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The Sensia joint venture will be a fully integrated provider of measurement solutions, domain expertise, and automation to the oil and gas industry. It will offer scalable, cloud and edge-enabled process automation, including information and process safety solutions.

For designing and building an automated Paint Brush Cleaner, this is the second consecutive win and third overall for a Benton Central team

The 2nd Annual Valve Industry Knowledge Forum will be held April 9-11, 2019 at the Doubletree Hotel at Perimeter Park in Birmingham, AL.

Contrinex DW series 4mm, 5mm, 8mm and 12mm diameter round body inductive proximity sensors have been added.

The AOIs work to reduce communications overhead by decreasing the work of integrating Lexium MDrive motor and electronics products into new and existing PLC programs.

The 2 MP Ultra low light HDR USB UVC camera has a built-in H.264/MJPEG compression based on SONY STARVIS series 1/2.8” IMX290 CMOS image sensor

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Collaborative robots are re-defining the way manufacturers operate today. To help further that process is Universal Robots (UR), a collaborative robot manufacturer driven by a vision & mission to help industries become more productive, with a particular focus on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

The AI-enabled robotics system can be scaled to meet evolving business needs to handle large peaks, and reduced during non-peak hours. Flexo components are designed to allow for implementation in as short as 15 days due to its simple design, modularity and standardisation.

The HP-L-5.8 is compatible with Hexagon CMMs that use PC-DMIS 2018 R2 and subsequent versions of the software and works with an automatic indexing probe head or continuous wrist.

The MDX on-board controllers utilize the same command interfaces as external motor controllers including CANopen, RS-485, Modbus, and Ethernet connections as well as discrete I/O interfaces like pulse & direction.

By Gernut van Laak, Group Automation Solutions Leader, ABB Food and Beverage The need for factory maintenance often goes unnoticed. This article explains how plant managers can budget for maintenance and ensure optimum efficiency for all processes.

As chief executive, Northrop Grumman Japan, Prakash will be responsible for ensuring effective performance on current programs, as well as developing in-country growth opportunities.

Industrial Eye and the Integro team are joining forces to provide vision solution applications to a wide array of industries.

The use of additive manufacturing processes is increasing within industrial applications, as they bring some significant customer benefits compared to conventional processes.

The AY110-100V Vertical Rotation Stage is suitable for: Metrology, positioning of mirrors and lasers, laser machining or scribing, micro robotics, scanning, electronic assembly, testing, photonics, and vision systems.

The ability to automatically adapt the user interface to meet the needs of different types of users across multiple departments can result in higher adoption rates, leading to a computer-aided technology (CAx) system and the creation of a digital twin.

Chemical plants demand fault detection schemes to ensure high product quality, reliability and safety under different operating conditions.

The push-in connection system allows for safe connection of wires without tools. When a solid wire or ferrule is inserted, the pressure spring opens automatically and establishes a secure contact.

Thin sensors with Peratech’s QTC technology are mechanically integrated in key areas of the smartphone to capture a user’s single-handed grip, ergonomic finger movements, presses and squeezes to control key functions.

OneEdge works to solve challenges related to integration, scalability, and management that solution architects and their enterprise customers face as they implement IoT to transform their businesses. The offering is designed to accelerate solutions to market.