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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

smart manufacturing and digital transformation. be changing how stakeholders approach automation, controls and instrumentation? This includes the use of modular production lines, collaborative robots (cobots), and reconfigurable manufacturing systems, allowing companies to adjust operations quickly and efficiently.

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Flexxbotics gets support to add robots to production from co-founder of SOLIDWORKS, Onshape

Robotics Business Review

FlexxConnect is a process-control program for CNC shops. Source: Flexxbotics Flexxbotics, which provides process-control software to automate workcells, today announced that Scott Harris, co-founder of SOLIDWORKS and Onshape, has mentored and invested in the company. digitalization.” digitalization.”

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Closed Loop Compliance Assures Robot-Driven Manufacturing

Metrology

Flexxbotics, delivering workcell digitalization for robot-driven manufacturing, has announced that SpiTrex Orthopedics has selected the Flexxbotics solution for robot-driven manufacturing with autonomous process control.

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ABB Partners and Applications News—Robots, Mining, Digitalization

Gary Mintchell

ABB Robotics is supporting Junglekeepers in their mission to protect 55,000 acres of Amazon rainforest and reverse deforestation. There are many technologies that we can use to preserve the forest, and this robot can help a lot to reforest faster, but we have to be very selective.

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What does IO-Link mean in Smart Manufacturing?

Marshall Wolf Automation

Since 2006, when the term “Smart Manufacturing” was first coined, industrial manufacturers have been focused on improving the transmission and analysis of production data. What makes IO-Link stand out is the capability to transmit three types of data cyclically or acyclically: process data , service data and event data.

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Making Productivity Sustainable with Pharma 4.0

i4.0 today

In particular, smart manufacturing can help companies improve their environmental footprint. For example, smart process control solutions and robotics can improve yield and process performance whilst reducing energy consumption and thus improve manufacturing sustainability metrics.

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System integrators: Automation glue

Control Engineering

Also, the one that adapts digital technologies in processes. Control Systems Integrator Association. Expanding adoption of Smart Manufacturing, particularly for the smaller producers, will require a comprehensive support network (such as methodology, consultants and implementers like system integrators, explained Jose M.