Industry 4.0 and IIoT are making new demands on industrial automation hardware. Yet many embedded controllers, industrial PCs and single-board computers are not meeting industry needs. They are either too big, too difficult to…
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Enabling motor management to improve energy efficiency
Electric motors consume around 60% of the electricity used in manufacturing industries, and for heavy industries, this number increased up to 90%. Yet Schneider Electric believes modern motor management principles are not applied to…
Mitsubishi NZ2FT slice I/O modules offers safety and IP67 modules
Mitsubishi Electric NZ2FT slice I/O modules offer benefits for PLC users through saving space and reducing costs. Commissioning is simpler with fast connectors, hot-swap installation and online/onboard software for setting up.
Each slice offers a…
Powerful MR-J5 servo unlocks advanced machine performance
Mitsubishi Electric has introduced their new high-performance MELSERVO MR-J5 series of TSN-compatible servo drives. The high-speed, high-accuracy series benefits machines with demanding requirements for precision, dynamics and multi-axis synchronisation. This covers a wide range…
Drive your own path to digital transformation
The latest digital manufacturing trends aim to connect physical and virtual factory environments to boost productivity, efficiency and profitability. To bridge these two worlds, businesses need to combine some cutting-edge technologies on the…
Four key technology trends in pharmaceutical production
Driven by consumer demand, regulation, skills availability and digital transformation, the pharmaceutical production sector adapts quickly to change.
Michael Suer of Mitsubishi Electric Europe considers the four key technology trends having the greatest…
Are Edge And Cloud Technologies The Best Places To Process Critical Business Data?
Data is at the heart of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Smart Manufacturing. Establishing platforms to collect and analyse this data is critical for optimising manufacturing insights into processes. The most effective…
