Automation

Robotics and connected industrial control systems are growing in importance. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

Finance

Rockwell Automation rejects $27 billion takeover bid

The Manufacturer Smart Factory Expo 2016 - image courtesy of The Manufacturer

Digital Transformation

Smart Factory Expo: survival guide

IoT

Upcoming Budget Autumn Budget 2017 states support for 5G mobile networks, fibre broadband and AI.

Robotics & Automation

Raising profit margins using automated engineering

SKF has provided a modern lubrication system to Erdinger Weißbräu, to help them improve the flexibility of internal processes and meet growing demand - image courtesy of SKF

Robotics & Automation

Automation helps keep the beer flowing

A Baidu self-driving car. Image courtesy of Baidu.

Baidu announces autonomous car partnership

Smart factories are set to improve productivity and labor cost hugely over the next 5 years - image courtesy of APS

Smart Factory

Smart factories set to contribute up to £1.13 trillion to the global economy

Employment levels within the manufacturing sector will increase by 0.8% between now and 2021 as a result of the increased utilisation of 4IR technology - image courtesy of irwinmitchell

Digital Transformation

‘4IR won’t have negative impact on employment levels’

Industrial Control Systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Image courtesy of Wikipedia - Steag

Industrial Data

Manufacturers’ ICS at high risk of cyber attack

The research from Canonical looked at the views, opinions and experiences of 361 IoT professionals regarding past, present and future IoT projects.

Digital Transformation

Number of large scale global IoT projects doubles

IoT

Industrial IoT applications are being developed to monitor robots, thereby reducing downtime and improving efficiency.

Robotics & Automation

Grasping the next generation of robotics

Germany is the world’s fifth largest industrial robots market, and by far the largest in Europe.

Robotics & Automation

What are the world’s largest industrial robots markets?