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How Festo Applies Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Applications
To showcase the use of AI in its automation technologies, Festo highlighted two use cases involving predictive maintenance and predictive energy.
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Wireless Network for Manufacturing Offers the Reliability of Wired IO-Link
The use of wireless in manufacturing plants is still met with a good deal of skepticism today. Much of this doubt is based on experience with traditional wireless, which is simply not reliable because it’s neither fast enough nor scalable.
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Live at the ELC: OEMs Can Monetize Predictive Maintenance
Predictive maintenance is an emerging technology for packaging and processing equipment that has the potential to disrupt the OEM business model.
Sponsored
Solve Integration Challenges Using Rich Data from Your Instrumentation
Advanced communication protocols enable ultra-fast, real-time information exchange and control between PLC/DCS and intelligent digital instrumentation. Learn how the integration, start-up, and productivity of industrial process systems can be improved.
Robotics
Safety Certification Issued for Industrial Collaborative Robot Technology
Veo Robotics’ FreeMove system receives ISO 13849 safety certification from TÜV Rheinland.
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Two Key Areas of Cybersecurity Vulnerability in Manufacturing
By better understanding operational weaknesses, manufacturers can guard against future threats. Read about two key areas that require assessment.
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ABB’s GoFa Cobot Wins Red Dot Best of the Best Award
ABB’s GoFa cobot received the Red Dot Best of the Best design award in recognition of its unique design concept to make the new robot appealing and accessible to users.
Sponsored
Solve Integration Challenges Using Rich Data from Your Instrumentation
Advanced communication protocols enable ultra-fast, real-time information exchange and control between PLC/DCS and intelligent digital instrumentation. Learn how the integration, start-up, and productivity of industrial process systems can be improved.
Workforce
How Artificial Intelligence is Being Used to Streamline Training
DeepHow is using artificial intelligence to make the creation, delivery, and consumption of digital training materials more efficient.
Take5
Cybersecurity Concerns Grow in Post-COVID Era
As industrial networks migrate to the cloud, cybersecurity threats in the manufacturing sector are increasing in tow. Watch this Take Five video to find out what industries are being targeted, who these e-criminals are, and how to protect your factory.
Robotics
A New Class of Machine Will Be Born Robotic
In the future every machine will be an intelligent and “understanding” robot if it’s using the code-free Robust.AI cognitive engine.
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Motors and Drives Come Together for Motion Efficiency, Performance, Reliability
Beyond the advances made to both motors and drives in terms of energy efficiency, safety, cleanability, and more, suppliers emphasize the importance of how they work together in a complete motion system.
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Performance Motion Devices: Ultra-Compact Motion Controller
ION®/CME N-Series Digital Drives are compact, PCB-mountable intelligent motion control amplifiers that feature full programmability, 1 KW output capacity, support for quadrature, sin/cos and BiSS-C encoders, and more.
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Spatial Computing and Digital Twin Drive Interactive AR Simulations
PTC’s Vuforia Engine Area Targets brings augmented reality and digital twin technologies together to create interactive, photorealistic simulations of factory environments.
3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing
Ford and Nissan Use HP 3D Printing to Address Production Sustainability
Used 3D-printed powders and parts are being turned into components for Ford’s Super Duty F-250 trucks; the technology is also being used to create replacement parts for older Nissan models.
Cybersecurity
Why the Age of IIoT Demands a New Security Paradigm
As manufacturers modernize for data-driven business, industrial automation has become a target for cyber attacks. Here’s how companies should assess and plan for a new cybersecurity landscape.
Cybersecurity
Protect OT from Cybersecurity Attacks
A Superior Controls’ project engineer shares their insights into determining how vulnerable your factory is to cybersecurity threats, changes you can take to secure your company, and understanding the IT/OT convergence.
Cybersecurity
Industrial Cybersecurity Concerns Heat Up in The Era of COVID-19
A look at how specific cybersecurity threats have grown precipitously in the past two years, according to a new report from CrowdStrike.
Workforce
Fanuc and Rockwell Automation Create Apprenticeship Coalition
With skilled labor shortages remaining on the horizon for most manufacturers, Fanuc and Rockwell Automation have partnered to develop an apprenticeship program to foster an automation-savvy workforce.
Design
The Electrification of Transportation and Mobility
Electric vehicles are expanding beyond the personal market into trucks, buses, and other forms of mobility. Discover the technological and design challenges that come with transforming manufacturing of internal combustion engine cars to EV.
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Manufacturing Cybersecurity: Critical Components for Risk Assessment
By the second quarter of 2020, cyberattacks targeting manufacturers accounted for 33% of all incidents across all industries with losses totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Small businesses are also at risk.
Safety
Connected Hardhat for Hazardous Environments
Guardhat’s IECEx and ATEX Zone One safety certified IS-HC1.1 Communicator Hardhat is helping to overcome the challenges associated with using Internet of Things technology in distant, dangerous locations.
Plant Maintenance
How Digital Workflows Improve Manufacturing Operations
Operations workflow software is about more than directing workers from point A to point B; it can also dramatically reduce downtime, improve cybersecurity, and reduce labor and maintenance costs.
