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The digitization of production is gaining momentum. As technology trends such as SPE and Ethernet APL become established, automation levels are beginning to merge.
Digital technique lets tasks be done in parallel
Dr. Ing. Giulio Corradi looks at the challenges of predictive maintenance and how data and analytics requirements and capabilities could be orchestrated.
As technology trends such as SPE and Ethernet APL become established, automation levels are beginning to merge. High-performance electrical interconnect components that take on essential functions in the industrial networks play a key role here.
This article describes the use of no-OS (no operating system) drivers and platform drivers for building an application firmware with Analog Devices precision analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters
Damage to facility flooring is a hidden but serious risk in every manufacturing and industrial environment. Many forms of floor damage occur silently, accumulate without notice, and sneak up on operators, leaders and even facility managers.
Software solutions play an ever-increasing role in safety-critical and safety-related systems, where software malfunctions now represent liabilities and a real threat in terms of injury, loss of life, essential service interruption or environmental damage
Keeping staff happy, healthy and safe should be a priority for all businesses, but how can it be done so that efficiency and productivity are not compromised? Contrary to popular belief, these aims don’t have to be diametrically opposed. Here’s how.
Yamaichi Electronics introduces a new series compliant to IEC 63171
Provides OEMs with integrated control solution for robot, motion and machine automation
ABB is providing a package of metals industry-specific digital-ready solutions, including drives, controller and converter infrastructure, to enable Global Steel Wire (GSW) to modernize operations at its Santander steel mill.
With the unpredictability of today's market and the digital transformation that has been taking place across the industries, B2B cloud integration has become vital for building resilient, prepared, and responsive supply chains.
In this interview with Jarry Chang, DFI Senior Director of Product Center, we highlight how these characteristics have enabled system integrators to quickly build systems that combine flexibility and performance, thereby tapping new AIoT opportunities.
This technical article from ABB highlights how predictive emission monitoring systems can provide value for emissions monitoring
Satellite and cellular network analysis exhibited at MILIPOL 2021
Accelerator card with 5 Google Coral Edge TPUsTM
The hunger for transformation among industry players is at an all-time high. But at the same time, organizations want lower risk options to digitalize the shop floor.
FDT Group releases video describing automation transformation with FDT 3.0
The popular real-time Ethernet protocols extended the Ethernet standard to meet the requirements for real-time capabilities. TSN now provides a new route to real-time Ethernet.
Matched with a variable speed drive (VSD), a synchronous reluctance (SynRM) motor with an IE5 ultra-premium efficiency rating provides an effective combination that will help industrial companies achieve their sustainability goals.
Michael Shriver, Senior Applications Engineer at Analog Devices figures out the use of the LTC3372 as a highly configurable device from 60 V to 0.8 V
Recent advances in technology have unlocked unprecedented modalities of capturing the physical world in digital form. One of those modalities is light detection and ranging, or LIDAR.
Glenn Schulz, Managing Director at FDT Group, provides details on the FDT 3.0 IIoT ecosystem, as well as his insights on smart manufacturing and mobility, CIP security enhancements, and 5G technology.
Whether looking for a compact, pocket, portable, handheld or tabletop pH Meter/pH Tester, this application story will show you how testing soil pH, water pH, food pH can be done more quickly, easily and accurately with a digital pH Meter/pH Tester
CIP Security can now provide device authentication, a broad trust domain, device identity via Pre-Shared Keys (PSKs), device integrity, and data confidentiality for resource-constrained devices such as contactors and push-buttons.
Pepperl+Fuchs’ new UC18GS series of ultrasonic sensors with an IO-Link interface meets the flexibility, comprehensive functionality and futureproof data transfer requirements for sensors in IIoT and Industry 4.0 environments
As of February 2021 they will implement a 4-days on, 3-days off, work pattern to improve the work life balance of its employees
Robust connection and versatile ultrasound measurement for Industry 4.0
Having the IIoT monitoring a machine’s health status helps enable predictive maintenance, which allows industries to anticipate breakdowns and realize substantial operational savings
Flender extends its N-Eupex modular principle, increasing both the performance and the bore capacity of the N-Eupex series
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.
An application story from Schurter
According to a research from the Capgemini Research Institute, 77% of organizations recognize the need for change and are accelerating investments in supply chain sustainability over the next three years
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''
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
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
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
In this article, Analog Devices explains why Ethernet-APL will be a game-changer in the process automation world, creating new opportunities and business models thanks to rich datasets for cloud computing with powerful data analytics
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