While industrial automation in general has just made the move towards ccompany-independent standards, new concepts like cloud computing seem to be almost too revolutionary for this industry. As a consequence, equipment providers tread softly and integrate new technology with caution. Why not hide a cloud in an M2M-Platform?
The trade fair for automation and mechatronics Automatica starts tomorrow and will last until Friday, May 25th. According to the organizers, the five halls on the grounds of the New Munich Trade Fair Centre will more or less be dominated by robots.
Automation bus systems and components have reached a level where they can easily be used in other application areas. This is especially true for image processing systems and all kinds of rough application environments.
Ruggedized touch panel computers can serve as control front ends for industrial networking systems. However, the usually delicate touch screens have to withstand all kinds of mistreatment.
Oberstdorf is not just a holiday paradise embedded in the Alps of the Allgäu. Here, in this remote southernmost village of Germany you’ll find the famous Heini Klopfer ski jump – a ski flying hill and the second largest ski jump in the world. If you are plucky enough you can ride a unique diagonal elevator to the top of the Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze. Cheer up! Nowadays, Bosch takes care of safety and security at this ski jump.
Focusing on energy efficiency and Safety/Security, Moxa is going to exhibit products from its railway, public transportation, ITS, marine, factory automation, and power business segments at SPC/IPC/DRIVES in hall 9 stand 221.
EtherCAT , the Industrial Ethernet system, has become the process communication standard in many robots. Its use in the field of robotics offers a number of advantages: EtherCAT enables extremely short update times for the process image (50 μs); control loops (up to the current controller) can be closed via the bus. Control of the axes can take place centrally in the controller – including the coupled movement function. It integrates redundancy, hot connect and hot swap options.
You may have experienced the disappointingly poor quality of the visual experience on your mobile devices — particularly when it comes to watching a movie, mobile TV or still pictures. While this is just an inconvenience, it can become a safety-critical issue on handheld terminals for field operation in industrial applications. Even with the advancements being made in mobile display technology, they still fall short in terms of adequate contrast ratio for viewing high quality multimedia content. Reflecting sunshine can make this experience even worse. The fundamental problem can be summarized in two four-letter-words. In order to avoid heart attacks while trying to read the information on a floodlit display, QuickLogic has signed an agreement with German, Munich-based, Data Display to bring VEE to industrial and digital signage applications.
The German Engineering Federation VDMA is going to present at this year’s Automatica trade fair together with the show organizers its "Green Automation" initiative. Automatica takes place in Munich June 8-11, 2010.
While the entertainment business rediscovers 3D every ten to fifteen years, stereoscopic methods are quite common in industrial applications, be it 3D scanners or digital fabricators (“3D printers ”). Since 3D movies in 2009/2010 may be technically more advanced than in 1954 , today’s childish plotlines may kill off the current 3D hype - James Cameron is definitely no Alfred Hitchcock. Industrial 3D technology remains unfettered by those petty concerns and is becoming more and more advanced.
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