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To accelerate market share gains for Beckhoff, Lee will work directly with strategic accounts as well as with the experienced local sales and applications engineering team. He reports to Joe Martin, West Region Manager.

Birla Carbon has relied for many years on a distributed control system to optimize the production of carbon black powder. When it came time to modernize their DCS, they implemented an IO migration strategy to minimize plant downtime and hardware replacement costs.

The Cobot Expo is free to attend and is open for anyone with an interest in collaborative robotics, July 28-30, 9am-4pm EDT. Attendees are invited to visit booths that feature new insights and resources on the most common cobot applications such as machine tending, packaging and palletizing, product inspection, assembly, welding, dispensing, and finishing.

By Antony Bourne This article highlights what he believes are three major ethical issues facing the industry, as manufacturers weigh up their AI investments and embark upon this new technological direction in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here are three reasons why you should consider attending the 2020 Virtual Cybersecurity Standards Implementation Conference, an event hosted by ISA.

In this book excerpt from ISA Publishing, the author explores a real-world example of calculating OEE.

A platform that can provide AI & ML in a single small package is available from Gateworks. Gateworks single board computers can be paired with a Google Coral Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).

The Occupancy Monitoring System allows businesses the capability to use the data to track peak traffic trends for better scheduling and purchasing metrics.

Nielsen brought his background in mechanical engineering to his role at MiR, along with the experience gained from more than 25 years of managerial positions with major international corporations such as Danfoss and Siemens.

In its new report, “Building Robotics Solutions,” Lux Research creates a framework for selecting robotics vendors based on the key capabilities and level of customization required.

By Jonathan Wilkins This article explains how the manufacturing industry can prepare for unanticipated periods of increased demand.

When combined with functional safety PLCs, these devices are suitable for applications that are required to conform to Performance Level/ PL d, Cat. 3, according to ISO 13849.

The service connects manufacturers virtually with robot experts through a smartphone and shows the most valuable automation projects to focus on for the company.

Remanufacturing enables existing robot users to sell inactive or legacy robots to ABB with an attractive buy back service, rather than scrapping them or leaving them unused in a corner of the factory.

Dematic Accumulation Conveyor is a solution designed for existing operations that need to improve conveyor accumulation performance. It can be integrated into an existing convey/sort system to replace old worn-out conveyors as well as poor performing conveyors.

H2W introduced a DC Linear Brush-Type Servo Amplifier (LCAM 5/15) that is designed to drive the complete line of voice coil linear actuators.

This scalable system is designed for managing data driven workloads and enabling levels of performance in enterprise network security, Unified Threat Management and WAN optimization applications.

Output signals for torque, speed and horsepower are provided as analog (±5 or ±10 Vdc) and digital over RS232 serial port. Available capacities are from 10 to 200 ozf-in (0.07 to 1.4 Nm).

The brakes are manufactured at KEB America’s facility outside Minneapolis, MN and are available for sale immediately.

The Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam is a prerequisite to the Professional Engineer (PE) exam, which engineers need to pass to practice in the U.S.