 3 of 4

There are two common test methods used in laboratory testing: the voltage drop test and the temperature rise test.

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Topics: WAGO, Cage Clamp, Questions

WAGO's Top 20 Asked Questions About Cage Clamp Connection System Pt. 2

Posted by Kelly Howe

Nov 6, 2015 10:46:17 AM

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Topics: WAGO, Cage Clamp, Questions

WAGO's Top 20 Asked Questions About Cage Clamp Connection System Pt. 1

Posted by Kelly Howe

Nov 5, 2015 3:10:27 PM

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The WAGO CAGE CLAMP®

An Innovation... The rising cost of service calls and a company’s desire to provide more reliable products has changed the way people think about terminal blocks.

In the past, terminal blocks were often thought of as an insignificant part of the overall system, unless you were in field service. Field service technicians say that terminal blocks have always been significant since one of their fist troubleshooting steps is to “check the connections”. They also indicate that connectors are the source of almost half of all system failures.

Checking connections as part of a regular maintenance schedule was the only preventive solution to this problem – until the invention of “CAGE CLAMP®”. CAGE CLAMP® reduces wiring time, eliminates routing maintenance and provides a reliable contact – every time!

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Topics: WAGO, Cage Clamp

Kallfass Packaging Machines- WAGO Again & Again

Posted by Kelly Howe

Nov 4, 2014 9:00:00 AM

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Kallfass Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH has been developing packaging machines for more than 40 years now and sells these machines on international markets.

There are Kallfass shrink-wrap systems for manual, partially-automated, and fully-automated shrink wrapping. The most important features of Kallfass systems: flexible deployment possibilities, short changeover times, minimized fill usage, low cost of ownership, and maximum availability of the packaging system so that productivity is not slowed down or stopped at the end of the production line. Kallfass shrink-wrap packaging machines are used in many industries: printing and paper, contract packaging and fulfillment, the food and beverage industries, the wood and furniture industries and more.

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Topics: universa, WAGO, packaging machines

WAGO-Connecting Technology in Mechanical Engineering

Posted by Kelly Howe

Aug 26, 2014 8:25:53 AM

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Topics: connectors, machine plant, WAGO, mechanical engineering, rail-mounted terminal blocks