Fernando Colás offers his predictions about automation trends for the coming year.

• Innovations in emerging image sensors
• Collaboration to develop standardised control system for small wind turbines
• New centre for intelligent and secure industrial automation created
• Automation came back to life at SPS
• Smart machine vision moves to the edge
• A guide to safe automation in flexible manufacturing

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• Central MES for multi-site solutions
• Real-time UV monitoring of batch and flow applications
• Rugged and compact industrial Ethernet interface
• Bluetooth enabled radar level transmitter ensures safe and optimised operations
• AI-based OCR capabilities available on vision system
• World first virtualised substation protection and control solution?

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• Pass the vol-au-vents!
• PLCs address malting process reliability issues
• Control system grows with photovoltaic plant
• Sewage treatment plant uses intelligent actuators to automate penstock gates
• Achieving performance improvements with CC-Link IE
• Pharmaceutical supplier opts for innovative hygienic flowmeter

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