Industrial

As cities continue to grow, it seems like the only way is up. Increasing urbanisation in recent decades has led construction companies to build upwards, with the construction of over 500 high-rise towers in the pipeline for the city of London alone.

Universal Robots (UR) has announced that GÖPEL electronic has developed an automated quality control system for automotive manufacturing using its UR10e cobot. According to Thomas Schöppe, Senior Team Manager at GÖPEL electronic, the cobot replaces the company’s manual and cumbersome end of line seating test system.

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has strongly impacted developments in China. Following the directives of the Government of Shanghai Municipality to prevent and control the virus from spreading, Messe München Shanghai was compelled at the beginning of February to postpone electronica China, productronica China and LASER World of PHOTONICS CHINA, which were planned to take place in March.

Connected data environments don’t just talk the talk but also walk the walk on your construction projects, and because of this, they can help to solve many engineering challenges. By Mark Coates, Director of Strategic Industry Engagements at Bentley Systems

The rise of smart tech is changing the reputation of construction, as the sector embraces innovative solutions to some of its more traditional challenges. Health and safety are obvious concerns across all of the UK’s industries, but it’s of particular importance within construction as the rate of fatal injury is around four times as high as the average rate across all industries.

Common mode choke inductors from Coilcraft designed for noise suppression in a CAN (Controller Area Network) or a CAN FD (Controller Area Network Flexible Data rate) communication bus in automotive or general industrial automation applications are available at Mouser Electronics.

Digital transformation is a top strategic priority for 94% of executives, but in order to realise its full potential, manufacturers must start to prioritise customer-centric enterprise solutions on their innovation roadmap. Here, Kevin Bull, Product Strategy Director at Columbus UK has explained how becoming a digitally empowered business can create better customer engagement throughout the entire manufacturing product lifecycle, and has the powe...

For years industry experts said that Autonomous Machine Vision (AMV) would never be possible. To prove the contrary, category founder, Inspekto, is offering QA managers a free demonstration of its visual inspection product on the end user’s own production line.

As users of electronic devices, we can all appreciate the excitement of a new smartphone launch, the holiday availability of a new video game platform, or the introduction of a wearable device that promises to enhance our well-being in some way. Breakthrough innovations in electronics come rapidly, and we have come to expect that.  By Caren Potter and Louisa Lou, Siemens Digital Industries Software

Electric vehicles, large-scale battery storage stacks, home automation, industrial, and telecom power all require converting high voltages to ±12V, where dual polarity rails are required for powering amplifiers, sensors, data converters, and industrial process controllers. Zhijun Qian, Senior Engineer and William Xiong, Applications Engineer, at Analog Devices (ADI) investigate.