SIs have a vital role as trusted advisors for those looking to achieve digital transformation. Across the industrial spectrum, businesses are under pressure to optimise performance while keeping costs low.
Ever since robots started to become a significant part of our manufacturing processes, the benefits of the technology, in terms of performing heavy, dirty, repetitive, and sometimes dangerous tasks have been extolled.
KEB Automation has supplied a variety of drive controllers from its COMBIVERT range, as well as active infeed converters to MS-Hydraulik, a developer of servo-hydraulic press technology based in Hattingen, Germany. The KEB products were specified for a special-purpose, 1200 tonne capacity servo-hydraulic press that produces large individual steel parts for vehicle construction.
There is a lot of hype about one of the most significant and transformational developments in standard Ethernet technology – Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN). This is an enabling technology for industrial communications that can help to realise IT/OT convergence and lead to substantial enterprise-wide improvements.
Siemens Digital Industries has teamed up with Yorkshire-based sustainable solutions provider, Xetrov Group, to boost production of its ground-breaking thermal waste converter, the Clean6 Vortex.