Swisslog, leading provider of best-in-class warehouse automation and software, has announced that Toyota Motor North America will install a goods-to-person automation system that features Swisslog’s CarryPick storage and order picking system in its Hebron, Kentucky, facility to increase flexibility and efficiency, and enable continued growth to keep up with demand in the automotive spare parts market.
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is preparing industrial Ethernet to support tomorrow’s industrial communications needs by providing innovative, highly beneficial features. Companies are well aware of this potential, and a lot is happening to fully realise the TSN-driven Connected Industries of the Future.
Latest version of IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V adds support for latest Andes RISC-V processor technology, including AndeStar V5 RISC-V Performance Extension.
With a versatile range of automation components for demanding applications, SCHUNK will be attending this year's Automatica, which will take place as a purely digital event, the "automatica sprint", from June 22 to 24, 2021.
Up until now, users in the metal and plastics processing industries often faced a difficult choice: with CNC lathes and milling machines, one opted either for the largest possible variance or for large volumes, i.e., high quantities. An innovative solution from the Netherlands makes both possible and simultaneously lowers the threshold for automation. In the servo-controlled gripper jaws, brushless DC-servomotors with integrated Speed Controller from FAULHABER provide the necessary precision and reliability.