October 2020

| 26 | Siemens technologies is supporting a plan to create one of UK’s largest digital chemical facilities. The collaboration between Siemens Digital Industries (DI) and Lianhetech Seal Sands will double the Teesside plant’s overall capacity. Smart Machines & Factories reports. | 27 | LCA Group was chosen to trial the new EPLAN eVIEW solution, which is part of EPLAN’s portfolio of ePULSE cloud-based services. Smart Machines & Factories takes a closer look. | 29 | Industrial customers require insights into the behaviour of their assets to proactively plan maintenance across their production facilities. Smart Machines & Factories reports. | 30 | The food industry often presents challenging environments for components and, in particular, for the sensors used in process control applications. Andy Walker reports. | 32 | A recent collaboration to create a flexible radio platform that addresses 5G network design challenges will also enable customers to scale their 5G networks more quickly and economically. Smart Machines & Factories reports. | 33 | | Technologies | | Applications | | Interviews & Reports | | CONTENTS | www.smartmachinesandfactories.com September/October 2020 | 0 5 | | 33 | Although robots and other programmable industrial machines are the backbone of the modern factory, and the technology behind them is fundamental to Industry 4.0, these machines often run on outdated proprietary programming languages that make it difficult for developers not to introduce vulnerabilities in their code. Andy Pye reports. | 30 |