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Industry 4.0 is increasingly dissolving the separation of technologies in the industrial and consumer markets. In an interview with Andreas Mühlbauer, Sven Klette-Matzat, Sales Manager OEM Solutions at Vision Components, explains why this is the case and what effects the development of the Internet of Things will have on industry.
read more...Among other things, Elokon will be exhibiting the Eloprotect safety system, which ensures that safety distances are maintained between forklift trucks and personnel in narrow-aisle warehouses, thus preventing accidents and collisions.
read more...read more...In order to be able to reproduce all processing steps of complex workpieces with standard motor spindles, several machines are often required. As a result, time and accuracy are lost due to time-consuming reclamping. A spindle row turret offers a more flexible solution for multi-spindle parallel machining of complex workpieces.
read more...Sauer Polymertechnik has ordered an automated guided vehicle system (AGV) with eleven new ERC 213a automated guided vehicles (AGVs) from Jungheinrich for its production site in Föritztal, which will handle the material flow between production and the high-bay warehouse in two halls.
read more...As critical infrastructures, transportation companies are particularly exposed to the risk of cyber attacks. In order to protect themselves, they must strive for a state of sustainable resilience.
read more...Accidents with and caused by pedestrian-controlled forklifts in the workplace often result in serious injuries, sometimes even fatalities. The causes are often restricted visibility due to the load, carelessness or moments of surprise.
read more...Paddy Francis is CTO of Airbus CyberSecurity. Andreas Mühlbauer spoke to him about the threats posed to industrial companies by cyber attacks, the security of cloud systems and the possibilities and chances of success of defense strategies.
read more...The sBot Speed safety system from Sick enables robots that slow down when approached, stop in good time and continue working independently as soon as the person has left the work area.
read more...High-speed industrial connectors
The ix-Industrial series from Hirose is now available from RS Components. The robust series of connectors meets all requirements for applications where installation space is limited.
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