industry 4.0
Make Older Machines Ready for Industry 4.0
Bosch Rexroth’s new IoT Gateway Rack sends plant-floor data to upper-level computer systems.
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Industry 4.0: Now It’s Extrusion’s Turn
Euromap publishes trial versions of standard interfaces for extrusion lines and components.
Read MoreDigital Manufacturing & Industry 4.0 Highlighted At Fakuma 2018
The “Road to Digitalization” was the theme of Arburg’s exhibit at the Fakuma in Germany.
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New TCU Ready for Industry 4.0
Easytherm incorporates the OPC-UA communication protocol, making it ready for communication with machines from different suppliers.
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New Industry 4.0 Interfaces Published for Review—More Coming Soon
First drafts of Euromap 82 sub-sections for temperature-control devices, hot runners, and LSR dosing systems.
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NPE2018 Tooling: Molds Join the Industry 4.0 Conversation
At NPE2018, multiple companies displayed mold monitors that would allow the tool in an injection molding cell to “talk” to other equipment and remote computers.
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NPE2018: Robots & Automation Tackle Increasing Complexity
Exhibitors highlighted brute strength, complex automation cells, wireless networking, new controls features, and “collaborative” applications. Automated one-minute mold change was another attraction.
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NPE2018 Auxiliaries: A Path to Industry 4.0 Emerges
Industry 4.0 dominated the news in auxiliary equipment at the show, but many questions remain for both suppliers and processors.
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Industry 4.0: A Work in Progress
At NPE2018, Thorsten Kümann, secretary general of Euromap, the umbrella organization of European plastics and rubber machinery producers, led a highly informative “walking seminar” of the state of development of communications standards for Industry 4.0.
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