ISSUE December/January 2023  Contents  Comment and News from page 3 10


 Cover story 08 Free drive tech support, anywhere, any drive, any size


 Robotics 10 Robots are taking on the most difficult jobs in Finland 12 Traditional German brewery requires Kawasaki robots


 Smart Factories 18 On the way to the smart factory


 Industry 4.0 20 Defending and protecting IoT nodes


 Sensors 22 Visualising maintenance through sensors’ eyes


22  Packaging & Logistics


24 How can food companies deliver sustainable packaging operations?


 Machine Vision 32 The key to unleashing automation’s full potential


 Materials Handling


30 The essential material-handling equipment to protect staff and optimise efficiencies


 Medical 34 Robots in the operating theatre


 Oil & Gas 36


32 Boosting productivity and efficiency in the oil & gas sector


36 Going to extremes: Detecting leaks in critical processes


 PLCs, PCs and HMIs


38 AAEON de next-TGU8 introduces next generation of single board computing


 Events


14 Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2023 16 MG4: Synthesis between age-old systems quality and connectivity, flexibility and mobility


28 Packaging Innovations & EMPACK 2023


 Sponsored content 26 IO-Link is fast becoming a safety interface, too!


4 December/January 2023 | Automation automationmagazine.co.uk


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