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Editor's Pick
Creating a Cartesian Handling System with Festo’s Handling Guide Online
 When a customer decides they want to implement a cartesian robot for their application, where do they get started? They turn to experts in the industry, like Festo, who has decades of experience in process automation and technology. They are also global leaders in learning systems, training, and consulting. This makes them poised to provide customers with products and solutions that meet their requirements. Festo’s Handling Guide Online, or HGO is an engineering tool that makes it easy to design, configure, and order a handling system. Read More |
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Industrial Insights
How Edge-Based and Cloud-Based Solutions Complement One Another by Omron
 For manufacturers looking to get started with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), a common question that comes up is whether they should use the edge or the cloud for data analysis purposes. However, this does not have to be an either-or choice. In fact, both strategies are optimized to fit different needs and can work well together. Some manufacturers do not want their data going into the cloud for proprietary reasons. In these cases, a total edge solution is preferred. But customers willing to let some of their data leave, an edge-cloud combo could work wonders Read More |
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Understanding the Benefits of Industrial Automation
 Industrial Automation is the automation of general-purpose machinery used in standard or task-specific applications. It can be applied to almost all industries, and primarily deals with the manufacturing, quality control, and material handling processes for those industries. In this article, Electromate explores the A to Z benefits that industrial automation brings to businesses across the world. A lot of newer solutions are engineered to be plug and play. From custom Welding Solutions to Integrated Motor & Drive Products, the goal is easy integration and lessening the learning curve. Read More |
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Rittal ePocket: The Digital Wiring Plan Pocket for Smooth Operation
Through the development of the Rittal ePocket, the new digital wiring plan pocket, the sister companies Rittal and Eplan, are prioritizing digital data to the enclosure. This means that widely used paper documentation has become a thing of the past. If all project data, such as wiring and maintenance plans, certificates, etc. of a machine or plant, is available digitally, any changes can be directly fed back into the project and possible downtimes can be reduced to a minimum. |
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In-Series Diagnostics: Smart Machine Safety Systems from Banner
In-Series Diagnostics (ISD) makes it easy to access diagnostic data from devices in a safety system without special equipment or designated cabling. Users can troubleshoot machine safety systems, prevent system faults, and reduce equipment downtime. This innovative, next-generation technology is exclusive to safety devices from Banner Engineering. ISD-compatible devices achieve the highest levels of safety. |
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Direct Teach, Plug and Play Cobots Enhance Yaskawa's HC-Series Line
Highly reliable, the six-axis HC10DTP and HC20DTP collaborative robots enrich easy capability for Yaskawa’s HC-series line. Hand-guided programming allows users to direct teach points without a pendant, and an ISO standard tool flange and electrical connections facilitate a plug and play approach for easy deployment of the robot system. |
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Festo's New Open-Source Gantry Robot for Automated Liquid Handling
Festo’s new Modular Gantry Robot platform for laboratory-based automated liquid handling systems allows OEMs to develop such test or assay solutions in minimum time. The open-source gantry is readily customizable and utilizes world-class components. Designing one requires fewer engineering and mechanical resources than if an OEM were to adapt a generic machine to accomplish the same task. |
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International News
HARTING'S Connectivity Solutions for Industrial Transformation
 The HARTING Technology Group will be exhibiting at HANNOVER MESSE 2022 and providing initial insights into the products and solutions to be presented in the course of the digital HANNOVER MESSE Preview.
"Digitization and sustainability are not only the major buzzwords of this year's fair but are also two of the guiding principles of the way we think and act,” as Managing Director of HARTING Deutschland GmbH, stated during the presentation at the digital HANNOVER MESSE preview.
The technology group summarizes this concept under the term of "Connectivity+". Read More |
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More Productive, Hard as Steel! PILZ International Application
 As the world's leading steel producer, steel giant ArcelorMittal focuses on the very latest production technologies. The aim is to make its own production processes permanently safer and more efficient. That includes burner monitoring of the furnaces in its cold rolling mill: the plant in Ghent is used to refine steel coils (strip steel rolls) in accordance with customers’ requirements. However, to enable the steel strip to be cold-formed, it must first be heat treated. So 50 main burners, fed by 30 start-up burners, heat the annealing furnaces to a constant 1200°C. Read More |
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ABB to Automate Bioplastics Plant to Help Meet the Growing Global Demand
 ABB has been awarded a major contract by NatureWorks, the world’s leading manufacturer of polylactic acid (PLA), a low-carbon bioplastic made from renewable agricultural resources, to automate their new, greenfield plant in Thailand, converting sugar cane to the polylactic acid (PLA) biopolymer, Ingeo™. The new plant in Thailand, will ferment and distill plant-based sugars – in a process similar to making beer or wine – converting the sugars first to lactic acid, then lactide and then polymerize them into Ingeo. In the new site, these three separate production processes will be fully integrated, resulting in significant improvements in energy and production efficiency. Read More |
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Safe Packaging Automation - Flexible Solutions from PILZ
Efficient packaging processes require a high level of automation in the packaging industry. At the same time, the Machinery Directive lays down essential functional safety requirements for packaging automation. Particularly with packaging automation in primary packaging, a so-called critical infrastructure, there are very high requirements for the robustness of the products used and protection against tampering. |
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Meca500 EtherCAT Master Controller Kit at Electromate
The Meca500 EtherCAT Master Controller Kit is a pre-configured kit that contains everything you need to get a Meca500 6-axis industrial robot commissioned right out the box. It is the perfect solution for pick and place and robotic assembly applications requiring precise and repeatable positioning. The Kit includes PLC code examples that will greatly speed up the development of your project. |
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Parker's New PCH - The Future of FIELDBUS Controllers
The PCH Network Portal redefines and revolutionizes machine I/O (Inputs and Outputs). The PCH Network Portal was engineered with configurable I/O with true PNP / NPN circuitry switching and IO-Link master capability on each port for easy machine design changes. The PCH Network Portal is designed for general pneumatic control of industrial machinery on an Ethernet network for all types of automated industrial equipment. |
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ActiNav from Universal Robots - Next Gen Machine Loading
ActiNav™ combines intelligent vision, real-time autonomous motion control and Universal Robots’ world-leading cobots to deliver the core of a machine loading system. Whether used for simple bin picking tasks or more complex machine tending applications, ActiNav delivers a solution that’s precise, consistent, intuitive and more agile than ever before. |
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Daily News
Ontario Invests in Cutting-Edge Space and Robotics Technologies In Brampton
 Ontario’s is growing with a new global headquarters and Space Robotics Centre of Excellence for Canadarm manufacturer MDA. With support from the Ontario government, MDA is investing $100 million over five years for its new Space Robotics Centre of Excellence and developing leading-edge technologies in commercial space robotics. The new centre will be the home for the design, development, and manufacture of the iconic and industry leading Canadarm3. In addition, the company will create and sustain more than 700 long-term, high-skilled jobs at its Brampton headquarters in Ontario. Read More |
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MDA Awarded $269m Contract for Next Phase of The Canadarm3 Program
 MDA Ltd. is receiving $269M from the Canadian Space Agency to complete the preliminary design of the Canadarm3 robotics system that will be used aboard the NASA-led Gateway – a major, multi-year international collaboration to establish a sustainable space station in lunar orbit to support human and robotic missions to the surface of the Moon. This builds upon MDA’s completed Phase 0 and subsequent Phase A, which established the technical requirements needed for the design and manufacturing of the Canadarm3 Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based robotic system. Read More |
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The Canadian Space Agency Begins Design of Canadarm3
 Leveraging a 40-year legacy of leadership in space robotics, the Government of Canada continues work on Canadarm3, the Canadian-made robotics system destined for the Lunar Gateway. Brampton-based company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) will receive $268.9 million to begin the preliminary design of Canadarm3. The investment also includes funding to procure some of Canadarm3's components. Read More |
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Featured Video
CNC Router Is Speedier & Smoother with Cutting Edge Motion Control by Yaskawa
 The CAMaster Cobra CNC router was created to set a new industry standard for the speed of its motion path and the smooth cut of the finished product. Two advancements in automated motion control contribute to this achievement. Yaskawa's Sigma-7 servo systems and an MP3300iec machine controller are engineered to integrate existing G-code into consistently smooth and rapid motion. @CAMaster CNC Users can control this capability with Yaskawa Compass, a software package that allows CNC machine designers to easily customize their user interface and add their own advanced programming features. Watch the video HERE. |
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Featured Video
SICK Sensor Solutions for Mobile Robots: Move into New Dimensions
 Robotics is on the move, whether it be in production, logistics or service. Mobile robots, in particular, are gathering pace in these areas. The variants range from AGVs, mobile cobots, right through to autonomously driving mobile robots. In short: The future belongs to autonomous mobile robots. This makes robotics more flexible overall and opens up completely new applications and business models. To enable mobile robots to move about safely and master their numerous challenges, you need intelligent sensor solutions. Watch the video HERE. |
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