Low voltage ac variable speed drive technology is set to save a woollen yarn spinner nearly £27,000 a year in energy costs alone.
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New research from the automation, motors and drives specialist Siemens has revealed divided opinion within the manufacturing sector which it says could compromise the future growth of UK industry.
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Global manufacturing giant Siemens will debate how boosting investment in the UK and Ireland's industrial infrastructure could help UK manufacturers overcome core challenges in skills and productivity at a landmark conference this July.
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Rockwell Automation has announced that its free Automation University event is coming to Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham, from 25 to 26 April 2012.
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ABB has unveiled a network of integrators for PLC (programmable logic controllers), aimed at giving OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) easier access to programming expertise.
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Michelin Group has signed a four-year agreement that makes Rockwell Automation its preferred partner for industrial automation and controls covering all of the tyre manufacturer's production plants worldwide.
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Rockwell Automation says that manufacturers and machine builders will be able to optimise their plants and machines more efficiently and effectively if they use its latest integr4ated architecture.
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Industrial automation (IA) system developers are at a crossroads, with the market for solutions – and the portfolios of software – nearing saturation.
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Mitsubishi Electric Automation Systems Division, which this month is celebrating 30 years of manufacturing variable speed drives, has a new marketing manager in the form of Amaechi Oduah.
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The Stuxnet virus has given us a wakeup call and we now need to take a fresh approach to how data is transferred and managed within all industrial control systems.
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It is critical than UK manufacturing – one of the fastest growing sectors of the UK economy – remains globally competitive; something it can do with the help of robots, according to an industry expert.
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Despite its fragility, the beginning of economic recovery and increasing globalisation will again cause industrial companies to invest in new automation equipment. According to a report this month from the market research specialist ARC, such investment is expected to start at a slow pace but general motion control (GMC) equipment will enjoy moderate growth.
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Automation specialist ABB overcame "the worst recession in memory", it said today (18 February) after reporting fourth quarter earnings of almost $800 million (£511m), despite $350 million of restructuring charges.
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An industry expert has warned that with robot investment still booming in China – a 20% increase was reported in the latest figures and there's an expectation that 100,000 more will be installed by 2015 – alarm bells should be sounding in the UK manufacturing sector.
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ABB has won an order to provide electrical and automation equipment and related services for a new seamless-tube mill and pipe production plant in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The project is a joint venture between ArcelorMittal and the Saudi-based Bin Jarallah Group.
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GE and FANUC are to dissolve GE Fanuc Automation, the joint venture established in 1986. According to the two companies, the move will allow them to refocus their investments in order to pursue their respective core industry expertises.
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IT and engineering services firm HCL Technologies says it is now working with Rockwell Automation on its Enterprise Solution Partner (ESP) programme.
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On the 40th anniversary of the invention of the PLC (programmable logic controller), Cyon Research is honouring its developer Dick Morley.
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Roke Manor Research, part of Siemens, is sponsoring a demonstration of robot technology at tomorrow’s International Conference on Artificial Life).
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Rockwell Automation has bought privately-held Pavilion Technologies, the model-based process optimisation and environmental compliance software firm launched in the US 15 years ago. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Early results of the collaboration between Cisco and Rockwell Automation, aimed at integrating manufacturing and business IT, have taken the partners by surprise.
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Power and control systems giant Schneider Electric has upgraded its membership of ODVA the international association that supports Common Industrial Protocol (CIP), to the top level alongside Cisco Systems, Eaton Electrical, Omron, and Rockwell Automation.
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Siemens yesterday announced its intention to acquire engineering design and management software firm UGS, and with it, previously acquired manufacturing simulation software specialist Tecnomatix and MES (manufacturing execution system) and SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems developer US Data.
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Manufacturers are being given the opportunity to configure, benchmark and deploy complete machine vision applications cheaply, easily and without programming, following Sony and National Instruments’ launch of IT for the former’s Smart Camera.
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BMW Group is to standardise on Copa-Data’s ZenOn HMI/SCADA visualisation system world-wide – extending its five-year and 1,500 installations partnership with the software house.
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