In many industries, including the food and beverage industry, electronic devices need to withstand washdown conditions. Within a busy industrial kitchen environment, electronic devices may come into contact with a variety of substances.
It is generally recognised that, by the end of this year, more than 20 billion devices will be connected to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and it will be a market worth $200 billion by 2021.
UK manufacturers are advised to ensure robust safety checks, as well as competency assessments for staff, are carried out before restarting machinery that has been left idle due to lockdown restrictions or social distancing.
Robotics and Vision – as the song goes, you can’t have one without the other. Advances in both technologies have surged to make many new processes ripe for automation. Yet, even the more experienced engineers sometimes can still be nervous about the prospect of integrating a robot vision system.
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