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The BMW plant in Steyr, Austria, is the BMW Group’s largest engine plant worldwide. At the facility, the top priorities are quality, efficiency and the transformation to Industry 4.0 through the implementation of digital technologies at shop floor level. To improve all three, plant managers embraced Autonomous Machine Vision, a new technology for quality inspection developed by German-Israeli company...
An application story from Christian Nomine, Strategic Product Manager Visualisation, Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V.
The social distancing solution from Siemens based on the Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) can be the solution to keep production running without putting the safety of employees in the background
For many years, plant operations teams have been using DCS, PLC, SCADA and MES technology as the tools to improve automation, alarms, analysis, and reporting. However, as automation approaches the machine level, gaps in information still remain
The abbreviation VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity – has entered our daily life more than ever. The world is undergoing radical changes in many ways. How can companies cope with it? Agile manufacturing is part of the answer
For efficient inspection of bolted joints
Research experiments for space applications are taking place at Leibniz University Hanover in a new drop tower, the Einstein Elevator, under variable gravitational conditions. The power supply is controlled by frequency converters manufactured by Gefran
When it comes to medical devices, safety is a must and begins with the power supply. Strong of many years of experience in the manufacture of sophisticated power supply and input systems, Schurter has taken this challenge very seriously
The manual and complex THT (through hole technology) method is normally used to plug wired components on circuit boards. The software solution from ArtiMinds Robotics makes it possible to automate THT assembly
ABI Research forecasts the robot-related services powered by cloud computing will reach US$157.8 billion in annual revenue by 2030
We have known and used mechanical switches and push buttons since childhood. A clear pressure point, a saturated clicking sound when actuated. We are used to this. But there are other ways, almost magical: A gentle touch is enough for capacitive switches.
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
AI research in telecommunications: Interview with Dr. Elena Fersman, Director of Artificial Intelligence Research at Ericsson
An AI for machine tool maintenance
The Swiss company has prioritized and ramped up the production of its components and input systems, which are used in medical devices, to respond to the spread of Covid-19
The factory in Oulu, Finland, is testing new products flowing, including 5G products. In this phase when changes in the factory floor are required, Nokia benefits from private LTE Network and Omron robots
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
How technology can make it easier to meet ISO 9001:2015 standards?
The discussion around 5G is gaining momentum, but the technology is not yet ready for industrial IoT. Linda Tsai, President of IIoT at Advantech, explains why it’s important to be prepared for the upgrade to 5G as soon as the technology is mature
Towards more sensitivity and safety
Allows to build and deploy AI models
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
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
With the advent of the Internet of Things it is now possible to predict failures and downtimes without the need to carry out unnecessary maintenance. This offers a more dynamic and controlled approach to maintenance
How embedded air caster systems enable multi-ton machine repositioning
Designed for limiting torques in indirect drives of bottling plants
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
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
Half-shell design for easy installation
Solutions showed to support the digital transformation for the realization of smart manufacturing
The Winners were announced at a Gala Ceremony in Coventry
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
With housing constructed from durable polymer and sealed to IP64 specifications
Enables precise measurement of distance, displacement and position
Innovative approach to combat this increasing threat
Connectivity between devices through IO-Link makes vacuum handling not just smarter but safer at the same time. Enabling predictive maintenance was a key driver for this development as it increases machine lifetime and speeds up the maintenance process
Made to help designers in blind assembly
Fabrice Baranski, CEO at Logpickr explains us what is process mining and how it intertwines with Artificial Intelligence, creating new possibilities in regard with prediction models
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