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ABB announces Peter Voser as interim CEO as Ulrich Spiesshofer steps down
The Board of Directors of ABB and its CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer (55) have mutually agreed for him to step down from his role, which he has held since 2013. -
Inside Ford's Livonia Transmission Plant Digitalization Journey and Real-World Results
By Bill Lydon, Automation.com The Ford Livonia plant incorporated an automated transmission production line which illustrated the advantages and results of digitalization based on Ford’s goal of applying solid logic, planning, and execution to “be the number one transmission manufacturer in the world.” -
North American Electric announces launch of NAE Automation, LLC
The company’s primary focus will be material handling equipment such as conveyors, automatic palletizers and strapping machines. -
FacilityConneX to collaborate with Dell to drive smart building management
The project will provide real-time monitoring, fault detection & diagnostics and ongoing monitoring-based commissioning for a 313,679 square foot building and its 600+ assets including chillers, boilers, and HVAC equipment. -
3 Reasons Routes for Predictive Maintenance Programs May Be Dead
By Brett Burger, National Instruments With automated data collection, SMEs will spend more time focused on the risky asset of the day, as reported by the automated data collection, and less time focused on manual data collection. -
Rotork actuators to boost wireless functionality for UK crude storage hub
Rotork IQ3 multi-turn actuators have been commissioned for two Navigator Terminals road fuel and crude storage tanks at its North Tees hub in Middlesbrough. -
Energid and ModuleWorks announce partnership for combined CAD/CAM software solutions
This partnership is intended to help developers to get to market faster with differentiated robotic systems for additive manufacturing, welding, machining, CNC routing, and other applications that require control of six axes or more. -
TrendMiner announces integration with Siemens Mindsphere IoT Platform
The integration of TrendMiner with Siemens Mindsphere enables its users to analyze, monitor and predict their sensor-generated time-series data stored in Siemens’ IoT platform. -
Can Manufacturers Compete When Trapped in Existing Automation Architectures?
Manufacturing companies are becoming more aware of the need to modernize production methods and automation to compete globally, but many still find themselves stuck in a sunk investment trap. -
GE Healthcare and Rockwell Automation announce partnership to build digital bioprocessing solutions
The two companies will help biopharmaceutical companies create flexible and scalable facilities of the future, focused on rapid response to market demands, streamlined production technologies and adaptable manufacturing environments. -
Lanner announces partnership with netElastic
Lanner and netElastic are collaborating to demonstrate their joint efforts in today’s disaggregated network architecture where hardware and software are decoupled. -
Auvesy's version dog helps monitor Industrial control system programs for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research uses the system to manage the data of around 500 components, making versiondog one of CERN's standard technologies. -
ABB Customer World Wrap-Up: ABB positioning for industrial digitalization
By Bill Lydon, Automation.com Traditional automation suppliers are clearly positioning themselves, through investments or partnerships, to supply the software and hardware for manufacturing customers to be able to achieve the higher productivity and profitability promised through Industrial Digitization/Industry 4.0. -
TT Electronics announces acquisition of Power Partners
This acquisition supports TT’s global growth strategy, to expand its focus on design-led technology solutions and value-added complementary products. -
E.ON Energy acquires TUM energy technology from BayPAT
The TUM technology is based on optimizing the steam extraction of cogeneration plants equipped with gas turbines, enabling to achieve higher overall efficiencies and increasing the flexibility of the power plant. -
Cambashi announces launch of Industrial IoT Charter Program
The IoT Charter Program began as a result of a Cambashi study of the industrial IoT market in 2016, which concluded that there was not a reliable or authoritative source for segmentation, size or growth estimates. -
The Instagram Effect: How social media is changing the food and beverage plant
By Darcy Simonis, ABB Anyone who uses social media will know how prevalent pictures of food are. This article looks at how the impact of social media is changing the priorities of food and beverage managers. -
Protecting Manufacturing Productivity in Harsh Environments
By Daniel Waldron, Armagard Remaining competitive in an ever-changing market requires you to constantly improve manufacturing productivity. Your computer equipment no doubt plays a crucial role in that process. Here’s how to keep it that way -
CMR Philippines to help Philippines cement company enhance power monitoring
The scope of work at the Holcim Lugait cement works in Misamis Oriental in the Philippines, which currently produces 2.13 million tonnes of cement a year,covers the development, delivery, installation, testing and networking of the electrical installation for an upgrade of power monitoring capabilities. -
Applied Motion Products announces tools for Python language with its stepper and servo motors
These new tools, including an application note and sample code, guide Python programmers in sending high-level motion commands, using Applied Motion’s Serial Command Language (SCL), to one or more axes of stepper and/or servo motors.
