One Controller, Multiple Robots for Cartoner

PMI Kyoto’s optimized packaging solution for cartoning links up to eight robots with a 48-axis servo controller at 600 flow wraps/min.

Anne Marie Mohan

Sep 25th, 2019

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Siemens Partners with Arm on Automotive Electronics Design

In its Pave360 digital twin technology, Siemens is using Arm’s intellectual property to help automakers and suppliers simulate and verify designs before the vehicle is built.

The DIGIT framework abstracts what is an inherently unique and often complex and messy transformation process into a simpler form, allowing for the revelation of actions and activities we believe are mission-critical for digital business transformation and, therefore, IoT program success. Source: Georgia Tech Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT).

Expert Advice on Making the Digital Transformation

Georgia Tech’s Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies provides new insights and advice on IoT project implementation with suggested frameworks for improving your approach to this transformative process.

Dan Krohnemann, lead engineer, Panacea Technologies

The Benefit of Baseline Training for Automation

As teams grow, it’s important to make sure that everyone—from senior employees to new hires—are all on the same page. Providing baseline training can help ease confusion form other departments and ensure everyone has the same starting point.

Financing Gender Equality in Manufacturing

PPWLN Keynote speakers address the broken rung and economic empowerment.

Report: Innovative New Controls at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Ten intrepid Packaging World editors fanned out across PACK EXPO Las Vegas in October in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found.

Discover the Secrets of a Successful Automation Project

Discover the Secrets of a Successful Automation Project

Learn about planning and project management, building your machine or automated system, and technologies to improve manufacturing outcomes. Automation World’s free resource features 150 pages on managing automation projects from start to finish.

B&R Industrial Automation's X20 controllers support OPC UA over TSN. Source: B&R Industrial Automation

B&R Highlights Progress with Time-Sensitive Networking

Leveraging the widely accepted OPC UA standard, automation supplier adoption of Time-Sensitive Networking continues to advance, as can be seen in multiple recent announcements from B&R Industrial Automation.

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CPGs Need to Adapt to Meet Growing Food Demand

PACK EXPO East offers the latest solutions and industry education to help consumer packaged goods companies keep up with industry changes.

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Industrial Internet Consortium and Trusted IoT Alliance Combine Memberships

By joining memberships, the Trusted IoT Alliance brings a focus on blockchain and related distributed ledger technologies more squarely into the scope of the Industrial Internet Consortium activities.

U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Fell 15% Last November to $320 Million, But There is Still Optimism.

According to the latest report from the Association for Manufacturing Technology, the Pending China trade deal and anticipated approval of the revamped NAFTA (USMCA) should see the manufacturing technology market pick up in the second half of 2020.

Nicholas Imfeld, principal engineer, Avanceon

The Benefits of Bringing in a Partner for Assessment and Project Planning

When it comes to operational improvements, tight time constraints can be a problem. A partner who can help get some long-forgotten initiatives off the ground may be the key to hitting your operational goals.

Career Building Opportunities Abound at PACK EXPO East

PACK EXPO East to spotlight multiple industrial workforce issues by showcasing potential careers, hosting an entry-level career fair, and offering classroom training to upskill current workers.

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Sight Machine Launches Data-Powered Continuous Improvement for Vertical Segments

The Manufacturing Data Platform collects and unifies system-wide production data in real-time, providing key insights and expertise for the chemical, paper & tissue, and packaging industries.

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Start Small with Analytics to Build Momentum

Figuring out which analytics platform works for you may, at first, seem daunting, developing a strategy and small-scale analytics pilots could what helps you finally make that investment.

Jim Tassell, senior IT security architect for Kellogg, presents the food maker’s cybersecurity journey at the Automation Fair’s Food and Beverage Forum.

How Kellogg Manages Cybersecurity Risks in Manufacturing

Seeing the writing on the wall as Mondelēz and other global companies became collateral damage in ransomware attacks, Kellogg set out to create a cybersecurity strategy that would keep it out of the headlines.

Cognex Deep Learning quality inspection software can be trained to identify correct placement and types of items assembled or packaged. In this consumer packaged goods example, it's assorted chocolates in a package. Source: Cognex

Quality Inspections Drive Machine Vision and Deep Learning Connection

Cognex works with end users in multiple industrial verticals to apply deep learning to its vision systems for final and in-line assembly verification.

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.

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Connect with Digital Transformation Experts

The Industrial Internet Consortium launches a pilot program to connect industrial end users with experienced consortium members. The goal of this service is to help users identify appropriate digital technologies or scale existing proofs of concept.

According to a McKinsey report: The broken rung results in more women getting stuck at the entry level and fewer women becoming managers.

Women in the Workforce - Fixing the Broken Rung

A five-year McKinsey study reveals a focus on culture, diversity, and even automation, as ways to help advance women’s careers across all industries, including manufacturing.

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The End of the Road for Spreadsheets?

Long the preferred tool for data analysis in industry, spreadsheets are not up to the task of handling the massive amounts of data created by Industry 4.0 projects. Here’s a look at three analytics trends to watch to move past your reliance on spreadsheet

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Vice President of Customer Operations, Panacea Technologies

Stop Buying Serial RS232 Devices, Please

At one point, the Serial RS232 Communication protocol was the height of communication, but there are better and more reliable communication protocols out there. Will Aja lays out why it’s time to move on from Serial RS232 Devices.

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Top Articles of 2019: Machine Learning

Coverage of Frito-Lay’s application of machine learning is Automation World’s most visited article of the year.

Tony Hemmelgarn, CEO and president of Siemens Digital Industries Software

Top Articles of 2019: Siemens PLM Name Change

Coverage of Siemens PLM name change to Siemens Digital Industries Software is one of Automation World’s top 5 articles of the year.

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Honeywell and Cisco Extend Industrial Wireless Capabilities

In an announcement about its development of a OneWireless IoT module for Cisco’s industrial access points, Honeywell says the technology will provide both ISA100 Wireless and WirelessHART capabilities.

Top Articles of 2019: Open Source Computing

Coverage of Hilscher’s industrialized Raspberry Pi platform is one of Automation World’s top 5 articles of the year.

Wearing virtual reality and augmented reality headsets, machine developers can interact directly with their model, free of distractions.

Digital Twin Double-Take

Most OEMs aren’t embracing the idea of creating a digital twin for the machine, but the benefits—including design flexibility, faster time-to-market, and virtual training—deserve a second look.

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Additive Manufacturing Comes to Oil and Gas

As industrial applications of additive manufacturing become more prevalent, the oil and gas industry looks to the technology to speed up prototyping and the manufacturing of spare parts.

Siemens demonstrated “flexible grasping” using AI and neural network processing.

Top Articles of 2019: Artificial Intelligence

Coverage of Siemens addition of artificial intelligence via neural networks to traditional control programs is one of Automation World’s top 5 articles of the year.

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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.

Michael Kaldenbach, Shell’s digital realities lead, demonstrates a head-mounted HMT-1Z1 device.

Top Articles of 2019: Wearable Technology

Coverage of Shell’s use of head-mounted displays to provide remote assistance to field workers is one of Automation World’s top 5 articles of the year.

Jack Yang, project manager, Advantech IIoT Group

Advantech Spotlights Data and Device Management

As more manufacturers begin digitally transforming their operations, Advantech showcases its products designed to address edge data handling and IoT device management.

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Connecting PLCs for High-Speed Packaging Quality

Stone Technologies creates an effective automated defect rejection process requiring deterministic communication between controllers on separate parts of a high-speed packaging line.