Pilz: Safety Protection Solution for Automated Guided Vehicles

As one of the core equipment of smart factory logistics, automatic guided vehicle (AGV) is playing an increasingly important role in the factory logistics automation system. They walk through the warehouse and efficiently complete the handling tasks. While bringing great convenience to production, there are also certain safety hazards. AGV safety application standards can refer…

New Record: One Million Robots Work in Car Industry Worldwide

Frankfurt, Mar 22, 2023 — The automotive industry has the largest number of robots working in factories around the world: Operational stock hit a new record of about one million units. This represents about one third of the total number installed across all industries. “The automotive industry effectively invented automated manufacturing,” says Marina Bill, president…

Strengthening the “China Center”, Schneider Electric’s China Automation R&D Center landed in Wuxi

A land of fish and rice, a gathering of humanities. Wuxi, as an important birthplace of the Jiangnan civilization and the Southern Jiangsu model, gathers technological and innovative resources in the Yangtze River Delta, forming landmark industrial clusters such as the Internet of Things, integrated circuits, and biomedicine, attracting many well-known companies to take root…

ABB and Wellington Water win ‘Smart Water Project of the Year’ at Global Water Awards

The Global Water Awards recognize outstanding achievements in the water and wastewater treatment and desalination industries, with a focus on innovative technologies ABB used smart water management technology to improve the flexibility of Wellington Water’s water supply and drainage network, making it better prepared for the future, so it won the “Smart Water Project of…

Siemens will launch the next-generation PLC programming environment with ChatPGT

Siemens is working with Microsoft to use generative artificial intelligence tools to improve its industrial workflows. Microsoft’s library of generative AI tools, including AI chat and code generation, will be used to speed up and simplify Siemens’ design, engineering, manufacturing and operations processes. The two companies plan to use artificial intelligence to enhance communication between…

Belt Scale Parts Replacement

The problem of component damage during the actual operation of the electronic belt scale often troubles the on-site maintenance personnel. Because there are no spare parts, the electronic belt scale often results in outage.   01 When visiting a mineral processing plant, I saw that a belt scale has been out of service. This scale…

FC, FB and background DB of S7-300

Overview 1. The Chinese name of FC is “Function”, and the Chinese name of FB is “Function Block” (respectively called “Function” and “Function Block” in the blog) 2. FC and FB are equivalent to subroutines in 200 and 200Smart. The purpose of writing subroutines is to facilitate multiple calls 3. FB is more powerful than…