For manufacturers, standardisation provides a cornerstone for their business. It benefits both producers and consumers without removing the ability to compete and innovate. According to Schneider Electric, standardisation through universal automation can also reduce…
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Paths to Competitive Advantage for OEMs
OEMs who build machines for industrial end-users are finding it harder to remain competitive. Do they keep with a ‘smaller, faster and cheaper’ model, or step back to consider how the industry is changing…
Skilled assembly worker shortages & how to overcome them
Not for the first time, manufacturers are under threat from a wide range of make-or-break challenges to remain competitive or even survive. They range from skilled assembly worker shortages to demands for reduced cycle…
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…
NZ2FT Slice I/O offers Enhanced Safety Protocols & IP67 Protection
In this blog article, we take a look at how Mitsubishi Electric NZ2FT Slice I/O Modules offer enhanced safety protocols and IP67 protection.
Mitsubishi NZ2FT Slice I/O Modules
Mitsubishi Electric’s NZ2FT slice I/O modules offer…
UPS Battery Backup: Why now is a good time to install one!
The UK is fortunate to have a reliable electrical power grid with few outages, which is something we take for granted. However, the UK’s target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will present
New G5-5 guidance for Harmonics in Power Systems
The new G5-5 recommendations on harmonic disturbance are a significant change to the previous G5-4. Importantly, this is a site standard rather than a product standard. This means system integrators and end-users must ensure…
Hybrid Motor Starters Benefit Control Panel Design
Have you noticed how a new generation of electronic hybrid motor starters are changing the way industry is controlling motors? Hybrid motor starters are becoming popular because they simplify installation, reduce equipment size, and…
5G in Automation may not be what you think
5G accesses previously unused frequency spectrums to increase capacity and remove bandwidth limitations. It will be a game-changer in the world of mobile communications. For consumers, it will allow high-speed streaming of video, better…
Blockchains: In manufacturing and not heard of them?
IoT and Industry 4 are creating data on an unimaginable scale and it needs new tools to handle and extract information. One of these will be blockchains. If you have not heard of blockchains…
How to Overcome Production Ceilings with Industrial Edge Computing
According to Schneider Electric, many industries, are reaching a productivity ceiling, but on-machine data processing using industrial edge computing offers a possible solution.
In many businesses productivity has plateaued…
Replace your old ATV61 and ATV71 Drives with ATV630/ATV930
Replacing ATV61 and ATV71 drives that have failed with Altivar Process Drives presents a challenge for users. Smart factories of the future depend on devices with embedded intelligence installed in equipment and machines. This…
TeSys Island delivers Smart Motor Management for OEMs
Smart machines involve many electrical, mechanical and maintenance challenges for end-users, designers and equipment manufacturers requiring smart motor management. They integrate the programmable machine control with both upstream plant and downstream switching for motor…
Edge Data brings Flexible Control to Manufacturers
The evolution of manufacturing to the smart factory, means factories filled with sensors collecting data for optimising performance. These cyber-physical systems mean that rather than relying on a single machine, businesses now have networks…
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 drives…
Addressing Edge Data Centre Cybersecurity
For Schneider Electric, connectivity is central to the adoption of its EcoStruxure IT platform, whose integrity results from continuous dynamic vulnerability scanning. In a recent blog, they consider the importance of edge…
Secomea Secure Remote Access: Cross-Sector & Industry Leading
Be it new build machines for manufacturing or for public utilities, unquestionably, remote access is essential. Secomea is leading supplier of secure remote access solutions. Moreover, they work across almost every sector…