As industry adopts smarter machines, the role of the operator will also change supported through smart visualisation tools. Change will also come through improved training as well as the smart technology itself playing a…
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Edge micro data centres for consumer goods production
A recent blog from Schneider Electric considers how digitisation of production and operations bring business benefits to companies in the consumer-packaged goods industry and how it…
Will AI deliver tangible value from big data?
The Internet of Things (IoT) changes everything at record speed. It is said that 90 percent of the data in the world has been generated in the last two years. The latest estimate is…
Will OPC UA TSN change Industrial Ethernet?
OPC Foundation brochure.
There has been a lot in the automation press and online about using OPC UA over a Time Sensitive Networks. The resulting OPC UA TSN certainly could be the basis for…
How do XIOT remote sensors work?
One of the unusual features of Telemecanique Sensors self-powered XIOT cloud-connected sensors is they work outside of buildings. Indoor wireless sensor applications are not new, but now users can use them in a field with…
Self-powered remote sensors connect to Cloud
A new generation of self-powered remote sensors enables connection of previously unconnectable remote assets. Groups like farmers, railway systems and utilities can now directly access cloud-based monitoring.
The breakthrough introduces the possibility of offering precise…
Mitsubishi Electric launches redundant safety controller
Mitsubishi has added a dual redundant safety controller to its high performance MELSEC iQ-R Series process CPU range. In the event failure of the main CPU, power supply or base unit, the secondary system…
