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  • Enhancing Safety in Autonomous Mobile Robots

    Enhancing Safety in Autonomous Mobile Robots

    Because robots can generate large forces and move at a faster speed, they may bring certain risks, such as injuring human co-workers in an unintended collision. These risks must be carefully managed.
    By: Theo Kersjes
    21 August, 2024 | 4 minutes
  • FRABA Group Announces New China-Based Business Unit

    FRABA Group Announces New China-Based Business Unit

    The FRABA Group has announced the opening of a new business unit in China.
    14 August, 2024 | 2 minutes
  • Moore Industries Explains How the SLA Protects People, Equipment in a Remote Oil and Gas Wellhead Application

    Moore Industries Explains How the SLA Protects People, Equipment in a Remote Oil and Gas Wellhead Application

    The SLA can protect people and equipment in a remote oil and gas wellhead application.
    By: Moore Industries-International, Inc.
    14 August, 2024 | 1 minutes
    Sponsored By Moore Industries-International, Inc.
  • 30 Years of CODESYS

    30 Years of CODESYS

    CODESYS has been setting milestones in automation for 30 years.
    By: CODESYS
    02 August, 2024 | 1 minutes
  • Machine Safety Basics: Test Pulses vs. OSSD

    Machine Safety Basics: Test Pulses vs. OSSD

    Understanding these types of safety pulses, along with the advantages of various fieldbus and software options, will ensure your machine functions without putting anyone in harm’s way.
    By: Beckhoff Automation, Christopher Woller
    25 June, 2024 | 3 minutes
  • Software Programmable Controller Advances Machine Safety

    Software Programmable Controller Advances Machine Safety

    Software-programmable safety controller with modular hardware platform uses forward-looking technologies and end-to-end data availability.
    By: SICK, Inc., Jack Smith
    14 May, 2024 | 7 minutes
    Sponsored By SICK, Inc.
  • Integrate Control and Safety and Unlock Hidden Potential

    Integrate Control and Safety and Unlock Hidden Potential

    Thanks to advances in technology, companies can now integrate machine control and safety on one platform, transport control and safety over one network and program both within one software environment.
    By: Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc., Aga Zupancic
    19 February, 2024 | 3 minutes
    Sponsored By Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
  • FailSafe Servo Safety for All

    FailSafe Servo Safety for All

    As industries become more automated, agile and complex, safety systems must be kept in step.
    By: Dan Zachacki and Ben Strong
    04 December, 2023 | 2 minutes
    Sponsored By Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
  • All About Bearings in Space

    All About Bearings in Space

    Chris Johnson, managing director at specialist bearing supplier SMB Bearings, explains the vital role of advanced bearings in man’s journeys beyond the stars.
    By: Chris Johnson
    28 November, 2023 | 4 minutes
  • Integrate Control and Safety and Unlock Hidden Potential

    Integrate Control and Safety and Unlock Hidden Potential

    Machine designers and manufacturers have important responsibilities: keep operators safe and keep production flowing.
    By: Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc., Aga Zupancic
    28 November, 2023 | 4 minutes
    Sponsored By Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
  • Pilz Expands Worldwide Online Machinery Safety Training Offer

    Pilz Expands Worldwide Online Machinery Safety Training Offer

    Pilz, an innovative leader in machine safe automation technology, is expanding its worldwide digital training offer for machinery safety.
    By: Pilz
    12 October, 2023 | 2 minutes
  • Brüel & Kjær Vibro Names Volker Polonyi as CEO and President

    Brüel & Kjær Vibro Names Volker Polonyi as CEO and President

    Brüel & Kjær Vibro (B&K Vibro), one of the leading worldwide independent suppliers of condition monitoring solutions for rotating machinery, has named Volker Polonyi as its new CEO and president.
    29 June, 2022 | 1 minutes
  • ThinkIQ Enhances Vision Platform to Eliminate Manufacturing Blind Spots

    ThinkIQ Enhances Vision Platform to Eliminate Manufacturing Blind Spots

    ThinkIQ, a pioneer of digital manufacturing transformation SaaS, announced major enhancements to its Vision platform. The new offering provides unprecedented visibility on the shop floor, eliminating blind spots and increasing productivity and worker safety.
    28 June, 2022 | 2 minutes
  • Automation Helps Crews Run a Tight Ship

    Automation Helps Crews Run a Tight Ship

    A premier yacht builder gets on board with reliable automation platforms for monitoring and controlling ship systems.
    By: Westport Yachts Engineering Staff
    07 January, 2021 | 6 minutes
  • Emerson Launches Virtual Access to Mobile Road Show

    Emerson Launches Virtual Access to Mobile Road Show

    Emerson will kick off its Mobile Road Show on Nov. 4, 2020, featuring an interactive mobile service center, which will run for nine months across multiple countries. The event is now available virtually for those who cannot attend in person.
    By: Emerson
    21 October, 2020 | 1 minutes
  • The Future of Manufacturing Plants: Self-learning, Self-adapting, and Self-sustaining

    The Future of Manufacturing Plants: Self-learning, Self-adapting, and Self-sustaining

    AspenTech is working toward what is called an SOP, or Self-Optimizing Plant.
    By: Melissa Landon
    15 September, 2020 | 3 minutes
  • The Growing Impact of the Cobot Revolution

    The Growing Impact of the Cobot Revolution

    By Bill Lydon Accelerating the application of collaborative types of robots is the integration of vision systems with artificial intelligence, and this integration is enabling a range of new applications.
    By: Bill Lydon
    12 July, 2020 | 1 minutes
  • HARTING and seven other manufacturers establish M12 standard for push-pull locking mechanism

    HARTING and seven other manufacturers establish M12 standard for push-pull locking mechanism

    Phoenix Contact, HARTING, Molex, Murrelektronik, Binder, CONEC, ESCHA and Weidmüller have come together to establish a standard for the push-pull locking mechanism of M12 connectors on the market. Together, they are pursuing the one goal of ensuring compatibility across manufacturers.
    By: HARTING Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Phoenix Contact, Molex, Weidmuller
    28 June, 2020 | 1 minute
  • ARC Advisory Group releases Fire and Gas Systems market research report

    ARC Advisory Group releases Fire and Gas Systems market research report

    New ARC Advisory Group research on the global Fire and Gas Systems market reveals that manufacturers are switching to cloud-based systems to be able to provide employees with remote access to their gas detection systems.
    03 June, 2020 | 1 minutes
  • Rotork actuators enhance water flow for New York City fireboats

    Rotork actuators enhance water flow for New York City fireboats

    The IQ part-turn actuators provided are used on two fireboats, ‘Firefighter 2’ and ‘Firefighter 343’. The actuators have the important duty of controlling the flow of water to the fire nozzles on deck, meaning that they are vital in the event of an emergency.
    By: Rotork PLC
    20 March, 2020 | 1 minute
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