Roads are an extremely important part of our lives’ infrastructure. Without them we couldn’t easily travel from A to B, be that for work, pleasure or to keep food in our supermarkets and the wheels of industry turning.
A couple of years ago, LEM’s Sales & Marketing observed the first signs of a technological turnaround: some of the leading OEMs in the servo-drives and robot industry were thinking of abandoning analogue interfaces on their systems.
Industry 4.0 is creating many engineering challenges for a variety of industries. When I spoke with Matthew Aldridge, managing director of igus, he explained how the company is improving upon its current technologies to create smart plastics specifically for Industry 4.0.
During the product development process, environmental testing is often used to validate the design criteria and to ensure that product reliability goals are met in the intended operational environment.
Level sensing is one of the most common functions for process control but it also uses a wide range of different technologies to achieve the same goal; it is therefore important to select the correct design for each application to ensure a reliable and accurate system.