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New mobility ecosystem from Toyota

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Toyota‘s new mobility service business alliance and e-Palette concept vehicle have been designed to meet the demands of future multi-mode transportation and business applications.

The e-Palette Alliance will leverage Toyota’s proprietary Mobility Services Platform (MSPF) to develop a suite of connected mobility solutions and a flexible, purpose-built vehicle.

The alliance will create a broad-based ecosystem of hardware and software support designed to help a range of companies utilize advanced mobility technology to better serve customers.

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Heidenhain to show off machine connection capability at IMTS

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Heidenhain will use its control systems to connect equipment from many machine tool builders at the September IMTS exhibition in Chicago back to its own booth. The list of connected manufacturers is to be announced closer to show time.

“Connecting Systems for Intelligent Production” has been Heidenhain’s motto at many trade shows over the past year as the manufacturing trend of digitization and networking have become the goal for many in order to increase competitiveness.

To this end, Heidenhain offers Connected Machining, a package of components and systems to support end users introducing digital order management in their production processes.

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Universal Robots wins the DenmarkBridge Award 2018

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Universal Robots received the DenmarkBridge Award 2018 from His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik at the Annual Meeting of The Danish Growth Fund.

The DenmarkBridge Award celebrates companies, organizations or individuals who have shown an ability to think bigger and aim for the unreachable.

The competition for the Award was tough, and among the many nominees, four went on to the final. Besides Universal Robots, the finalists were Netcompany, Joe & The Juice and Muuto.

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MachineMetrics partners with Tsugami/Rem to market industrial IoT platform

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MachineMetrics and Tsugami/Rem Sales have entered a partnership to bring predictive manufacturing analytics and remote machine monitoring to customers across North America.

The MachineMetrics Industrial IoT manufacturing analytics platform, paired with Tsugami/Rem Sales’ Swiss-type machines will benefit end-user customers through improved production visibility, predictive analytics, and service.

Bill Bither, CEO of MachineMetrics, says: “For years now we have been working directly with manufacturers to improve manufacturing equipment uptime, OEE, and productivity with real-time machine monitoring and analytics.  [Read more…] about MachineMetrics partners with Tsugami/Rem to market industrial IoT platform

ABB and Heliospectra partner in the Middle East and Africa

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Technology collaboration to explore “innovative and sustainable control solutions” to increase horticultural and commercial food production

ABB and Heliospectra are joining forces to explore solutions that they say will boost the productivity and the sustainability of greenhouse and controlled environment agriculture produce industry in the Middle East and Africa.

ABB is an industrial giant with a big controls business, and Heliospectra is said to be a world leader in intelligent lighting technology for greenhouse and controlled plant growth environments.

The collaboration propels exploration of new food production technologies and commercial infrastructure to address increasing demand for sustainably grown agricultural products.  [Read more…] about ABB and Heliospectra partner in the Middle East and Africa

Segway Robotics raises more than $1 million on Indiegogo for new vehicle

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Segway Robotics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Segway-Ninebot Group, concluded what it says was a “successful” Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign this week, having raised $1.1 million in 50 days from 952 backers.

The initial goal of $100,000 was achieved less than 33 minutes after Segway Robotics started its crowdfunding campaign for Loomo, a smart machine that toggles between a mini personal transporter and mobile robot sidekick.

Loomo begins shipping to Indiegogo backers in late May and this will continue through the summer, with hundreds of Loomos to be shipped every week.  [Read more…] about Segway Robotics raises more than $1 million on Indiegogo for new vehicle

Festo credits digitalisation for record growth in 2017

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Festo recorded an increase in sales of over 12% to approximately €3.1 billion for the 2017 financial year. This positive development continued into the first quarter of 2018. The strongest driver of growth was the electronics industry.

With the “digital customer journey”, the company is placing the customers at the focus of its digitalisation strategy and is launching the first digital products on the market this year.

Festo reinforced its technological standing in late 2017 with the appointment to the Management Board of Dr. Frank Melzer, who will further advance the digitalisation of the core business and the future-oriented industries. The global workforce grew to 20,100.

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B&R launches new generation of its industrial PC range

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Automation PC 2200 is the latest generation of B&R‘s 2000 series of compact industrial PCs. Equipped with Intel Atom processors from the Apollo Lake generation, the Automation PC 2200 is available in either box PC or panel PC format.

Despite its compact dimensions, the Automation PC 2200 is a full-fledged PC system. Available with either dual or quad core processors, the Automation PC 2200 offers fully scalable processing power.

Thanks to B&R Hypervisor, the Automation Runtime real-time operating system can run simultaneously alongside Windows 10 IoT Enterprise or Linux. The Automation PC 2200 is suitable as an IoT gateway or as a fully-fledged edge controller or edge device. [Read more…] about B&R launches new generation of its industrial PC range

Schaefer launches new warehouse management system

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SSI Schaefer is claiming to be ushering intralogistics into a new era of optimized performance and guaranteed maximum information transparency with WAMAS LRM, its new “Labour and Resource Management” system.

The intelligent system is said to look at everything from individual processes to the entire internal material flow in order to optimize procedures and productivity.

It is the latest addition to the range of  IT services based on proprietary logistics software WAMAS, developed by SSI Schaefer, a global provider of solutions for warehouse and logistics systems.

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Almost 7,000 robotics companies now established in China

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There are almost 7,000 robotics companies now established in China, according to a report from Xinhua.

Xinhua says the exact number established in 2017 alone is actually 1,686.

That brings the total number of robotics companies established in China to more than 6,500 according to Xinhua’s calculations.  [Read more…] about Almost 7,000 robotics companies now established in China

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