With the introduction of Ewon Cloud and Ewon Edge, HMS Networks strengthens its industrial remote connectivity solutions, delivering scalable, secure connectivity for businesses managing large fleets of machines. This new solution combines HMS Networks´ established expertise with a customer-centric approach, enabling operators to streamline machine monitoring and maximize operational efficiency. The Ewon product line from HMS Networks is globally recognized for its reliability in (…)

Updates to Simcenter streamlines workflows, accelerates aerospace certification processes and provides deeper insights. Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today the latest update to its Simcenter™ portfolio, delivering advancements in aerostructure analysis, electric motor design, gear optimization, and smart virtual sensing. These enhancements are designed to streamline workflows, accelerate certification, and provide deeper insights into system performance. “These updates (…)

Energy Manager simplifies electricity monitoring, tracking real-time use to identify opportunities that can minimize waste and reduce emissions by up to 30%. Emerson has launched its new Energy Manager solution, a pre-engineered hardware and software offering designed to simplify industrial electricity monitoring with quick setup and intuitive operation. Ready out of the box, the Energy Manager solution monitors asset energy use in real time, allowing manufacturers to gain deeper insight (…)

Thinking big but starting small - this is often a sensible step to take to be successful. The Eplan Forum is open to everyone around the world interested in sharing knowledge and exchanging experiences with automated engineering, machine cabling and ERP/PDM integration. With the digital transformation in full swing, the same applies to engineering. It´s an excellent idea for experts in the field to network: worldwide! This is exactly what will be taking place at the Eplan Forum, a (…)

Softing Industrial presented its new edgeGate a maintenance-free hardware solution for transferring production data from PLC and CNC controllers to edge and cloud-based environments. edgeGate simplifies access to Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Computerized Numerical Controllers (CNC). It enables seamless and secure data integration into advanced management systems such as Enterprise-Resource-Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Execution System (MES) or Supervisory Control and Data (…)

The Secure Integration Server (SIS) from Softing Industrial now supports the MQTT protocol. This improves connectivity and security for data integration in IT/OT cloud applications. The Secure Integration Server (SIS) from Softing Industrial offers a structured solution for complex server architectures. It combines various OPC UA servers at the automation level with their associated address spaces. This enables a standardized mapping of these address spaces in accordance with the OPC UA (…)

The edgeConnector products and the edgeAggregator from Softing Industrial offer a range of functionalities in version 3.40 that make integration into IT solutions much easier.Edge Products from Softing Industrial facilitate integration into IT solutions (Source: Softing Industrial) The Docker-based software modules of Softing’s edgeConnector product family provide access to process data in SIMATIC S7, SINUMERIK 840D and Modbus TCP controllers. The edgeAggregator, which is also (…)

This year´s the EF|A - Eplan Forum for Automated Engineering event will be taking place in a hybrid format. As in previous years, the focus will be on modularisation, standardisation and automation. These topics are of burning importance for both management and users in machine and plant system engineering - after all, modularisation is the key to standardisation and, ultimately, a higher degree of automation. Attendees, both on-location and online, will receive tips and strategies for (…)

FEM calculations have been included in KISSsoft on a long-term basis. For the calculation of planet carriers, gear body deflections and gear root stresses, FEM is used in order to better take into account complex geometric and/or loading conditions. When performing FEM calculations, the FEM post processor is the most valuable tool to overview and understand the results. KISSsoft has its own postprocessor, which is integrated into the inventory of available KISSsoft graphics. This (…)

Using newly developed and recently patented technology, Cognex eliminates the speckle effect of laser lines, optimising triangulation-based 3D imaging. The In-Sight 3D-L4000 embedded vision system is the first product to bring the benefits of speckle-free laser lines to users.In applications such as 3D inspection of castings, the speckle-free laser line enables more accurate results than other 3D imaging systems. The laser triangulation method has established itself as the definitive (…)