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Beckhoff Automation has closed the books on a successful 2025 financial year, increasing global revenue to €1.24 billion, with 6% growth over 2024.

The direct current portfolio enables significant energy and material savings, with up to 80% reduction in peak power consumption and up to 50% less material required for cabling or busbars.

The innovation leader significantly expanded its portfolio in electric and pneumatic automation.

After this basic work on the information model, further steps will include communication function blocks linking the controller directly to the OPC UA environment.

Automation.com, August 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Cisco's newly-formed Connected Industries Business Unit, recently created to help customers realize the benefits of the transition to Ethernet and IP in manufacturing plants, launched a new switch series and is reaching out to a broad base of potential partners.

The companies have demonstrated that meaningful steps toward electrification are possible within existing grid connections.

Following the announcements that Chicago’s McCormick place will hold events starting in July and that the state of Illinois lifted capacity limits and social distancing requirements on June 11, IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show continued the positive momentum by unveiling the floor plan for IMTS 2022.

Automation is essential to the implementation of Industry 4.0 and IoT strategies as manufacturers realize low labor rates are no longer a winning strategy.

The digital transformation continues to flow throughout manufacturing, generating electricity among the audience at event after event. At the 2019 Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE in May, it was Boeing, and Lucia Chung, Senior Director, IT Factory Operations, who provided insights into Boeing’s digital transformation effort.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The ability to enhance industrial and process automation efficiency, through the application real-time enterprise computing, cloud applications, and IoT devices. While such investments can be a gamble, the cards are laying in the automation industry’s favor.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Industry 4.0 was at the forefront of dozens of exciting new innovations and strategies from the industrial world at the 2016 Hannover Fair. Klaus Helmrich, of Siemens AG, shared their view of Industry 4.0 and the entire digitalization of the value chain.

By Bill Lydon, Automation.com Amongst the many new technologies that are impacting the manufacturing industry today, collaborative robots may be the highest impact automation development that can improve manufacturing for small and medium manufacturing enterprises.

"The industrial world deserves a 5G solution that speaks its language," said Axel Lorenz, CEO of Process Automation at Siemens.

The HARTING Technology Group continues to offer its customers a comprehensive and innovative solution portfolio for the industrial automation, energy infrastructure, e-mobility and railway sectors also in 2021.

Services range from mobile inspection of individual components, such as motors and gearboxes, to continuous online monitoring of the entire drive train.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Recently founded by AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel, IIC is another organization focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and the connected world. The goals of this group are to break down the barriers of technology silos to support better access to big data with improved integration of the physical and digital worlds.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Based on discussions at the Rockwell Automation Fair, this article explores Rockwell Automation and PTC's committment to building out software into an integrated Industrial Digitization solution, in order to fully achieve the goals of Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing.

This global drive and control technologies company delivers, powerful and safe movements in machines and systems, and is a driver for the digital transformation of automation technologies including hydraulics, electric drives and control systems, and mobile electronics.

An increase in the pace of innovation and emphasis on expanding its digital presence in the face of a worldwide pandemic helped igus increase online sales by 30% in 2020.