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With Laser Tachometer 3, Rotec is launching a new electronic unit for speed measurements with laser sensors.

Seed Funding Supports Manufacturing Efforts to Help Warehouse Associates Work at the Speed of E-commerce Demand.

Bosch Rexroth is electrifying subsea process automation.

In 2020, Festo was able to increase sales in the "machines and systems for battery production" segment by 40%. The demand for automation for battery cell production and other e-vehicle components is increasing. Festo sees great opportunities for further growth in this segment.

Trusted UR+ partner to sell and deploy UR cobots with the new Scale Q-Span Workstation Kits.

C&C Power, Inc. identified that it was on a burning platform which was getting in the way of being able to make essential business changes. This is the story of how the company achieved a reduction in stock-outs by 25% thanks to real (not general) materials requirements planning (MRP) functionality, reduced the impact on processes associated with design changes after orders are released to manufacturing, and achieved faster order turn time and a hugely improved customer experience.

The 1990s saw worldwide conversion of older controls to computer-based distributed control systems (DCS), which offered pros and cons for alarm management.

Plastic packaging is ubiquitous in our daily lives. It plays an important role in protecting food as it moves through the economy and has a role in reducing food waste and its climate impact.

"Even when automated, tax time is still taxing."

Amazon Lookout for Equipment enables industrial customers to use machine learning to fully leverage their investment in equipment sensors to perform large-scale predictive maintenance across all of their industrial sites.

CNC-integrated robot kinematics optimize control of all robotic machining and handling tasks.

The new Allen-Bradley 856T Control Tower Stack Light system provides maximum flexibility in meeting the widest range of applications with fewer components.

Reliable and high-performance wireless connectivity with maximum data transmission rates.

New LioN-X and LioN-Xlight IO-Link Masters simplify connectivity for fast and secure data transmission.

Acuity Laser is pleased to announce the release of a new product, the AR550 High Speed Laser Sensor. Coming from the company’s short range sensor product group, the Acuity Laser AR550 is an off-shoot of their popular AR500.

For those needing contamination-resistant encoders with functional safety (FS) for machine feedback, HEIDENHAIN introduces an absolute modular magnetic angle encoder.

IEC 62443-4-1 certification demonstrates product development in line with highest security requirements.

Since 2011, Bosch has generated sales of more than four billion euros with Industry 4.0–and more than 700 million euros in 2020 alone.

At ProMatDX this year, SICK is presenting six demonstrations and two educational sessions that highlight how intelligent sensors can improve supply chain operations for robotics, safety, and smart logistics.

At the Hannover Messe Digital Edition, more than 1,800 exhibiting companies show their solutions for the factories and energy systems of the future.