German Chancellor inaugurates ‘Learning Factory Industry 4.0’ at ABB in Berlin

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has visited ABB’s training centre in Berlin to mark the start of the new training year for apprentices and formally inaugurate the centre’s extension building. The German Chancellor saw first-hand how ABB’s ‘Learning Factory Industry 4.0’…

Exeger and Atmosic partner to create IoT energy harvesting solutions

Exeger has announced its partnership with US-based semiconductor company Atmosic Technologies. The partnership will enable companies to create attractive energy harvesting solutions for the IoT sector. Both Exeger and Atmosic develop components within the field of energy harvesting. Stockholm-headquartered Exeger…

IoT implementation in smart farming

The IoT systems in smart farming have been depicted in six main sections by EET India, which are processors, sensors, signal conditioning, power management, connectivity, and positioning. Common use cases like automatic fertilisation, automatic irrigation, crop management, precision farming, and…

Automation in vacuum impregnation and porosity sealing

Robotic automation is not a new concept within engineering and manufacturing. Businesses are always looking for new ways to improve costly overheads, speed up production times and ensure long-term sustainability. Within the automotive industry, where the manufacturing of high volumes…

Shibaura Machine partners with SICK for robot demonstration

TM Robotics will exhibit its robotic technology, which uses SICK’s vision systems and sensing, at the Assembly Show 2022, held on the 25th to 27th of October 2022, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. As the…

Mouser and HARTING to present digitalisation webinar

Mouser has teamed up with HARTING to present a new webinar, titled ‘Digitalisation Processes for Industry 4.0 and IIoT’. The free, live webinar will take place at 3:00 pm CET on Tuesday, the 13th of September 2022. HARTING is a…

Three trends tackling manufacturing’s challenging labour market

Labour shortages are a perennial problem in manufacturing. By 2030 estimates point to a shortage of 8 million workers. To recruit and retain vital talent, manufacturers must adapt or risk becoming obsolete. Steve Tonks, SVP EMEA at WorkForce Software discusses…

Schaffner extends EMC filter series for robotics and datacentres

Schaffner announces the availability of the new FN2520 and FN2660 very high-performance EMC filters. These now join the initial FN2500 and FN2640 models, extending the filter series designed for robotics and datacentres. This new series of EMC filters have been…

Schneider reports: digital transformation lacking in industrial process firms

Schneider Electric and Omdia, the technology market research firm, write that despite digital transformation being critical to business strategy, many industrial process organisations are still not ready. This finding was part of a study conducted by the two companies to…

Atlas VPN reports: 41% of business cyberattacks are through Cloud servers

Recent changes in IT infrastructure, such as companies’ transition to Cloud solutions – all of which which have been triggered by the rise in remote work – have shifted the focus of cyberattacks. Atlas VPN discusses. According to the data…