Industrial Technology

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

Loctite - the limitless bonding challenge

If the new Loctite Universal Structural Bonders are strong enough to pull a train, imagine what they can do for your tough repair challenges; the possibilities are endless.

1st June 2017

Extinguishing fears around fire engine vehicle security

When one of the UK’s largest fire brigades was looking to decrease the complexity of its locking systems on small fire engines and at the same time aiming at increasing their vehicles’ security, it was the collaborated effort of Pickup Systems and Southco that created an electromechanically-based latching solution that could become a trendsetter for secure latching and locking.

17th May 2017

Adhesive tape for sub zero temperatures

Tesa has introduced a new double-sided tape equipped with a high strength PE foam and acrylic adhesive to deliver superior cold processing characteristics. Tackling issues associated with using pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes in cold environments where insufficient levels of tack often result in significantly lowering performance levels, tesa 62957’s formulation delivers high strength and excellent ageing resistance to different substrates at temperatures as low as –10ËšC.

17th May 2017

CAE solution makes the change to automated design easy

CAE solutions provider Eplan has launched a configuration-based automation software package, which simplifies the changeover to automated working methods by enabling design engineers to generate electrical and fluid schematics at the push of a button – without the need for expert knowledge, specialist programming ability or extensive training.

17th May 2017