Artificial Intelligence Drives New Industrial Inspection Drones

Digital Aerolus has created autonomous industrial inspection drones using a combination of artificial intelligence and multi-dimensional mathematics, allowing them to operate without external sensors or navigational aids such as GPS.

David Greenfield

Mar 10th, 2020

Jameson Huckaba of Digital Aerolus explains the technology behind and capabilities of the company's Aertos industrial inspection drones during the Tech Crunch Robotics+AI 2020 event.

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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.

Using Beumer Smart Glasses provides operators with hands-free troubleshooting, and helps to mitigate the costs of a technician traveling to the customer site.

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.

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.

Jason Anson, Automation Manager at Interstates

Use Remote Upgrades to Prevent Software Obsolescence

Find out what steps your team should consider when implementing plant software upgrades in order to avoid increased downtime and lost productivity.

How to Improve Throughput and Cut Costs During the Tire Curing Process

This article explores how monitoring the devices in your curing system can help you reduce tire scrap, improve energy efficiency, and avoid downtime.

Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots

Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots

Looking for automation solutions for packaging and palletizing? This is your destination for all things cobot. Whether it’s webinars, video case studies or product information, you’ll find it all in this one spot.

Festo Life Sciences Plant

Compressed Air Measurement Helps Reduce Energy Use

Installing Festo’s E2M energy efficiency modules helped medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers tackle their environmental footprint, not only saving money but using the data to provide predictive maintenance as well.

Dick Slansky, senior analyst, ARC Advisory Group

Virtual Commissioning Evolves into a Model-driven Digital Twin

Virtual commissioning needs to go beyond emulating controls logic for emulation hardware. Model-driven digital twins make virtual commissioning more accessible and adds the power of simulation technology and capability to the overall automation process.

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Augmented Reality for Machine Troubleshooting

A look at how workers in Schneider Electric's Batam, Indonesia, factory use Aveva’s Augmented Operator Advisor to perform equipment troubleshooting by focusing on color-coded points of interest on each piece of equipment.

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Smart Glasses for Remote Assistance at Schneider Electric Batam Factory

A look at how workers at Schneider Electric's Batam, Indonesia, factory use Smart Glasses Remote Assistance to connect with third-party OEMs for help with equipment troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair.

David Kelley, lead automation engineer, Panacea Technologies

Ensuring a Successful Automation Migration Project

Migrating or upgrading a system can be long and often difficult process, which oftentimes leaves organizations second-guessing the project as a whole. However, there are possible steps to take to make sure everything is easier and successful

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Optional Technology Turns Essential

Honeywell Process Solutions CTO sees remote access, simulation, and virtual reality influencing business continuity beyond the coronavirus crisis.

Abb Supports Operations In Critical Healthcare Facilities, Utilities, Industrial And Commercial Buildings With Free Software Solutions

ABB Offers Free Access to Several Products Amid Pandemic

To help industrial organizations struggling with the effects of COVID-19, ABB is eliminating charges on the use of some of its key robotics and power technologies.

Bosch Rexroth sees rising interest in using virtual assistants on the shop floor to aid in training and safety applications. Image courtesy of Bosch Rexroth

Are Virtual Assistants Headed to the Plant Floor?

Intelligent agent technology promises to boost operations and engineering efficiencies by delivering ready access to critical data and encouraging more natural interactions with industrial equipment.

Dana Inc.'s Toledo Driveline facility

Maintenance Leads Dana Inc.’s Digital Transformation

A look at how Dana Inc. is digitizing to improve production operations, reduce costs, and train workers using Fluke’s emaint CMMS as a core tool in the process.

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Nord Gear's Condition Monitoring Software

Dan Breitbarth of Nord Gear demonstrates how the company’s condition monitoring software works on Nord’s variable frequency drives, which have internal PLCs for data analysis and Ethernet communication capabilities to transmit data to dashboards.

To Audi, premium automobile quality means high quality vehicle bodies created using efficient production systems and new high-tech solutions. Increasing digitization is clearing the path for smart factories.

How Audi Addresses the Predictive Maintenance Challenge

The challenge with preventive maintenance mainly lies in accessing the data that could point out a flaw and then processing it in such a way that it can also be used. Audi demonstrates how to successfully address that challenge.

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GE Digital Responds to COVID-19 Concerns

To help manufacturers work remotely and keep production going, the company is offering free remote monitoring licenses to iFix and Cimplicity customers.

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AutomationDirect adds Click PLC input simulator and high-current relay output modules

Higher amperage relay output modules and an 8-point input simulator module are now available from AutomationDirect for the Click series stackable micro brick PLCs.

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Industrial Control System Migrations: 5 Considerations to Move Forward

Two factors driving the upgrade or replacement of legacy control systems are increased component failures and lack of replacement parts due to obsolescence. The risk associated with losing control of a process can be significant when equipment fails.

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Rittal's Steve Sullivan

Temperature Control Tips for Enclosures

Proper temperature control of automation electronics enclosures can be more complex than it may initially appear. This is particularly true in high-temperature and hazardous environments, or where wide temperature swings are common.

International Solution Designer, Autoware

How Can a System Integrator Support Environmental Sustainability?

Sustainability is on the mind of many companies, but are they using one of their most valuable assets? A system integrator can possibly be the missing link to making your organization green.

Keeping Control Cabinets Cool

In this episode of the 'Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered' podcast, we connect with Steve Sullivan of Rittal to learn about the best methods for keeping control cabinets cool in high temperature environments.

Nicholas Imfeld, principal engineer, Avanceon

How Developing a Batching System’s Phases Is all About Balance

There are a lot of parts to be aware of when developing a flexible batching system. However, if you want to ensure operational efficiency, developing well-balanced phases is the most integral piece.

Balluff Io Link

How IO-Link Benefits OEMs and End Users

Already popular in Europe, the IO-Link industrial communication technology is reportedly growing by double digits in the U.S. Learn why this point-to-point data communication method is increasingly preferred across industry for delivering device data.

This 2-axis robot in the Lenze booth at SPS 2019 was used to show a model-based and data-based approach to condition monitoring using data from the robot’s drive.

The Drive as a Sensor

Gathering more data from machines doesn’t necessarily mean adding more sensors. Lenze highlights how manufacturers can use data from existing drives for applications such as condition monitoring and preventative maintenance.

What is IO-Link?

In this episode, we connect with Shishir Rege of Balluff to learn about the IO-Link device communication technology and whether or not it is difficult to integrate into existing operations.

Oden Technologies

Creating Algorithms to Improve Production

Golden Run optimizes machine performance with artificial intelligence algorithms.

While few people argue against the use of OEE as a helpful guideline, some are questioning how much it can help direct specific production improvements.

Is OEE Too Abstract?

OEE has long been a popular method for calculating asset performance, but some are beginning to question its value in providing direction to staff on how to improve production.

Combining IIoT and AI to Elevate Machine Health

Combining IIoT and AI to Elevate Machine Health

Augury’s Halo platform—a turnkey offering that combines sensors, artificial intelligence, and vibration experts—can diagnose the “acoustic footprint” of a machine, flagging a problem before it impacts performance.

John Scheible, MVE Analytics

Data Analytics Strategy Provides Continuous Improvement

Data analytics including machine learning algorithms can deliver breakthrough improvements by making the data exploration phase efficient and real-time monitoring and prediction easy.

Chris Hough, ProMach/ZPI

OMAC Tackles Machine, Operator Efficiency

Providing updates at the Automation World Conference & Expo, group leaders outline efforts to provide guidance on line-level OEE implementation and machine interface standards.