Government gives the go-ahead for UK trade shows to restart
21 July 2020 The UK government has given the green light for trade exhibitions to start again from October this year. One of the first events to be… Read More
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5G router for private industrial networks is ‘the first’
29 June 2020 Three companies – Phoenix Contact, Quectel and Ericsson – have worked together to develop and deploy the first 5G router for local industrial applications in private 5G networks. Read More
Lightweight cobot targets first-time users
3 February 2020 Fanuc has unveiled a lightweight collaborative robot (cobot) aimed at first-time users of robots, especially in smaller companies. The CRX-10iA robot can handle payloads of… Read More
Indiegogo campaign promises ‘world’s first open controller’
25 November 2019 An Italian engineer has launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to help develop what he describes as “the world’s first open hardware and multi-platform controller”, which… Read More
Regen drives are key to ‘cheaper than coal’ energy storage system
25 November 2019 Powerful motors and regenerative drives are at the heart of a novel gravity-based energy storage technology being developed by a Swiss company called Energy Vault. Read More
High-temp fan-drives will make buildings safer during fires
21 October 2019 The fan-maker Fläkt Woods has collaborated with Danfoss to develop and certify a range of high-temperature fan/VSD packages that comply with the EN12101-3:2015 standard, making… Read More
‘First’ radar safety system copes with tough environments
23 September 2019 Pilz has joined forces with the Italian radar specialist Inxpect to offer what they claim is the world’s first for monitoring safety protection zones, based… Read More
AR project tests interactive data glasses in factories
16 September 2019 A group of six German companies and institutions, led by Siemens, has completed a three-year project looking at the use of augmented reality (AR) in… Read More
120-model inverter family is ‘first to offer AI diagnostics’
10 September 2019 Mitsubishi Electric in Japan has announced a new generation of general-purpose inverters which, it claims, will be the first to incorporate diagnostics functions based on… Read More
Future grippers will harness AI to operate autonomously
14 June 2019 At the 2019 Hannover Fair, the gripper specialist Schunk announced that it is collaborating with the French artificial intelligence (AI) expert, AnotherBrain, to develop the… Read More
