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10 February 2025
PROMISING TO bring together innovation, political discussion, a global stage for business and industrial collaboration, Hannover Messe 2025 takes place 31 March to 4 April
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10 February 2025
PETER WILLIAMSON, CEO of Automate UK, explores using apprenticeship initiatives to bridge the UK skills gap
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10 February 2025
SAFETY REGULATIONS play a crucial role in equipment selection in industries where explosive atmospheres are a risk. The ATEX directive, established by the European Union, ensures that components used in such environments meet strict safety standards, as Daniel Hodson explains
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07 February 2025
OFFERING PRODUCTS as a service allows users to test new technologies with reduced risks. This is good news for warehouse sorting operations in the parcels, ecommerce and fulfilment sector, where operators can struggle to justify replacing traditional manual processes with robots, says Stefan van der Heijden
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06 February 2025
IN THE era of Farming 4.0, electric machines, integrated with real-time data and automation, are set to make agriculture greener, smarter and more cost-effective. Alex Raymond explores the role of connectors in advancing agriculture
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04 February 2025
A RECENT IBM study revealed that 74% of energy and utility companies are turning to AI to solve data related challenges. This move is expected to dramatically boost efficiency and reduce environmental impact, with uses ranging from predicting energy demand to optimising grid maintenance. Tom Cash explores its uses and challenges in energy, particularly in terms of infrastructure.
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30 January 2025
THE GLOBAL market value of industrial robot installations has reached an all-time high of US$ 16.5b. Future demand will be driven by a number of technological innovations, market forces and new fields of business. The International Federation of Robotics reports on the top five trends for the robotics industry for 2025
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27 January 2025
At Automation Fair, futurist Anat Baron explored how to foster a culture of innovation that maximises the strengths of both human expertise and artificial intelligence. Charlotte Stonestreet was there
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24 January 2025
Fernando Colás looks at five top manufacturing automation trends for 2025
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Since first finding commercial success in the early 1970s, PLCs (programmable logic controllers) have been at heart of many production lines, machine functions and processes. An industrial computer system that continuously monitors the state of input devices and makes decisions to control the state of output devices, a PLC can greatly enhance any application.
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