EcoStruxure for Industry

EcoStruxure is a Schneider Electric’s open IoT systems to help organisations compete in the modern digital economy. It offers customised architectures across multiple industries where Schneider has expertise and experience. Markedly, EcoStruxure for Industry…

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Towards Utopian Factories

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…

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WAGO Cloud Data Control

The new field to cloud capability offered by WAGO Cloud Data Control simply and easily connects the real and digital worlds. Recognised for its electrical interconnection products, WAGO has a core…

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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…

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Collaborative Robots Complementing Humans to the Full

The development of Human-Robotic cooperation (HRC) in manufacturing is at an early stage. Collaborative robot (cobot) design allows them to work alongside people in a production cell. It is no longer necessary to install…

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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….

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Industry 4 -automated heaven or an engineers’ hell?

Whether Industry 4 represents automated heaven or an engineers’ hell rather depends on your viewpoint. From a management perspective, the challenge for manufacturers is knowing how best to improve productivity. This is important for…

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New – Mitsubishi iQ-R OPC UA Server Module

Mitsubishi have announced the launch of a MELSEC iQ-R Series OPC UA server module, which integrates the OPC UA server directly into the PLC as a robust alternative to a computer-based configuration.

OPC Unified Architecture…

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