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
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