Beckhoff UK has joined the UK’s leading authority on logistics automation, the Automation Materials Handling Systems Association (AMHSA), committing to promoting excellence in solutions, aftersales support, reliability and safety.
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According to World Bank’s 2018 book, What a Waste 2.0, the world generates 2.01 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste annually. With the World Bank expecting annual global waste to grow to around 3.40 billion tonnes by 2050, waste management could soon become unmanageable. However, advancements in technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics could provide a solution to future waste management.
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With the growing climate pressures and the strong support for renewables by government policies since COP26, the global wind automation market is set to reach $5.196 billion in 2027, a 1.507 billion increase from the 2020 market. Given this predicted growth in the wind industry, companies will need to seek out technology that can help them harness and store wind energy cost-effectively.
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Since the time of Henry Ford, the consensus among manufacturers has been that bigger is better. Economies of scale would provide increasing profits, and this necessitated ever larger manufacturing facilities. For some, the emergence of automation technology will power ever larger factories, or gigafactories as Elon Musk called them. For others though, automation opens the opportunity to do things in a radically different way...
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In 2006, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs published the Food Industry Sustainability Strategy, which outlined actions to decrease the building food waste.
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Automation company Beckhoff UK has announced its new concept for robotics applications with ATRO (Automation Technology for Robotics). With its multi-axis capabilities and modular design, ATRO’s kinematics can be assembled flexibly and offers an internal media feed for data, power and fluids, implemented in such a way that all axes can rotate endlessly.
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Beckhoff UK has announced its new concept for robotics applications with ATRO (Automation Technology for Robotics).
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In the food processing industry, attaining optimal performance for production lines saves both time and money. For a smooth production flow, implementing modular transport systems to deliver batch sizes of one may be the best way forward. Alan Smith, Beckhoff UK's Transport System Expert, outlines the growing trend of small batch production & how XPlanar can be applied to food production applications to make for efficient batch size one production.
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