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Routeco and CoreTigo partner to modernise UK factory automation

To meet rising demand for Industry 4.0 factory automation solutions keeps across the United Kingdom, a new partnership was recently created between Routeco and CoreTigo.

Engaging in a partnership to modernise the factory automation field in the UK, the two companies agreed on pursuing a joint effort, leaping industrial automation forward and creating numerous new applications and capabilities. By doing so, Routeco is expending the spread of IO-Link Wireless communication in its territories, shifting machines to wireless communication, and unbinding their capabilities.

IO-Link Wireless provides essential characteristics, essential for advanced industrial manufacturing capabilities. Ranging from a 5 Msec low latency and deterministic nature, through scalability reliability and coexistence capabilities, it portrays must have abilities for the 2020’s competitive market. IO-Link Wireless presents reliability of 1 e-9 packet error rate, which compared to everyday wireless communications protocols such as Wi-Fi, Zigbee and Bluetooth low energy, is 1 million times better (1e6).

Complementing Routeco’s portfolio, some of CoreTigo’s solutions target challenges in the packaging, automotive, pharmaceuticals and metal works. Enabling for the first time real-time control and monitoring on industrial rotating devices, IO-Link Wireless enhances and opens the door for new capabilities with rotary tables and carousels, transport tracks, smart machine tooling, robotic end-of-arm, condition monitoring and many others.

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