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Bill Lydon's sixth annual trends report discusses new technologies from outside the realm of traditional automation solutions, as well as the rapid expansion of proven tools and techniques, that are being applied to improve the productivity, profitability and competitiveness of manufacturers.

Industrial OT systems supported by enterprise IT organizations are seeing a switch from on-premises datacenters to public cloud computing architectures. Automation can help with the migration.

Vision-guided robotics deploying 3D machine vision has become the cornerstone of the global race for greater automation. In contrast to 2D vision systems, which can only provide 2-dimensional output images without depth information, 3D vision technologies are able to cope with the intricacies of the 3-dimensional space, delivering a 3D point cloud with X, Y, and Z plane data.

The mechatronics and automation innovator will showcase packaging industry updates in PC-based control, IIoT, drive technology and EtherCAT networking solutions.

One of the key challenges of this century is to find solutions on how we can ensure access to a sufficient supply of healthy, diverse, and safe food for a growing global population while limiting the impact on the environment and coping with climate change. Advancing sustainability and efficiency with IIoT innovation in today’s agriculture are a central part of the solution.

A growing list of leading manufacturers are finding that AR can be applied to a variety of industrial issues.

The ISAGCA recently released a public position paper that describes the policies and associated reference standards supported by the alliance.

Teledyne is pleased to announce its Sapera Vision Software Edition 2021-07 is now available.

Pre-packaged, all-in-one stepper solutions for automation applications.

Clever engineering with predefined axis combinations and preassembled multi-axis systems reduce the time to market.

To gain a competitive edge, industries today need to take advantage of digital solutions to aid in their many production needs.

Orders for manufacturing technology totaled $490.3 million in June 2021, according to the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report published by AMT–The Association For Manufacturing Technology.

OPC UA and MQTT are open-source technologies representative of the industrial automation architectural shift toward greater flexibility and interoperability. The OPC UA IIoT Starter Kit combines them so users can create solutions for bandwidth-constrained applications.

Booth demonstrations and special presentations highlight new systems and solutions for applications ranging from subsea to cloud-based technologies at OTC 2021 in Houston, Texas.

Here, Hamish White, CEO of telecommunications software provider Mobilise, explores how the telecoms industry is adopting digitalization on every level.

IoT gateway devices market trends are driven by rising digital transformation and the increasing requirement for remote health monitoring and connected medical devices across the healthcare sector. In addition, IoT technology also provides remote monitoring and real-time access to a patient’s health data, fostering industry expansion.

Automation pros need to figure out how to operate servers and other power-hungry equipment while optimizing power consumption. Intelligent power distribution units (PDUs) control and distribute power as well as provide metering and switching capabilities.

Datacom Sales Group, LLC, a manufacturers’ representative firm that provides sales and marketing services to the datacom and networking industry, has announced a new partnership with Softing Inc., an industry leader in active network testing and cable testing products.