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Canada is a partner country of Hannover Messe 2025, highlighting the strong economic and political ties between the “True North” and Germany. Canada announced its commitment as a partner country …

The adoption of robots in factories around the world is progressing rapidly, with the new global average robot density reaching a record figure of 162 robots per 10,000 employees in …

With its new runtime environment for its control platforms, Baumüller enables faster engineering, shorter cycle times and greater flexibility. The self-developed runtime environment supports the latest standards, such as high-level …

Weidmüller launches PROCON-Connect app to the market. The software tool enables users to easily record machine data, pre-process it and make it available for other applications. This simplifies data exchange …

With Safety+, B&R, a division of ABB, offers an innovative, open approach to programming safety functions. It enables developers to use the latest software engineering tools and techniques for security …

The virtual CODESYS safety control, announced in 2023, has been technically released and is awaiting certification by TÜV Süd. Once launched, the product will be used in Audi vehicle production. …

Delta announced a major advancement in robotics simulation. Its flagship D-Bot series of collaborative robots (cobots) has been integrated into NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform of application programming interfaces (APIs), software …

Chimay, the famous Belgian brewery known for its traditional Trappist beers, uses maintenance-free spherical plain bearings from igus in its bottling plant. By replacing rusty and stuck ball bearings with …

Energy chains have become an essential part of modern mechanical engineering. Wherever moving parts need to be supplied with energy, these components are in demand as critical machine parts. As …

Inductive proximity sensors are suitable for many different application areas, including security. However, where safety applications are exposed to difficult environmental conditions, such as in the food industry or on …

In precise robot applications such as welding and gluing, dispensing, wear and deformation can change the accuracy of the cobots. To minimize downtimes in production and ensure maximum precision, the …

British company ADM Automation has equipped its iCart AGV with Kassow Robots’ first Edge Edition collaborative robot. The mobile unit retrieves boxes with parts from storage and passes them to …

SEW-EURODRIVE has simplified the construction of gantry robots by combining its innovative automation solutions StarterSET End-of-Line and End-of-Line Robotics with prefabricated 3-axis gantry mechanics packages from Rollon GmbH. A faster …

The new AX1000 from Beckhoff is a highly optimized servo amplifier that is fully integrated into the TwinCAT system. Despite its very compact design, it offers similar functionality to the …

SPS Smart Production Solutions 2024 has come to a close. The 33rd edition of the intelligent and digital automation trade fair once again impressed all attendees with the latest automation …