Nominations are now open for entry into the annual Food Processing Awards, which acknowledge and engineering excellence and innovation in the food and beverage processing sector. This year the award ceremony will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Coventry on the evening of the annual Appetite for Engineering event on 15th October.
PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International) has always recognised security as being one of the most vital components of an industrial communication system.
Pleora Technologies and perClass BV have announced a technology partnership to simplify the deployment of machine learning hyperspectral imaging for inspection applications.
Despite the challenging economic climate, the 30th SPS exhibition once again broke records. The number of exhibitors with their own booths was bigger than ever before, with exhibitors showcasing an ever wider range of products and solutions designed to help industry meet their current and future challenges.
The HARTING Technology Group and Expleo have a cooperation agreement in the area of data-controlled services and IoT solutions for industrial customers.
The ODVA has published enhancements to The EtherNet/IP Specification, which outline how to integrate devices built to the IO-Link Communication Standard into CIP architectures.
Universal Robots (UR) has launched a new cobot leasing programme in collaboration with DLL, a global vendor finance company.
A Europe-wide survey of over 200 manufacturers with more than 500 employees shows that deployment of smart factory initiatives is currently running at around 63% and is set to grow rapidly over the next five years. The remaining 37% identify as being in the ‘planning stage’.
The Dutch asset condition monitoring specialist, Van Geffen, has become part of the AVT Reliability Group following its acquisition by UK-based AES Engineering Ltd.
Blockchain is changing the way trust, transparency and revenue in manufacturing supply chains. Is viewed, says Karthik Sundaram, program manager – industrial at Frost & Sullivan.
UK-based Chell Instruments has been bought by the SDI Group of scientific and technology product manufacturers.
By 2026 there will be 5.3 million 5G connections on the factory floor according to ABI Research.
PI, in cooperation with the OPC Foundation, has recently completed the technical work for OPC UA Safety.
According to new findings of research undertaken by IFS, a global enterprise applications company, manufacturers are planning to aggressively invest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.
FLIR Systems has published a new application spotlight that highlights the role that its optical gas imaging (OGI) cameras are playing in detecting gas leaks from oil and gas pipelines.
Elisa Smart Factory, an industrial IoT and data analytics provider, has signed a collaboration agreement with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), an IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, which will see the companies jointly undertaking efforts to market and deploy Elisa Smart Factory IIoT and advanced analytics solutions to a broad spectrum of industry manufacturers.
Audi is currently conducting a comparative study of two exoskeletons in its production facilities - the Paexo from Ottobock and the Skelex 360 from Skelex.
The success of any Industry 4.0, IIoT, or digitalisation project will ultimately depend on the reliability of the communication network. Control Engineering Europe’s latest webinar offers advice on creating great networks. Register to watch the webinar now.
A new collaborative market report from Interact Analysis has found that the growth rate of collaborative robots (cobots) is leading the robotics industry. It also says that logistics will surpass automotive to be the second largest end user of cobots by 2023, with electronics in first place.
Yokogawa Electric Corporation and MetaMoJi Corporation have jointly developed SensPlus Note – a low cost solution for the digitisation of plant data on mobile devices.