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How SaaS and MaaS Impact Industry
From lowering barriers to entry to changing capex and opex strategies, software and machines as-a-service are changing the business of technology and manufacturing.
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Process Controller
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Compact Controllers
Controls & automation
OEM's Head-to-head Pneumatic vs. Servo Test Shows CPGs Savings
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Servo Drive System
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Security Alert for Industrial Control Systems
U.S. Government issues warning about new cyberthreats that impact control systems and SCADA devices across industries.
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CoreTigo Launches its North America Operations
Following its success in international industrial markets, CoreTigo expanded into the North America market with the opening of a USA-based entity and office, CoreTigo Inc., in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste
Protect your personnel, product, and equipment. Engineered-to-application bulk bag dischargers from NBE, with enclosed dust recovery, keep material in the product stream and throughput at its peak.
Controls & automation
Digital Workflow Tools for Knowledge Transfer Across Operations
J.M. Smucker, Covestro, Pretium use digital workflows for factory, field workers.
Controls & automation
Decentralized I/O
Festo’s CPX-AP-I decentralized I/O reduces wiring and shorten pneumatic tube runs, resulting in easier and faster installation of components and a clean, streamlined looking packaging line.
Controls & automation
How Intelligent Conveyance Tech Delivers Operational Flexibility
Rockwell Automation highlights its MagneMover Lite material handling technology designed to provide greater flexibility for assembly, filling, or packaging operations in a variety of industrial environments—from food and beverage to semiconductors.
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Cognex In-Sight 2800 | Machine Vision Made Simple
Cognex In-Sight 2800 vision system enables users of all skill levels to use the power of deep learning to automate error detection. See for yourself by entering for your chance to win one of five In-Sight 2800.
Controls & automation
Digital Transformation of the Industrial Workforce
The tools that help Pretium Packaging, Covestro, and J.M. Smucker Company tap into and transfer tribal knowledge on the factory floor.
Controls & automation
Aurobindo Pharma USA Increases Distribution Throughput and Performance with New Automated Warehouse System
When the generic pharmaceutical giant wanted to automate its U.S. nerve center, it sought an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) that boosted storage capacity by 450% and increased order fulfillment efficiency.
Controls & automation
Everything In View
The new 36 sensor series from Leuze detects objects even at large operating ranges. Manufacturers and operators of highly automated systems benefit from the cost-optimized design of these sensors.
Controls & automation
Cellular Connectivity Solution for Remote Service
Videojet Technologies launches the Customer Independent Cellular Network (CICN), a connectivity solution for VideojetConnect™ Remote Service (VRS) and the easiest and fastest way to connect coding equipment to the Videojet cloud and enable VRS.
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Wireless Asset Monitoring
Regal Rexnord offers the Perceptiv™ Sentry S2100 platform for cost effective wireless vibration and temperature monitoring for industrial powertrain applications.
Controls & automation
PackML and Machine-to-Machine Communication
At PACK EXPO East 2022, Ron MacDonald of OMAC walked attendees through key states of PackML, highlighting their impact on successful packaging line operation.
Controls & automation
New Gefran Inclination Sensors from AutomationDirect
Gefran sensors use MEMS technology to provide precise tilt angle measurement.
Controls & automation
Nord Motors Provide Additional Strength, Stability, and Cooling Advantages
Eliminate need for NPT adapters
Controls & automation
Amway’s Energy Drink Meets Skyrocketing Demand Through Digital Thread
The PlantPAX control system from Rockwell Automation is enabling greater operator efficiency, real-time troubleshooting, simplified data analysis, and increased manufacturing flexibility, among other improvements, through increased connectivity.
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Krones Combines its Digitalization Activities
Krones created Krones.digital bringing together all groupwide resources in the fields of digitalization and automation in order to adopt an overarching approach to developing solutions primarily for gathering, analyzing and utilizing production data.
Controls & automation
Intelligent Solution for Safe Object Differentiation and Identification on Conveying Solutions and Packaging Machines
The deTec4 Smart Box Detection allows for safe and intelligent human-material differentiation for rectangular-conveyed objects.
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Industrial Arts Brewing: The Art of Scaling Up a Hazy IPA
A young craft brewer in New York’s Hudson Valley was maxing out the capacity of its 25-hL brewhouse. A second, larger brewhouse from Krones Steinecker was highly customized to handle its hoppy brew.
Controls & automation
Top Trends in Pharma Industry Today
Manufacturers are rethinking production and packaging strategies as the industry shifts to new formats such as customized medicines and injectables, but other trends are affecting production as well.
Controls & automation
iCam-Based Linear Pick-and-Place Mechanism Maintains Control of Empty Cartons
Transferring empty cartons from a high-speed forming machine into a smart carton identification and loading system helps to maintain control of the lightweight boxes prior to use.
Take Five
PACK EXPO Innovations Report: Controls and Automation
PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you this Innovations Report. Here’s what they saw in the controls and automation categories.