Connectivity - Features

Eyes open to robot efficiencies

“Can we get a cobot to do this…?” Such a suggestion might have been dismissed as a pipe dream even just a few years ago. Collaborative robots have changed all that. Their steady march of progress has crashed down barriers to accessibility and emboldened more engineering teams to seek out new production efficiencies.

Digitalisation: Accelerating the road to production
- Automation
- (22/06/2022)
Digitalisation is not only transforming production systems, but also the way industry functions as a whole.
SICK’s Fill Level Monitoring keeps packaging machines topped up
- Automation
- (21/06/2022)
A digital service that gives instant visibility to filling levels in packaging machinery has been developed by SICK in collaboration with industry end-users.

Hypermiling for your electric motor
- Energy Efficiency
- (20/06/2022)
It’s the middle of Summer and you are sitting in traffic. It’s so hot that the tarmac is melting on the road. The traffic begins to roll, and you start to pull away. But how do you stay cool? Open the window or crank up the air-con? .
Differentiate your industrial control system from the crowd
- Automation
- (20/06/2022)
A recent study by Ericsson found that almost two-thirds of manufacturers believe their company will be at least 80 percent automated in the next ten years.

Service buses and their impact on digitalisation
- Software - Cloud / Edge / Big Data
- (12/06/2022)
One of the biggest challenges that enterprises face in their digitalisation efforts is having too many complex data silos and applications that don't follow a common architecture.
The power of cloud-based quality management
- Software - Cloud / Edge / Big Data
- (10/06/2022)
Manufacturing has a history of moving at a glacial pace when adopting new technology such as cloud-based solutions, but cloud is not new anymore.