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Pressbox: Quest Trend Magazine
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Ever more robots at food and packaging machines until 2014
, Industrial Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
The manufacturers of food and packaging machines are planning to strongly expand the use of robots at these machines until 2014. Three applications of robots are...
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Increasing acceptance of application-optimized I/O modules in the machinery industry
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
Application-optimized I/O modules are adapted to the application at the machine. The adaptation to the machine concerns the function integrating analogue and digital...
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The change of the control technologies 2011 from users’ view
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
The fair SPS/IPC/Drives in November 2011 in Nuremberg bids with newest technologies for users. However, how can the impact of the users, the machine-builders on...
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IO-Link has been continuously growing in the German machinery industry since 2007, Quest Trend Magazine reveals
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
IO-Link is a field bus-neutral interface, which makes the point-to-point connection between I/O modules and sensors able to communicate. The existing 2/3 wiring...
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Ethernet at packaging machines from 2005 to 2012
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
Packaging machines belong to the pacesetter for the use of Ethernet in the machinery industry. So 83% of the packaging machine-builders already used Ethernet exceeding...
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Integrated control technologies are preferred in the change, new Quest study reveals
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
This year 24% of the investigated machine-builders intend to change the control technology at the machines. The changes of the machine-builders mean compared...
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The Market Shares of the Ethernet Field Buses in the German Machinery Industry until 2012
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
Ethernet at the machines will grow fast until 2012 – reveals a new study by Quest TechnoMarketing, Bochum, London. The Quest Trend Magazine publishes some highlights....
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How the Market Structure of the Automation’s Suppliers has been changing
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
The Quest Trend Magazine has recently published the second part of the three-part series of articles with the headline „Automation trends, market structure, economic...
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New Focus on Criteria and Solutions Selecting the Right Energy Efficient Drives in the F&B Industry
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
The implementation of energy saving drives has become a directive of the European Commission. In particular in the F&B Industry it is difficult to spot the right...
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Electric linear actuators have been growing for 10 years
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
So the portion of the machine-builders using electric linear actuators at the machines increased from 3,5% to 19%. Linear actuators produce a straight-line resp....
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RFID - constantly and throughout the machinery industry implemented
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
This year 14% of the machinebuilders intend to implement RFID at the machines. RFID stands for radio frequency identification and provides the wireless identification...
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The current technological change in the control technology from users’ point of view
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
„The voter transition analysis“ for the control technology is focussed on the changes and the exchanges of the control technologies at the machines. Not market shares...
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Requirements on sensors in the German F&B Industry
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
The central point of the requirements on sensors is as expected its high type of protection. This results from the high hygiene requirements demanding intensive...
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Intensified interest in application-optimised I/O modules
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
With 11% each tenth machine-builders intend to change to application-optimised I/O modules this year. That is an increase in relation to the previous year by more...
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Panel PC benefits from the current trend to fine-tuning the control technology
, Electrical Engineering, Quest Trend Magazine
Machine-builders prefer fine-tuning the control technology this year. This means to improve the consisting control technology at the machines instead of changing...
