As automated guided vehicles, mobile platforms as well as autonomous carts and cobots become smaller, they are subject to stringent safety requirements. To address this issue, Sick designed a new safety laser scanner with minimized sizes, the nanoScan3
Achieves safety functions without an encoder
E.D.&A. is seeing the demand increasing among its customers and their end users
As the adoption of collaborative robots is rapidly growing in the manufacturing industry, we have interviewed Terry Arden, CEO at LMI Technology
Expansion of Stauff's modular system for fastening industrial lines
Tracking parts right back to the manufacturing data has taken another smart leap forward. Sumitomo (SHI) Demag pioneered a fully automated In Mould Decorating (IMD) production cell producing a futuristic high-gloss day/night door trim
Batch of industry 4.0 solutions for the automation sector
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
Sleman Saliba, Global Product Manager, Energy Management, and Stein Trostheim, Global Product Manager for Oil & Gas at ABB Energy Industries, discuss how operators can transition to new energy models
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
Vish Ananthan to be new leader of Industrial Business Unit
Actuator-driven oscillation based on KBM motors
Cooled MWIR – Sensitivity Leadership
The human hand, with its unique combination of power, dexterity and fine motor skills, is a true miracle tool of nature. Here is how Festo developed the pneumatic robot hand BionicSoftHand to be used in combination with the BionicSoftArm
Aims to fully automated checkout
Ethernet is an increasingly important network in industrial applications, especially for motion control applications require determinism, which is needed to ensure position retention and get precision and proper acceleration/deceleration of drives
How are Industry 4.0 and the run-up to the Internet of Things changing the engineering landscape? We discussed the status and the future of engineering with Dr. Pouria Bigvand, Director Product Management at Aucotec
Traditional factories are developing in a new, exciting direction. Industrial cameras, embedded vision, deep learning: At the upcoming Hannover Messe, Basler will show high-performance image processing for networked factories and numerous other applicatio
The show’s Senior Vice President, Arno Reich, explains why Hannover Messe is still the favorite one-stop shop for the latest technologies and solutions
This whitepaper outlines the benefits that accrue by taking a hub-based approach to connecting IoT devices and systems in the enterprise
F199 from Pepperl+Fuchs provides an accuracy up to ±0.15° and a shock resistance of 100g, and it can operate from -45 up to +85 °C
This solution from Müller Industrie enables transmission, additional data and independent diagnostic functions
Energy management, digitalization, machine learning, artificial intelligence: At Hannover Messe 2019, the lead theme ''Integrated Industry - Industrial Intelligence'' spotlights industrial transformation. Inteview with the VP Arno Reich
Through its Machine Tool 4.0 project, Schaeffler wants to demonstrate that Industry 4.0 is not an abstract, remote vision, but can make a contribution to added-value today
Many concepts of digital transformation are based on information from the field level which, however, needs to be transported to the cloud via a powerful but also flexible and reliable network architecture
Grinding Machine
Running alongside RWM, Future Resource is the leading water & energy management event for sustainability in the UK. It took place the 12th and 13th September 2018 at NEC Birmingham
Birmingham’s NEC hosted on the 12th and 13th September Future Resource Expo, an exhibition launched to explore future most efficient renewable energies, that aims at becoming the hub of innovation for the energy industry
Machine learning is built upon pattern recognition and has the ability to independently draw knowledge from experience. For this reason, the technology has found its place in industrial processes
For advanced cognitive robotic applications
There is no standardized profile for candidates in the AI field. The typical candidate has a professional background in one of the established IT companies or IT consulting and has, in most cases, so far encountered a quite different working culture
The IoT becomes a subject of the degree course on Production and Process Management at Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Prof. Dr. Thomas Pospiech talks about the "IoT box", an invention he has developed to better convey the concept
The cooperation, unveiled at ACHEMA 2018, aims at the the development of an asset life cycle data model and its integration into the Siemens software solution Comos, with the objective to serve the chemical industry
High-resolution absolute encoder
Plastics manufacturer saves €17,000 per year by using Mobil DTE™ 10 Excel 68 hydraulic oil; high performance hydraulic fluid helps extend drain intervals and cut energy consumption by 2.23%
Improve the performance of PCAP touch panels and displays
Jasper Boudewijns, account manager and industrial automation specialist at Novotek, looks at the value of digital scheduling in meeting increased demand
Helmut Schmid, General Manager Western Europe at Universal Robots, talks about features, potentialities and applications of the company's new lightweight collaborative robots
App-based digital industrial cameras: Why IDS NXT is a game changer
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