Industry 4.0 / IIoT

Datalogic will be joining the 2018 edition of SPS IPC Drives which will be held from 27th to 29th November, in Nuremberg, Germany. The 2018 edition of SPS IPC Drive will occupy 17 exhibition halls with about 1,700 exhibitors, including all key players of Industry 4.0. The trade show covers the entire spectrum of smart and digital automation with focus on practical solutions for specific business areas.

At SPS IPC Drives in Nuremberg from 27th to 29th November, Leuze electronic will be focusing its trade fair appearance on the company's competence in safety at work. On the basis of its MLC safety light curtains, the optical sensor manufacturer developed the sensorless Smart Process Gating as an alternative to the muting process.

TE Connectivity will be at SPS IPC Drives 2018 from November 27 to 29 in Nuremberg, Germany, to showcase its full range of solutions for industrial automation and machinery solutions. Visitors to the TE booth, number 440 in Hall 10, will be able to see a number of displays that illustrate two focus areas: automation and installation. They can also learn about the company’s unparalleled product portfolio and its latest product offerings in application areas such as robots, servo motors and servo drives.

Texas Instruments has announced a multiprotocol gigabit (Gb) Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)-enabled processor family. The new, highly integrated Sitara AM6x processor family provides industrial-grade reliability, with quad and dual Arm Cortex-A53 core variants built to meet the rapidly evolving needs of Industry 4.0 in factory automation, motor drives and grid infrastructure.

At SPS IPC Drives 2018, Emerson will demonstrate how its advanced automation solutions enable manufacturers to improve plant reliability, safety and availability. Using Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications and technology to place the right information in the hands of the right experts, Emerson facilitates faster decision-making that helps prevent unexpected down-time, a reduction in production performance and higher maintenance costs that all affect profitability.

Many tech and industry experts claim that optimising the manufacturing process to create an integrated and collaborative process will bring about the world’s next industrial revolution. As technology continues to develop around the world, producers and manufacturers are beginning to implement the smart factory concept. But what are smart factories and how do they affect how we work? Let's look at which technologies are within Smart Factories and what to look out for that will push the barriers of smart manufacturing even further.

Digital transformation of energy management and automation provider, Schneider Electric, has had its Le Vaudreuil factory in France selected among the world’s top nine advanced ‘lighthouse’ site that embed the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution into modern production at the World Economic Forum’s 12th Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China.

HANNOVER MESSE is driving forward the digital transformation of the production and energy industries. Every year marks the next step into the future. For 2019, the guiding theme is 'Integrated Industry – Industrial Intelligence,' which spotlights digital networking between humans and machines in the age of artificial intelligence.

Through its new cloud-based solution for pro-active maintenance based on the AI platform within IBM Watson Mitsubishi enables smart analysis of operational data to predict and highlight future maintenance requirements. The theory is that sometimes service schedule requirements for robots are inadvertently missed which, despite the extended duty-cycles and the general reliability of modern robots, is not a healthy situation for continuous plant operation.

For the first time at the Process and Packaging Machining Association Show, Comau (Stand F110) will showcase new products and walk visitors through real life factories of the future by creating a 360° virtual tour of the digital production and collaborative robotic applications the industrial automation solutions provider has deployed across Europe.