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Danfoss VLT AutomationDrive EZ FC 321 provides variable speed…

A3: Association for Advancing Automation
The global trade associations of robotics, machine vision, and…

Survey illustrates where business added automation in 2020
Increased efficiencies, cost reductions, social distancing highlights tech implementations

What are the most common machine safety violations?
Sponsored Content provided by PLANT partner: Omron Automation Experts…
Maintenance at TMMC Plants with a Focus on the Environment
GUEST: Scott MacKenzie TOPIC: Maintenance at TMMC Plants…

Simplify automation design with customized machines
Build your own online with Vention cloud platform.
COVID-19 accelerating automation bigger risk for women: StatCan
44% of women likely to face a moderate to high risk, compared with nearly 35% for men.
ATS lands $20M order for COVID-19 vaccine syringe manufacturing line
Symphoni high-performance digital manufacturing technology multiplies the productivity of automated assembly processes.
ISA Calgary Show
The International Society of Automation (ISA) in Calgary presents…
ATS reorganizes its transportation business to mitigate COVID-19 impact
Includes the closure of facilities along with workforce reductions, primarily in Europe and Asia.
Sensor technologies will impact the future of smart cities: report
Real-time data provided by integrated sensor systems to enable automation and ease decision-making by government bodies

Analyzer monitors energy costs
Measures variables, consumption, distortion.

Eclipse gets $1.4M in funding from Ontario for N95 masks
Part of the province’s plan to increase the capacity of Ontario-made PPE.
One third of Indigenous workers in jobs facing automation: report
They represent 4% of the total labour force and generate a combined household income of about $30 billion a year.
Garvey brings virtual testing and augmented reality to the shop floor
Virtual factory acceptance tests were offered to customers in March when COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.

Vention raises $38M to scale its cloud manufacturing automation platform
Expands the range of manufacturing processes that can be automated profitably.
ATS awarded $65M order for rapid scale-up of virus test kit
Program will enable the production of 10 million units per month.
Spartan Controls named one of Canada’s best-managed companies
Calgary firm provides automation, valves, measurement, process control, digital transformation and other solutions.

UN disarmament chief warns of AI’s ‘dark side’, Liberals tout benefits
Trudeau government sees it as a pillar of its economic-growth strategy, attracting foreign investment and creating a new skilled jobs sector.

Linear & Rittal: Blazing a trail through the automation industry
Sponsored Content provided by PLANT partner: Rittal. Partners work…

Schools prep for AI, climate and automation jobs of the future
Forecasting can prove difficult with so many of the jobs not yet been defined.

End-to-end automation within your walls
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More efficient energy management
Real-time tech covers asset and facilities.
Eclipse expands into Europe to support growing automation market
Acquisition broadens international capacity and accelerates entry into new and adjacent global markets.

Quick change tools for robots
Perform operations previously not suitable for automation.

Eclipse adds to its EPCM controls with D&D Automation acquisition
Automation manufacturer gets a division that’s focused on EPCM controls engineering.

Industry 4.0: What’s new at the fair?
Hannover Messe is the place to go to see the latest in digital factory, industrial systems, robotics and more.
On the Money: Mainstream autos get driver monitoring devices
Distracted driver alert systems started showing up in luxury cars about a decade ago.
Documents show towns to be hit hardest by automation
Hawkesbury has the largest share of workers at high risk of being affected by technology.
ATS Automation introduces new intelligence IIoT platform
Illuminate Manufacturing Intelligence enables agile data-to-decision in minutes.
Siemens profit falls on taxes, lower demand for turbines
Net profit for the quarter ending Dec. 31 was off 49% from 2.21 billion euros in the year-earlier quarter.
Automate 2019
Presented by the Association for Advancing Automation. Showcases the…