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HARTING announces innauguration of European Distribution Center
The 20-meter-high shelf warehouse can accommodate approx. 7,000 pallets and 120,000 containers. Installation work involved laying 100 kilometres of IT cabling, 40 kilometers of sprinkler piping and container conveyor technology with a total length of 1,000 meters. -
The Benefits of Kitting: Improving Assembly Efficiency
The benefits of kitting are well known because assembly workers immediately become more efficient. Manufacturers who do not utilize some form of kitting are bottle-necked in material flow. Kitting starts with the production team defining the kit of combined parts. -
Phoenix Contact to host 4th annual Smart Communities conference
Phoenix Contact USA will host its fourth annual Smart Communities conference on Tuesday, August 20, at the company’s U.S. headquarters, 586 Fulling Mill Road, Middletown, Pa. -
Siemens Summit Touts Digital Twins and Transformations
Disruption and transformation were twin themes the Siemens 2019 Automation Summit, with the digitalization of industrial processes promising the way forward to greater process stability, productivity, and maintenance efficiencies. -
Yaskawa Motoman announces Beistle Company as winner of “Win a MotoMini” contest
The Smart Series suite of products, including the MotoMini robot, enables implementation of a robot system. Only weighing 7 kg, the MotoMini robot provides application flexibility in small part handling and assembly applications. -
Renishaw announces opening of U.S. Fixturing Centre of Excellence for inspection machines
The Centre of Excellence for metrology fixturing design and manufacturing is located just a few miles away from R&R’s existing Grand Haven operations, but is approximately three times the size. -
The SEMI Smart Manufacturing Initiative releases semiconductor industry’s Benchmark Survey
The survey was created by subject matter experts from the Americas Chapter of the SEMI Smart Manufacturing Technology Community. Member companies include Intel, Applied Materials, EMD Performance Materials, MAX International Engineering Group, Cimetrix, Jabil and SUNY Polytechnic Institute. -
Return of the IoT Botnet: Silex Exposes the Soft Underbelly of IoT Devices
By Alan Grau, Sectigo Like the Fast and Furious movies, IoT botnets and cyberattacks just keep coming. The most recent attack, the Silex botnet, is particularly nasty. It doesn’t use devices to create DDoS attacks or attempt to steal personal data. -
Rockwell Automation announces expansion of Threat Detection Services
To help prevent incidents and combat the unpredictable threats that cause them, industrial companies around the world can now manage cyber risk in their operations using the Rockwell Automation Threat Detection Services powered by the Claroty threat detection platform. -
DENSO announces grants to 26 North American colleges and universities
Grants will be used towards programs focused on design, materials management, mechanical and electrical engineering principles, thermodynamics, robotics and more. -
IGEL releases info brief on developoing Linux OS-based devices at the edge
The IDC InfoBrief finds that the digital worker’s demand for speed, collaboration and innovation has never been higher. This is compounded by the rapid growth of Millennials and Generation Z employees in the workforce. -
What Should a Plant Manager Do During the First 90 Days on the Job?
Learn five "must-do" activities that every new industrial plant manager should build into initial plans to ensure everything kicks off in the right direction. -
RT Engineering announces opening of Controls Direct automation parts store
Controls Direct’s goal is to deliver an easy process for ordering automation parts. They offer support, with access to all of RT’s mechanical and electrical engineering expertise, whether if it just more information on a product, or assistance for any ongoing or future projects. -
CIMdata releases 2019 Simulation & Analysis Market Report
The PLM MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the PLM market during calendar year 2018. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth. -
igus linear guides help Spanish company build drones keep pests at bay
The “FitoStinger” was developed by the Technology & Advances Centre of Barcelona. It includes an extendable arm, which allows the precise spraying of pesticides. The maintenance free linear guides made by igus are a key component to the drone. -
Democratizing Digitalization to Achieve Manufacturing Competitiveness at PTC LiveWorx 2019
By Bill Lydon, Automation.com While attending LiveWorx 2019, for example, it was obvious to me that that PTC has created the most open system architecture which manufacturers can use to leverage digitalization and collaboration to achieve strong competitive positions in their industries. -
FDT Group announces Executive Committee approval of FDT IIoT Server (FITS) specification for release to the FDT membership
The emerging FITS standard, set to release at year-end, will provide control system and device vendors with the opportunity to advance their intelligent automation solution offerings with FDT's standards-based, platform-independent, information-driven business models meeting the demands of the process and discrete markets. -
Ohio Manufacturing Workforce Partnership awarded $12 Million Department of Labor grant to scale manufacturing apprenticeships
The funding will play a vital role in helping Ohio address the workforce shortage and skills gap affecting manufacturing, as manufacturers across the state have repeatedly cited workforce as their top issue of concern. -
Dow Performance Silicones earns 2019 Customer Excellence Award from Siemens
At an executive level meeting called in 2017 between Siemens and Dow, the companies mutually agreed to initiate a special program called “PCS 7 health check.” The main objective was to optimize system reliability. -
Industrial Internet Consortium announces IIoT Maturity Assessment
The IIoT Maturity Assessment helps organizations become adopters of IIoT by guiding business managers through a range of questions about the adoption, usage and governance of IIoT within their organizations.
