Control & Automation Features

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.

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.

Food & beverage lines benefit from AI at the edge

Remember when you had only a couple of flavours of your favourite snack and mainly the same package size? Well, those times are long gone. Consumer demands have evolved over time making food & beverage (F&B) manufacturers re-think their processes to be more flexible and adaptive to changes in those trends. To cope with that, the F&B industry has experienced a continuous increase in the automation content and in the amount of data taken from the factory floor known as “sensorisation”.

How to give your industrial platform a real edge

According to a recent Gartner report, “By 2022, more than 50 percent of Industrial IoT analytics will be performed at the edge, up from less than 10 percent today.” With this growth comes the need for easier ways to ensure the availability of applications that run critical operations at the edge and collect and process data.

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Better connected automation(03/09/2018)

Connectivity is now a major consideration for the world of industrial automation. The rise of the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 has led to greater understanding of the importance of communication between equipment and systems that make up a complete automation solution.
Adaptable building controls create best in class learning environment(29/08/2018)

Multiple building services at a London free school are being managed from a single control system, following the use of modular I/O from WAGO.
New thermoformer is big on space-saving(12/07/2018)

Compact automation products from Mitsubishi Electric have helped create a revolutionary new space-saving thermo-packaging machine.
Robot arms are getting everywhere…(05/07/2018)

Recent developments are opening new opportunities and catapulting the industrial robot arm into a journey around the production environment.
Routeco LIVE made a successful return!(01/06/2018)

Routeco LIVE made a successful comeback with three one-day events that took place across the country. Read the highlights and catch up on what you might have missed as the DPA & Connectivity Editor takes you through the event!