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Magnetic field positioning systems are increasingly popular due to their ability to provide reliable, accurate, and repeatable absolute position feedback....

Machine safety refers to the measures taken to ensure the safety of operators, workers, and other individuals who may come...

With the inexorable growth of 5G and later 6G mobile networks the UK Government has announced the closure of 2G...

Detecting metallic (ferrous) objects is a common application in many industries, including manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace. Inductive sensors are a...

The standard layout of a Granta GA15 compact palletising cell is approximately 4 meters x 1.6 meters in size, but...

If you’ve attempted to implement an ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID system into your facility, you might have run into some...

When designing an electrical distribution system, the use of circuit breakers contributes to ensuring safety and power availability. Yet the...

Standard industrial sensors can solve a lot of automation challenges. Photoelectric, capacitive, and inductive technologies detect presence, distances, shapes, colors,...

Depending on the product and gripper size, robot grippers can pick many products at a time speeding up the throughput...

By now we’ve all heard of IO-Link, the device-level communication protocol that seems magical. Often referred to as the “USB...