12 June 2019 Siemens is making its TIA Portal engineering framework accessible via the cloud, providing fast, flexible, Web-based access to pre-installed environments via any type of hardware,… Read More
18 April 2019 US-based Celera Motion, part of the Novanta Corporation, has acquired Ingenia Motion Control, the Spanish developer of servodrives and control software. Ingenia will be integrated… Read More
3 April 2019 A group of European suppliers of equipment and software for smart factories have formed an alliance that wants to ensure that 80% of the machines… Read More
1 April 2019 The Coventry-based Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre has partnered with Lloyds Bank to offer financial support to recruit and train manufacturing apprentices. Lloyds already supports apprenticeship… Read More
14 March 2019 Swedish-based HMS Industrial Networks AB, a subsidiary of HMS Networks AB, has acquired 74.9% of the shares in the German company WEBfactory, which provides Web-based… Read More
4 February 2019 The emergence of machine vision technologies that use “deep learning” is expanding manufacturers’ capabilities and flexibility, leading to greater cost efficiencies and higher production yields,… Read More
29 January 2019 An Italian company claims to have developed the world’s first radar-based safety barrier system which, unlike optical systems, is not affected by smoke, dust, machining… Read More
29 January 2019 A UK specialist in touch sensors has developed a technology that integrates touch and physical controls. Newcastle-based Zytronic’s hybrid touch technology allows tactile buttons or mechanical… Read More
29 January 2019 Siemens has developed a hardware platform for edge applications that captures and processes manufacturing data at the point of production. Based on an embedded Simatic… Read More
29 January 2019 At the recent SPS IPC Drives show, a German start-up demonstrated a technology for connecting industrial sensors and actuators rapidly to almost any cloud platform,… Read More
