In automation engineering, new technologies are constantly emerging to streamline processes and enhance efficiency. One that is gaining traction is the concept of digital twins in automation.
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What is a multi-carrier system and who uses them?
To adapt to changing consumer and environmental demands, manufacturers need flexible machines to adjust their production. This presents challenges to OEMs who design and build production machines. Yet, new generations of modular multi-carrier systems…
3D production line simulation ensures functionality
Mitsubishi Electric has introduced MELSOFT Gemini 3D production line simulation, to speed up the design and construction of production facilities. It uses digital technology to replicate and verify planned production operations in a 3-dimensional…
Virtual Workflows & How they Transform Customer Retention for OEMs
According to Scneider Electric, virtual workflows can transform OEM projects and help them deliver and retain more business at lower costs.
These days, industrial OEMs and end customers face unprecedented challenges. Consumers expect a high…
Industrial Sustainability is Key to Business Survival
Most companies focus on the financial bottom line, but this is changing. The ‘triple bottom line’ approach is becoming part of everyday business language and central to industrial sustainability. It describes three bottom lines…
Production Robots: The UK Ranks 22nd & Falling for Use
Research by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) into the world robotics market raises interesting questions about their use in the UK. In the table of production robots, density per 10,000 workers by country,…
Process Safety & the Technology Needed to Enhance It
Customer demand drives short production cycles and stimulates growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies across industries. This, in turn, is driving changes in industrial work processes, leading to changes in the…
Growth of Digital Twins in Manufacturing Automation
Digital twinning is an interesting technology gaining momentum in applications across a wide range of industries and organisations. It enables planners to improve plant and equipment utilisation with the aid of digital models (twins)…
