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Your New Robot Colleague is Coming Out of its Cage

By Bill Lydon, Editor Fluke recently introduced Fluke Connect, a system which allows maintenance technicians to wirelessly transmit measurement data from their test tools to their smart phones. There is a lot of hype about the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing. To date, from what I have seen on the market, Fluke Connect is the most useful, productivity-increasing industry solution based on these technologies.

After declining for two consecutive years, revenues for industrial geared products are forecast to grow 4.7 percent in 2014 to $13,218.2 million.

The building will provide larger quarters for training, a showroom for CNC machine demonstrations, service engineering, spare parts stocking, and applications engineering.

Using leakage-free seated valves, two-way pressure reducing valves and a higher efficiency radial piston pump, Schwaebische Werkzeugmaschinen achieved energy savings of 73 percent on its BA 400 machining centers.

The equipment will provide students with hands-on CNC programming experience and help to familiarize them with advanced CNC machine tool operation and control techniques.

April U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $175 million, up 2.1 percent from March’s total and down 3.3 percent from April 2013.

Exploring the Global Shale Gas Initiative—Potential opportunities for ISA

April U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $391.53 million down 20.4% from March but up 9.8% when compared with the total of $356.52 million reported for April 2013.

Next Frontier for the Operator-Automation Relationship

China’s leaders are issuing increasingly clear signals that they plan another round of economic stimulus programs, as evidence accumulates that the economy is slowing more than expected this year.

The unbalance between continuous operation flow & instantaneous batch flow can be spread over available inventory by an adapted rate limited feedforward.

March U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $171 million, up 7.8 percent from February’s total and down 2.5 percent from March 2013.

Fiat Powertrain is upgrading the CNC systems of 20 key machine tools used on the crankshaft and cylinder block production lines of its engine manufacturing plant in Campo Largo, Brazil.

March U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $492.78 million, up 38.5% from February and up 2.9% when compared with the total of $479.04 million reported for March 2013.

A group of industrial condition monitoring specialists, machine manufacturers and research organisations collaborated with the European Commission on a project to develop a system for health assessment and power optimisation in the machine tool sector.

Make your smart assets your new reliability specialist.

Renz provides customer support on five-axis machining applications including machine set-up, programming and operations that incorporate HEIDENHAIN controls.

Getting the Most From Your HART Handheld

The safety PLC provided the platform for Sandvik Materials Technology to add zoned safety guarding to a large cold rolling mill at its Sandviken plant in Sweden.