Industrial Technology

Festo launches Industry 4.0 course to equip manufacturing leaders of the future

Festo Training and Consulting has launched its first Industry 4.0 course. The course will equip business leaders with the strategic skills and insights to make the most of the opportunities presented by Industry 4.0 – the fourth industrial revolution – where the ready availability of data and the standardisation of machine communication will enable new and disruptive business models to emerge.

27th June 2017

Extended Schneider Electric Harmony range from RS Components

RS Components has increased the range of products it stocks from Schneider Electric’s Harmony range – the most comprehensive range of switches, pushbuttons, and pilot lights on the market for OEMs, panel builders, and system integrators.

27th June 2017

Fitting out electrical enclosures

Paul Metcalfe of Rittal looks at how to minimise time and costs when fitting out the interior of electrical panels and enclosures.

26th June 2017

Generating added value from machinery data

For manufacturing companies operating in the 21st century, data is like crude oil in a productive oil well. It’s abundant, it’s potentially very valuable, but to release its value, it needs to be refined. We asked the experts at Weidmuller to tell us how.

26th June 2017

Challenges and benefits of smart manufacturing

Chris Evans of Mitsubishi Electric explores what is actually meant by ‘smart manufacturing’ by considering the benefits of adopting the concept and what challenges may lie ahead.

26th June 2017

Field devices provide the lifeblood for Industry 4.0

When Industry 4.0 is discussed, those discussions often start at the highest levels of the network and the flexibility in production that these network implementations will bring. But Industry 4.0 depends on the data generated by field devices, as Turck product manager Sai Seidel-Sridhavan explained to Mark Simms.

26th June 2017

The future of end of line machinery

The Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 or simply smart manufacturing; whichever way it’s phrased there is little doubt about the impact that the fourth industrial revolution will have on our manufacturing landscape. We look at the impact on the design of end of line machinery.

26th June 2017

Secure remote maintenance of machines

The TC Cloud Client remote maintenance modules from Phoenix Contact connect machines to the mGuard Secure Cloud securely over the Internet. The clients provide an inexpensive basis for scalable remote maintenance of machines. Customers have the choice of TC Cloud Clients, which use the operator network, and variants which use the worldwide 4G-LTE mobile network for Cloud communication. The clients are configured with the help of the Cloud and are ready imme-diately for use in the machine.

26th June 2017

Missing link in Industry 4.0

Much of the promise of Industry 4.0 is based upon seamless interconnectivity between production machines, enterprise systems and sources of data in the wider world. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a key foundation of that interconnectivity, providing low cost, easily integrated sensors, actuators and systems.

26th June 2017

Easy clean hygienic energy chains for food applications

Igus introduces its new hygienic design energy chain, called the TH3 series, developed for use on machines in the food and beverage processing and packaging industries. Its open design, which received a Red Dot Award: Product Design 2017, makes it very easy to clean, while rounded corners and simple, threadless connections prevent dead spaces where debris and germs can build-up. The structure of the e-chain avoids surfaces lying on top of each other; this prevents plastic on plastic abrasion and material shedding.

26th June 2017