MELSOFT MaiLab (Mitsubishi Electric’s AI Laboratory) helps companies drive productivity improvements on manufacturing lines. The new solution offers an intuitive, operator-centric platform that leverages AI to automatically optimise operations while maximising equipment monitoring, visibility and diagnostics. The future of manufacturing…
EPLAN claims maximum customer benefits for digital transformation
The Eplan Partner Network was founded over two years ago and around sixty companies have joined since. Strategic partners such as Phoenix Contact, Siemens and Rockwell Automation, plus technology partners – including ABB, Lapp Kabel, Wago and Weidmüller – come…
Labour shortages set to define logistics in 2023
In recent years the warehouse and logistics industry has suffered greatly, with Covid-19, Brexit and the Great Resignation leading to extensive labour shortages in the warehouse. As inflation and economic challenges continue to place mounting pressure on supply chains, labour…
Cisco Cyber Vision now available from Impulse Embedded
Impulse Embedded is now able to offer its customers the security provided by Cisco Cyber Vision. Cyber Vision is a suite of products and services aimed at providing OT network visibility and actionable insights. The implementation of Cyber Vision helps…
IoT and ESG: How IoT can help businesses achieve their ESG goals
The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework is used by businesses to self-assess investment sustainability and societal impacts. Organisations around the world strive to achieve ESG goals to improve reputation, reduce risks, save costs, innovate, and grow – IoT is…
Sea creatures inspire marine robots which can operate in extra-terrestrial oceans
These robotic units called RoboSalps, after their animal namesakes, have been engineered to operate in unknown and extreme environments such as extra-terrestrial oceans. Although salps resemble jellyfish with their semi-transparent barrel-shaped bodies, they belong to the family of Tunicata and…
SICK launches smart box detection for safe continuous material flow
SICK has launched an industry-first safety light curtain system for Smart Box Detection, designed to enable the continuous safe material flow of cartons or cuboid goods at the entry or exit points of protected areas, while safeguarding people from dangerous…
Annual report shows significant expansion of LoRaWAN’s LPWAN
The LoRa Alliance, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for the IoT low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), has issued its 2022 End-of-Year Report. The report highlights LoRa Alliance achievements as well as LoRaWAN adoption, technology and certification…
University of Liverpool chemist receives Royal Society Professorship to develop an AI mobile robotic chemist
Professor Andrew Cooper from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Chemistry has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Research Professorship to further develop the mobile AI robotic chemist to fast-forward advances in materials science. Royal Society Research Professorships provide long-term…
Atlas Copco launches its next-gen GA and GA+ fixed-speed smart industrial air compressors
Atlas Copco has launched a new generation of GA 55+-75+ to the mid-size, fixed-speed industrial compressor market. For customers who want a more no-frills solution, Atlas Copco is introducing a new and improved GA 55-90. Atlas claim the new GA+…
