One of the most important changes in the technological and economic environment of industrial firms is the increasing diffusion and strongly increasing commercial use of Internet technologies in manufacturing. Both formal and empirical studies verified the significant increase in productivity through intraorganizational applications of modern information and communication technologies in manufa...

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Master’s Degree Programme in Automation Technology TEELAHTI, TOIMI: Implementing Additive manufacturing in microfactories Master of Science Thesis, 64 pages May 2014 Major: Factory Automation Examiner: Professor Reijo Tuokko

The possibility for connecting mobile end-devices and mobile automation facilities leads to fast deployment of Wireless LANs in factory automation, for instance to connect hand-scanners, mobile operation-terminals, automated guided vehicles. In these applications, WLAN is currently used for transparently prolonging a wired connection at the end of a control line (e.g. for controlling a mobile r...

The possibility to connect mobile end-devices and mobile automation facilities leads to fast deployment of Wireless LANs in factory automation, for instance to connect hand-scanners, mobile operation-terminals, automated guided vehicles. In these applications, WLAN is typically used for transparently prolonging a wired connection at the end of a control line (e.g. for controlling a mobile robot...

Twenty years ago, fieldbus systems have been developed for the factory floor and are widely introduced in industrial automation installations in the meantime. In the nineties Ethernet-based technologies have been successfully introduced to office automation followed by the usage of Internetbased applications. Today industrial automation is getting penetrated by the same IT technologies used in ...

This chapter summarizes our latest results concerning the development and the industrial application of the emerging “collaborative industrial automation” technology and its powerful meaning for facilitating the integration of a dynamic reconfigurable shop floor into a virtual factory. It argues, in this respect, that having a conglomerate of distributed, autonomous, intelligent, fault-tolerant...

 The WirelessHART standard was initiated in early 2004 and developed by ABB, Emerson and others.  The underlying wireless technology is based on the TSMP technology from Dust Networks  In April 2010, WirelessHart was approved by the IEC, making it the first international standard for wireless in process automation, IEC 62591  In ABB, the WISA concept (Wireless Interface to Sensors and Actua...

The history of machine vision and its applications pioneered by the authors and their colleagues at Hitachi during the past three decades is reviewed. A variety of applications, especially in factory automation and office automation, were made possible by the evolution of real-time imageprocessing techniques. In recent years, social automation is becoming another application area of image proce...