Drives & Controls April 2023

From factory automation to logistics automation and process automation, SICK’s sensor solutions are keeping industry moving. As a technology and market leader, SICK provides sensor intelligence and application solutions that create the perfect basis for controlling processes securely and efficiently, protecting individuals from accidents, and preventing damage to the environment. WERMA are excited to show WeAssist, the latest generation of process monitoring systems. Building on the industry-leading SmartMonitor system for machine and workstation monitoring, this cloud-based solution provides robust notification of process activities to multiple users via a browser interface. Complementing this is our user-configurable WirelessAndon system which offers a simple but flexible call-and-response solution to help optimise your processes. Optional battery operation makes this system suitable for mobile applications such as fork-lifts. The new eSign programmable signal towers provide an unrivalled amount of visual information in an intuitive format, allowing for easy visual management of manufacturing operations. Weidmuller will be exhibiting a wide range of products at Talking Industry. Our products are aimed at a very wide industry spectrum, including OEM’s, Panel Builders, Systems integrators and Process Sectors. We will be demonstrating our brand-new Klippon® Connect terminal blocks with SNAP IN connection technology - The AS-Series. They can be used to wire flexible conductors quickly, simply and safely without the need for wire-end ferrules or tools. Weidmuller’s range of products has expanded significantly over the years, and whilst connectivity is still at the core, other key areas are Power Supplies, Over Voltage Protection, Industrial Ethernet, Relays, PCB and Enclosures and Tools. Scorpion Vision has been delivering 3D robot vision systems for over 10 years. In that time, the business has seen many developments in what was previously a very niche area. 3D Vision systems come in many different forms - such as the ultra flexible camera systems developed by Tordivel AS, the people behind the Scorpion 3D Stinger products. These systems solve many challenging problems where off the shelf camera systems just aren’t up to the job. Then there are the new generation of ‘off the shelf’ 3D camera products which enable rapid and low risk installation for typical automation problems, such as random bin picking. Previously the holy grail of 3D robot vision, the Mech Mind products prove that this technology is no longer a myth and so is being widely deployed - with over 3000 installations worldwide. Scorpion Vision is very proud to be appointed a UK distributor by Mech Mind. End-to-end data is the real success factor, saving time and money in your value creation process as well as preventing errors which leads to lasting improvements in productivity. At the heart of this is the digital twin of the physical product, which links all process steps – from electrical engineering through to operations and service. Solutions from Rittal and EPLAN provide comprehensive support at every stage of the entire process – from engineering, sourcing and manufacturing through to operations and IT, to enable you to reap the rewards of successfully navigating Industry 4.0. Take the opportunity to visit our stand, attend one of our workshops or visit our exhibition bus which will be parked toward the rear of the venue, in order to discover more about our 3D ECAD software solutions, our range of modular enclosure and rack systems, and how we’re able to support your digitalisation and automation goals. t-dab.ai is technology company on a mission to revolutionise the building and transformation of Internet of Things (IoT) powered industrial businesses through decentralised artificial intelligence (AI). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can deliver high ROI across many applications in industry, but its widespread adoption is hampered by a lack of suitable machine learning infrastructure and the need to centralise data which in turn leads to high costs, privacy risks, overdependency on cloud platforms and network availability. To solve these barriers to AI for Industrial IoT, t-dab.ai are harnessing a simple but revolutionary idea. Intelligence is achieved by combining learning on many devices via a novel technology called Federated Learning. To deliver this, t-dab.ai has created a decentralised AI platform for industrial IoT: OctaiPipe. OctaiPipe represents a paradigm shift in AI solving high value industrial machine intelligence use cases whilst vastly reducing costs, privacy risks, and network or cloud dependency. OctaiPipe is a crossplatform, end-to-end distributed Edge AI platform optimized for training, deploying and managing models in any IoT environment. 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