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Industry 4.0 assessment: Are you moving quickly enough?

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Learn the difference between Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 insights Industry 4.0 Advances in automation technology are transforming the manufacturing landscape. Broadly termed “Industry 4.0” As a term, Industry 4.0 As a term, Industry 4.0

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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Identify how to determine if your company is moving quickly enough with Industry 4.0 Review differences in Industry 4.0, Understand Industry 4.0 It has been a dozen years of Industry 4.0 Is there an Industry 5.0? How should Industry 4.0 initiatives.

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ABB Wins Red Dot Award for FlexPacker Industrial Delta Robot

i4.0 today

The award reflects the importance of design in robotics as more automated solutions are rolled out to collaborate with humans and compliment skilled work to make production safer and more sustainable. “I As one of the world’s leading robotics and machine automation suppliers, we have shipped more than 500,000 robot solutions.

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How Rising Demand is Changing Electric Car Manufacturing

ATS

Consider: In the decade from 2011 to 2021, the number of electric vehicles on the road increased by nearly 100-fold, from 22,000 in 2011 to over 2,000,000 in 2021. Automation technology such as cobots (collaborative robots) and connected machinery make production processes safer and more efficient. As Industry 4.0

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IriusRisk SL Joins the ISA Security Compliance Institute in Support of the ISASecure® Cybersecurity Conformance Scheme

i4.0 today

The International Society of Automation (ISA) Security Compliance Institute (ISCI) announced today that IriusRisk SL has joined ISCI as a Technical Member in support of the ISASecure ® Cybersecurity Conformance Scheme. As a result engineering teams have access to a self-service tool for designing secure applications.

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How to optimize industrial motor communications, Part 1, data types

Control Engineering

What communications protocols are being used with industrial motors and drives and what needs to be communicated? Are motor and drive communications getting easier or more difficult with smart manufacturing industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things initiatives in light of cybersecurity risks?

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What is supply chain?

Fastener News Desk

For instance, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan shut down electronics factories, and 2017’s Hurricane Harvey disrupted US oil refineries and petrochemical plants, ultimately leading to shortages of some plastics and resins critical to different industries. Surveys also suggest that digitization and an embrace of Industry 4.0