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Collaboration Boosts Process Automation Device Information Model

Gary Mintchell

With OPC UA being a perfect match for vertical communication in addition to PROFINET’s powerful and rich feature set, your automation solution will be ready for Industry 4.0.”. The VDMA’s vision is to achieve interoperability not only within the machine building industry but also across industries. About FieldComm Group.

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Packaging Robots Market to Worth US$ 7.5 Billion by 2032 at a CAGR of 7%

i4.0 today

To produce standard packaging and customized packaging, manufacturers in the food and beverage sector are shifting from traditional assembly line techniques toward completely automated assembly lines. Vacuum grippers produce suction force through the use of a vacuum.

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Automation upgrades reduce sortation system wiring and lower costs

Control Engineering

The Fort Worth, Texas-based company focused on letter and flat sortation until 2007 when it began operating an e-commerce facility that processed polypacks for mailing pharmaceuticals. Owens and NPI COO Brent Daboub found the floppy packages difficult for standard machines to handle, so they developed the NPI Xstream system. initiatives.”