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AVEVA powers smart manufacturing at Schneider Electric

AVEVA announced Schneider Electric’s selection of AVEVA software solutions to drive the company’s Smart Factory initiative, as part of its digital transformation journey. Benefits include reduced downtime, improved efficiency and lower costs.

Quickly build your own reliable, cheap and precise autonomous system

Suppose you are designing an inspection drone for an offshore oil platform where human inspection is dangerous and precision flight is key. In your developmental testing, you realise that the flight control is becoming unstable as the drone flies near and under the steel structure. You determine this loss of control is due to GPS outages and magnetic inference from the bridge both of which negatively impact the drone’s attitude control system.

The fastener for engineers who lack tolerance

Whilst design and production engineering for some applications requires fastening to occur with tolerances measured in microns – medical equipment and electronics assemblies together with aerospace and defence products being good examples – it is a fact that in the wider manufacturing arena there has to be, by necessity, more latitude.

SPS IPC Drives 2018: the exhibition for smart and digital automation

Some 1,700 automation providers from all over the world are expected in Nuremberg on 27 - 29 November 2018.

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