Superconductor technology enables the contactless movement and handling of objects – ideal for high-tech industries such as laboratory automation or biotechnology. At the Hannover Messe, Festo presents a concept for the fully automated filling and weighing of freeze-dry containers in cleanrooms.
Japan is gearing up to test its space-based solar power station next year. The plan is on track and aimed to help the world reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.
The plans were outlined at the International Conference on Energy from Space, held in London last week.
The mission is part of a project called OHISAMA (Japanese for Sun), which is on track for launch in 2025.
Festo is setting new standards in process optimization on the shopfloor: By using AI and other smart software solutions, Festo enables its customers to achieve maximum flexibility and increased efficiency in their production processes. A significant increase in overall system effectiveness has already been demonstrated in many projects.
Climate change caused by CO2 emissions already in the atmosphere will shrink global GDP in 2050 by about $38 trillion, or almost a fifth, no matter how aggressively humanity cuts carbon pollution, researchers said Wednesday.
Grupo Oesía ha firmado un memorando de entendimiento (MOU) con la multinacional estadounidense Lockheed Martin para producir en España componentes del misil Patriot Advanced Capability - 3 (PAC-3) MSE
Según el Foro Económico Mundial, seis de cada 10 trabajadores necesitará formación antes de 2027. Un reto que, sin embargo, tendrá dificultades en el camino, puesto que casi la mitad de ellos no podrá acceder a la formación necesaria en los próximos años debido a su falta de preparación previa.
KUKA has met and even exceeded its ambitious targets for 2023. In addition to KUKA's Group-wide order intake (€4.0 billion, 2022: €4.5 billion), sales reve-nues (€4.1 billion) also exceeded the four-billion-euro mark for the first time. EBIT also rose for the first time to € 158.2 million. At 0.99, the book-to-bill ratio was below the previous year's figure. (2022: 1,14).
Augsburg-based automation expert KUKA and the Wolfsburg-based automotive group Volkswagen have signed a framework agreement for the delivery of more than 700 robots this year and over the next two years.