Factory floor robots Rugged solutions call for robust technological architectures, which require their components get designed for durability, resilience, and longevity.
High-Performance Connectivity in Robotics Paul Golata, senior technology specialist at Mouser Electronics discusses considerations when designing robotics for industrial or commercial purposes.
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UCCESSFUL robotics connectivity only happens by design. Intricate and delicate electronic systems must work to monitor, control, and adjust robotic performance through realtime adjustments. When it is welldesigned, the result is a reliable high-performance network of machine systems working to keep industry moving. This article explores some of the critical design aspects that engineers should consider when designing for either industrial or commercial robotic applications. By taking into account the generally rigorous and harsh demands of industrial robotic systems, one soon realises that in many applications that require reliable solutions under the most extreme conditions, specially designed industrial products from TE 26 MAY 2020 Manufacturers’ Monthly
Connectivity (TE), a leader in harsh environment connectivity and sensing applications, are best suited for the task (Figure 1).
Lasting Endurance TE endeavours to provide products that are compact, rugged, and reliable. Rugged solutions call for robust technological architectures, which require their components get designed for durability, resilience, and longevity. To this end, TE designs with these factors in mind. By analysing what types of environmental stresses these components must withstand and factoring in the time duration of these stresses with equipment life cycles yield, one obtains an expectation of the high-performance requirements needed. TE generates test criteria to help ensure that any production items
will survive and perform in the field to meet stringent expectations. With TE’s portfolio of connectors, sensors, and more, designers can put more data, power, and signal into their industrial robotic systems.
Protection and Durability Protection and durability are built-in by design. As a leading provider of connectivity products, TE has the technologies, operations, and a longstanding reputation that ensures designers can trust their robotics connectivity to them. TE understands the industry’s need for reliable connectivity that delivers greater simplicity, efficiency, and uptime. This is why TE’s communications and networking solutions are geared to the most demanding requirements of manufacturers worldwide as they approach the Internet of Things (IoT).
Networked manufacturing enables seamless communication as well as higher speed and efficiency. TE manufactures industrial sensors with the packaging to support harsh environments, low-current consumption, and a variety of measurement types to enable the growth of Industry 4.0. In addition to data transfer on the factory floor, TE designs its products to share information throughout the entire production environment – beyond the industrial setting and onto desktops. TE works with engineers to push the boundaries of efficiency and productivity – enabling simpler, faster, and more economic industrial communications.
Rugged Environments Industrial products are built to withstand rugged environments, manmonthly.com.au
