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By Bob Love, Schaeffler UK Linear systems are a key part of production machinery and plant automation. If your linear systems are not providing the low friction movements they should be, you will strain your motors and drive systems, which will increase bearing loads and reduces component life.

By Robert Holloway, EU Automation This article discusses the potential of continuous manufacturing compared to its isolated, batch manufacturing alternative, in relation to pharmaceutical manufacturing.

By Manuel Terranova, Peaxy Inc. One critical business imperative of this decade is making good use of data assets. A comprehensive digital dossier, which aggregates such data, is incredibly useful for predictive maintenance initiatives, design processes and other business-critical applications.

Epicor provides industry-specific solutions to customers in the manufacturing, distribution, and retail sectors. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Drawing on the expertise and insights of some of the world’s leading gas turbine experts and specialists, the technical program will showcase instrumentation techniques, developments and applications within gas turbines measurement and control systems.

Numerous users, providers and developers met at the Robotation Academy in Hannover. The network aims to further develop and raise the profile of ‘Industry 4.0’ and IoT applications.

Athader sought a technological partner which would allow the company to progress its development efforts more quickly. As a result, Athader chose to use drives, motors and global solutions supplied by Emerson’s Control Techniques.

YuMi, the dual-arm robot by ABB Robotics, features functionalities such as a vision system, a gripper or touch-sensitive sensor technology opening up new, flexible areas of utilisation in industrial assembly.

Current state of industrial automation system security plus the technological and organizational challenges of improving it.

Among all stringent safety regulations and conforming pressure sensor standard will likely to boost the industry in terms of value and volume across end verticals as all end user industry will follow the conforming standards.

This on-demand webinar discusses best practices from Industrial IP Advantage – a coalition of Cisco, Panduit and Rockwell Automation – for how to get control engineers and IT professionals working together to deploy a more secure, holistic network architecture.

The report predicts that it will take until 2019 for world sales revenues to recover to their 2014 level. Figure 1 shows a comparison between the three major regions of the world from 2014 to 2020.

This new outlook, which draws heavily from planned utility budgets, represents an almost 28% increase over capital expenditures during the last ten years.

The EASY Product Finder is designed for machine designers and engineers to explore and specify Lenze engineered power drive, automation and motion control solutions.

As Comark's CTO, Mr. Shah is responsible for the company's technology vision and strategy as well as the development of products and solutions to support Comark's "Smarter Automation" strategy.

Nexjen Systems, a division of Jenkins Electric Company, was created in 2005 to service Jenkins Test & Measurement customers in the southeast region.

Intelligrated designs, manufactures, integrates and installs complete warehouse automation solutions, software and services that result in smarter distribution and fulfillment operations.

We’ve ended up with changing AggreGate SCADA/HMI licensing policy. From now on it doesn’t matter how many devices you have. AggreGate SCADA is now licensed by tags (which are sometimes called I/O channels).

Smart Airports Market (Infrastructure - Endpoint Devices, Communication Systems, Passenger, Cargo and Baggage Ground Handling Control, Air Traffic Control, Security Systems and Others; Solutions - Terminal Side, Airside, and Land Side; Applications - Core Application; Services - Smart Transport and Parking, Smart Retail, Hospitality, and Entertainment, Smart Workplace, Smart Airport Processes, and Smart Business-to-Business Services) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2016 - 2024

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