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Smart technologies are extending traditional machine control architectures with more enhanced data processing, learning and decision-making capacity
Now that China is slowly getting back to normal, normality looks like a faraway lighthouse for the rest of the world hit by the virus. Dark times are on the horizon for the manufacturing industry but a rebound with no major consequences is still possible
Due to the increasingly critical situation linked with the Covid-19 pandemic, Deutsche Messe was forced to cancel Hannover Messe 2020. The world's leading trade fair for industrial technology will come back next year from April 12 to 16
The importance of remote monitoring and diagnostics
Food processing presents numerous safety challenges that can be overcome by designing not only intrinsically but also ''extrinsically’’ safe machines, able to give the system an overall safety rating
The latest 3D printing platforms with combined hardware, software and materials will help companies respond quickly to market demands, unfolding new innovative ways of production. We explored the edges of 3D printing with Blake Teipel, CEO of Essentium
As automated guided vehicles, mobile platforms as well as autonomous carts and cobots become smaller, they are subject to stringent safety requirements. To address this issue, Sick designed a new safety laser scanner with minimized sizes, the nanoScan3
Embedded technologies are opening up new applications that were unthinkable before. For Anita Po, Managing Director of Innodisk Europe, AI, 5G and intelligent edge will significantly drive the technological progress by unleashing creativity and innovation
For use in electromobility applications
Achieves safety functions without an encoder
Based on low-power PolarFire® System-on-Chip
The increasing popularity of Industrial Ethernet (IE) places certain demands on providers of components such as pneumatic valves, where reliable, rugged, high-performance connectivity is becoming little short of essential
Ganahl is a Swiss manufacturer of high-quality bottles for the cosmetics, food and pharmaceutical industries. It relied on Omron’s eCobra robots for faster, more flexible and less noisy automation processes as well as NX1 controller
The optimization of manufacturing processes has become a priority. The parts designed, developed, and produced today are becoming more complex, requiring more advanced and extensive inspections with more accurate and reliable measurements
Outdated maintenance procedures waste valuable resources and can impact on safety. Modern predictive techniques however reduce the costs of both scheduled and unscheduled downtime and are a key contributor to increased machine availability
In this interview, Arno Reich, Senior Vice President of Hannover Messe at Deutsche Messe, gives an overview of this year’s Hannover Messe
The machine vision industry is a dynamic and continually evolving environment which embraces new techniques and new technologies to enhance the information that can be made available using imaging methods
Industrial robotics is growing at a fast pace, even though a big question mark hangs over the consequences of this massive adoption. To anticipate what the future of robotics will look like, we have analyzed some data and current trends
Created in 1995 by the Engineering Faculty of the University of Mons, the research innovation center of Multitel has adopted IBM® Watson® Machine Learning Accelerator to harness the power of deep learning (DL)
Sick introduced how industry 4.0 principles can easily improve processes
Solutions showed to support the digital transformation for the realization of smart manufacturing
The Capgemini Research Institute’s report outlines current AI adoption in the manufacturing sector
Predictive maintenance is part of Industry 4.0 and the factory of tomorrow. To achieve this, igus has developed a family of products under the name 'isense', where various sensors and monitoring modules make plastic energy chains, and cables intelligent
Tracking parts right back to the manufacturing data has taken another smart leap forward. Sumitomo (SHI) Demag pioneered a fully automated In Mould Decorating (IMD) production cell producing a futuristic high-gloss day/night door trim
The largest Vietnamese car manufacturer VinFast deployed Siemens’ Digital Enterprise portfolio – which includes the Xcelerator portfolio of software and Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) – to complete its automotive production within only 21 month
Operate in single-phase and industrial applications
Trane Technologies' strategy and executive leadership team have been announced
Vehicles today have been equipped with an increasing number of electronics. This leads to an intensification of power density. To guarantee maximum safety and comfort to motorists with an insatiable hunger for power, thermal fuses are a must for circuit p
Endress+Hauser has been working for some time on solutions designed for digitally connecting the operational and business enterprise levels in companies in the process control industry. A partnership with SAP to rapidly spur the establishment of digital a
From pattern recognition to smart systems
The research centre will explore the applications of additive manufacturing in the medical industry
Digitalization has been a hot topic in the industrial world for years. Yet, the rate of adoption is still lower than expected and has just recently sped up. We interviewed 12 experts from 12 different IoT leading companies
Aucotec and Phoenix Contact joint forces and expertise to develop a solution for automatically maintaining digital twin up to date on every change
No matter how it is applied and what use case it might have, a digital twin can help organizations ensure best performance and enable predictive maintenance
For small- and medium-sized businesses
Ethernet adoption continues to grow in industrial communication networks due to ever-increasing demand for connectivity, automation and speed
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