Page 4 - Industrial Technology September 2020 issue

ON THE FRONT COVER
Sick’s Charlie Walker outlines the tools needed for sensor
integration and how they can used to enable rapid
process improvements PAGE 18

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SMARTER SENSORS
the challenging environment of the food industry and increasing user expectations
mean that the future belongs to smart sensors that not only offer outstanding
performance and reliability, but also deliver substantial added value

AUTOMATIC TURNING
BACK TO After only two years of development time, DMG Mori ushers in a new era of automatic
turning machines with multiple spindles. The current MULTISPRINT series represents
BUSINESS a technological revolution in automatic turning

06 The global manufacturing outlook is mixed, but the UK is 22 Vola, a Danish manufacturer of luxury sanitary and kitchen fittings, has
predicted to fare badly, according to new research. Further, the
opened a new factory that incorporates a fleet of nine mobile robots from
Omron, working side by side with people
aerospace sector will be hard hit and the slowest to recover
08 How can industry attract the investment necessary to make 24 Light Revolution, a lighting and camera system manufacturer for the film,
photography and photogrammetry industry, with the support of EMS, has
Industry 4.0 a reality? We examine an initiative aimed at doing
exactly that
taken the concept of painting with light straight into the 21st century
10 Challenged manufacturers seek more IT agility as business 26 HepcoMotion’s ‘Fit and Forget’ actuators provide a low maintenance
solution in a high duty bread manufacturing application, helping the
returns. The solution lies in upgraded ERP systems, and could
customer stay one step ahead of the competition
help manufacturers to initiate recovery quickly
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SMART FACTORIES
Cobots are key to the future of
manufacturing, enhancing production
efficiency, flexibility and quality with
the help of camera and vision
technology

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