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 News


06 Schaeffler provides custom rotating direct drive motor for one of the world’s largest refl ecting telescopes 06 Williams to supply eSkootr championship’s first model 06 New HALCON software from MVTec 07 Comau uses AI to enhance battery manufacturing


07 ABB Column: Why now is the time to invest in automation


 Focus: Virtual Machines 08 OpenStack automation with Ansible


 Cover Story 10 Getting a grip on the awkward squad


 Special Supplement: Machine Vision 12 3D vision for highly-reliable bin picking in process automation


14 Bosch relies on autonomous machine vision for quality inspection


 Industry 4.0 & Smart Factories 18


16 Increasing productivity in a time of crisis 18 The benefits of digitalisation 20 AI-enabled smart factories


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