Weekly Industrial Automation News Roundup:
This week we covered news about Festo MS-Basic Products, ISA 100 Upgraded, Secure Cellular, NextGen Encoders, New IO-Link Devices, The Five Ds, AMR vs AGV, 20 years of EtherCat, Robotic Assembly, Leveraging SIs, Secure Industrial Ops, ARC, New Profinet Products, 6-Axis vs SCARA, Tire Depalletizer, MR-J3 Servo Amps, CMSE Certs, AMR Mistakes to avoid, OPC UA Tunneling, ICE11 IO-Link Master, WAVE ID readers, Point IO, QuickStick, Smart Circuit Breakers, RIO becomes PLC, Temp Transmitters, Analog To Cloud, ISO 4, Smart Source Control, Data to Info, Cybersecurity, WinCC, Working Humanoid Robot, Safety Distances, IPCs, Modular HMIs, PLM, OPC Single v Multi Channel & Discovery Servers, Nodar Crushes Lidar and more all in our Automation This Week show for August 26, 2023.
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