With grippers against corona
Right now, grippers are particularly in demand for handling tasks in sensitive areas. The gripper specialist Schmalz sees this as an opportunity and is introducing new products.
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Right now, grippers are particularly in demand for handling tasks in sensitive areas. The gripper specialist Schmalz sees this as an opportunity and is introducing new products.

BDE and MES software from Cosmino
In shaping production processes such as casting or pressing, several and above all different articles are produced per process and cycle. Cosmino's PDA and MES software is also prepared for such manufacturing processes.

With its new VT6-A901S-DC, Epson presents a six-axis robot designed for operation with direct current.
Touch displays, mobile apps and AR glasses require a new design with digitalization. With their company Goldschnitt, Philipp Gräßer and Thomas Techert develop HMIs for companies such as Festo, Beurer and Voith. We asked them what is important and where the trend is heading.

AMB in Stuttgart will not be held as a traditional trade fair this year. Instead, a forum with an accompanying table-top exhibition is to be held from 14 to 18 September 2020. The next regular AMB is not planned until 2022.
The trade fair becomes a forum
The next regular AMB will not take place until 2022. Those responsible are planning a forum with a table-top exhibition for this and next year.
Customers expect innovative solutions that complement laser marking and lead to qualitative and price advantages. On the one hand, this concerns equipping lasers with vision systems that enable automatic object recognition.

Siemens has introduced the "Location Intelligence" software, which extends the Simatic RTLS (Real Time Locating System) localization platform with the digital twin of performance.

Planning industrial plants in times of working from home and contact restrictions seems absurd at first. At Vahle, this is possible from the home office via the "Vahle Customer Hub" customer portal, which is equipped with new functions.
The Chair of Robotics and Embedded Systems at the University of Bayreuth has extended the concept of playback programming to include a graphical user interface.