When it comes to new production lines, the automotive industry focuses on reducing its supplier base to improve efficiencies and reduce costs. Tangible benefits are lower development costs and a faster time-to-market for new…
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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…
Manufacturing Automation: Key to Improved Efficiency & Performance
When thinking about advanced factory automation the first places that come to mind are invariably car plants. Images are of robot assembly lines, relatively few people and widespread use of AGVs. However, achieving this…
EcoStruxure for Industry: A New Offering
EcoStruxure is a Schneider Electric’s open IoT system that helps industry compete in the modern digital economy. It offers customised architectures across multiple industries where they have expertise and experience. Markedly, EcoStruxure for Industry…
Towards Utopian Factories with Immersive Technologies
If you are in manufacturing, you know change is heading your way: or at least the possibility of change. Perhaps visions of factories populated by autonomous vehicles delivering parts and sub-assemblies across the shop…
IIoT Controller Hardware offers Profit from Industry 4.0
For manufacturers investing in IIoT or Industry 4.0, the challenge is to improve automation in a way that improves the bottom line. Most of the control strategies employed today evolved in response to a…
What is EcoStruxure from Schneider Electric?
Commercial, political and environmental pressures are driving organisations to make more with less. This means they need to increase productivity with fewer resources, and using less energy. Thus, connectivity offered by the Internet of…
Collaborative Robots in UK Manufacturing
New generations of collaborative robots (cobots) are changing the face of manufacturing in the UK. From a low starting point, in 2016 the UK increased robot installations for the first time in four years….