News & Articles for Industrial Automation Professionals

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Is a Cobot Really What You Need?

By Nigel Smith, TM Robotics Collaborative robots (cobots), machines that work harmoniously alongside humans, account for 3% of this market, but will reach 34% by 2025. This article explains what manufacturers need to understand before they jump on the cobot bandwagon, as this investment may not be as low-risk as it first appears.

22 June, 2018 | 3 minutes
AutoQuiz: What Is the Best Tuning Method for a Catalyst Feed Flow Controller?

Only a closed-loop tuning method can be used with an exothermic reaction where the reactor can "run away" (increasing speed of reaction as the reaction progresses, catalyzed by its own heat of reactio

By: Joel Don

22 June, 2018 | 2 minutes
Voith and Siemens partner to develop coupler condition monitoring solution

The goal of the cooperation is a joint presentation of a preliminary solution at the Innotrans 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Both parties have shown the intention to further strengthen the cooperation by offering solutions for more Voith components on the Siemens Railigent application suite.

21 June, 2018 | 1 minutes
Need to Speed Up OPC UA Development? Use a Framework

By Bob McIlvride, Skkynet Cloud Systems SDKs tend to be collections of reference implementations, wrappers, helper classes, and sample applications aimed at giving you a head-start for building your UA app. Developers with experience in OPC UA find these tools indispensable. The problem is, in the end, they still need to build it.

21 June, 2018 | 3 minutes

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WERMA releases 'Signal Technology for Industry' guide

After a general introduction to the subject the reader is then given a detailed overview of the technicalities and functions of industrial signal devices. A detailed explanation of the different types of signals and their meaning together with the difference between the optical and audible signal devices is given.

21 June, 2018 | 1 minutes