Cybercrime may cost the world $6 trillion by the end of 2020
Smart technologies are extending traditional machine control architectures with more enhanced data processing, learning and decision-making capacity
Now that China is slowly getting back to normal, normality looks like a faraway lighthouse for the rest of the world hit by the virus. Dark times are on the horizon for the manufacturing industry but a rebound with no major consequences is still possible
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
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
With the advent of the Internet of Things it is now possible to predict failures and downtimes without the need to carry out unnecessary maintenance. This offers a more dynamic and controlled approach to maintenance
Thanks to the combination of FDT Group’s emerging FDT IIoT Server (FITS™) with an optional OPC UA Server, remote asset health monitoring application can monitor the asset health in a different network, using various messaging protocols
At the latest edition of Advantech’s Industrial IoT World Partner Conference in Taiwan, IEN Europe met three of the company’s main European partners to learn what this collaboration brings and entails for them
How embedded air caster systems enable multi-ton machine repositioning
The increasing popularity of Industrial Ethernet (IE) places certain demands on providers of components such as pneumatic valves, where reliable, rugged, high-performance connectivity is becoming little short of essential
In late 2017, the Belgian company Isolava began a project to optimize the drying process. The first step was to install humidity sensors in the dryer in order to get a better understanding of the dynamics of the drying process
Ganahl is a Swiss manufacturer of high-quality bottles for the cosmetics, food and pharmaceutical industries. It relied on Omron’s eCobra robots for faster, more flexible and less noisy automation processes as well as NX1 controller
The optimization of manufacturing processes has become a priority. The parts designed, developed, and produced today are becoming more complex, requiring more advanced and extensive inspections with more accurate and reliable measurements
Outdated maintenance procedures waste valuable resources and can impact on safety. Modern predictive techniques however reduce the costs of both scheduled and unscheduled downtime and are a key contributor to increased machine availability
Industrial robotics is growing at a fast pace, even though a big question mark hangs over the consequences of this massive adoption. To anticipate what the future of robotics will look like, we have analyzed some data and current trends
Precision sensor manufacturer Micro-Epsilon has supplied a CFO200 non-contact colour recognition sensor to The Institute of Railway Research (IRR) at The University of Huddersfield. In conjunction with an encoder, the sensor is being used to monitor the r
Predictive maintenance is part of Industry 4.0 and the factory of tomorrow. To achieve this, igus has developed a family of products under the name 'isense', where various sensors and monitoring modules make plastic energy chains, and cables intelligent
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
The largest Vietnamese car manufacturer VinFast deployed Siemens’ Digital Enterprise portfolio – which includes the Xcelerator portfolio of software and Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) – to complete its automotive production within only 21 month
Level 5 autonomous driving represents the highest achievement in terms of driving automation. Enabling in-vehicle AI and deep learning with High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) installed on vehicles can guarantee cutting edge performance and great r
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