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Top 5 Control Engineering content: August 8-14, 2022

Control Engineering

Pharmaceutical control system integration: Fixing a blind spot in the process design helped user requirements for a heat exchanger control system. Black channel approach to functional safety. For easier commissioning and better performance, take a black-channel approach to functional safety, combined with the advantages of EtherCAT.

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Video: AI-enabled item-picking robot speeds fulfillment, is easy to integrate

Control Engineering

Application industries include e-commerce, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and electronics among others. Richard (Rick) Ankney, global account manager, robots and discrete automation, Robotics Business Unit, ABB, explains advantages of ABB AI-enabled Robotic Item Picker.

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Robotic grippers developed to pick up delicate, heavy objects

Control Engineering

The new gripper can’t replace all of the functions of existing prosthetic hands, but it could be used to supplement those other functions,” Huang said. We think the gripper design has potential applications in fields ranging from robotic prosthetics and food processing to pharmaceutical and electronics manufacturing,” Yin said. “We

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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.