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Weekly panel of experts from industry and academia look at the cutting edge of robotics, analyzing how advances in automation are benefitting society and business and what the future holds.

Siemens Digital Industries Software announces the availability of the latest release of Simcenter™ Testlab™ software.

Learn what fog computing is and how it differs from cloud and edge computing in the manufacturing space.

Ensuring high-quality code in open source software to avoid an increased cyber risk to industrial control systems is becoming a pivotal challenge.

Over this decade, demand for connected worker solutions is expected to rise exponentially with the high-end technologies such as IIOT (Industrial Internet of Things), 5G adoption by manufacturing industries in order to boost their productivity, and workplace safety.

KPM Analytics Inc. announced today that it has acquired EyePro System S.r.l., a company headquartered in Trento, Italy, that specializes in vision inspection technology and vision-based process control solutions for the baking and snack industries.

Senseye, the Machine Health Management company, today announced a collaboration with PTC to make Senseye’s predictive maintenance software suite (Senseye PdM) available to users of PTC’s ThingWorx® Industrial IoT (IIoT) Solutions Platform.

This paper explores the benefits and limitations of the stepper servo control technique, also called closed loop stepper, and explains why it is attracting serious attention from machine designers.

Teradyne, Inc., today announced that Kim Povlsen has been appointed President of Universal Robots.

This year, the 1.4 million square meter Deutsche Messe exhibition site in Hanover, Germany will become 5G-ready.

Encoder delivers hygienic, long-lasting reliability in demanding food and beverage environments.

Rugged field transmitter provides innovative functionality, improved measurement performance, and ease of use for applications in harsh environment conditions.

Solution combines Bentley Systems Inc.’s asset performance software capabilities with Siemens Energy’s oil and gas equipment expertise.

Bentley invests in FutureOn for subsea planning, engineering and visibility.

In addition to automation in factories, John Deere has applied a wide range of technologies to the difficult task of automating farming. Leading edge technologies and Industry 4.0 concepts are incorporated in John Deere’s new products, increasing productivity enabling farmers to produce more to feed a growing global population.

Free step-by-step wizard creates RFP content to jumpstart IIoT projects.

NORD keeps the grain industry moving with safe, reliable, and efficient solutions to power bucket elevators, conveyors, feeders, slide gates and more.

The two-day Machine Tending Expo Feb. 23-24 focuses on manufacturers looking for concrete insights on deploying cobots to tend machines such as CNC, press brakes, injection molding machines or 3D printers.

With more than 70% of labor in warehousing being dedicated to picking and packing, numerous companies are gradually investing in logistics automation. But what happens when the robots must handle an unlimited number of (unknown) stock keeping units? These companies need a fast, reliable and robust way to automate picking and placing of a large variety of objects.

Ball rail systems and ball screw assemblies with longer lubrication intervals reduce operating costs and protect the environment.