The German sensor-maker Leuze has announced a lighting technology that will make it quicker to align and commission ...

Festo has announced a new automation platform based on the open PLCnext technology developed by Phoenix Contact. The AX ...

The German automation supplier Weidmüller has announced a machine learning (ML) tool that allows you to implement ML at a ...

Sprint Electric, the UK manufacturer of AC and DC drives, has appointed Alan Baird as head of sales for its AC drives ...

An installation of eight 1MW medium-voltage drives on cooling pumps at a UK CCGT (combined-cycle gas turbine) power station ...

The Chinese automation giant Inovance has entered the European market for industrial AC motors with an IE5-efficiency motor ...

The German industrial safety specialist Pilz has announced an industrial PC, based on a low-cost Raspberry Pi computer module ...

A Finnish company has come up with a modular kit of parts that it says can be used to create almost any form of electrically ...

It can take weeks to produce a PLC program from scratch for complex processes with many I/O points and HMIs. Carl Eely, an ...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to change the way that we automate our factories. Anders Billesø Beck, ...

The parcels company Hermes is the first company in Europe to use a wheeled robot to help it unload boxes from containers onto ...

Some motor manufacturers are already offering “IE6” machines, even though no official standard yet exists for this level of ...