By Thomas Knudsen, general manager Northern Europe, OnRobot Within a diverse and innovative sector like the manufacturing industry, flexibility is key. Robotics, a key enabler of this, has already taken this industry by storm, allowing factories worldwide to automate more and more tasks, cutting c

Mitsubishi Electric Asia’s Factory Automation Division partners with emerging industrial internet of things innovators in first e-F@ctory Alliance in Singapore Mitsubishi Electric Asia, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, a manufacturer of electric and electronic equipment, is collabo

This is the second time I have been to Hannover Messe and I thought I was better prepared for what is probably the largest industrial technology show in the world. But even though I had a lot of ideas of what to cover, it turns out that Hannover Messe has many more ideas than I brought with me and

MarketNewsUpdates.com news commentary The robots are coming, whether we are ready or not and the trend is clear: robots will increasingly integrate into our society – at work, at home, in warehouses, hospitals and retail stores, on city streets, industrial parks and the footpaths of college campus

South Korea, Germany and Singapore are the world’s top-ranked nations in their preparations for smoothly integrating intelligent automation into their economies, according to an index and report released today by ABB and The Economist Intelligence Unit. The report “The Automation Readiness I

Some people say robots will put millions of people out of work and even enslave and kill us all, but that’s a little bit hysterical really.  What looks realistic is that robots will continue to make working life easier and more manageable for humans. Yes, of course, some jobs may disappear for hum

Industrial automation solutions provider Omron Automation Americas recently announced the 2017 fiscal year’s winners of its “Distributor of the Year” award at its 2018 Sales Conference during the week of May 21st. More than 650 representatives of Omron and the company’s channel partners participa

ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. and Bruce Power held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the grand opening of the Major Component Replacement (MCR) Integration testing facility on the ATS Cambridge campus, Ontario, Canada. Bruce Power is a Canadian private nuclear power generator company. A

B&R Automation‘s entry into the machine vision market is led by two camera variants: Smart Sensor and Smart Camera. As the hardware is fully integrated in the automation system, the cameras can be synchronised to machine functions with microsecond precision. The Smart Sensor is designed

Klaus Allion, managing director at ANT Telecom, explains why strengthening automation capabilities should be an automatic choice for production and manufacturing companies Automation and the manufacturing/production industries are no strangers; they’ve been bosom buddies since the 1970s and have b

Kollmorgen says it has updated its developer network, added more functions and made it easier to use on mobile and desktop computer. “It’s so much easier when you work as a team,” say the company in a statement. “This is why Kollmorgen has thoroughly revised and expanded the web-based custom

B&R’s Automation PC 910 is now optionally available with an Intel Xeon processor to make it more powerful, says the company. The new microarchitecture provides a “50 per cent increase in performance” compared to the previous high-performance Core i processors, adds B&R, which was recently

The Port of Melbourne is the site of what is said to be the world’s first fully automated container handling terminal. The system was developed and delivered by Kalmar, part of Cargotec, and Navis, part of Kalmar Business Area within Cargotec. The automation solution is called OneTerminal, and was

Siasun Robot & Automation has become the first Chinese company to join the US Robotic Industries Association.  Siasun is said to be China’s largest robot supplier and integrator. By joining RIA, the company will gain greater access to the association’s members, partners and personnel. It may a

Exclusive interview with Mike Bell from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu There’s a lot of talk about the Robot Operating System. Understandably so. But the most widely used operating system in robotics and automation systems development is actually Ubuntu.  In fact, ROS is not actually an oper

  CommScope, a provider of infrastructure solutions for communications networks, has opened a new advanced manufacturing technology centre at its Kessel Lo, Belgium site. The centre will showcase a newly formed partnership with Yaskawa, one of the world’s largest industrial robot suppliers, t

  Automation company B&R is planning to showcase its condition monitoring solution for mobile automation, designed specifically for the agricultural sector. B&R will be presenting the solution at this year’s Agritechnica exhibition – scheduled for November 12-18 in Hanover. B&R wi

NTT Data Services has expanded agreement with Automation Anywhere to include its robotic process automation, cognitive and analytics solutions in NTT Data’s end-to-end automation ecosystem, Solutions for Intelligent Automation. By leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning, NTT Data delive

Yaskawa Electric says it has achieved a staggering 150 per cent growth in net profit for the period from April to September, compared with the same period last year, according to a report on Nikkei.  Nikkei says Yaskawa’s profits for the period were $184 million, beating its own previous records.

The global effects of robotics and automation technologies is forecast to include the removal of as many as 800 million people from their jobs by 2030, according to a new report. Seventy million of them will be in the US.  McKinsey, the consultancy firm which conducted the research, says the devel