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Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has been a buzzword for some time, but how far has the industry come towards reaping its benefits and how far does it have left to go?
Fitting out the interior of an enclosure creates a number of challenges for switch-gear manufacturers. First, there are the high packing densities of the enclosure’s many components and second, there are typically very short project times.
The main advantages of standard enclosures are that there are no up-front non-recurrent design, engineering and tooling charges; products are on the shelf ready for immediate delivery, so the time to market is as low as possible; the unit costs are attractive and the design will have been field proven in many different applications.
A collaboration between Yaskawa and a leading intralogistics and packaging company has resulted in the development of an automatic robot-based palletising cell which takes robotics handling to new levels of sophistication.