The seventh Talking Industry discussion attempted to explore what could be done to further evangelise the benefits of digitally transformative concepts to improve efficiency and competitive perspective and to define more clearly concepts such as IIoT, Industry 4.0 Smart Factory, Digital Twins, Machine Learning, Analytics and AI. Andy Pye provides this summary review.

Fourth generation power transmissionPowerGrip GT4 ™ is Gates' synchronous elastomer belt  reported to have the highest power transmission capacity on the market in its class. But this is not the only feature of this new belt from Gates, a world leader in the supply of specific hydraulic and power transmission solutions. Using new advanced materials, Gates has designed a belt with higher chemical resistance and resistance to a wider temperature range. The new GT4 ™ belt offers improved performance for a wide range of industrial applications.

The theme of the third in the series of Talking Industry online panel discussions organised by DFA Media, the publisher of PWE, was Industrial Networks, IIoT and Communications. The session chairman Andy Pye reports on the event