Festo Motion Terminal allows positioning using pneumatics
A new cloud-based FDT 3.0 architecture has been launched
New enhancements including integration of Universal Robots
The pandemic has profoundly changed the way we live, work, and communicate. Six experts from six world's leading companies discuss how to tackle the Coronavirus crisis to secure a shining future for the industrial sector
Pepperl+Fuchs’ 2020 Online Summit is a free digital platform that will allow customers and other interested parties to learn about the latest trends and solutions in factory and process automation—even during the COVID-19 pandemic
Edge analytics derived from IBM Cloud Pak for Data on Eurotech’s Rugged Edge Computers, deployed leveraging IBM's Edge Application Manager, enables AI-supported Business Decisions in the Field, far outside the Data Center
Joint ODVA and FDT Group activities aim to develop an FDT communications annex to support the ODVA Common Industrial Protocol (“CIP™”) on the new FDT 3.0/FITS platform
Supports the digital transformation in the process, hybrid, and discrete markets
Mitsubishi Electric Europe looks at OT/IT convergence as a fundamental requirement for the digital transformation of a business, and the technologies that enable it
By making CIP support available on the new FITS-based cloud platform, EtherNet/IP users will reap benefits of modernized asset management initiatives, such as platform independence, remote access, mobile device support, scalability from skid-to-cloud
The webinar will take place on may 28, 2020 at 11:00 AM EDT
Modular-enabled automation affords unprece¬dented agility to react quickly to market changes while keeping wastage and downtime to a mini¬mum. In this article, ABB discusses the motivation behind modular automation
Very flexible and intuitive
Towards more sensitivity and safety
Plug & play vision inspection
Drives worker safety and efficiency across the energy sector
Fanuc Robot-Mounted Gocator® 3D Smart Sensor Performs Precision Pick-and-Place
An IoT integration platform for data and deployment management
Digital transformation has become a buzzword, a goal that many organisations are keen to realise. Often the vision is not completely clear and the route to achieving it even less so. But the best way to succeed is to start small and build scalability
Bosch Connected Industry developed an interoperable system for Industry 4.0 called Nexeed that covers all processes within the factory, from production to logistics. Its open interface is among Nexeed’s main benefits
The specialist of packaging systems production for the food sector, Rovema, opted for monitored size changeover using the AP10 electronic position indicators with IO link from Siko
With servomotor, output stage and fieldbus connection
Cybercrime may cost the world $6 trillion by the end of 2020
Endress+Hauser partner program is gaining importance through IIoT solutions
Directly integrable into robotic systems, motors and electromedical equipment
Identifies technical faults through advanced diagnostic analytics
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
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
Thanks to the combination of FDT Group’s emerging FDT IIoT Server (FITS™) with an optional OPC UA Server, remote asset health monitoring application can monitor the asset health in a different network, using various messaging protocols
Being one of the Future and Emerging Technology (FET) Flagships, the Graphene Flagship Initiative (GFI) aims to bring together industrial and academic partners to foster the use of this material with unique properties.
Siemens is integrating its Simatic product line with GaN Systems power transistors
At the yearly show preview, the lineup and major topics of Hannover Messe 2020 were rolled-out and illustrated. This year's edition will focus on 4 megatrends: digitalization, individualization, climate protection, and demographic change
E.D.&A. is seeing the demand increasing among its customers and their end users
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
As the adoption of collaborative robots is rapidly growing in the manufacturing industry, we have interviewed Terry Arden, CEO at LMI Technology
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
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