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Network Portal Targets Interoperability
With the release of its PCH Portal, Parker Hannifin looks to address industry’s ongoing need to integrate disparate networks and devices with a flexible network portal capable of communicating across protocols, standards, and vendors.
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Is the Cloud Beneficial for Small and Mid-Sized Manufacturers?
Robotics
Cobot Gripper Helps Automate Hydraulic Manifold Production
Sensors
Smart Sensors for Moisture Measurement
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Emerson Takes on Magnolia Power Plant Project in Mississippi
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Edge Computing Gets a Platform Focus
Recent announcements from Siemens and Stratus Technologies/Rockwell Automation show how edge computing is evolving into a platform for broader industrial digitalization applications.
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Volkswagen Expands Cloud Project Beyond Europe
The Industrial Cloud Initiative at Volkswagen, designed to streamline data gathering and analysis as well as best practice adoption, is expanding to one U.S. plant and two in Mexico.
Sponsored
Belden HighFlex VFD Cables Available from Digi-Key
Belden's series of UL-rated, extra flexible VFD cables provides supremely pliable, flexible constructions for use on-machines (16-8 AWG) and increases ease of installation without sacrificing any crucial elements.
Workforce
Easing the Path to a Connected Workforce
In an effort to extend overall operational visibility to plant floor workers, the Aveva Teamwork platform promises to provide knowledge sharing, digital training, and streamlined communication capabilities.
Robotics
Technology Matters: New Servo Drive, Robots, and Flexible Feeder System
Highlights of several new automation technologies showcased at PACK EXPO Connects, including Lenze's new i950 servo drive, Omron's HD-1500 autonomous mobile robot & FH 3D vision sensor, and Epson Robots' IntelliFlex flexible feeder and C12XL 6-axis robot.
Communication
Crossing the Interoperability Chasm
A new white paper from the Open Manufacturing Platform highlights production asset level connectivity issues, with a focus on OPC UA and MQTT.
Sponsored
Belden HighFlex VFD Cables Available from Digi-Key
Belden's series of UL-rated, extra flexible VFD cables provides supremely pliable, flexible constructions for use on-machines (16-8 AWG) and increases ease of installation without sacrificing any crucial elements.
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Digitization – A Case For Manufacturing
Learn how implementing Industry 4.0 can improve your company’s productivity, opportunity, and growth from the Managing Director of Nukon.
Robotics
Powertrain Manufacturer Deploys New High-Payload Cobot
FPT Powertrain Technologies installs a new high-payload collaborative robot that combines vision technology, laser area scanners, and a touch-sensitive tactile skin—further blurring the line between cobots and traditional industrial robots.
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Industrial Sustainability Focuses on Energy Management
Comparing results of Automation World’s sustainability survey conducted in 2016 with the results seen in 2020 seem to indicate that sustainability efforts are becoming more aligned with specific energy efficiency goals.
Cybersecurity
The 10 Commandments of Cybersecurity
As remote access, digital transformation initiatives, and enterprise-wide systems integration efforts continue to expand, cybersecurity is a growing concern. That’s why operators should educate themselves on the steps they can take to avoid a breach.
Communication
MQTT Sparkplug Advances in DataOps
HighByte announces its support for MQTT Sparkplug with its new release, helping to solidify the communications protocol acceptance for industrial data transmission.
Plant Maintenance
The Long Term Effects of Remote Access
The virtual world is creating new end user expectations around how products are delivered and serviced, requiring OEMs and technology suppliers to partner in new ways.
Plant Maintenance
Smart Glasses Ease Troubleshooting Communication
Beumer has added augmented reality to the tools available to its customers while servicing equipment, enabling faster, easier support. The OEM even used the smart glasses technology to commission and install new equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A New Kind of Connected Factory
As a pandemic forces social distancing, manufacturers are using technology to stay connected, creating a new vision for how data is aggregated, shared, and acted upon to unite factories and people.
Plant Maintenance
Augmented Reality Gets to Work
In both discrete and process manufacturing, augmented reality technologies are proving to be an operator’s best friend by helping to decrease repair times in the plant and in the field, improve accuracy, increase situational awareness, and boost safety.
Mobility
Drones Map and Inspect Energy Operations
California Resources Corp. is growing its drone program with the use of DroneDeploy software to save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year mapping and inspecting operations and enabling proactive asset management.
Analytics
Machine Learning Software Applications Continue to Expand
DataProphet’s Prescribe software uses machine learning algorithms to predict defects, faults, and quality errors, while prescribing control parameters to improve production.
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Moving to a More “Open” Environment
Discover how edge computing and open source software are important contributions to the successful implementation of IoT at your company.
Communication
Using Time-Sensitive Networking to Improve Productivity
Explaining this new technology’s application in four industry verticals applications, Tom Burke of the CC-Link Partner Organization highlights the variety of ways in which Time-Sensitive Networking can boost production.
Robotics
Flexible Feeding System for High Mix, Low Volume Manufacturers
By integrating robotics, vision, and intelligence, Engineered Vision’s Flex-Bot is designed to help surmount the specific challenges faced by small batch manufacturers.
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Connecting Sensors to the Cloud
The “last mile” connection of lower-level plant floor devices to the cloud is the focus of a new partnership between ifm and CloudRail.
