news5G will dramatically gain importance in providing wireless connectivity to industrial environments, especially in the context of Industry 4.0 and the automation of production processes and monitoring of machine conditions, according to global tech market advisory firm ABI Research. By
productMitsubishi Electric has unveiled the company’s smallest and most powerful compact PLC to date.
productPresented by PROFIBUS and PROFINET International, an event at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, will address practical issues arising from the use of digital communications technologies in automated manufacturing and process industry applications – with particular attention to Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
productThree new input modules have been added by Wieland Electric to its samos Pro Compact safety controller for reliable analogue value processing.
productSICK has extended its Sensor Integration Machine (SIM) family, launching two high-performance, one-box, processing hubs that fuse decentralised, multi-sensor co-operation with field-to-cloud connectivity as part of Industry 4.0.
newsSAS, the specialist in analytics, has become a tier one partner with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), a network of world-leading research and innovation centres working with manufacturing companies of all sizes from around the globe.
newsWith the UK Government investing as much as £40 million in 5G testbed and trial projects across UK industry as part plans to improve mobile connectivity, PWC explains what it means for manufacturing.
productSiemens has urged manufacturers in Northern Ireland to ‘strategise’ digitalisation of their factories using ‘top down bottom up’ approach.
productQimarox has strengthened its collaboration with suppliers by implementing the Tradecloud Supply Chain platform.
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productSIG200 PROFINET Sensor Integration Gateway is the first in a family of intelligent Industry 4.0 gateways designed to work as both IO-Link Masters and small, distributed control systems.
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