Piezo Motion is the disrupter, reimagining how innovative piezoelectric motor technology can now be more accessible than ever to myriad applications where its advantages bring immense value. Natural and Synthetic Piezo materials have been utilized in sensor and transducer applications for decades, but the practice of harnessing the reverse piezoelectric effect for actuators and motors is less developed.
On the factory floor, where assembly lines need to change in accordance with consumer demand, adding or removing a part to the process can be a challenge. When it’s time to mute a robot or add a new welding station for a particular model, operators are starting to consider machine safety as a key component in facilitating truly flexible manufacturing.
ABB is entering into a strategic partnership with Swiss-based start-up Sevensense, founded in 2018 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich, to enhance ABB’s new autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) offering with artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D vision mapping technology.
Where the boundaries between the real and digital worlds blur, space is created for new ideas: Driven by this motif, Pepperl+Fuchs is combining its 3-D showroom with live presentations of its automation experts at the “Digital Expo”. The doors to the Digital Expo 2021 virtual showroom will be open from November 15 to 26.
Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. is announcing the addition of Urbx Logistics to its Diamond Partner OEM Program. The program is a natural extension of their commitment to achieve the highest level of quality, performance, and efficiency for their customers.
WebLytics brings remote monitoring, device diagnostics, and data analytics capabilities to OnRobot’s line of collaborative application-focused hardware solutions. OnRobot, makes its software debut with the launch of WebLytics, a unique production monitoring, device diagnostics, and data analytics solution designed to enhance productivity and minimize downtime.
OnRobot introduces first production monitoring software solution to provide real-time, application-focused data for collaborative applications across all major robot brands. WebLytics automatically collects equipment data from both robots and tools and transforms it into easy-to-understand, visualized device and application-level intelligence. It provides real-time, application-focused data for production monitoring, device diagnostics, and data analytics.
Machine safety terminology can be challenging, particularly when you need to pick a technology for your risk reduction strategy. This article will cover four key concepts relating to safety interlocks that will help you fully understand the technology before you select a part number.
Schneider Electric Canada has announced a new partnership with OptiMach, a Quebec-based robotics company. The partnership will support both organizations in expanding their operational commitments, enabling OptiMach to provide customers with automated and robotic solutions tailored to their exact needs.
Endress+Hauser Canada has been granted expanded ISO:17025 accreditation for its calibration services to now cover the entire spectrum of flow, temperature, pressure and liquid analysis instrumentation, whether performed onsite at the customer’s facility or in the Endress+Hauser laboratories.
Schneider Electric has joined other industrial leaders and pioneers to form Universal Automation Org (UAO), an independent, not-for-profit association managing the reference implementation of a shared source runtime. For the first time, IT and OT software vendors, industrial end users, OEMs, and academics will share a common automation software layer across their automation technology — regardless of brand.
Proax Technologies Ltd. is pleased to announce we are now an authorized distributor of Gems Sensors & Controls, a global supplier of sensing and control solutions. This addition aligns with our current offerings and will be available to all our clients throughout Canada, coast to coast.
When exchanging paper reels weighing hundreds of kilos to produce corrugated boards at Austrian cardboard packaging manufacturer Mosburger GmbH, the risk potential for the operator was high because the process requires manual intervention. To reduce this risk to a minimum, Mosburger relies on a comprehensive safety solution comprising the automation system PSS 4000 and the safety gate switch PSENcode.
Schneider Electric Canada, a provider of energy management and automation, recently announced a new partnership with OptiMach, a Quebec-based robotics company. The partnership will support both organizations in expanding their operational commitments.
Festo has taken another step to bolster its North American sales leadership with the promotion of Jean-Francois Paquette to Canada Sales Director.In his new position, which took effect June 1, the Montreal-based Paquette will focus on leading the sales objectives and planning strategy for the Canadian sales organization.