Stefan Hufnagl explores how substation virtualisation is helping grid operators integrate renewables and prepare automation systems for the future.

Pepperl+Fuchs and Everphone have entered into a strategic partnership which will see the formers explosion-protected mobile devices madee available through Everphone’s Device-as-a-Service model.

Precision is essential in the food and beverage industry, particularly when it comes to dosing very small quantities of liquid ingredients. For many manufacturers, however, achieving consistent and ...

IVECO has deployed a robot monitoring platform at its Valladolid plant in a bid to enhance the digitalisation of two key production lines.

PushPull V4 Power QuickLock connectors from Harting are said to offer a user-friendly solution for power supply in compact and robust applications. The QuickLock technology, enables field-assembly ...

Manufacturers increasingly rely on production data to optimize processes, improve quality, and enable advanced analytics. Yet integrating data from diverse PLCs, CNC systems, and legacy equipment into ...

OMRON’s FHV7-AI Detection Camera simplifies AI-based quality control for manufacturers and machine builders. Part of OMRON’s proven family of industrial vision systems, it combines advanced AI-driven ...

Jan Van Den Bossche highlights how the adoption of standardised open communication protocols and low-code tools has affected the role of SCADA software in industrial environments.

Suzanne Gill spoke with Christian Johansson, Global Product Manager at ABB Automation Technology about device management and exploring the strategies that can be employed to enable smarter plants.

Bolletje, a Dutch manufacturer of bakery products, has automated its quality inspection process. A compact quality inspection solution – consisting of a camera and a four-axis robot – is being ...

A new generation of AI-powered robots aims to give AI its own robot body. According to Takayuki Ito, President at the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) AI is transforming the field of ...

Schneider Electric has introduced the EcoStruxure Foxboro Software Defined Automation (SDA), which it says is the industry’s first open, software-defined Distributed Control System (DCS) which will ...