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OMAC To Develop Remote Interface Guidelines

OMAC, The Organization for Machine Automation and Control, has formed a Workgroup to be comprised of end users and service providers to create a comprehensive best-practices handbook for remote monitoring services.

Bosch’s new ‘Manufacture #LikeABosch’ campaign playfully shows how digitalization is improving production and logistics.

Bosch Updates Industry 4.0 Software to Digitalize Manufacturing

Software as a Service Enters Engineering and Manufacturing Circles

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PLCs Gain Esteem as the Brains Behind the Machine

FDT IIoT Server (FITS) Architecture

FDT Group Releases Data Exchange Standard for Next-Gen Automation

Bosch Rexroth’s ctrlX Automation platform features open software architecture, a wide choice of programming language options, and app-based functionality.

Bosch Rexroth Reinvents Automation

The automation supplier went back to the drawing board to create ctrlX Automation, a software-driven open automation platform that provides flexibility and scalability through app-based functionality.

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Power Over Ethernet Bridge Withstands Washdowns and Wet Manufacturing Processes

Eliminates the need for additional hardwiring

The wearable Kinexon SafeTag warns the user, audibly and visually, when the physical distance with another employee has been compromised.

Technology Steps Forward for Social Distancing

As more manufacturers are allowed to resume production amid the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping their workers distanced will be key to keeping them healthy. Here are some innovations to help achieve that.

Image-based scanners are displacing standard laser scanners, providing the capability to read 2D barcodes, which can be much smaller than traditional barcodes. Photo courtesy of Cognex.

New Technologies Feed the Hunger for Information

Trying to keep up with productivity, quality, safety, sustainability, and other industry demands, food and beverage plants are turning increasingly to the innovations found in today’s sensor instrumentation.

IO-Link Connects the Food and Beverage Industry

The proliferation of digital protocols has made it easier for producers to get the information they need from their instrumentation. Sensor suppliers explain why IO-Link is gaining particular traction.

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COVID-19 Brings Increased Visibility to the Role of Robotics

Presidents and CEOs of Fanuc, Universal Robots, Fetch, and Schunk discuss how robotics and automation are helping manufacturers through the pandemic and what the lasting effects might be.

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Autonomous Bin Picking and Placing Moves Cobots Into Machine Tending

Universal Robots’ ActiNav is a UR+ application kit that not only picks parts from bins, but is able to precisely place that part into a machine for further processing.

The complex structure of Roche’s cobas plasma separation card consists of a carrier layer with a bonded nonwoven fabric and an upper layer for protection and labeling.

Flexible Production Makes Roche’s HIV Test Innovation a Success

Roche designed a plasma separation card that greatly simplifies blood sampling and transport. Beckhoff Automation made production of the card cost-effective with its flexible, compact eXtended Transport System.

Peter Zornio of Emerson Automation Solutions sets the scene for the day's digital transformation discussions between CPG manufacturers and OEMs.

CPG Manufacturers and OEMs Collaborate on Digital Transformation

In a meeting co-hosted by PMMI’s OpX Leadership Network and Industry Relations Committee, manufacturers and machine builders shared their plans and concerns about IIoT in a discussion aimed at creating a digital transformation roadmap for PMMI members.

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Tools to Help the Digital Transformation

Inductive Automation rolled out enhancements to its Ignition Edge industrial application platform and new partner and development communities that will help turn data into actionable information.

To simulate on-the-job experience, workers can access activities through virtual environments.

Balancing Production Optimization in a Changing World

An explosion in SKUs, workforce challenges, and increasingly complex supply chains require food and beverage makers to turn to technologies such as advanced data analytics, flexible conveyors, and augmented and virtual reality to improve efficiencies.

Smart Manufacturing

Seeking an End to Pilot Purgatory

Launched in 2016, the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute is ready to unveil an information infrastructure that promises to provide the frictionless movement of democratized data.

Wireless Goes Mission Critical

Startup company CoreTigo brings wireless products to end users and technology suppliers and delivers IO-Link Wireless capabilities to legacy systems and new devices.

Line Integration and Data Collection on the Rise for Food Manufacturers

Line Integration and Data Collection on the Rise for Food Manufacturers

Full line integration is one operational improvement that food manufacturers are looking for in upcoming years, and the majority are already collecting data along the manufacturing line.

CASM electromechanical actuators from Ewellix USA (formerly SKF Motion Technologies).

Preference for Electromechanical Actuators on the Rise

Though the initial price point for electromechanical actuators tends to be higher than hydraulic cylinders, their popularity is growing due to energy efficiency, increased uptimes, simplified maintenance, and other key factors.

Automation and Robotics are Top Two Operational Improvements for Food Manufacturers

Food Manufacturers Top Two Improvement Priorities

Operational improvements that impact food manufacturers the most continue to focus on automation and robotics.

A growing supply chain, plant-based alternatives and the demand for food delivery services are driving the combined annual growth rate of four to five percent.

CPGs Need to Adapt to Meet Growing Food Demand

Global food packaging to hit $400 bn by '25, those who don't evolve could be left behind

U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Fell 15% Last November to $320 Million, But There is Still Optimism.

According to the latest report from the Association for Manufacturing Technology, the Pending China trade deal and anticipated approval of the revamped NAFTA (USMCA) should see the manufacturing technology market pick up in the second half of 2020.

Wearing virtual reality and augmented reality headsets, machine developers can interact directly with their model, free of distractions.

Digital Twin Double-Take

Most OEMs aren’t embracing the idea of creating a digital twin for the machine, but the benefits—including design flexibility, faster time-to-market, and virtual training—deserve a second look.

Jonathan Shaffer, corporate safety engineer, Optimation Technology

How to Safely Implement Collaborative Robots

As collaborative robots continue to be introduced in manufacturing, some key safety hazards need to be addressed before collaborative robots can be safely implemented on the line.

For the Blessings in a Backpack project at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, the robotic line from Universal Robots and Allied Technology picked and loaded six different food items into a pouch.

Robots and Cobots Chip in to Pack Food for Hungry Kids

Showcasing the capabilities of several automation suppliers in the Robotics Zone at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, a PMMI cooperation with Blessings in a Backpack filled more than 6,000 bags of food for kids facing food insecurity.

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Flexibility Demands Push New Technologies Forward at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

From material handling to pick-and-place, innovations are aimed at agility and mobility in packaging applications.