Connectivity - Features

Upgrade your legacy alarm units

Since the 1980s, rack-based alarm annunciator systems have been reliable workhorses in various critical industries, including chemical processing, nuclear, and oil and gas. However, because of their age, many of them do not meet modern safety requirements, and are also now beginning to suffer from component failure.

Smart factories don’t have to start smart
- Robotics
- (29/04/2024)
Schneider Electric shows how the benefits of a purpose-built smart factory can be applied to existing facilities.
Precision engineering meets cycling
- Automation
- (29/04/2024)
To help both professional cycling teams and industry manufacturers optimise the performance of their athletes and equipment, Silverstone Sports Engineering Hub turned to Pressure Design and Beckhoff UK to help launch its latest mechanical test rig, the Pedalling Efficiency Rig (PER).

Setting the standard: MTP technology and its impact on life sciences production
- Automation
- (26/04/2024)
Module Type Package (MTP) is being considered for inclusion in an international standard for automation engineering.
Three layers of predictive maintenance
- AI - Machine Learning
- (26/04/2024)
The key difference between preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance is that the latter means completing maintenance only when needed, as opposed to scheduled intervals.

The good, the bad and the future of generative AI
- AI - Machine Learning
- (23/04/2024)
How is the introduction of generative AI changing UK manufacturing? Stephen Hayes, Managing Director of Beckhoff UK, explores the benefits and risks of introducing generative AI into your manufacturing process.
How to overcome the five challenges threatening non-terrestrial networks (NTN) success
- Network Communications
- (23/04/2024)
To heighten communications capabilities and improve situational awareness, military and government agencies increasingly leverage commercially-developed technologies.