Mobility technology is transforming the smart manufacturing environment. This trend is accelerated by the IIoT and Industry 4.0 initiatives, whose goals include empowering an intelligent enterprise through a smart, connected automation ecosystem.
Protecting industrial networks from accidental or intentional sabotage is a high priority these days. Procentec’s latest release of products is designed to enhance total security network monitoring
Developed and maintained by the not-for-profit FDT Group, FDT® technology's goal is to empower the intelligent enterprise with open and standardized data-centric integration independent of platform, field communications protocols and devices.
Nexans is supplying specialized power cables for Australian solar farms and has been awarded contracts for six major new projects in the states of Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales
As one of Europe’s leading zinc casting specialists, Zinkteknik aims for utmost quality throughout its portfolio of die-cast parts. These include safety components for seat belt systems in cars, where quality is absolutely critical.
Fischer Connectors makes meeting customer needs - from brainstorming to deployment – a priority; TraceParts has been a reliable partner for broadcasting its offer.
Sfera Labs's Strato Pi & Iono Pi modules will have extended temperature range for better thermal management.
Improved efficiency and seamless material supply: in Austria, Philips is automating material transport by using AMRs from OMRON.
Interview with Makis Pachos from the ESMERA Experiment Minotaur-R
An Automation Technology's Application Story
Next Gen FDT/OPC UA IIoT Ecosystem Assists Developers
Leading Japanese automation manufacturer to develop FDT 3.0-enabled flowmeters for the energy and environmental markets
Bosch Connected Industry will present its new version of Nexeed Automation with Control plus V2
Designed to enhance CPU performance, real-time behavior and graphics capabilities
Fast, robust, reliable: 5Gang stands for efficient and powerful networking in production using 5G and cloud technologies. Focal points are firstly flexible production and secondly automatic status detection and control of the "factory of tomorrow''
CAD models as holograms. Augmented Reality (AR) Engineering is a new approach to engineering that uses extended reality software and hardware to visualise, manipulate and create 3D CAD data in a real-world environment
Designed for SIL2 / PLd Functional Safety
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
Pepperl+Fuchs presents WILSEN.sonic.level, its first LoRaWAN and autonomous IoT sensor that gives mobile containers the necessary intelligence to tell operators when and where they need to be collected
NXP releases its new family of 2x2 Wi-Fi 6 6 (802.11ax) Dual Band + Bluetooth/BLE solutions, allowing new levels of connectivity for advanced gaming, audio, industrial and IoT market, powering first WiFI 6 enabled gaming consoles
Thanks to this agreement, Mouser now stocks iWave’s SoMs based on Xilinx, NXP Semiconductors, and Intel® PSG technologies for industrial, automotive, medical, imaging, networking, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications
Smart control systems that support OPC UA
Laboratory Agnostic Device Standard (LADS) as new joint working group between SPECTARIS, OPC Foundation and VDMA
MOTOMAN welding robot provides an impressive performance in demanding scenarios
Secures 24/7 data exchange through the Engineering Base
Come with display, keys and IO-Link
3 new projects designed for storing clean energy
Festo Motion Terminal allows positioning using pneumatics
The machine tool manufacturer Trumpf has won this year's Hermes Award ‒ one of the most coveted prizes in international industry ‒ for its open location standard product omlox. The award ceremony took place on 14 July at the Hannover Messe Digital Day
In the Coronavirus pandemic, the startup Isinnova showed great inventiveness and expertise by transforming the Easybreath masks from Decathlon into emergency respirators thanks to a brilliant intuition and commendable teamwork
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
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
Singular approach: an AI that is self-learning and frugal in data and energy
Designed to enhance productivity in manufacturing harnesses
Austrian sensor manufacturer E+E Elektronik invites to use production downtime caused by Covid-19 to calibrate measuring instruments
With ultraviolet light, the robots can disinfect and kill viruses and bacteria autonomously
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
For inline quality checks
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