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Siemens, through its global venture firm Next47, also invested in Claroty, joining a global syndicate of industrial organizations that invested $60 million in the company’s Series B round, bringing the company’s total investment to date to $93 million.

This agreement provides that Sartorius Stedim Biotech will use Siemens automation technologies, which will include industrial PCs, the S7-1500 software controller, the TIA Portal and the SCADA system Simatic WinCC, among others.

Following its acquisitions of artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Zementis (2016) and the Cumulocity IoT (2017), Software AG’s acquisition of TrendMiner is consolidating its position in the IoT market.

Conditions encountered by pipelines in the U.S. are diverse and the complexity motivates broad and cautiously general requirements. This is not the case at the borders of all sovereign nations. Diverg

The safety guard locking switch combines non-contact, coded-transponder safety technology with a mechanical solenoid locking function to create asolution to meet the levels of safety required by international standards.

The new company combines U.S.-based Perception Robotics, Hungary-based OptoForce, and Denmark-based On Robot to become OnRobot, which aims to drive innovation for robotic end-of-arm tooling. OnRobot's headquarters will be located in Denmark under Iversen’s management, and the three entities will continue their individual operations and development as well.

The NCA-2512 is powered by Intel’s Atom C3958, offering up to 16 cores of processing prowess. The NCA-2512 also features 300W redundant PSUs, 10G interface for SFP+, SR-IOV support, Intel AES-NI and Intel QuickAssist Technology, running at 20G.

Simotics XP Chemstar low-voltage motors are used in machines and applications such as pumps, compressors, fans, extruders, agitators and separators.

As part of the partnership, Rockwell Automation will make a $1 billion equity investment in PTC, and Rockwell Automation’s Chairman and CEO, Blake Moret, will join PTC’s board of directors effective with the closing of the equity transaction.

The solution will connect an ABB Ability PowerStore 30 megawatt (MW) battery energy storage solution to the Electranet transmission system enabling the value stacking of storage in regulated energy market.

By Alan Binning, COPA-DATA UK Renewables are set to be the fastest-growing source of electrical energy generation in the next five years. This article explores three common issues for renewables — managing demand, combining distributed systems and reporting.

The goal is to fully integrate the Endress+Hauser field instruments as digital twins into the SAP cloud platform. Both companies want to take advantage of the services and smart apps from SAP’s Leonardo system as well as Endress+Hauser’s IIoT offering.

All lifecycle costs should be considered over the entire expected life of a project, with all costs calculated on a net present value basis.

Equipped with complete air cooling, the oil-free VARODRY screw pump is intended to make water cooling superfluous. The developers at Leybold were guided by the idea of using fewer, machine parts and components in their design.

The PR10 requires no external air supply so there are no air hoses to manage and the gripper works independently of changes in the pressure, cleanliness and availability of external air. With round edges, the PR10 is designed for collaborative implementation alongside human workers, using any of Universal Robots (UR) three models.

All these three cameras are connected to the base board using customized Micro-Coaxial cables. e-con Systems has designed a 30cm long Micro-Coaxial cable with connector locks at both ends, allows customers to connect both camera boards and adaptor board with no trouble.

The robotic add-on in combination with the EyeSens Match allows users to solve a pick and place application with an UR robot. The support of other robots with the EyeSens Vision Sensors will also be possible in the near future.

Models range in size from 0.75 to 2.25 inches (19 – 57 mm) in diameter. Rated speed ranges from 2400 to 19200 RPM, with rated power from 3 W to 62 W. Planetary gearhead models are available with output torque rated to as high as 62 Nm (8800 oz-in).

By Benson Hougland, Opto 22 Traditional industrial networking methods have proved workable but difficult to implement. The next generation of communication technologies may work to ease implementation while addressing security concerns.

One focal point of the collaboration is to increase the availability of all assets in a plant and to give personnel on site decision-making tools for their work. The objective is to make the plants more reliable through products and services and to be able to predict developments in the condition of a plant’s assets.