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When one shipment carries parts that came from four, six or nine different Chinese suppliers, what actually has to happe...

What an independent parts desk locks in for a retrofit when the original controls are obsolete, what the customer owns, ...

How a refurbished industrial automation module is bench-tested at an independent sourcing desk, what the per-unit record...

An independent China-based industrial automation distributor and sourcing desk explains how a legacy PLC, drive or HMI i...

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S7-300 is in the support phase, not in production. Here is what genuinely replaces an S7-300 CPU, analog input, and digi...