With a focus on enhancing hydropower’s role as a grid stabilizer to support other renewables assets coming online, GE Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company, has been awarded a 30- month, $4.3 million project through US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office to improve both the operating capacity and flexibility of hydropower assets.
The manufacturing industry will be at the forefront of turning COP26’s pledges into reality. As British naturalist David Attenborough pointed out at the event, “A new industrial revolution, powered by millions of sustainable innovations, is essential and is indeed already beginning".
The quality of aerospace-grade carbon fiber is still largely assessed manually, a process often rife with human errors. Automated monitoring solutions are necessary to ensure high-quality standards during production continuously.
Two product releases from Softing's smartLink family offer enhanced functionalities for Plant Asset Management and the implementation of Industry 4.0 connectivity in industrial networks.
"Accelerate your Vision" - this is the driving motto for Basler AG’s comprehensive range of computer vision solutions on display at VISION in Stuttgart from October 4 - 6. Key camera products include Basler's new ace 2 with 5GigE, new SWIR, thermal and 3D cameras, as well as roughly 200 new lighting components. The software presentation will focus on image processing modules: pylon vTools.
After a break caused by the Coronavirus, the international trade show AMB in Stuttgart is back. At one of the biggest fairs for metalworking in the world, Liebherr will present several innovations in the areas of gear technology and automation systems.
In SIGMATEK's HTML5-based visualization tool, the LASAL VISUDesigner, two new controls are available to make life easier for the user: the Data Logger for process analysis and the Interpreter for graphically configuring individual motion sequences.
Schmalz promises its visitors "Handling Solutions for your Packages" on stand 4-260 at FACHPACK in Nuremberg. What stands behind the claim are custom-fit solutions for challenges posed by booming online trade and gigantic distribution centres. Schmalz will also be showing how ergonomic handling solutions can be used exactly where they are needed.
Kontron, a leading global provider of IoT/Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), offers industrial software for cross-industry automation solutions through its subsidiary Kontron AIS GmbH. Thanks to a web client with a low-code approach, the latest version of the integration solution FabEagle®Connect now also supports user groups with limited programming experience.
The use of heating systems with renewable energies is becoming increasingly important, and not only for new buildings. Existing properties are also being converted step by step to green, efficient heat energy - the keyword being energy-efficient refurbishment.