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A new Danish company has solved a well-known and previously unsolvable challenge in the metal industry; Made4CNC has developed the world’s first completely automatic door opening solution for robotic machine tending, fitted to any robot and CNC machine in under an hour.

About two-thirds of manufacturers surveyed expect overall economic conditions in the U.S. to improve over the next 12 months.

New platform will provide on-demand training programs and live training events to window covering professionals at their own pace, from any location.

Anvl announced that their Connected Worker platform has surpassed the milestone of 10 million data points collected from frontline workers and supervisors.

2020 was an unprecedented year for all companies, and the challenges continue. Here we identify and address the most pressing business challenges that continue to force industrial automation professionals to respond.

The IPC-CFX (Connected Factory Exchange) is a global standard to simplify and standardize M2M (machine-to-machine) and machine-to-MES communication for effective data communication between devices in a factory line.

Accenture’s confirmation that it was the target of LockBit 2.0 made global headlines, but the company is only the latest in what has now become a long list of cyberattack victims. According to data from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, around 170 significant cyber incidents involving government agencies, defense organizations, and high-tech companies were recorded since August 2020.

More than 100,000 employees in the chemical processing and oil and gas sectors lost their jobs in 2020, and U.S.-based companies were already looking at a shortfall of at least 40,000 skilled positions by 2025. The knowledge drain and the related skills gap open up an opportunity to make digital solutions a key part of future operations.

Version 2.90 of the OPC UA .NET Standard Toolkits adds the Pub/Sub MQTT protocol to the SDK, support for UMATI NodeSet files, NodesSet2 XML handling, and performance improvements for your next OPC UA development project.

The demand for USB ports has increased exponentially due to the sheer number of these peripheral devices and gadgets, each of which requires the ubiquitous USB ports for communication and connection.

The POC project is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Northrop Grumman Corporation recently opened its new Missile Defense Futures Lab (MDFL) in Huntsville. The company’s MDFL is pioneering change with speed and precision to develop, test and field an integrated missile defense system.

Desai will help lead company's internal and external sustainability efforts.

Basin Water Resources, LLC (BWR) was selected by a major international gold producer to supply a dual-train nanofiltration (NF)/reverse osmosis (RO) pilot system to evaluate various membrane performance characteristics.

Nigel Smith, managing director of Shibaura Machine partner, TM Robotics, explains how clean room robots can eradicate the risk of human contamination.

Harold L. Wade, PhD, PE—ISA Fellow, Life Member of IEEE, book author, and all-around Renaissance man—died on 24 May 2021. This article was originally published in InTech's July/August issue.

In June PLCopen had a very successful virtual annual General Meeting. Part of the meeting related to changes in the Board of Management.

New focus on technology innovation that fosters business transformation.

The Women in Manufacturing Education Foundation (WiMEF) is thrilled to announce the members of the 2021 class of Women in Manufacturing Hall of Fame inductees.

The recent $30M growth round was led by Zeev Ventures and Insight Partners, with participation from Spider Capital and UpWest.