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Brian Germain

Brian Germain is CRO at Augury. A pioneer in Machine Health and Process Health solutions, Augury uses purpose-built AI, trained by industry experts and the world’s largest data library, to help customers eliminate production downtime, improve process efficiency, maximize yield and reduce waste and emissions. Augury’s global customers achieve 5-20x ROI, often in a matter of months.

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  • Thumbnail for Dematic introduces Modular Sort System

    Dematic introduces Modular Sort System

    This solution is engineered to provide sorting performance to many applications: sort-to-pallet build, shipping doors, shipping containers or workstations.
    28 July, 2016
  • Thumbnail for IBASE announces BYTEM-123-PC and BYTEM-103-PC panel PCs

    IBASE announces BYTEM-123-PC and BYTEM-103-PC panel PCs

    The BYTEM-123-PC and the BYTEM-103-PC are both based on the quad-core Intel Atom processor E3845 and EN50155, certified for railway applications.
    28 July, 2016
  • Emerson Industrial's Unidrive AC delivers power for German textile company

    Freudenberg needed to replace an AC drive within their nonwoven production facility in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The need for a small footprint drove them to the Unidrive SP AC drive from Emerson.
    27 July, 2016 | 3 minutes
  • Allied announces Rebecca Weiser and Mary Edmonds as new directors

    Weiser joins Allied as Product Director in Product Management for the Interconnect, Passives and Electromechanical category of industrial automation products. Edmonds was promoted to Director of Web Development in Marketing for eCommerce.
    27 July, 2016 | 1 minute
  • FIPA builds End-of-Arm-Tooling to enhance FANUC robotics

    Built in FIPA’s American facilities, and installed in the testing and demonstration laboratory at FANUC headquarters in Rochester Hills, Michigan, this custom EOAT solution features four flat vacuum cups especially designed for heavy-duty ejector for process reliability.
    27 July, 2016 | 2 minutes
  • Eclipse Automation joins newly formed Smart Automation Group

    This partnership – which includes Eclipse Automation, Insys Industriesysteme AG, Transmoduls Ltd, SMZ Wickel-und Montagetechnik AG, JULI Technology, and ITE Automation – is forming to share best practices and industry IP to provide customers with automation solutions
    27 July, 2016 | 1 minute
  • HIMA Rail Safety-Talk - Read it now!

    HIMA Rail Safety Talk: COTS, Megatrends and Future Mobility Concepts. Our guests were Johann Berger from ÖBB Infrastruktur AG, Frits Makkinga from Movares, Reinhold Hundt from Astran Business Consulting, and Sedat Sezgün from HIMA.
    27 July, 2016 | 1 minute
  • Automation Federation welcomes SANS Institute as its seventh working group

    In adding SANS as one of its working groups, the Automation Federation takes a step forward in broadening awareness around the need to integrate both operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) perspectives and expertise in safeguarding IACS from cyberattack.
    27 July, 2016 | 2 minutes
  • ams announces acquisition of MAZeT vision sensing company

    The strategic acquisition extends ams’ market leadership in advanced optical sensors and strengthens ams’ position in emerging optical sensing applications.
    27 July, 2016 | 1 minute
  • BACnet Interest Group Europe releases updated BACnet Standard ASHRAE 135-2016

    Among the most important developments, included in 400 additional pages, are BACnet’s support for IPv6 networks and RESTful Web Services, a further step toward equipping the BACnet protocol for future developments in information technology.
    27 July, 2016 | 1 minute
  • IFR Report: China seeking to join the Top 10 robotics nations by 2020

    With a robot density of 36 units, China is currently ranked 28th in the world. So says the World Robot Statistics, issued by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
    27 July, 2016 | 1 minutes
  • EU Automation releases guide to smart technology

    EU Automation's one page guide provides an insight into the smart technologies lighting the way to a more energy efficient future. The resource is designed for anyone with an active interest in the automation industry.
    27 July, 2016 | 1 minutes
  • AAES receives top ASAE Honors for its Engineering Competency Model

    Funded by a grant from the United Engineering Foundation, the model was developed by AAES in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration and AAES subject matter experts from education, industry, and private practice.
    27 July, 2016 | 2 minutes
  • TrendMiner announces $1.1 Million funding from The Innovation Fund

    This is a symbolic investment after the Fund’s recent series A funding to TrendMiner of $6 million in December 2015. The investment group supports promising companies identified as creating exceptional value to the chemical industry.
    27 July, 2016 | 1 minute
  • Accraply announces acquisition of Harland Machine Systems

    Accraply is a provider of a range of labeling and shrink sleeve application and converting equipment and services. Harland specializes in the design and manufacture of a range of self-adhesive (pressure-sensitive) labeling machinery.
    27 July, 2016 | 1 minute
  • The past, present and future of smart factories

    Technavio recently published a report detailing the top three emerging trends impacting the Global RTLS Market for industrial applications to 2020, and found that Ubisense is behind smart factories for many of the globes’ leading manufacturers.
    27 July, 2016 | 3 minutes
  • Thumbnail for What’s It Like to Work Today as an Industrial Engineer?

    What’s It Like to Work Today as an Industrial Engineer?

    Engineering and industrial automation jobs offer stable employment plus opportunities to develop innovative solutions to technical and business challenges.
    By: Joel Don
    27 July, 2016 | 4 minutes
  • Thumbnail for Harmonic Drive UK announces IridiumLine series of hollow-shaft gears

    Harmonic Drive UK announces IridiumLine series of hollow-shaft gears

    IridiumLine gears are available in sizes 14 to 58 with gear reductions between 30:1 and 460:1. Lengths range from 19-61mm and external diameters between 50-195mm.
    27 July, 2016
  • Thumbnail for SignalFire introduces Sentinal Float Stick System wireless communication link

    SignalFire introduces Sentinal Float Stick System wireless communication link

    With a rugged design for demanding outdoor environments and operating temperatures of -40ºC to 60ºC, the Sentinel Float Stick System is designed for Class 1 Division 1 intrinsically safe operation and to be a viable wireless tank level monitoring solution in oil fields.
    27 July, 2016
  • DFI introduces Thin Mini-ITX boards with 6th Generation Intel Core Processor

    DFI’s Thin Mini-ITX boards are beneficial in space-limited environment due to the I/O ports and slim-size.
    27 July, 2016
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