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Three Myths About Implementing Mobile Robots
Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are self-navigating entities that dynamically move material through challenging environments, including narrow passages and peopled locations. Unlike traditional autonomously guided vehicles (AGVs), Omron AMRs require no facility modifications. This makes them a great option for businesses ready for a big transformation. Many companies are excited about the benefits of AMRs and are modifying their operational strategies to include this new technology. With different vendors and different integration strategies available, it’s important to consider which ones will make your investment a success.
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Festo's Seamless Connectivity Part 1 - Products
In Canada, Festo has been supporting Canadian industry for over 40 years, continuously elevating the state of manufacturing in this country with innovative products, optimized motion control solutions and unrivalled support. They have been engineering and introducing new electrical automation products, software, and services every year for a quarter of a century. “Seamless Connectivity” is their latest product and newest concept and will be the focus of this article.
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Festo's Seamless Connectivity Part 2 - Communication Protocols
In part 1 of this article, the latest electrical automation products by Festo were discussed with respect to how they play a role in seamless connectivity. The other aspect of this concept is the communication protocols that these components use to make a connection between user and equipment. Festo has developed several interactive tools to make the selection of electrical automation easier and more seamless for their customers.
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Automating Considerations
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New Ways to Automate with Robotics in 2022
With 2021 coming to a close, rapidly-changing technology, consumer demands and competitive pressures continue to inspire the implementation of creative operational strategies. As a result, more affordable yet highly flexible robots are being implemented on production floors to effectively deal with supply chain challenges, skilled labor shortages, an unprecedented pandemic and general market fluctuations.
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ABB Expands Installation Products Plant in Canada
ABB is investing CA$16 million in its Installation Products Division manufacturing facility in Pointe-Claire, Canada. This enables expanded production capacity to meet the growing needs of customers from coast to coast. ABB’s investment is part of a five-year strategy to integrate new digital processes and automation across our operations,” says Matthias Heilmann, President, ABB Installation Products Division.
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Xelity 10 TX IP67: A Switch for Every Application
The Xelity 10 TX IP67 managed switch from Murrelektronik offers new possibilities for decentralized, cabinet free, data management. With up to ten Gigabit ports in a robust housing, it represents a new standard in switches. With the new Xelity 10 TX IP67, Murrelektronik offers a line of robust, space-saving switches designed for the heavy traffic that comes with today’s installations.
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Vario-X: The Days of the Control Cabinet are Numbered
Murrelektronik is expanding its business model and, with Vario-X, offers the first completely decentralized automation platform that brings devices into the field without control cabinets. Vario-X combined with a Digital twin saves time and money in all project phases: planning, installation, operation, and service. Growing digitalization, shorter development cycles, increasing customer requirements and...
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NEW: The World's First UL-Certified Type 3 Safety Light Curtain PSENopt II
The second generation of safety light curtains, PSENopt II, provide safe access to the production process and provide finger, hand and body protection, depending on the requirement. The first Type 3 safety light curtains are specifically designed for applications up to PL d of EN/IEC 61496-1/-2.Type 4 light curtains are also available...
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NEW: PITreader S - Enhanced Safety and Usability for Access Permission by PILZ
Integration of the OPC UA standard is new on the PITreader S. On the one hand, the use of certificates increases the security of communication between Server and Client. On the other hand, PITreader S expands the connection options to other manufacturers' systems, which also "speak" OPC UA. Of course, PITreader S can be used to...
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World’s First Electromagnetic Flowmeter with Bidirectional Connectivity
An estimated two-thirds of the world’s population will potentially face water shortages by 2025 (1). Yet every year, billions of liters of water are lost before ever reaching destinations. A detailed understanding of per capita demand, growth of demand and costly leakage can be achieved by accurate and timely flow data coming into and going out water operations.
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Sevensense Introduces: The New Alphasense Position
Sevensense introduces the new Alphasense Position, pushing the boundaries of what's possible with positioning technologies. Redesigned inside and outside, this model introduces the most advanced positioning solution for robotics OEMs. Using cutting-edge Visual-SLAM technology, Alphasense Position provides full 3D localization for any kind of ground vehicle, overcoming positioning challenges even in the toughest environments,...
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Introducing Snap Signal: Hardware and Software for your IIoT Evolution
Snap Signal is an easily deployable, complete portfolio of modular IIoT hardware and software that delivers actionable machine data from across your factory. More than just another flavor of IIoT, Snap Signal is an overlay network that can capture data signals from virtually any source. It seamlessly converts these sources to a single industry-standard protocol,...
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Festo’s Productivity Master Points the Way to Digitalization
Festo’s Productivity Master shows how digital manufacturing can revolutionize the total value experience for customers, making it feasible and cost-effective to offer them individualized products created by a fully automated process, from order placement to delivery. The Productivity Master seamlessly connects all handling hardware and software to create a digitalized production line that can be...
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International News
IO-Link Accelerates Digitalization of Process Plants
IO-Link is enjoying increasing popularity, with demand for the communications standard growing rapidly, especially in the food & beverage industry. The fieldbus-independent technology for point-to-point communication is easy to use and provides a cost-effective way to digitalize industrial plants. Endress+Hauser, a leading provider in the industry, offers a wide range of IO-Link products for a large selection of process parameters. O-Link is regarded as an established standard for measurement devices with basic functionality, offering advantages such as data transparency...
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ABB Global Market Leadership in Distributed Control Systems Confirmed
ABB’s Distributed Control Systems (DCS) maintained a leading share of around 20 percent in 2020 in a market worth more than $14 billion. During 2020 ABB saw growth across key regions, despite the impact of the pandemic on the DCS market across industry. Energy transition and sustainability, as well as an upturn in DCS segments across the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology markets were key growth drivers for ABB. Since its introduction more than four decades ago, the distributed control system (DCS) has been at the core of process and energy industries.
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Sevensense Raises a US$7.7M Series A
Sevensense has raised its Series A investment of US$7.7M, led by ABB Technology Ventures, which is expected to close by the end of November 2021. The company is a leader in AI and 3D Vision technology for autonomous mobile robotics and is active in the material handling and professional cleaning industries. Especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobile robotics has emerged as a key factor for the industrial world to ensure operational resilience and balance the labor shortage phenomenon while guaranteeing high quality execution. The AI and 3D Vision technology from Sevensense not only fulfills what the industry demands...
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Moving Forward
75 years of Pioneering Superpowers
Dr. Sick would be 112 years old now, and still ahead of his time – with his aspiration to do good for the world and all people by means of technical progress. We celebrate our 75-year jubilee this year. Our impressive history still drives our will to shape the future. The world is undergoing change. Whether digitalization, the finite nature of resources, the changing world of work, or increasing global networking – a general atmosphere of renewal is spreading. People are seeking new paths; setting off to make new discoveries and change the world.
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New Dallas Facility Lets Customers Test Automation Technology
Omron Automation Americas proudly announces the opening of its newest proof-of-concept centre (PoCC) in Dallas/Fort Worth that provides customers with a low-risk approach to validating solutions ahead of major manufacturing investments. The Omron PoCC at DFW is the newest in a group of regionally located innovation centres, allowing Omron engineers to collaborate with local integrators and manufacturers to develop innovative yet practical solutions for complex problems. With nine PoCCs located in the Americas, Omron is committed to improving efficiencies and overall performance...
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