Connectivity - Automation Features

Digitalisation: Accelerating the road to production

Digitalisation is not only transforming production systems, but also the way industry functions as a whole. Here, Connectivity’s Acting Group Editor, Sophia Bell, chats with Sachin Mathur, Director of Software & Control, EMEA at Rockwell Automation, about how digital transformation has accelerated over the last couple of years – in response to the unprecedented challenges wrought by Brexit, Covid-19 and supply chain disruptions – and how it can optimise manufacturing operations.

SICK’s Fill Level Monitoring keeps packaging machines topped up

A digital service that gives instant visibility to filling levels in packaging machinery has been developed by SICK in collaboration with industry end-users. SICK Filling Level Monitoring avoids machine stoppages by giving real-time data to operators via smartwatch or phone, so that levels of carton blanks, adhesive or film wraps, for example, stay topped up.

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.
Making Garbage Management Operations Smarter
- Network Communications
- (30/05/2022)
Waste collection is an essential service that municipal bodies need to perform on a regular basis. What role can IoT play in making this process more efficient? .

Hanover Displays automates PCBA testing with cobots
- Robotics
- (30/05/2022)
UK-based Hanover Displays Limited needed a new system for testing printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs), and selected OMRON TM cobots for the job, supplied and installed by Absolute Robotics, part of the Absolute Automation Group.
Automating battery production for safe, affordable energy
- Automation
- (30/05/2022)
Batteries are to have a central role in the future of sustainable energy and mobility. Automation holds the key to achieving the speed and repeatability needed to ensure battery reliability and economy. .

Demystifying intelligent automation
- Automation
- (26/05/2022)
Organisations are increasingly embracing intelligent automation to deliver efficiencies and free up resources.
Industrial automation makes way for information automation
- Automation
- (25/05/2022)
Automation has been the driving force behind manufacturing advancement, dating back decades. Replacing physical tasks with automation has served as the bridge taking industries into the era of mass production that we know today. .