Automated Driving: Bosch and CARIAD Agree on Extensive Partnership

Automated Driving: Bosch and CARIAD Agree on Extensive Partnership

 

More safety and less stress for drivers, more rapid deployment of automated driving functions across all vehicle classes: Bosch and the Volkswagen Group subsidiary CARIAD are now collaborating to achieve this objective and have agreed to form an extensive partnership. The companies want to make partially and highly automated driving suitable for volume production, and thus available to the broad mass of consumers. For the vehicles sold under the Volkswagen Group brands, the alliance aims to make functions available that will allow drivers to temporarily take their hands off the steering wheel. More specifically, these functions are Level 2 hands-free systems for urban, extra-urban, and freeway driving, as well as a system that takes over all driving functions on the freeway (SAE Level 3). The first of these functions are to be installed in 2023.

 

Colgate-Palmolive Pursues Net Zero Carbon Target with Emerson’s Smart Sensor Technology for Compressed Air Monitoring

Colgate-Palmolive Pursues Net Zero Carbon Target with Emerson’s Smart Sensor Technology for Compressed Air Monitoring

 

Global software, technology and engineering company, Emerson (NYSE: EMR), is collaborating with S&P 100 consumer products manufacturer Colgate-Palmolive Company (NYSE: CL) to reduce wasted energy in Colgate’s product packaging facilities and contribute to its goal of achieving net zero carbon emissions in operations by 2040. Armed with data from Emerson’s advanced sensor technologies and analytics, Colgate has already seen a 15% reduction in energy usage on several toothpaste and toothbrush packaging lines and expects even greater energy savings as the technology is rolled out more widely.

 

Safe Operation of Automated Guided Vehicle Systems

Safe Operation of Automated Guided Vehicle Systems

 

Where a human shares a workspace with an automated guided vehicle, i.e. a machine, there are particular requirements for safety concepts; human and machine must be able to operate smoothly and safely within the same environment. PILZ takes a holistic look at your automated guided vehicle system. They get on board as early as the design phase, when the system concept is developed, and provide support for your projects right through to commissioning. That way they ensure that safety and productivity are guaranteed when your automated guided vehicle systems are operated.

Festo’s Seamless Connectivity Part 2 – Communication Protocols

Festo’s Seamless Connectivity Part 2 – Communication Protocols

 

These days, different standards are emerging at various levels of automation: products, communication protocols, safety standards, etc. Festo’s Automation Platform provides to the industry an adaptable, flexible, and convenient solution to gather huge amounts of different field devices, from servo drives to inductive sensors, by providing standards and protocols suitable for major PLC brands, allowing an easy integration and data gathering, ready for Industry 4.0. Presented at the German Technology Day 2021.

 

Festo’s Seamless Connectivity Part 1 – Products

Festo’s Seamless Connectivity Part 1 – Products

 

These days, different standards are emerging at various levels of automation: products, communication protocols, safety standards, etc. Festo’s Automation Platform provides to the industry an adaptable, flexible, and convenient solution to gather huge amounts of different field devices, from servo drives to inductive sensors, by providing standards and protocols suitable for major PLC brands, allowing an easy integration and data gathering, ready for Industry 4.0. Presented at the German Technology Day 2021.

 

Concept Sensors: Engineering the Future Together

Concept Sensors: Engineering the Future Together

 

New fields of application, new sensor solutions: The digital transformation of industry presents us with new challenges every day. In the development of concept sensors, customers and partners are involved right from the start – in order to make the best possible use of all competencies. But what does that mean for the product development process in concrete terms? Questions for colleagues from research & development, product management and sales.

 

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SEW-EURODRIVE – Unstoppable, Integrated, United

 

Since the start of SEW-EURODRIVE nearly 100 years ago, the importance of being aligned with the needs of the market and the customers it serves has remained their focus. The quality of products and a consistent and timely supply have helped make SEW a trusted manufacturer of gearmotors, drives, and modular systems. SEW’s passion for technology has served them well over the years: new products designed and manufactured, the adoption and creation of technology and solutions for industry, and steadied expansion. Driving the world is what they do.

 

Festo and MassRobotics Select Companies for the Inaugural Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program

Festo and MassRobotics Select Companies for the Inaugural Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program

The first four companies in the inaugural Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst program have been selected by Festo and MassRobotics. The Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst is a new program for the global robotics startup community to advance healthcare developments…