July 24, 2025 – Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry’s leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components™, is launching its new automation resource center to provide engineers with the latest in industrial automation. Engineers specializing in this field can leverage this hub to stay current with advancements in control systems, robotics, and cutting-edge automation software.

At its core, industrial automation drives enhanced efficiency, boosts productivity, and improves system reliability while reducing operational costs and improving safety protocols. Through the resource center, professionals can find in-depth articles, including:

• Industry 5.0: The Industrial Evolution: Proposed by the European Commission in 2022, Industry 5.0 shifts the industry’s focus from profit to human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience. It promotes a circular economy, sustainable digitization, and worker reskilling. 
• Open-Source Industrial Automation: Open-source technologies are transforming industrial automation through flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and enhanced security. Key benefits include interoperability, vendor independence, and community-driven development. 
• Sensors and Analytics in Industrial Automation: Industry 5.0 thrives on sensors and analytics for real-time data, boosting efficiency, sustainability, and quality. Advanced sensors enable safe human-robot collaboration. Using both long-term and real-time data, predictive maintenance cuts downtime and repair costs.

Mouser’s automation content hub is curated by its expert technical team and trusted manufacturing partners. The extensive library is full of resources, including articles, blogs, eBooks, products, and explainer videos breaking down topics like operational safety solutions, predictive maintenance solutions, and machine vision. This enables engineers to navigate the next generation of manufacturing and design cutting-edge industrial automation solutions.

“Our commitment to engineering excellence means equipping designers with a strategic toolkit of in-depth insights and a wide range of products,” said Eric Wendt, Mouser Vice President of Supplier Management. “Through the content hub, our goal is to empower manufacturing professionals to design safer, more efficient systems that meet the evolving demands of modern manufacturing.”

Mouser stocks the industry’s widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, including the following products and solutions for automation applications:

• The FT1J All-in-One PLC and HMI from IDEC offers a powerful and compact solution for diverse industrial control needs. This series integrates a PLC with a 4.3″ PCAP HMI, ensuring exceptional performance and efficiency. The PCAP touch panel is designed for reliable operation, supporting multi-touch, thin gloves, and water droplet prevention. With a dual CPU architecture, scan times are optimized and flexible. These units are ideally suited for modern industrial environments.
• The LOGO! 8.4 logic modules by Siemens are compact basic interfaces that support extensive I/O connections, featuring an integrated display, control panel, and EEPROM memory for control programming. These modules perform essential logic functions like pulse edge evaluation, timing, counting, and analog function blocks. A key highlight of the LOGO! 8.4 series is its preconfigured cloud connectivity and open MQTT communication, enabling users to easily connect to the cloud for live data access and even act as a cloud gateway for existing systems.
• The K50Z multipoint sensor from Banner Engineering is a self-contained optical sensor that uses 3D Time-of-Flight technology. It offers reliable nearest-distance and angled target measurement with 64 points, capturing the nearest distance and average height over a wide 45° x 45° field of view up to 2 meters. Ideal for industrial fill or area detection, it features a compact IP67 housing, dual discrete outputs, and configurable settings via IO-link or Banner Measurement Sensor Software.
• The ICAM-540 Industrial AI Camera by Advantech is a durable, intelligent camera powered by the NVIDIA® Jetson Orin™ module, designed for real-time image processing and analytics in industrial settings. This compact, fanless device integrates lighting, vision, and edge computing, and is built to withstand harsh factory conditions. Its web UI and extensive software support simplify integration for machine vision ISVs, enabling full solution development.

 

To learn more, visit https://automationresources.mouser.com/. For more Mouser news and our latest new product introductions, visit https://www.mouser.com/newsroom/.

As a global authorized distributor, Mouser offers the widest selection of the newest semiconductors, electronic components and industrial automation products. Mouser’s customers can expect 100% certified, genuine products that are fully traceable from each of its manufacturer partners. To help speed customers’ designs, Mouser’s website hosts an extensive library of technical resources, including a Technical Resource Center, along with product data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design information, engineering tools and other helpful information.

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About Mouser Electronics

Mouser Electronics is an authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on New Product Introductions from its leading manufacturer partners. Serving the global electronic design engineer and buyer community, the global distributor’s website, mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 6.8 million products from over 1,200 manufacturer brands. Mouser offers 28 support locations worldwide to provide best-in-class customer service in local language, currency and time zone. The distributor ships to over 650,000 customers in 223 countries/territories from its 1 million-square-foot, state-of-the-art distribution facilities in the Dallas, Texas, metro area. For more information, visit https://www.mouser.com/.

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