The loss of electricity can have a significant impact, whether on the day-to-day operations of a business, the productivity of staff working from home or the bottom line of power asset management companies and grid operators. Here, Beth Ragdale, Product Manager at Beckhoff Automation UK, explains the role that modern control systems play in power asset availability.

Future-oriented automation solutions and intelligent robotics from PC Moulding & Automation and KUKA have a key role to play in the production world of the plastics industry. They enable a permanently increasing degree of integration in manufacturing. This way, more process steps can be carried out in a single work operation. Value creation is then increased, while the logistical effort for the transfer of materials decreases.

ABB is responding to the growing consumer demand for choice and fast delivery with the launch of its FlexBuffer application cell.

As a leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, Schneider Electric recently commissioned IDC to develop an IDC InfoBrief on ‘The Future of Partner Ecosystems’.

In October 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx space probe lowered itself from orbit around asteroid 101955 Bennu and successfully retrieved a sample from the asteroid’s surface. Due back in 2023, the mission aims to help scientists learn about the formation and evolution of the solar system from the sample’s chemical make-up. Here Neil Ballinger, Head of EMEA at EU Automation, discusses how automation is making this possible, and what the manufacturing industry can learn from OSIRIS-REx.

Mouser Electronics, Inc. announces a new eBook in collaboration with Amphenol Corporation, highlighting the many applications of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) as well as the technical challenges in developing IIoT solutions.

Teknic’s ClearPath servos power the Dominator, a Guinness World Record setting robot, made by Mark Rober.