To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week (5-9 February), Lucy Gale, a Digital Energy Degree Apprentice at Schneider Electric, offers a personal glimpse into the dynamic world of apprenticeships and the enriching opportunities they present.
It seems like everyone is talking about sustainability at the moment — and with research suggesting global warming is close to hitting 1.5°C, it’s clear why. But if your manufacturing or engineering business isn’t leading the way, or hasn’t even started its sustainability journey yet, should you get involved in the conversation? Here, we explore the importance of transparent sustainability communication for any business.
Tintri, specialist in data management solutions for virtualised workloads, shares its predictions for 2024.
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment,” said Warren G. Bennis.
Legacy machine integration is one of the biggest challenges during data integrity remedial plans. Here, Giuseppe Menin, Life Sciences & Process Industry Manager at automation software supplier COPA-DATA, explores how an advanced automation integration layer (AIL) introduced by COPA-DATA can support manufacturers on their journey to a more connected plant.
Robots and AI systems have become an integral part of industrial manufacturing sites. To ensure the safety of workers while using robots, a detailed risk assessment is necessary. This assessment is carried out from the perspective of functional safety, which examines the five main elements employed by robots to determine autonomous control actions: environment recognition, action planning, trajectory generation, motion control, and measurement.