TOP 100 award for Proxia
Proxia Software has made it to the top of the 26th edition of the TOP 100 innovation competition. The company was presented with the award at the ceremony in Frankfurt.
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Cloud solution for industrial use
Preconfigured data evaluation, data security and simple handling in the visualization.
With its Turck Cloud Solutions cloud service, the Mülheim-based automation specialist offers a modular Industry 4.0 solution specifically for industrial use. The data is transferred directly from Turck's controller and I/O components to the cloud in encrypted form.
read more...Smart robotics for order picking
Market trends such as omnichannel distribution, batch size 1, ever shorter order throughput times and delivery cycles and the handling of a growing variety of product ranges place high demands on intralogistics.
read more...New interface
When it comes to really fast, time-critical applications, the integration of decentralized I/Os into the Mechatrolink-III real-time Ethernet bus was previously only possible to a limited extent due to the lack of suitable modules.
read more...Change of managing director at Comsol Multiphysics
Dr. Thorsten Koch has been the sole Managing Director of the Göttingen branch of the Swedish simulation specialist Comsol Multiphysics since July 1.
read more...Visual perception system controls robots
The 3D visual perception system Viper was developed to equip industrial and service robots with visual perception. All object recognition and classification tasks are shifted to a processor of the embedded vision system, and the computing capacities of the robot processor remain reserved for robot navigation.
read more...What does the future of transport robotics look like?
The market for transport robots is booming. Two trends can be identified: The number of platform manufacturers will continue to increase, with many of them already relying on cooperation with integrators. Secondly, transport robots are developing into self-learning system networks.
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"The data must be industrialized"
Experts see great potential for productivity gains in digitalization. However, in order to exploit this potential, companies need to collect and evaluate data in a targeted manner. Dr. Stefan Grotehans, Senior Director Solutions Engineering DACH at MarkLogic Germany, explains what is important here.
read more...A small vision with foresight
The CS 50 vision sensor is now also available as a long-range version. At a distance of up to two meters, it captures details of up to ten millimetres as well as larger objects completely in one image.
read more...Edge computers in production
Pure cloud computing was not practical enough for the production-related industry, so another solution had to be found. This was the birth of edge computing. This means that intelligence and real-time control are being introduced in the machinery, not at the data center.
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