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Festo brings to Robotics Summit/DeviceTalks Boston 2019, June 5-6 at Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, solutions which are intended to reduce engineering effort and shorten time to market for robotic systems, including laboratory automation. Festo also displays at Booth #216 a hands-on bionic learning kit for middle and high school students.

During the keynote, Norbert Hanke will lead attendees on a search for ‘smart’ – challenging manufacturers to find the data in their factories and put it to work. Doug Woods will share his insights on the state of the manufacturing industry, assessing its readiness for digital transformation and discussing the risks and rewards of pursuing a smart manufacturing strategy.

Operator insights from data analytics and asset performance management creates new energy efficiencies and expands capacity.

By Daymon Thompson, Beckhoff Automation Many tools enable capturing the potential value that Big Data and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) provide, but companies need to know what kind of information they want and how to gather it securely.

With the OPC UA FLC initiative, the OPC Foundation aims to build an open, standards-based communication solution for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) by extending the OPC UA machine-to-machine communication protocol from sensors in the field to IT systems or the cloud.