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Unleash the power of smart manufacturing while ensuring automation and robotic safety

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives: Understand what technologies should be integrated into manufacturing automation and robotic processes Review current, available Industry 4.0 technology trends Learn the needed competences to complete a robotics and automation risk assessment Quickly establish Industry 4.0

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Software Strategy for Automated Mold Inspection

Mold Making Technology

The accelerated adoption of CAD/CAM and model-based design/build workflows has pushed metrology vendors to innovate to keep up with the digital thread trend, or as it is often referred to in Industry 4.0 circles, “the digital twin.”