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Designing modern electrical installations to be trouble-free and safe is becoming increasingly demanding. On the one hand, regulations are becoming stricter and stricter, and on the other hand, loads are increasing so that the installation must be able to withstand higher currents.
read more...Intelligent measuring devices collect a lot of data at field level. But up to 97% of it remains unused. Yet they are the raw material for Industry 4.0. #empowerthefield, the Industry 4.
read more...The Tab-Ex 03 tablet from the Pepperl+Fuchs brand ECOM Instruments is now the third generation of Samsung devices in variants for industrial use in harsh environments. From November 2022, the Tab-Ex 03 will be available in the DZ1 variant for use in Zone 1/21.
read more...Order is an important building block for efficiency. The reality in production halls often looks different: Material is jumbled up in various forms on trolleys and forklifts.
read more...From product to solution provider
Customers are not looking for products, but for solutions to their problems. For companies, this means that they have to transform themselves from product providers to solution providers. Science divides this path into five evolutionary stages, whereby many companies have already left the first stage of pure manufacturer behind them.
read more...The basic prerequisite for modern production is a comprehensive WLAN that is always available. Bechtle uses a central monitoring system for its customers to detect and rectify performance drops or failures of individual components in good time.
read more...Together with the Chair of Production Systems (LPS), Schmöle is developing a new process for manufacturing spiral finned tubes for heat exchangers. In addition to an ergonomic improvement for the employees, the manufacturing process is to become more flexible, allowing the heat exchangers to be adapted more individually to their later place of use.
read more...Ger4tech has developed the Mobile Cobot G4T4, the first autonomous mobile robot with a 6-axis robot designed specifically for manufacturing.
read more...Acoustic inline quality control
Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme has developed a new technology for in-process quality control in machining under the name SonicShark.
read more...Advanced communication at field level
Gefran is expanding its range of solutions for Industry 4.0: the new pressure sensors in the KS-I series have a digital IO-Link 1.1 output and advanced diagnostic functions. They measure pressure and temperature at a high sampling rate of 1,000 s/s. This allows them to communicate with the IO-Link master at the maximum available speed for IO-Link communication of 230.4 kBaud or COM3.
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