HMS Networks today announces a new set of features in the Talk2M®Easy Setup framework for Ewon® products, targeting to make secure remote machine access connectivity even easier for machine builders and end users.
The cool-flow technology is another milestone in the hydraulic expansion technology from SCHUNK: The coolant jet is immediately forwarded through the slim precision toolholder to the tool.
HMS Networks now presents a new line of Anybus® Switches and Wireless Routers for next generation industrial wireless communication. Preparing for the arrival of 5G and the vision of smarter and more flexible factories, the products combine high capacity and reliability with more mobility and less latency to wireless networks.
The European 4.0 Transformation Center (E4TC) at RWTH Aachen Campus has investigated the strategic digitization of design and control engineering and the technical layout of machines and plant systems. The 38-page research report titled “Engineering 4.0” is based on an eight-month field study of German machine manufacturers (producing both series products and special machinery), of engineering offices/hardware planners, and of component manufacturers. For the first time, the methodology developed to quantify available potential in engineering and measures to be taken enables a well-founded consideration of current engineering workflows for both series production and special-machinery manufacturing. Its central finding: A partial automation of engineering processes achieves an optimal cost/benefit ratio.
For the first time ever, SCHUNK is offering a robust mechatronic long-stroke gripper for machine tool loading specifically for the lightweight robots of Universal Robots CB and e series. The gripper stroke of 42.5 mm per finger is freely programmable and makes variable gripping forces between 50 N and 600 N possible.