rocess plant personnel need perspective and insights into the key assets — boilers, heaters, burners, chillers, ovens, heat exchangers, furnaces, pumps and valves, etc. —used in their facilities. Many articles describe the technologies designed to provide those insights — those platforms, apps and plant automation devices that collectively help form the Industrial Intern...
According to Paragraf, the graphene produced measures up to eight inches (20 cm) in diameter, and is large enough for commercial electronic devices. These graphene wafers could be used in transistors, where graphene-based chips could deliver speeds more than ten times faster than silicon chips. It could also be used in chemical and electrical sensors, where graphe...
Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is changing the way of how transportation network operates. It not only can provide in-time data, real time surveillance video that help improve safety, it also helps to connects different devices or transmit the information of public transportation to mobile or digital boards in the bus station. More importantly, ITS collects and ...
Growing populations comes with increasing vehicles on the road and leads to a greater traffic jams, longer commutes, and an even faster processing need for timely traffic data. As a result, traffic management has become a big challenges from large cities to small communities all over the world. It turns out that traffic control agencies need to update information from re...
Running a fleet will have a number of major concerns. One of them will be fuel efficiency, and the other is keeping the vehicles in service generating revenue for company. Vehicles could at work for quite a long period of time, somebody’s vehicle’s are actually driven for days, or even weeks and months at a time. So uptime is very important. For more info, you can cli...
When we travel overseas, bus is one of the common means of transportation, especially for private tour designed just for you and your families/friends. An intelligent transportation system (ITS) is an advanced application which, without embodying intelligence as such, aims to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and ...
When it comes to immersive technology, virtual reality (VR) takes a back seat to augmented reality (AR). The main difference between VR and AR is that in VR, the person wearing a headset that blocks out the world is suddenly transported to a new, artificial environment. In AR, computer-created objects are placed into the existing, real-world environment. AR is arguably s...
Automation technology is widely used in industry, agriculture, military, scientific research, transportation, commerce, medical service and family。It can liberate people from heavy manual labor, part of mental work, and bad, dangerous working conditions. Slip ring is an important rotary joint in mechanical automation equipment.It is widely used in medical equipment, m...
The cloud has been making raw computing power available in virtual environments for some years, but how about on-tap artificial intelligence? It’s currently an expensive, custom-built option for embedded systems, but Google, Microsoft, IBM and others are now making available their AI application programming interfaces (API). Now all a programmer, developer or data scient...
Virtual-reality glasses are everywhere, with the likes of Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Playstation VR grabbing headlines as the future of video gaming. While the expense of headsets and lack of VR content is hampering their popularity among consumers, industry is realizing the potential of VR for training simulation. VR adds 360-degree video, but also a real-life, hands-on ...
XIAMEN, CHINA, February 28, 2019 – Ursalink, a manufacturer of M2M/IoT products, is thrilled to announce that its UG87 LoRaWAN Gateway has been certified with Alibaba Cloud IoT Technical Certification! For more info, you can click "More Information" below to read the full article.
XIAMEN, CHINA, February 18, 2019 – Ursalink UR75 edge computing gateway has been certified with Alibaba Cloud IoT Technical Certification! This means that UR75 edge computing gateway has a reliable, secure performance to help customers develop high-standard products within Alibaba Cloud Ecosystem. For more info, you can click "More Information" below to read the full ...
Xiamen, China – March 4, 2019 – Ursalink, a global IoT hardware provider, announced today it has become an adopter member of the LoRa Alliance™, an open, non-profit association of members initiated by industry leaders with a mission to standardize Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) being deployed around the world to enable Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine (...
With the advance of industrial Ethernet systems, the need to link PROFINET networks with traditional field buses or with other PROFINET networks in automated production environments also increases. Flexible and practicable solutions are called for here. Helmholz is defining this market trend with a new, strategic gateways portfolio that is being continuously expanded upon.
Join WoMaster’s “IIoT in 30min” webinar on March 14 and learn how to program on Cloud using OTA Rule Chain! We will introduce the main features of ThingsMaster OTA and show you how to add logical rule/do the programming on OTA ThingsMaster rule chain for creating alarm rules in case of critical events, such as low RSSI signal strength, speed limit exceed, emergency butto...
Although machinery and plant engineering certainly has international characteristics, there are still some continental- specific features that need to be accounted for with technical equipment. These include in particular the selection of control systems, as well as the language spoken in the bus. The prevalence of Rockwell with Ethernet/IP in America and of Siemens with...
Kontron, a leading global provider of IoT/Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), has announced the KBox A-230-LS, a new compact industrial computer platform designed specifically for Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) applications. The KBox A-230-LS is equipped with a SMARC module based on the NXP Dual Cortex A72 LS1028 processor. The SMARC-sAL28 module offers up to five int...
Reservoir level turns thick and fast in the place where there has a significant amount of rainfall. The on-site checking and recording data on your notebook seems like a nuisance and quite outdated. Thus, knowing the water levels over network will give you the insights you need to make your operation smooth. With connecting digital water level indicator to UR51 Indust...
Known as “safety brakes”, this series are for stopping and holding the load when power is cut-off. The braking force is supplied by springs and widely used for holding robots, Z axis ball screws, servo motors and general electric motors.
Robotics and automation technology is an important subject within higher-education institutions in India and not only in Germany. The governments of the two countries are working together intensively in order to boost research in these areas. In response to the Indian government's search for simple robot systems for teaching purposes, robolink, the cost-effective modular...
Low cost automation less than the price of the established automation suppliers for just a few thousand euro – this is exactly what many users want. But making wishes a reality is often a difficult task: What products go together? How good is the solution? Who can support me? At the Hannover Messe 2019, the motion plastics specialist igus is presenting two new approaches...
If cables are to be harnessed, then the matching connector can be found quickly, but often cannot be ordered in small quantities from the manufacturer. Here, igus now offers an additional service with its new online shop for plug-in connectors: the customer can order the right connector for his cable at a reasonable price from a wide selection of well-known suppliers suc...
We’ve seen a distinct pattern emerge in the last twelve months of firms focusing on increasing efficiency to better support long-term growth. Different sized firms as well as those that focus on a particular type of design have some specific HPC but even their technical choices are manifesting themselves in some fairly specific trends. Rethinking the cloud Project...
The intelligent technology beams a series of projections onto the road to show the future intentions of the vehicle - for example stopping and turning left or right - as part of research into how people can develop their trust in autonomous technology. In the future the projections could even be used to share obstacle detection and journey updates with pedestrians. Th...
Road transport is estimated to account for around 17% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Figures from the European Commission suggest that passenger car and heavy-duty vehicle emissions are responsible for 21% of all GHG emissions in the continent. As a result, carmakers are continuously pushed by governments to make their vehicles more eco-friendly. But it’s...
Specialists in interior components, IAC operates in all automotive manufacturing markets around the globe. But it was its production lines at Halewood in Merseyside, delivering interior components to the adjacent JLR factory, which is piloting IAC’s newest industry 4.0 approaches. Assembling instrument panel modules for the Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discovery Spo...
From the four robotic revolutions to “robotic governance,” what will be tomorrow’s robotics? DirectIndustry e-magazine: You’ve called cobotics the second robotics revolution. What’s next? Dominik Boesl: We believe there are 4 revolutions in robotics. The first one is what we have been doing for 40 years—how to weld and glue a car together as fast as possible. This ...
Seats, dashboard, shafts and many other parts are assembled using a manipulator of Scaglia INDEVA with electronic controls for the end effector.
The first MIT AI Policy Congress featured seven panel discussions sprawling across a variety of AI applications, and 25 speakers — including two former White House chiefs of staff, former cabinet secretaries, homeland security and defense policy chiefs, industry and civil society leaders, and leading researchers. Their shared focus: how to harness the opportunities th...
On Monday AT&T broadly outlined three service pillars underpinning the carrier’s approach to 5G in business, which include fixed wireless, mobile 5G, and edge computing. “The 5G services we’re rolling out and combining with our advanced network capabilities will help businesses fundamentally change for the better,” said Mo Katibeh, CMO of AT&T Business, in a statem...
The company has embedded OPC UA in the latest version of its CPX automation platform. As Festo Product Manager Sebastian Schnaitmann explained to DirectIndustry e-magazine: Imagine you are a machine builder willing to address very different customers working from different locations. Through OPC UA, you’ll be able to share information with all of them, without need...
pi4_robotics GmbH, which manufactures machine vision systems, automatic inspection systems and robots, designed a cobot that can operate in varied settings, carrying out production operations, as well as inspections and machine loading and unloading. It has long arms, a high load capacity and rotates at the waist. It can autonomously supply parts and correct errors, a...
Founded in 1990, TM Solutions Inc. has developed into a leading systems integrator for companies in the process industry and the maritime sector in South Korea. Well-known companies such as ABB, Emerson, Honeywell and Yokogawa are part of the company's customer base. Effective immediately, TM Solutions is responsible for the distribution of Softing Industrial Data Networ...
Softing’s mobiLink is an intrinsically safe mobile commissioning and maintenance interface for field devices. It provides a single communication solution for the major protocols used in process automation: HART, FOUNDATION Fieldbus and PROFIBUS PA. mobiLink has IECEx Zone 1 approval and, thanks to its battery operation and Bluetooth interface, enables the use of mobile ...
Nowadays, solar has been widely utilized as a renewable clean energy and a large number of distributed solar power plants has been built and gone into operation. It’s critical for monitoring and management such as real-time monitoring, fault diagnosis, power prediction, active/reactive power control system and daily maintenance in the distribution system. Due to the sol...
As Brewster explains, the life-size 3D print of his own head was ready within a few days, all for just over £300. For the price, it’s an impressive likeness, but it’s not enough to fool any human into thinking they are looking at the real Thomas Brewster. But could a smartphone be fooled? To find out, Brewster conducted a test where he tried to unlock four premium And...
