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This will unlock industries that have low levels of automation, with customers able to operate their cobot within minutes of installation, straight out of the box, with no specialized training.

The new GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families, offering higher payloads and speeds, complement YuMi and Single Arm YuMi in ABBs cobot line-up. They will accelerate the companys expansion in high-growth segments including electronics, healthcare, consumer goods, logistics and food and beverage, among others, meeting the growing demand for automation across multiple industries.

Our new cobot portfolio is the most diverse on the market, offering the potential to transform workplaces and help our customers achieve new levels of operational performance and growth. said Sami Atiya, President of ABBs Robotics & Discrete Automation Business Area. They are easy to use and configure and backed by our global network of on-call, on-line service experts to ensure that businesses of all sizes and new sectors of the economy, far beyond manufacturing, can embrace robots for the first time.

ABBs cobot portfolio expansion is engineered to help existing and new robot users accelerate automation amid four key megatrends including individualized consumers, labor shortages, digitalization, and uncertainty that are transforming business and driving automation into new sectors of the economy. The expansion follows the Business Areas focus on high-growth segments through portfolio innovation, helping to drive profitable growth.

GoFa and SWIFTI are engineered to help businesses automate processes to assist workers with tasks including material handling, machine tending, component assembly and packaging in manufacturing, medical laboratories, logistics hubs and warehouses, workshops, and small production facilities.

With this expansion, we are making cobots easier to use and deploy, with real-time support to help speed their adoption in businesses that may have not considered their use previously, Atiya said. Our experience is that the best performing operations harness peoples skills, alongside the potential of new technologies.

Users comfortable with operating a tablet or smartphone will be able to program and re-program the new cobots with ease, using ABBs fast set-up tools.

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While theres certainly no shortage of trend outlooks for manufacturing technology spending based on near-term plans, looking at where industrial companies have been investing offers interesting insights into where things could be headed.

U.S. manufacturing annual investment in software vs. PP&E (property, plant and equipment). Source: Bank of AmericaAccording to Andrew Obin, managing director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Equity Research, one of the biggest trends hes seen is how spending on software has overtaken hardware spending by U.S. manufacturers. In his presentation at the virtual ARC Forum, Obin noted that, although software spending in 2020 was flat, the fact that spending remained in line with 2019despite the pandemicsupports the investment firms position about the continued strength of software versus hardware spending in industry.

Essentially, what researchers like Obin are seeing play out across industry underscores the trend seen in virtually every business sectorthat software has become the predominant technology. Automation World discussed this trend with Michael Risse of data analytics software supplier Seeq in late 2019 for the article Is Software Eating Industry Yet?

Andrew Obin, managing director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Equity ResearchObin clarified that much of the manufacturing industries spending on software in 2020 focused on enterprise level software, such as enterprise resources planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management (SCM) than on specific manufacturing floor software. However, he noted that industrys spending on software supports one of the most powerful stories in U.S. manufacturing over the past 20 yearsthe significant margin expansion [of the industry] despite big offshoring trends in the U.S. [during that period]. Even though we didn't have growth in the U.S. [manufacturing industries], the [industrys] software investment has enabled very significant improvements in the profitability of U.S. manufacturing operations over the past 20 years as focus shifted away from growth and more toward efficiency.

Diverging from the manufacturing industries overall spending on technology is the lack of spending on such technologies by the energy sector. Obins data shows that, in 2019, manufacturing as a whole spent $228 billion on plants and equipment, while oil and gas spent $174 billion. More striking was the disparity in software spending between manufacturing and the oil & gas sector. In 2019 the oil & gas sector spent $8 billion on software while the manufacturing industry spent $134 billion.

Comparison of software investment spending in manufacturing versus oil and gas. Source: Bank of AmericaThe oil and gas industry has sort of done the opposite of the manufacturing industry, said Obin, noting how oil and gas spending on technology declined even as oil prices recovered. It's remarkable just how little oil and gas industry is spending today, Obin said. [But] if the oil and gas industry focused more on efficiency and less on growth in the new post-pandemic worldwhere we have more focus on green [initiatives]it could present a revolutionary opportunity for the industry.

Read more about expected automation spending trends in Automation Worlds feature article Automation Expectations: Discrete Manufacturing.

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HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FusionLayer has launched a refreshed brand to solidify its technology leadership within the edge cloud and the network automation realms. With analyst companies like Gartner and Analysys Mason now identifying Network Source of Truth (NSOT) as the critical piece of successful network automation initiatives, the goal of the brand refresh is to better position FusionLayer as the technology leader in this emerging market space.

The on-going COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of resilient network infrastructure for today's enterprises and telecommunication companies. As remote-working, e-learning, and online entertainment have become the norm during 2020-2021, networks' critical role for the well-being of societies has become an undisputed fact.

At the same time, most organizations continue to manage networks using manual processes that date back to the late 90s and the early 00s. Manual processes create both information security and continuity risks that the pandemic has dramatically elevated and should no longer be tolerated. In response, the technology industry has introduced new solutions such as cloud edge, private 5G, and network automation to bring the reliability and the security of the networks to the 2020s.

"The Network Source of Truth technology that FusionLayer has pioneered and patented worldwide is critical for successful cloud edge and network automation initiatives," stated Juha Holkkola, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of FusionLayer. "As the majority of our customer interactions have moved from in-person meetings to online engagements since the pandemic started, we consider it as our duty to deliver the FusionLayer value-proposition as concisely as possible to the customers that we serve."

The refreshed FusionLayer brand is now in production at http://www.fusionlayer.com.

About FusionLayerManaging complex corporate and telecom networks is a challenge where the cost of failure is enormous. FusionLayer collates all network information into a single Network Source of Truth, accessed securely by both engineers and automation to eliminate the chance of network downtime on-premise, at the edge, and in the public cloud. This provides our customers with reassuring real-time information, so their digitalized operations can connect 24x7x365.

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The Automation After Services and Outsourcing Market Research report 2021 is a compilation of first-hand information, qualitative and quantitative assessment by industry analysts, inputs from industry experts and industry participants across the value chain. The Automation After Services and Outsourcing report provides an in-depth analysis of parent market trends, macro-economic indicators, and governing factors along with market attractiveness as per segments. The Automation After Services and Outsourcing report also maps the qualitative impact of various market factors on Automation After Services and Outsourcing market segments and geographies. The Automation After Services and Outsourcing report covers the post-COVID-19 (Corona Virus) impact on various regions and major countries and on the future development of the industry is pointed out.

The global Automation After Services and Outsourcing Market is expected to register a CAGR of 4.4% during the forecast period 2021 2025.

The major players dominating the consulting market are ABB, Rockwell Automation, Apriso, Control Systems, Emerson, Beckhoff Automation, Mitsubishi Heavy, GE, National Instruments, Honeywell, SAP, Yokogawa, Siemens, Schneider Electric, and Others. These companies have been profiled in the report providing detailed analysis of their financial information and business strategies.

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Global IT Robotic Automation Industry Growth, Size, Sales, Supply Chain, Production Revenue 2020

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Niche Market Research Report 2021 on Process Automation and Instrumentation Market with Industry Growth Analysis, Competition, Trends and Forecast by 2026.

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Topical dosage forms are difficult to develop and rely on differing drug physicochemical properties and are applied to complex biological membranes that have evolved to keep such xenobiotics out. The global topical market is around $95 billion USD and is forecast to increase by $70 billion USD over next 4-5 years (1), where the dermatology market is a significant segment. Currently, there are approximately 900 new products in development for dermatology, split between small molecules (65%) and biologics (35%) (2).Here, Marc Brown, Jon Lenn and Charles Evans, from MedPharm, discuss the latest industry innovations, the benefits of automation and mitigating the risk of product failure in the development of topical products.

Formulation intopical product development

The level of risk that a company takes largely affects their development strategy. This can vary between the development of prototype formulation (higher risk) or a full market-ready, commercially viable product (lower risk) to be used in initial preclinical/clinical evaluation. Different sizes of companies will base their own level of risk around commercially viability, their target markets, and corporate culture.

Typically, smaller biotech companies only have a single drug candidate and are often funded by external investment and therefore find the development of a prototype formulation more favourable. These small companies tend to be more risk tolerant too, addressing problems as they arise, so the drug candidate can be evaluated in a clinical Proof of Concept (PoC) study as quickly as possible.

However, this prototype formulation approach presents its own challenges. If the PoC study achieves a positive outcome then further reformulation work would be required to achieve a more patient-friendly and usable product, leading to extensive bridging safety studies. In turn resulting in the formulation development needing to be re-done to proceed to final Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) or New Drug Application (NDA). Thus, the time and money initially saved in the early stages is often lost and/or exceeded later in the project.

Its important to emphasise that a topical products ease-of-use, aesthetic and cosmetic properties are often as important as efficacy. The selection of such a formulation for topical application is influenced by the physicochemical properties of the drug and its potency, the disease to which it is utilised, and the patient who will receive it (Figure 1).

Therefore, a Quality Target Product Profile (QTPP) should be created to define the key requirements around the quality, safety, and efficacy of the drug product. This should be updated as the project progresses where any Critical Quality Attributes influenced by Critical Material Attributes (CMA) and Critical Process Parameters (CPP) are identified, monitored, and controlled.

The pre-formulation stage of a new drug candidate is the most critical step for topical programs and is best performed using automated and robotic systems. The lowest risk approach to any submission is to try and keep to excipients, packaging, processes, and parameters with which the regulatory authority is familiar. A series of formulations can be developed based on the QTPP once the formulatability of a drug is known. Ultimately, it is essential that the lead formulation is optimised and characterised not only to demonstrate that it will maintain its quality and performance during its entire shelf-life but also gives the formulation the best chance of success in the clinic.

Performance testing: Innovation, automation and high throughput screening

Performance testing tools and models can be divided into four main areas: 1) ex vivo pharmacodynamic or disease models 2) in vitro (drug) release testing (IVRT), 3) in vitro (drug) penetration and permeation (IVPT) and 4) product characterisation and stability testing. These models provide a way to evaluate new chemical entities (NCE) and drug products, drug delivery, product safety, efficacy, and quality of topical formulations to reduce their risk of clinical failure.

The development of pharmacological disease (PD) models using fresh human skin has experienced huge growth thanks to the increasing interest and understanding in the basic biology of inflammatory dermatosis. Skin research has a huge advantage thanks to its direct access to large sections of surgical tissue. Latest advances in tissue culture have allowed scientists to keep surgical skin alive in culture for much longer than previously, creating a living tissue explant. By combining an increased understanding of immunology, tissue culture, and pathway biology these ex vivo skin PD models have become critical in the development of NCEs and are helping bridge the gap for clinical translation along with de-risking the development process for topical products.

IVRT is routinely used throughout the development process from the early stages of formulation optimisation, through process development, and to scale-up. Additionally, regulatory bodies are increasingly requiring IVRT as a quality tool in release and stability specifications and for demonstrating generic bioequivalence. The majority of industry adopt an IVRT method based on an open chamber vertical diffusion cell (VDC) system (Figure 2a) fitted with a synthetic membrane as a support for semi-solid dosage forms in order to measure and optimise the drug release from the formulation over time (akin to tablet dissolution testing).

However, a fully automated VDC system (MedStat-HT) (Figure 2b) differs from traditional manual VDCs by providing significant improvements in sample collection, data variation, operator repeatability, and study robustness.

Most of the industry uses similar manual VDCs for IVPT studies where the drug is applied to the skin, mounted in the VDC onto which formulation is applied and the absorption of the drug into and across the tissue is quantified. However, these systems are known for variability and are challenging for modern lipophilic drugs, making data interpretation problematic. MedFlux-HT, a fully automated flow-through diffusion system for use in such IVPT studies dramatically reduces the variability and more closely mimics the clinical situation compared with the manual VDCs (4).

Using automated liquid handlers and robots reduces the risk of variability when compared to manual procedures. When assessing longer-term physical stability, automated instrumentation (LUMiSizer) provides a more accurate prediction of shelf-life compared to harsher centrifugation techniques. Assessment of product microstructure is quite often overlooked until much later in the clinical phases of development. However, it is not only key in the development of generic products to show uniformity, but also during early phase process development to show that the developed product is robust.

Final thought

Whether via the eye, skin, lungs, nail, or other mucosal membranes these alternative topical routes clearly offer key advantages despite presenting unique challenges. A formulation strategy that builds the formulation specific to the compound will generate a solid foundation that proactively focuses on a final product that will be physically and chemically stable and ready for the clinic. It will also de-risk potential product failure that may come from an inability to deliver the compound to the target site or elicit a biological response prior to the clinic.

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MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE:ROK), the worlds largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today named Bobby Griffin to the newly created role of vice president, Human Resources, and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer. Griffin will report to Senior Vice President, Chief People and Legal Officer Becky House.

Griffin joins Rockwell with more than 25 years of diversity and inclusion strategy and leadership experience at Fortune 500 companies. He most recently served as vice president of diversity and inclusion at CBRE, a commercial real estate services company with more than 100,000 employees, operating in over 100 countries. He brings a strong, career-long track record for raising diversity and inclusion awareness, improving organizational culture, and building inclusive leadership capabilities in ways that also improve business outcomes.

Were excited to welcome Bobby and look forward to engaging his passion, thought leadership, and global experience as we strengthen our culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, said Rockwell Automation Chairman and CEO Blake Moret. We elevated this role because we are committed to accelerating our efforts to increase diversity in our workforce and ensure we have an inclusive culture where all employees can and want to do their best work.

Griffin will lead a team responsible for designing a holistic diversity, equity and inclusion strategy that reaches employees, suppliers, and commercial and community partners. Griffin will work with Rockwells senior leaders to operationalize the strategy, connecting it to the work the company does every day. He joins the company Feb. 22.

Im thrilled about the opportunity to join this great company. Rockwell has a strong commitment to employees and to diversity and inclusion as evidenced by its values, strategies, and initiatives to support both, said Griffin. I look forward to working with the leadership team, employees, and external partners to build on the work that has already been done in the diversity and inclusion space and to develop and implement new approaches to enhance impact and outcomes.

Prior to CBRE, Griffin was global head of diversity and inclusion for Flowserve Corporation and global head of diversity and inclusion for Alcon Inc. He has also held various regional and domestic human resource leadership positions for Coca-Cola and Merck & Co., Inc. Griffin holds a bachelors degree in business management from Abilene Christian University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Texas.

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Automation has been gaining traction among shipowners as an enabler of greater efficiency and cost savings. However, the president of Hglund Marine Solutions Brge Nogva believes that the industry is still a long way from exploiting its great potential.

A Norwegian provider of advanced marine technology (specifically, integrated automation and energy solutions), Hglund has long been an advocate of automation in shipping in Europe and beyond.

The company recently launched a partnership with DNV GLs independent data platform provider Veracity to help shipowners accelerate their digital initiatives. As Nogva explains below, these alliances are becoming an increasingly important part of the sectors transition to automation, but this could be delayed by a lack of uniform standards and regulation.

Hglund Marine Solutions president Brge Nogva.

Maritime stakeholders have been preparing to adopt automation for some time, yet according to Nogva, their approach has so far been too slow and ineffective.

At the core of the issue is a string of inefficiencies that are affecting providers like Hglund, as well as shipowners, charterers and cargo owners. We provide quite traditional automation systems for traditional ships, he says. This is for us, in many ways, a dilemma, as we want to present better automation solutions, but the requests we get for our systems from the market arent really asking for much more than what has been done for years.

Finding projects where we can actually apply our automation technology is hard.

The slow shift towards digitalisation adds to several other issues, such as a decrease in the number of ships being built every year and different demands for automation from shipyards. The standard projects that come from shipyards in China and elsewhere tend to follow a very traditional specification that hardly says anything about automation, he explains.

On the other hand, there are more specialised projects in Europe where the requirement is to have a higher level of integration and a ship-to-shore solution, so that you can actually have data from the ship available from one shore-based office.

Inevitably, Covid-19 has helped decrease the number of similar projects taking place in Europe and bolstered a decline in ship orders that had already been hitting the market for the past five years.

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Finding projects where we can actually apply our automation technology is hard, he continues. At the same time, there are cheaper alternatives that comply just with the exact specification of the shipyard youre sending out so we cant compete.

Centralised data servers collect information from the different vessel systems and communicate them to the shore-based owner. Credit: Hglund Marine Solutions.

Beyond their geographical variations, shipyard specifications are also posing technical challenges for system providers like Hglund. Whats frustrating is that we work a lot with shipowners and operators and tell them how they should write the specifications to bring about the kind of insight into the ships that they would like to add, but they dont get because of the low level of automation, says Nogva.

So, they will have to make a much better effort at developing the shipbuilding specification so that it actually describes in detail that there must be an onboard data server.

Owners now want to collect all this data and get access to it.

Having a centralised data server on a ship is an essential step, as this collects information from the different vessel systems and communicates them to the shore-based owner. However, because there are several systems on board and all of them speak different data languages and have different interfaces there needs to be an automated server that would work as, in Nogvas words, the nervous system of the ship.

He claims that retrofitting vessels with a data server is becoming an increasingly costly and tough operation. Owners now want to collect all this data and get access to it and those who will be able to fix it will be automation, engineers, and companies like us, who can do this because we are experts in dealing with interfaces so we can talk all these different languages, which is essential for actually making it happen, he adds.

Hglunds recent partner DNV GL is making significant steps forward in this context. They have now made new classification rules for shipowners who want to bring their ships to a more advanced level when it comes to not just automation but digital platforms, he comments, mentioning the companys cloud service Veracity and how it helps keep data stored in one place.

From this, if you manage to sort out all this data in a clever way, you can then create new services that shipowners will have the benefit of in the future, Nogva claims.

As markets start picking up after a disastrous 2020, a lot more will be expected in terms of compliance from shipyards.

There are many requirements that ship owners today have to comply with and these will develop further because of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the European Union making new rules, so owners will have to continue installing new systems or modify the ones they have on board, says Nogva.

It will be interesting to see if the owners are bringing new items into the ships specifications.

Once more ships are ordered, it will be interesting to see if the owners are bringing new items into the ships specifications. We are quite used to things going very slowly, though considering everything that is happening now, the specifications in the future should soon require a completely new level of automation system.

This transition will have to be facilitated and supported by regulators like the IMO and the EU. I am quite confident that if it is left to the shipowners and operators, they will not make many changes to this because they have to fight in a very hard market, says the Hglund president.

If were going to have a quick change, the requirements must come from the IMO and the EU who have to put legislation in place for us to comply.

The coronavirus pandemic has had devastating impacts on the global maritime industry, but one silver lining is that it may speed up the shift towards digitalisation.

The pandemic has shown the importance of making the most out of todays digital possibilities.

Hglunds expertise in providing remote access and modifications to ships has proved fundamental over the past year. This has shown several owners and shipyards of the possibility of reducing their costs, comments Nogva. The pandemic has surely shown the importance of making the most out of todays digital possibilities and owners are interested in this.

Shipowners might well be eager now, but over the next few years, they will need more than mere interest to embrace automation. Charterers, cargo owners and the supply chain that serves the shipping sector will play a critical role, imposing their standards and demands to those they collaborate with.

[In the future] a stricter attitude from the cargo owners, charterers and authorities such as the IMO and EU will have to continue and rules will need to be more stringent, clearer and obliging to put systems in place that can actually monitor progress, he concludes. For now, this continues to go painfully slow in the maritime business when they actually need to shift from one technology to the other, and they need a proper push.

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