On this occasion we are going to highlight two of the projects carried out throughout 2018. These are two applications with cobots, or collaborative robots, of the Universal Robots brand in the agri-food industry, so that they serve as an example to see what is can do with these... Read more
After having introduced in the previous article on industrial communications the different levels that exist in a factory in terms of communication, we begin to describe specific buses available for use in each of them. Profibus is a fieldbus created in the late 80s by several … Read more
In this article we intend to give a different point of view to those that have been carried out to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of automating processes. There comes a time when those responsible for a factory (managers, production or operations directors, etc.) begin to wonder if the… Read more
Many times we have wondered if we should use a servo drive or a frequency inverter for a certain application. The answer is always the same: it depends on the application. And since not all applications can be analyzed, what we will do is describe both types of … Read more
With this post, we begin a series of articles to talk about the most widely used communications networks in the industry. First of all, it is necessary to describe what an industrial communications network consists of. We could say that it is the sum of the means of transmission that allow the different … Read more
