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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...
End users drive manufacturers to deliver FDT standardized, data-centric asset management solutions
Next Gen FDT/OPC UA IIoT Ecosystem Assists Developers
Provides flexible cable lengths up to 15m for automation, machine building and robotics
The company highlights its optical communication solutions for Datacom and Telecom at the European Conference on Optical Communication 2020
Comes with an extended field of view and increased line coverage
Enable cabinet-free operating and installation concepts
Designed to enhance CPU performance, real-time behavior and graphics capabilities
Today’s SCADA platforms are raising to a prominent position in the digital transformation of industry and the new business models it creates
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
More than 100 electric motors from maxon have been used on the Red Planet and have withstood cosmic radiation, dust storms, and temperature fluctuations. With the Perseverance rover, precision drives are once again flying to Mars. The key to success is th
The new ICE1 IO-Link masters from Pepperl+Fuchs support PROFINET S2 system redundancy, which enables two controllers to be connected to the module simultaneously
Helps understand the complex aspects of functional safety standards
Provide compact analysis of incremental signals
Makes the data available via Bluetooth
Equipped with built-in display
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
Bonfiglioli announced the launch of the AxiaVert premium frequency inverter series
Maximising the use of agricultural by-products to reduce waste and improve sustainability has several positives. CC-Link IE networking helps biomass plant automation at a different kind of dairy farm, the Italian farm Roana
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
Designed for real time industrial video analysis
Design to support oversampling technology
MOTOMAN welding robot provides an impressive performance in demanding scenarios
Developed for scalable development of AI-based robotic applications
Mouser will offer Toradex's Colibri and Apalis computer-on-modules
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
Most manufacturing companies today are engaged in some kind of digital transformation initiative. But the systems to be interconnected on a common internet of things (IoT) platform vary enormously. The ideal is to share data between multiple systems
By Dzianis Lukashevich, DIrector of Platforms and Solutions, Analog Devices, Inc. and Felix Sawo, CEO Knowtion
Deployed to support disease prevention and inspection
Fanuc Robot-Mounted Gocator® 3D Smart Sensor Performs Precision Pick-and-Place
Driven by the latest technology and a widening selection of equipment, process automation is becoming an increasingly popular option for manufacturing and process plants seeking competitive gain in combative markets
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
AI specialist Resolto is bringing AI directly to the machine and interpreting data there with its Scraitec platform, for example at a household appliance producer and a car manufacturer
Changing from conventional DC- or AC-powered motors to electronically commutated motors can increase fans efficiency
Smart technologies are extending traditional machine control architectures with more enhanced data processing, learning and decision-making capacity
Equipped with VARAN and EtherCAT
Can be used for hygienic applications
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
For telecom, networking and industrial applications
Achieves safety functions without an encoder
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