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Guiding the Industry: AGVs and the Smart Factory
- by Jonathan Wilkins
- Feature
This article discusses how automated guided vehicles have advanced from simple materials handlers to intelligent autonomous robots.

Industrial Automation Jobs in the Making
- by Renee Bassett
- News
Research by Salesleads, a company that tracks industrial companies that are planning construction, expansion, or relocation projects in North America, 435 new projects are in the works as of February 2020, an activity increase of 1% from the previous month.

Manufacturers sensor-ing an opportunity
- by Mark Howard
- News
The automotive sensor market saw the highest growth in 2018, and the Research and Markets predicts the automotive sector will continue to dominate the sensor market until 2029. So, what can the wider manufacturing industry learn from this?

Yokogawa announces acquisition of stake in APB Corporation
- News
The two companies have agreed that Yokogawa will provide energy management technology needed for the efficient operation and optimization of large-scale storage batteries.

NK Technologies introduces 2020 Product Catalog
- News
The 2020 product catalog features performance data, sizes, specifications, and technical references for the company’s portfolio of current sensing switches, transducers, transformers, and ground fault protection products.

HANNOVER MESSE announces postponement of 2020 event
- News
HANNOVER MESSE 2020 has been postponed to the week of 13 to 17 July. Deutsche Messe AG is thus responding to global developments related to the Coronavirus.

Eaton helps connect power for two Chinese hospitals
- News
To fight the coronavirus, China completed construction of two new field hospitals in Wuhan in just 10 days. Power management company Eaton and its partner electrical contractors and distributors were part of the construction project at the Huoshenshan and Leishenshan Hospitals that delivered an additional 2,500 hospital beds to the front line of this global health emergency.

IEC SC 48B Standards Committee for Copper Connectors publishes IEC 63171-6
- News
T1 Industrial is the future interface for single pair Ethernet applications in industry. This standard is supported and integrated by the SPE relevant standards ISO/IEC 11801-3, ANSI TIA 1005-x and IEEE802.3cg.

Physik Instrumente announces Markus Spanner as CEO
- News
In his role, Markus Spanner has established an extended management team to take a structured approach to achieving the new targets. He will be assisted bDr. Peter Schittenhelm (COO), Dr. Markus Czanta (CTO), Stéphane Bussa (CSO), and Heiko Brehm (CFO).

Local Learning: Gruhn to speak on safety, HMIs, more
- by Renee Bassett
- Feature
ISA past president Paul Gruhn, PE, CFSE, will be presenting at local meetings around the country during the first quarter of 2020. As a global functional safety consultant with aeSolutions, Gruhn has gained extensive experience consulting with sites around the world.
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