In focus: HMI
The e-paper of issue 06/23
How can digitalization and artificial intelligence help to make production processes sustainable? How can cobots and automated guided vehicles bring variety to everyday working life and how can they support people? Starting points in this issue.
Topic highlights
- TITLE: Design and simulation of pick-and-place applications
Setting up a consistent pick & place workflow with Simulink (page 20) - Beckhoff relies on AI-supported engineering
The TwinCAT Chat Client and other innovations from the Hannover Messe (page 10) - "It is important to channel the forces well"
From Lapp to Bürkert - CEO Georg Stawowy in an interview (page 12) - The PLC in the cloud becomes reality
Siemens presents Industrial Operations X (page 14) - IoT hotspot: virtual IT application
The digital twin is more than just a virtual instance of a physical object (page 16) - No chance for attacks
A security system based on the zero-trust model (page 24) - Transforming analog industrial plants into cyber-physical systems
Digitalization kit for existing industrial plants (page 36) - AGV and AMR - quo vadis?
Data treasures on board mobile platforms (page 40) - Robotics in process automation
Series Part 1: The requirements (page 44)
IN FOCUS: Human Machine Interfaces
- Thin clients in kiosk mode
Tailored to process automation (page 26) - Wireless operating area monitoring
How machine safety works with mobile operating devices (page 28) - HMI devices based on ARM processors
The advantages of ARM-based CPUs (page 31)
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