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By Bill Lydon, Automation.com The Digital Twin has become one of the most powerful concepts of Industry 4. 0. The implementation of model-based, real-time, closed-loop monitoring, control, and optimization of the entire manufacturing and production process, the Digital Twin concept is helping organizations achieve real-time integrated manufacturing.

UCal 4 Calibration Software helps derive value from NIR analytical programs with algorithms for custom NIR calibrations of almost any product including food, agricultural and industrial applications.

The UR16e combines a 35-lb payload capacity with a reach of 900 mm and pose repeatability of +/- 0.05 mm making it suitable for automatingtasks such as heavy-duty material handling, heavy-part handling, palletizing, and machine tending.

Typical applications include situational awareness, signals intelligence, ISR and radar, while the Pascal GPU’s parallelism also makes it a fit for GPGPU applications including machine learning and autonomy.

Columbia/Okura has been working on the development of miniPAL a mobile, collaborative palletizing product integrating Universal Robot’s UR10e for some time. Columbia/Okura intends to launch this product range of palletizing “cobots” immediately.

Columbia/Okura has been working on the development of miniPAL a mobile, collaborative palletizing product integrating Universal Robot’s UR10e for some time. Columbia/Okura intends to launch this product range of palletizing “cobots” immediately.

ISA’s Process Industry Conference offers a turnkey experience for gaining important foundational knowledge and training.

Manufacturing Cloud delivers a level of business visibility and collaboration between the sales and operations organizations of a manufacturing company. This is intended to allow them to have a better view of their customers through sales agreements and account-based forecasting solutions, providing visibility into their customer interactions while enabling them to generate sales forecasts.

iQ PULSE is LEC’s smart metering technology that is designed to integrate with a variety of existing meters in order to simplify AMR deployments. The solution is inclusive of a cellular endpoint, as well as software that provides data analytics, alarming and billing integration capabilities.

In this version, iSID analyzes the OT network and maps the operational business processes of the industrial facility. All business processes on the OT network are then graphically displayed, while each network-connected asset now includes the details of the business processes that each is connected to within the asset inventory maintained by iSID.

AsteRx SBi is designed for integration into any machine monitoring or control system. Location and 3D orientation data is streamed with constant low latency.

The MyEmerson development roadmap will centralize the management of software, hardware and workforce upskilling. With access to technical documentation, identification of device location, and the ability to initiate repair, replacement or service as needed, organizations gain maintenance and turnaround planning efficiencies

The MBD301 is suitable for mid-range to high-performance embedded applications in the fields of industrial control automation, transportation, gaming and digital signage

Receipt verification is an industrial systematic process by which a site verifies that what was specified and ordered is actually what is received.

Once ATEN Unizon is installed on the client server, users can access the software remotely through Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge/Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and other mainstream web browsers.

The PackFlow bundle features all the components needed for a print machine manufacturer or system integrator: line-scan cameras, BitFlow Axion-CL 2xE frame grabbers, software and LED illuminator. PackFlow installation performs quality checks at the full speed of the production line.

All relevant manufacturing data will be available on-demand, creating a continuous flow of information. TrendMiner’s analytics capabilities help to predict process deviations. Shiftconnector brings these process deviations into a control room where shift personnel will contextualize these deviations as well as add additional information regarding why the deviation occurred.

Former CEO Jakob Boelens will transfer to AVEVA as part of the acquisition of MaxGrip’s software portfolio by AVEVA earlier this year. Cees Maaskant will lead MaxGrip into a new chapter in which the company specializes exclusively in Asset Performance Management (APM) consultancy.

RAP specializes in providing digitized solutions that support risk assessment, management of the permit to work (PtW) process, and governance of control of work (CoW) for all plant maintenance activities.

The company's Hardshell Fanless Technology combines fanless cooling, ingress protection and ruggedization, including vibration resistance, with an aim to ensure reliability in challenging environments. Their edge gateway systems provide processing and help users avoid data latency.