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Fast transportation between different levels, reliable allocation to the destination, all at the touch of a button without manual intervention, as efficient and energy-saving as possible: the demands on the intralogistics sector are growing rapidly in the age of Industry 4.0.
read more...EMO Hannover is consistently moving towards a networked future. In addition to trend topics such as intelligent factory networking, digitalization and cybersecurity, perennial topics such as resource efficiency and increasing productivity also play an important role at the world's leading trade fair for metalworking.
read more...read more...read more...A new system, developed by Lantek and the Danobat Group, speeds up the production of parts in and for the automotive industry and makes it more flexible and economical compared to conventional blanking processes.
read more...The current Welding 4.0 trend is still a dream of the future for many medium-sized welding companies. However, corresponding welding management systems such as ewm Xnet 2.0 can be introduced with little investment and administration effort - even in small to medium-sized welding companies with around ten to 40 employees.
read more...Smart products made from tribo-polymers
To enable predictive maintenance, Igus has developed various sensors and monitoring modules for energy chains, cables, plain, linear and rotary table bearings with its Smart Plastics products. By networking with the icom.plus module, the data is integrated into the customer's IT system.
read more...Robotics and automation help companies to remain internationally successful. Cobots help manufacturing companies to assert themselves productively in the market by interacting directly with humans. EMO Hannover shows what this can look like.
read more...Interview: Trends in Industry 4.0
Automation, digitalization, artificial intelligence, visual computing - how can these trend topics be classified correctly? And how can old machines be integrated into production networks? Andrea Gillhuber spoke about this with Mario Klug, Senior Manager Product Marketing Boards at Rutronik.
read more...Electric gripper for bottle handling
Industry 4.0 opens up a wide range of possibilities for manufacturing customized mass products flexibly and economically. The Zimmer Group participated in a project for an automation concept for customized beverage bottles by developing a gripper.
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