Thermal imaging is essential to the EU’s €22 billion investment to tackle microchip scarcity and shore-up global supply chains, as Jerry Beeney, director of global business development for science and automation at Teledyne FLIR, explains.

See Beckhoff at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 43

Christof Franzke, senior technical consultant at Copa-Data, explains the vital role of the zenon platform in the roll-out of modularisation and digitalisation in laboratories.

For the engineer tasked with specifying standard machine components, there might not seem much between the different products on the market. But discussing the project with an expert can uncover opportunities to optimise the end project design, as the experts at Rencol explain.

Edge Computing platforms enable easy scalability, allowing you to start with a small HMI/SCADA solution (single node) and add more (multiple nodes in multiple locations) as your needs grow. The experts at Stratus Technologies explain more.

Stephen Hayes, managing director at Beckhoff UK, explores why companies need to evaluate what mix of traditional and additive manufacturing makes sense for their business.

Last year was also reported to be the hottest year on record by the Met Office. Without being alarmist, that is a serious issue that we cannot ignore. Rising temperatures are a global trend and they will have a major impact on your electrical equipment, says Christian Westwood, service manager at Rittal UK.

CC-Link IE TSN is the first open industrial Ethernet to combine gigabit bandwidth with TSN functions. As such, it has been adopted by leading development platform suppliers.

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Wouter Meijers of Lenze, a leading provider of machine automation solutions, discusses the benefits of investment in IIoT technologies and the added value that digitalisation of a machine’s information and full digitalisation of existing processes can bring.