The growth opportunities for AI and robotics in manufacturing are vast and projected to reach $182 billion globally by 2027. Companies that fail to adopt these exponentially advancing technologies as part of their process risk falling behind, as smart factories powered by intelligent machines become the norm.
While automating processes using robots is a reliable way to increase production throughput and productivity, the savings in floorspace can vary depending on the type of robot chosen. Where space is at a premium, a ceiling-mounted orbital robot can offer a suitable solution.
Software Update enhances applicational possibilities
Emerson continues to invest in AI tools for advanced NI test & measurement products
For lightweight robots, modular designs are increasingly popular thanks to the flexible deployment they enable for specialised tasks. Modular robots also enhancing the potential for system integrators and end users to develop their own designs. As part of an in-house robot build, optimising the drive train that powers and controls each joint is vital to the robot’s performance. The most effective way of achieving this is by developing the drive train as a complete module. This approach can also improve the efficiency of robot development overall.
More than 130,000 visitors from 150 countries, 4,000 exhibiting companies, 300 startups and over 300 economic and political delegations from all over the world. These are the figures that emphasise the fair's position again after five successful days.
OMRON shows autonomous flexible production supported by digital twins
Siemens presents innovations for greater efficiency and sustainability from design to condition monitoring at Hannover Messe
Christoper Haase succeeds Gustav Erl, who will retire soon
To meet net zero CO2 emission goals, the building sector needs to modernize its communication infrastructure. This article shows how single-pair Ethernet, specifically 10BASE-T1L, enables the easy retrofitting of buildings using legacy links like RS-485 to improve digitization, enable automation, improve security, and substantially lower energy consumption to achieve greater sustainability. Author: Meghan Kaiserman, Strategic Marketing Director for Sustainable Buildings at Analog Devices
With the rapid advancements in technology, there is increasing consumer demand for innovative, smart, and connected products that need to get to market more quickly, cost effectively and sustainably. Today, manufacturers must deliver on these expectations as they deal with increasing design and production complexity, as well as global supply-chain issues that impact time-to-market.
The ebm-papst IDT-division ia a supplier forintelligent mechatronic systems and employs around 650 people
The measurement of low flow is becoming widely used in many industries. However, the smaller the flow, the trickier it is to control and measure, and finding a suitable flow measuring technology at reasonable cost can prove challenging for both users and flow sensor manufacturers.
Collaborative robots, or cobots, are making their presence felt in ever more applications, working alongside humans wherever production requires the decision making and discrimination abilities of humans, combined with unceasing production, dexterity and precision of cobots.
Support to enhance design, maintenance and security of critical data communications infrastructures
Robust safety locking device for flaps or covers
New hardware architecture with functional enhancements like a second encoder interface for an even larger range of applications
For greater reliability in electrically noisy environments
Flexible combination of rails and runner blocks can be replaced individually
See how CC-Link IE TSN is being used by companies today in the drive to Industry 4.0
Increasing productivity with drive intelligence
Helps rapidly optimise missile fin actuation system
Circuit Design, Inc. is releasing the RF transceiver module LMD-401 for industrial applications
Enable flow measurement of high viscosity liquids in demanding applications such as chemical and petrochemical industry.
Free online bolt configurator for bolts not defined by standards
Liquid-cooled drives are up to the toughest industrial workloads
Smallest of its kind and very small footprint
The world is facing a fundamental change to its entire energy supply with all current methods of generating energy being under scrutiny. The trump card in this game can be hydrogen.
Research by ABB to mark World Water Day reveals a need to invest in an additional 469 wastewater treatment facilities annually. Early integration of technology to drive efficiency at plants is key.
In the current energy transition, the challenges of managing industrial assets also include operational excellence. ENGIE used PTC's platform to reach and deliver usable information.
Automation is turning out to be a driving force in accelerating digital business transformation initiatives, transforming worker and customer experiences in today’s highly connected world.
The transformative potential of Industry 4.0-oriented digital technologies in manufacturing is widely recognised. However, the “explosion” of data these have created is a double-edged sword.
Industry faces the challenge of reducing consumption to counter rising energy prices, reduce its carbon footprint and at the same time, be prepared for various taxonomies dictated by capital providers and/or governments.
For high temperature process monitoring
Whilst uptake in smaller manufacturing firms has been slower, automotive and industrial sectors are slowly starting to see the value that digital twin technology can bring, no matter the size of the business.
A small start-up business in Finland, Sensmet, has developed an online monitoring technology that promises a step-change improvement in both the manufacturing and recycling of battery metals.
Analog Devices announces world’s first long-reach, SPoE Solutions to help customers drive greater levels of intelligence into smart buildings, factory automation, and other applications at the edge of traditional networks.
SynRM and drive technology present an opportunity to vastly reduce industrial energy consumption
Advantech will use the SPS 2022 exhibition to set out how its products and solutions can help enable an intelligent and sustainable planet.
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