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The new investments will help Formic accelerate deployments of robotics-as-a-service for U.S. manufacturers.

Proline Prosonic Flow W 400 provides a reliable liquid flow solution with ease of installation and user-friendliness for a variety of liquid measurement applications.

TRACO POWER announces its new TPP 180 & TPI 180 series of 180W high efficiency, miniaturized AC/DC power supplies for both Medical and Industrial applications.

Wireless power solutions improves the reliability and productivity of commercial autonomous robotics operations with minimal human interference.

ThinkIQ, a pioneer of digital manufacturing transformation SaaS, announced major enhancements to its platform to provide more capabilities geared towards Continuous Intelligence for supply chain and production optimization within material centric manufacturing.

Trends that emerged in 2020 and 2021 are likely to develop and become even more important in 2022.

Demand better of your suppliers, because in this world safety relies on security.

The problem concerns IDEMIA biometric readers designed to organize access control, in which privileged commands can be executed via the management protocol.

Thomas Jefferson once said, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Given what we have all experienced over the past 2+ years, Digi-Key Electronics' Eric J. Halvorson tends to agree with Mr. Jefferson. Looking ahead in 2022, here are five trends Halvorson predicts for the world of industrial automation.

A growing list of leading manufacturers are finding that AR can be applied to a variety of industrial issues. This article was originally published in the October issue of InTech magazine.

Honeywell today announced that it has been selected by Repsol to supply an integrated control and safety system (ICSS) for the first advanced biofuels production plant to be built in Spain.

Johan Jonzon of Crosser offers advice for controlling the chaos that legacy equipment can create. Blending the old with the new can be easier than you think!

From production to processing, as well as packaging applications, NORD’s drive systems are built for long service life and high performance.

The University of Texas at Austin, Rohde & Schwarz and FormFactor have collaborated to characterize a new technology for RF switches that improves battery life performance and supports higher bandwidths and switching speeds.

B&R has expanded its X90 control system with an option board that allows floating-ground connection of external safety devices, making mobile machines even safer.

The PRC7000 family of high-speed automated welding controllers features advanced processors and new software to help manufacturers maximize welding throughput and quality.

I am starting my term as President of the International Society of Automation (ISA) and will have the honor to lead the Executive Board.

Automation.com published 2,600 industrial automation feature, news and new product articles in 2021. Here are the best-read ones that you might have missed.

Growing demand for real-time data analysis across geographies and increasing adoption of IIoT technology to improve performance will push projected growth through 2026.

The IPC-CFX IIoT-based, “Plug and Play” standard is successfully utilized, together with Aegis’ FactoryLogix MES Platform, across all key process types.