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More than $6bn will be added in revenue over the next 4 years.

Introducing robotic automation to an established workflow can appear complicated and expensive. With the latest modular technology and intuitive setup tools, companies can quickly and easily begin capturing the benefits, and scale and upgrade their systems as confidence grows.

As IDTechEx predicted in its report, "Robot Shuttles and Autonomous Buses 2020-2040," robot shuttles are converging with robotaxis.

Mobile robots will take logistics sector by storm, with a 10-fold investment increase predicted between now and 2024. COVID-19 will be a significant driver in long-term mobile robot growth. Sales of AMRs set to radically outstrip AGV revenues.

Bosch Rexroth looks back on 30 years' linear axes development.

Optimizing mobile and remote operations in the new era of automation.

The electricity grid is undergoing its first evolution since the invention of the power transmission system, and energy storage devices, particularly mechanical energy storage devices, will play a solid role in this evolution.

Automation is the key to sustained economic prosperity for American manufacturing. However, in order to truly tap into its potential, the U.S. must ensure that the industry has the necessary talent pool to work in tandem with these new technologies. The key is a viable STEM education system that will create a pipeline of necessary talent.

Translating mathematical equations into code can lead to precision errors. The condition the system is intended to detect must match the scope of the math.

A proactive over reactive approach to OT cybersecurity is essential to keep the pace to face the threats in today’s IT/OT converged environments.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the global Alarm Management market reveals that alarm management in general continues to be a big issue in hydrocarbon processing plants, chemical plants, power plants, and other industrial process plants around the world.

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) can improve industrial productivity by 50 to 70 percent but require adequate room to move about increasingly space-constrained factory floors.

Vector Controls and Automation Group, a leading manufacturing representative, distributor, and service provider, announce that they have formed a strategic partnership with IMI Critical Engineering.

The incorporation of Honeywell solution ControlEdge HC900 into Global Control’s furnace and oven offerings accelerates the OEM’s widespread availability and strengthens its competitiveness.

New toolkits auto-enable OPC UA capabilities–no additional coding required.

As industries strive to disrupt markets with new innovations, digitalization has proven to be a key driver in enhancing a company’s bottom line. The oil and gas industry is no exception.

How holistic thinking and Industry 4.0 technology are helping companies climb to the top of the manufacturing class.

Our customers must keep moving forward–in the new world, they are navigating new needs. They might need fewer machines than before or twice as many. That requires us to be flexible.

The speed of technological change today, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, requires a mental evolution for which not everyone is prepared.

Learn from an interview with Christopher Anhalt of Softing about markets, adoption drivers, competing standards, the horizontal and vertical integration of IT and OT, companion specification use cases, green-field and brown-field… and many other things relevant to use cases that have made OPC UA so successful.