With the vacuum tube lifters from the 'Quicklift' and 'Heavylift' series, Timmer is presenting solutions with which various goods can be lifted and lowered ergonomically and safely.

With the ever-growing fleets of mobile robots, the energy supply is often a weak point, as faults in the energy system have to be rectified manually on site. 'Smart Robot Charging' can provide a remedy and enable the monitoring of large robot fleets.

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Bernd Eder, Chief Operating Officer of the Kontron Transportation Group and member of the extended Management Board of Kontron, is the new Chief Executive Officer of Kontron Transportation with immediate effect. He takes over the office from Michael Riegert.

On May 8, 2023, the AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement (AMA) presented the AMA Innovation Award to the winning team from Quantum Technologies for an all-optical quantum magnetometer.

Image processing and AI are driving automation in modern factories. Intelligent cameras optimize processes, ensure quality & increase efficiency. But how do companies benefit in concrete terms - and how do they get started? Find out more here.

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Mobile Industrial Robots appoints Jean-Pierre Hathout as President of the company. Hathout succeeds Walter Vahey, who will remain available to the company as a consultant until his planned retirement in 2024.

The TKH Group has entered into an agreement to acquire the Euresys Group, developer and supplier of image and video acquisition components, FPGA IP cores and image processing software as well as frame grabbers.

Analog Devices recently announced the appointment of Alan Lee to the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Igus is now using a simple technology for heat recovery. It heats industrial halls with the waste heat from machines, thus saving gas costs and CO2 emissions. The full details of the technology are also available online to other industrial companies.

The All Electric Society shows the way to a climate-neutral world. All the necessary technical foundations are already in place. A status quo report.

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A new solution could reshuffle the cards in the booming cloud services market - and make Europe more independent. The cloud solution from the Swedish Unigrid Foundation networks a large number of European data centers.

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Schmersal is launching a 3D camera for the automated acquisition of digital process data in real time. The 'AM-T100' time-of-flight camera (ToF camera) generates 3D depth images with millimeter precision using a Sony DepthSense sensor.

The 'Safety Configuration Library (SCL)' is a free software tool from SEW-Eurodrive with a focus on functional safety, which has now been expanded to include the 'Movi-C' control cabinet devices.

With the 'KRT 3C' contrast sensor, Leuze is launching the company's smallest contrast sensor to date for the packaging industry.

Sales of industrial robots in India have reached a new record with 4,945 units installed. This is an increase of 54 percent compared to the previous year. In terms of annual installations, India now ranks tenth worldwide.

The test phase for the 'Elwobot', an autonomous fruit and wine-growing robot with a modular energy supply and electric drive, is starting immediately in the 5G test field.

The latest thermal imaging camera from Infratec is called 'ImageIR 6300 Z'. The compact zoom camera for precise thermographic temperature measurements is suitable for numerous fields of application.

a.b.jödden launches the 'SM30' inductive displacement transducers, which integrate the power supply and evaluation electronics.

For vibration measurements or vibration analyses on devices such as fans, gearboxes, electric drives or compressors, where the greatest possible mobility and simplicity are required, Oros offers the compact analyzer 'O4'.

A sensor platform from EBE sensors + motion offers compact level sensors for contactless level measurement.