14/09/2021
The challenges associated with meeting the needs of customers are now extending more deeply into the production process, as Jakob Dück explains.
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25/08/2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial disruption across the engineering sector over the last 18 months, with businesses facing challenges such as changing market requirements, stock shortages and longer lead times.
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02/08/2021
As various authorities around the world have granted companies the right to operate drones in a number of markets – from agriculture and construction to insurance – the range and variety of applications has grown substantially over the past five years.
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17/06/2021
Tape-and-reel is the expected delivery packaging for a wide variety of components, to provide protection during transit and present parts efficiently to automated placement machines.
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01/06/2021
In the past, the construction of a compact PC was based on ITX and Mini-ITX motherboards, however, the entire process was not much different from assembling a regular, full-sized PC.
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04/05/2021
Increasingly hackers are becoming more sophisticated and turning from bank accounts and smart devices to targeting a country’s infrastructure. As a consequence cyber-security has never been more important.
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29/04/2021
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Sony Corporation’s electronics manufacturing arm, based in Wales, is pioneering the use of the Raspberry Pi single board computer (SBC) to bring its Industry 4.0 vision to life.
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23/04/2021
COVID-19 and the resulting pandemic has effectively shifted growth in Bluetooth annual device shipments out by one year, according to a new report from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).
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21/04/2021
Net zero carbon nationwide by 2050 is the initiative set in motion by the UK government.
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25/03/2021
As the production lines develop and become increasingly complex, the number of devices (sensors and actuators) that need to be managed also grows. Industrial processes are carried out by PLCs and extensive networks of digital or analogue connections. Most often, these are systems based on electric (copper) or fibre-optic cables. Depending on the age of the infrastructure, these will be FIELDBUS (older) or ETHERNET (newer) systems
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02/03/2021
Last month saw ten of the UK’s most promising start-ups, working with immersive technologies, graduate from the Digital Catapult’s Augmentor programme.
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04/02/2021
In the TME catalogue, the offer of Panasonic Industry takes a special place. It includes a very wide selection of products designed for constructing top quality electronic devices.
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19/01/2021
When it comes to the adoption of technology, manufacturers need to take a strategic approach that brings processes, people and technology together.
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06/01/2021
Ports are fundamental to the way in which the global economy operates, handling upwards of 90% of world trade.
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04/01/2021
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Located in Quebec City, Canada, the Robotiq company was set up with one aim in mind – to free human hands from repetitive tasks - and to that end it has been focused on developing a range of tools and software for the collaborative robotics (cobots) market.
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23/11/2020
Today, unlike in the past, connected industrial devices are expected to communicate directly with enterprise applications.
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05/11/2020
Is 2021 set to be the year that 5G delivers? With the construction and upgrading of base stations and other infrastructure and the roll out of mobile 5G devices, are we about to see the realisation of the many promises associated with the technology?
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04/11/2020
All around the country, at all times of the day, 365 days a year, commercial vehicles are on the move.
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14/10/2020
Previous waves of global economic growth have been driven by industrial and agricultural practices many of which, with hindsight, have been detrimental to the health and sustainability of life on our planet.
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09/10/2020
In the last decade billions of connected devices have been created and adopted presenting an endless number of security challenges each day.
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05/10/2020
Businesses need to future-proof their workforce and embrace new approaches when it comes to skills development.
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21/09/2020
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Looking at AI processing for the Industrial Internet of Things, then you need to consider where the bulk of the data processing will take place.
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17/09/2020
Ethernet-APL (advanced physical layer) specifies the details of the application of Ethernet communication to sensors and actuators for the process industry and will be published under the IEC.
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10/09/2020
Could the mining industry be at an inflection point with a historically conservative industry finally starting to embrace new technologies?
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26/08/2020
Optical sensors are being used to help create a safer, touch-free world as a result of COVID, as Gabriele Fulco explains to New Electronics.
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