Month: January 2019

Hugo Benzing LLC manufactures fasteners for the automobile, aerospace, fine mechanical, and electrical industries and uses Ecoclean’s new remote support capability at the Hugo Benzing manufacturing facility in New Hudson, Mich. The plant uses a Profinet network, allowing Ecoclean technicians to connect remotely to the network and cleaning machines by using a self-contained, secure TosiBox VPN router. Courtesy: PI North America

Industrial Ethernet enables smarter, more reliable machines

Courtesy: CFE Media

Industrial Networking

Special interest group for internet protocol launched

Combine data science and computing power with sensor-captured data to derive better solutions for complex problems. Courtesy: L&T Technology Services

The digital fuels the oil & gas industry toward profitable transformation

System Integrators

Engineer lights up the town

Zettlex supplies inductive sensors used for servo controls and motor encoders for mission-critical applications in the medical, industrial, defense, aerospace, and petrochemical sectors. Courtesy: Zettlex, Control Engineering Europe

Vision and Discrete Sensors

Shaft encoders versus bearingless encoders: Technology types, applications

Figure 1: According to a survey by the Eclipse Foundation, messaging query telemetry transport (MQTT) is the most-used messaging protocol for an IoT solution. Courtesy: Eclipse Foundation Inc.

IIoT, Industrie 4.0

MQTT’s role as an IoT message transport

Robotic piece-picking solution for intralogistics combines innovative grasping technology, intelligent sensors, computer vision, and machine learning to automate individual item picking in warehouses and fulfillment centers. Courtesy: Robotic Industries Association/RightHand Robotics, Inc.

Top 5 Control Engineering articles December 31 to January 6

Courtesy: CFE Media

Vision and Discrete Sensors

Embedded vision technology advances are key for medical applications

The book 4.0 Sight focuses on the latest industrial revolution and what it means for manufacturers from all over the globe. Courtesy: EU Automation

IIoT, Industrie 4.0

Digitalization and innovation driving manufacturing’s future

Bosch Rexroth’s CNC system MTX with new hardware is designed to achieve even shorter cycle times and better machining quality with just one central controller. Courtesy: Bosch Rexroth

Mechatronics and Motion Control

CNC system for machine tool applications

Courtesy: Bob Vavra, CFE Media

Technology advances for the industrial robots of tomorrow

The Axio 360 NIST-CSF risk management platform is designed to establish a baseline for cyber readiness, and provides companies a risk reduction roadmap for ongoing improvement. Courtesy: Axio Global

Cyber risk management platform