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Condition monitoring – what you need to know

You often hear the phrase, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", but for engineers, waiting for something to break before taking action can lead to significant extra costs and downtime. Here, we chat to Dave Breckell of Omron about why condition monitoring is an essential tool for the modern engineer.

Securing ICS/OT systems against sophisticated threats

Providing comprehensive visibility of ICS/OT assets and threats and vulnerabilities, the Dragos Platform offers best-practice guidance to respond before significant cyber compromises. It enables users to build, maintain, and visualise their assets within the OT environment, including OT, IT, IoT, and IIoT devices.

Robotics system integrators help to de-risk projects

With a trend for end users towards de-risking projects, partnering with robotics system integrators offers many advantages, including industry-specific and technology-specific knowledge, value for money, secure processes, and a more personal experience. Robotics system integrator ALS Mechatronic gives an insight into working with FANUC, and how this has benefitted its customers.

How robotics can revolutionise control panel engineering

In a field that still involves a significant degree of manual input, robotics could potentially revolutionise the engineering of electrical control panels. Benefits include cost savings, enhanced quality, precision, safety and scalability, the ability to handle complex designs, integration with AI for predictive maintenance, and contribution to Industry 4.0.
Meet ABB’s first industrial collaborative robot

The new lightning-fast industrial collaborative robot SWIFTI CRB 1300 takes industrial-level performance and innovative safety to the next level. Designed for high payload and high demand applications of up to 11kg, SWIFTI opens new possibilities for using cobots in industrial applications without comprising on safety and speed.

Introducing ABB's Robotics Education Package

Unlock the true potential of STEM education with robots.
Cybersecurity mission and culture explained

Robert Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of industrial cybersecurity specalist Dragos, gives some background on how the company builds technology and services to protect people, operating under its self-admittedly bold mission statement of 'Safeguarding Civilization'. Lee outlines the company's culture, including the importance of its four tenets of respect, transparency, assuming no malicious intent, and being candid.

Festo develops BionicBee for autonomous flying

For more than 15 years, the Festo Bionic Learning Network has been focusing on the fascination of flying. With the BionicBee, the Bionic Learning Network has now for the first time developed a flying object that can fly in large numbers and completely autonomously in a swarm. The BionicBee recently presented its first flight show at the Hannover Messe 2024.
AI-powered 2D vision sensor makes quality control easy and efficient

The Inspector83x 2D vision sensor from SICK enables out-of-the-box artificial intelligence machine vision inspections for common inline inspection tasks in demanding high-speed production. Its no-stress teach-in capability can be used by non-specialists to configure powerful, high-precision AI inspections at full production speeds. By showing the camera just a handful of examples, initial inspection results can be up and running in a matter of minutes.