TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY


As for the robots themselves, Lucier sees them getting faster and smaller, while handling the same payloads, as motor technology improves. They’re also being designed to work safely around humans. “What’s exciting about the collaborative robot industry is it’s not very mature; the whole technologies (from various manu- facturers) are different,” Lucier said. Those collaborative robots aren’t necessarily standing still,


either. They, too, can often be mobile. “Instead of taking production to the robot, they take the robot


to production,” said Jim Cooper, vice president of sales and marketing for KUKA Robotics (Shelby Township, MI), whose company makes a collaborative robot, although not the mobile kind that he’s describing here that have been on display at recent trade shows. “They use a programmable, moveable vehicle.” While those robots are at work, the connected factory is getting better at gathering more data. Paula Puess (pronounced “puce”), global marketing de- velopment manager at Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI),


sees the drop in prices for sensors making Big Data acquisi- tion, analysis and application more prevalent in the factory. “Rockwell has a unique position in that we have the


control gateways and information side of the portfolio,” said Puess. That includes Rockwell’s cloud-based FactoryTalk suite of manufacturing software, including remote monitoring solutions. “We are birthing data rapidly on the plant fl oor.” Protecting that data and the operations and industrial


control systems’ hardware and software from hackers is be- coming more crucial. Companies like PAS (Houston), whose clients are in the power generation, processing and manufac- turing industries, are rising to the challenge. Mark Carrigan, senior vice president of global operations


for PAS, said: “It’s not so much you’re trying to protect se- crets. I don’t want someone messing up my systems.” With more and more manufacturing getting tied to the Industrial Internet of Things, but often still relying on aging software, factories are an ever-growing target for cybercrimi- nals. The reason for the software lag is simple.


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