• Buyers Journey

    • Consideration

    Highlights

    Unplanned downtime
    How industrial IoT and Industry 4.0 are enabling a new world for OEM and machine service contracts is an interesting new value stream worth understanding.
    RUC
    Robotiq greatly increased the difficulty of this year’s 24-hour robot challenge, and no one went home a loser.
    Pins
    New steel pins eliminate problems associated with screws.
    AutomationDirect
    AutomationDirect C-more panel
    When connecting automation components to the IIoT, consider the capabilities and advantages of these two main methods of VPN-based remote access.
    Fig. 1
    3D printing needs to mature before it is considered an alternative to injection molding for large-volume production jobs.
    MDM dinsmore
    Take a quick walk around some of the booths at the show offering 3D printing solutions and services.
    Installed Base Evaluation
    The terms modernization and upgrade may sound the same, but in reality, they differ in terms of scale and cost.
    Collaborative robots
    Collaborative robots were on the rise in 2017 and are already starting to dominate the robot market.
    CNC mill
    3D printers can handle the small ancillary tasks usually assigned to the CNC mill, saving money and production time.