Making process data usable, increasing added value
The analysis of industrial process data makes optimization potentials visible and can contribute to increasing the company's success.
read more...read more...Artificial intelligence to change Europe's energy sector
In their joint initiative "AI for Green Energy Lab", Schneider Electric and Microsoft are breaking new ground and looking for start-ups that want to change the energy sector in Europe through artificial intelligence.
read more...Digital robot platform
The Munich-based cobot manufacturer Franka Emika is launching its digital robot platform Franka World. The aim is to give partners, users, researchers, developers and suppliers the opportunity to exchange ideas.
read more...Item revises its online tools
Item is expanding its engineering tool, with new components and options offering users more design and configuration options. The motion designer and the Motionsoft commissioning software have also been updated.
read more...Scalable communication
The I/O modules of the Edam-4200 series from Acceed offer a cost-effective solution for data communication with local terminal devices in automation and building control networks, for example for production control or remote maintenance.
read more...Equation solver for simulations
Redefining the design process
Fraunhofer IGD has developed Ristra to accelerate and optimize design processes. The solution offers to obtain simulation results in near real time. The preliminary version of was presented at the beginning of 2018 and a further developed version is now available.
read more...Welding components made of polymer materials
With the Exact Weld 230 P plastic welding system from Coherent, small to medium-sized components made of polymer materials can be welded without particles.
read more...With certified Profinet IRT interface
Schunk developed its EGI parallel gripper especially for handling tasks in electronics, pharmaceutical and laboratory applications. Equipped with a certified Profinet IRT interface (category C), the small parts gripper has active gripping force maintenance in the event of a power failure or emergency stop.
read more...Stemmer and MVTec expand cooperation
Stemmer and MVTec are expanding their collaboration in the UK and Ireland. The agreement covers the distribution of Halcon and Merlic machine vision software and will come into effect on September 1, 2019.
read more...It all depends on the planning
Autonomous transport systems. Mobile robot platforms offer potential for optimizing production. The joint research project FORobotics looks at mobile, ad-hoc cooperating robot teams, sub-project 3 "Task-oriented planning" deals with the planning and control of networked and mobile production resources.
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