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New enabling technologies from Automate 2025

Robotics Business Review

NovAI Control combines human expertise with robotic welding to handle complex welds more easily and accurately, explained Novarc. This reduces the need for precise fit-up and heavy fixturing. This speeds up manufacturing time and increases the quality of the welds.

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The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum Announces Certification Program

Gary Mintchell

This group started as a response to the high cost of upgrading automation systems in the field in the process industries. The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) has developed the O-PAS Standard, a standard of The Open Group , which uses existing and emerging standards whenever possible, making it a standard of standards.

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How to optimize industrial motor communications, Part 2, strategies

Control Engineering

Now using Profinet, based on Ethernet, we have really a lot of the capability to do centralized control. Application classes are used because drives control more than one thing. It could be something as simple as a pump or a fan for a process control application, with a simple drive, typically open loop.