See farther. Protect more - A world first!

Datalogic’s Sensor & Safety and Machine Vision business unit, Datasensing, has launched the SLS10 Safety Laser Scanner. Offering the largest safety coverage currently available on the market, the new SLS10 also delivers ultra-fast response times, and best-in-class angular resolution to help manufacturers boost protection. All while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

As the world’s first 10 m safety laser scanner, the SLS10 enables customers to see farther and protect more. With a maximum safety range of 10 m (32.8 ft) across a 275° scanning angle for 70 mm detection capability, the device provides up to 240 m² of safety coverage from a single scanner. This impressive capability supports the protection of larger workspaces, longer production lines, and bigger industrial machinery with fewer devices. Instead of deploying multiple scanners to achieve full coverage, users can rely on a single SLS10, lowering hardware investment and shortening commissioning times, as well as reducing maintenance requirements.

“Safety should never be a compromise between protection, productivity, and cost,” said Andrea Donadel, Industrial Automation Products and Solutions Executive Vice President at Datasensing. “With our new SLS10, we are advancing safety laser scanning for the benefit of both end users and system integrators. Its market-leading 10 m range, rapid response time, and advanced configuration tools not only mean protecting wider areas with fewer devices, but also better operational efficiency and flexibility”

Greater safety coverage costing less.
The new SLS10 provides multiple detection capabilities for different applications. Alongside its 10 m safety range for 70 mm detection capability, it also offers 5 m safety range for 30 mm, 5.5 m for 40 mm, 7.5 m for 50 mm, and 8.75 m for 60 mm. This flexibility makes the scanner ideal for palletizing systems, robotic cells, laser cutting machines, woodworking machinery, warehouse AGVs/AMRs, and much more. Customers gain peace of mind that every risk has been safely addressed while lowering total system costs.

Value beyond safety.
Beyond safeguarding, the SLS10 delivers powerful performance in navigation applications thanks to its best-in-class angular resolution of up to 0.059°. Angular resolution defines the minimum distance between consecutive laser measurement points. The outcome for users is higher accuracy in support of improved navigational capabilities, making the SLS10 particularly valuable for high-payload AGVs/AMRs and automated forklifts. This potential for further applications adds value beyond traditional safety tasks.

The SLS10 delivers an ultra-fast 84 ms response time, the best in its class for safety distances above 9 m, allowing installation closer to hazardous areas while maintaining compliance. The result is a smaller machine footprint, greater design flexibility, and improved productivity.

Smarter configuration and easier commissioning.
Datasensing has also introduced a redesigned DL Sentinel user interface through its new ONEGUI platform, improving setup and day-to-day management. Users can configure safety zones more easily, monitor Master and Remote devices simultaneously, and use the new OptimaTune technology to automatically select the best balance between safety distance, response time, and environmental conditions. Benefits include reduced commissioning time and improved stock flexibility by replacing previous scanners without any compromise in performance.

Selected models also include positional zone set switching by encoder, a patent-pending feature that enables automatic zone changes without additional sensors.

Complying with SIL-2 and PLd safety standards, SLS10 delivers the reliability required for mission-critical industrial environments. Notably, strong immunity to dust helps reduce false triggering, preventing unnecessary and costly machine shutdowns.

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Field mounted low power PSU.

Helps machine builders reduce cabling, simplify installation, and improve system efficiency in industrial environments.

The expansion of the Puls FIEPOS (FIEld POwer Supply) product family with new Low Power Class field-mounted power supplies designed for decentralised industrial automation and intralogistics applications has been announced. The new single-phase units complement the existing FIEPOS 360 W and 600 W models, giving system designers and machine builders access to one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of decentralised field power solutions.

The new Low Power field power supplies provide reliable 24 V DC directly in the field while reducing the need for centralized control cabinets and extensive wiring infrastructure. Built for harsh environments with IP65 and IP67 protection, the compact units support installation close to loads in industrial environments, helping manufacturers lower installation costs, simplify machine design and improve overall operational efficiency.

Available in 100 W and 200 W power classes, the new units are engineered for powering sensors, actuators, distributed I/O devices and smaller control systems commonly used in smart manufacturing and intralogistics applications. The portfolio includes versions with NEC Class 2 compliant outputs, dual NEC Class 2 outputs, and 200 W output for additional flexibility in machine and system design.

The FIEPOS Low Power Class devices achieve efficiency ratings up to 95.1%, minimizing energy losses and heat generation while supporting long-term system reliability. With a lifetime exceeding 200,000 hours and industrial-grade construction, the units are designed to maximize uptime in demanding operating conditions.

A selected model with IO-Link communication also enables enhanced diagnostics and remote monitoring, supporting predictive maintenance strategies and improved system visibility in connected industrial environments.

“As manufacturers worldwide continue to embrace decentralised automation concepts, the need for robust and compact field power solutions is increasing across industries,” said Martin Kram, Chief Sales Officer of PULS. “The expansion of our FIEPOS family reflects our commitment to helping customers design more efficient and flexible automation systems by reducing cabling complexity, optimizing machine layouts, and delivering reliable power where it is needed most.”

Supporting the shift toward decentralised automation architectures.
Decentralised power concepts are increasingly being adopted across industrial automation, conveyor systems, warehouse automation, and material handling operations as companies seek to simplify installations and improve scalability. By placing power supplies directly in the field, manufacturers can reduce cabinet space requirements, shorten cable runs, and accelerate system commissioning.

The expanded FIEPOS portfolio strengthens PULS’ position as a leading provider of industrial DC power solutions for both control cabinet and decentralised field applications. The company’s focus on efficiency, durability, and system availability continues to support OEMs, machine builders, and industrial operators across a wide range of automation environments.

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Thermoplastic connectors for multiple industries.

Amphenol Sine Systems’ ATD Series™ connectors are now available from Inelco Hunter. They are engineered for demanding, high‑reliability applications across multiple industries. The ATD Series is a compact, high-density, heavy-duty, thermoplastic solution with superior environmental seals and end caps for exceptional rear seal retention. They are available in a 20 (4+16 Mixed) position layout.

As a hybrid system, these connectors facilitate the simultaneous transmission of power and signals within one unit. Their compact design offers increased flexibility for wire harness designers, enabling efficient space use without sacrificing functionality. The ATD connectors have been developed to be comparable with other similar existing products industry-wide.

The connectors can accommodate a wire range of 14-22AWG, with a current of up to 13A, and up to 16/20 contacts. They are IP67, IP68 and IP69K rated in a mated condition, featuring a thermoplastic housing with integrated latch for secure mating. ATD Series plugs and receptacles include integrated Terminal Position Assurance (TPA) Wedgelocks. Plugs are available with an optional Connector Position Assurance (CPA) Lock, which simplifies assembly, installation, and repair by minimising the need for additional components or specialised tools.

Uses will include demanding applications such as marine, heavy equipment, agricultural, automotive, transport, aviation, alternative energy, as well as many other rugged interconnect applications.

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Co-operation in improving OT cybersecurity.

A collaboration to help strengthen OT cybersecurity across critical infrastructure has been announced between the International Society of Automation (ISA) and the Operational Technology Cybersecurity Coalition (OTCC).

The two organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together on initiatives that raise awareness of OT cybersecurity risks and solutions, explore strategic issues of shared interest and facilitate technical engagement between members of each organisation. The goal is to encourage better implementation and recognition of foundational cybersecurity standards like ISA/IEC 62443, the globally recognised consensus-based series of OT cybersecurity standards developed by ISA.

ISA's CEO, Claire Fallon

“Protecting critical infrastructure requires sustained collaboration, practical guidance and a shared commitment to standards-based cybersecurity,” said Claire Fallon, CEO of ISA. “This partnership creates an important framework for ISA and OTCC to help advance key OT cybersecurity practices.”

"ISA and OTCC come at OT cybersecurity from different angles — ISA through the standards that define good practice, OTCC through the companies putting them to work," said Tatyana Bolton, executive director of OTCC. "Bringing those perspectives together is how standards move from paper into practice, and we look forward to working with ISA to make that happen.”

OTCC recently published a position paper advocating for a single, horizontal standard for OT cybersecurity rather than a patchwork of sector-specific mandates. The paper recommends that ISA/IEC 62443 be recognized as the global OT security standard. It names ISA/IEC 62443 as an established framework uniquely situated to harmonize around, as this standard has been specifically tailored to meet the requirements of OT. With one interoperable OT cybersecurity standard such as ISA/IEC 62443, the OTCC paper argues, the burden of adhering to duplicative standards can be reduced, helping to ensure critical infrastructure and industrial operations stay resilient everywhere.

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Updated manufacturing system.

The latest version of Körber's PAS-X Manufacturing Execution System has been released. PAS-X MES 3.4.2 helps pharma and life science manufacturers maximise operational performance while significantly lowering infrastructure and maintenance efforts.

The new version expands shopfloor capabilities and is, for example, well suited for Cell & Gene Therapy (CGT) manufacturing, supporting Chain of Identity and Chain of Custody, material traceability and mobile photo documentation. CGT companies benefit from improved operator guidance, end-to-end traceability and enhanced process security for highly individualised therapies.

Maximised uptime.
PAS-X SmartInstall automates deployments, updates, validation checks, and reporting. The new installation process, based on Kubernetes Operators, reduces installation effort to just a few hours while increasing system availability.

Increased infrastructure efficiency.
Infrastructure requirements have been further reduced by migrating core services to GraalVM, a high-performance runtime environment that optimises Java applications. As a result, memory consumption is reduced by up to 50 percent while startup times are significantly improved, further modernising the PAS-X MES system architecture.

A strategic step for more efficient pharma manufacturing.
“The new PAS-X MES 3.4.2 version is another important step in our mission to help pharma and life science manufacturers achieve greater efficiency with lower operational effort,” says Pierrick Lebigre, Vice President Product, Software, Körber Business Area Pharma. “This release combines enhanced shopfloor capabilities with significant improvements in deployment automation, infrastructure efficiency and system observability. Customers benefit from lower total cost of ownership, faster operations and greater agility in highly regulated manufacturing environments.”

Strong data foundation for analytics and AI.
The new PAS-X Data Access 3.2 version, released alongside PAS-X MES 3.4.2, further strengthens the data foundation of PAS-X MES by doubling the scope of trusted, reusable manufacturing data available to data & analytics teams. The expanded data model provides richer context across processes, materials, products, and sites, enabling deeper operational insight while reducing the long-term effort required to integrate, maintain, and scale MES data across enterprise analytics and AI initiatives.

Improved observability and WMS integration.
The latest PAS-X MES release also introduces new observability tools, providing unified metrics, logs and traces across application, platform and infrastructure layers to accelerate issue detection and resolution. In addition, new warehouse and material management capabilities improve material request and supply workflows, strengthen WMS integration (Warehouse Management System) and increase accessibility of operational data.

PAS-X MES 3.4.2 is available for all deployment models, including on-premise, private cloud and fully managed SaaS environments.

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Build lasers with reduced complexity.

Scaling production without losing precision: Automation transforming the laser industry.

Ageing populations are set to put growing pressure on labour markets in Europe, with similar demographic pressures emerging in the US and China. As companies look to stay competitive with fewer workers, automation is becoming increasingly important for boosting productivity. Femtosecond laser company LITILIT says automation will allow it to manufacture 3,000 lasers a year with a team of just over 100 employees.

In a recent report, the European Commission warned that as Europe’s population shrinks and ages, labour market, healthcare, public finances and other sectors will be impacted. Similar aging trends are also visible in the US and China. The report points to automation, innovation and AI as part of the response.

For businesses, automation's benefit goes beyond easing the labour squeeze – it also significantly increases productivity. An August report(pdf) by the International Federation of Robotics found that automation can help smaller manufacturers reach productivity levels and competitive advantages that were previously available mainly to larger industrial companies.

Nikolajus Gavrilinas

According to Nikolajus Gavrilinas, co-founder and CEO of LITILIT, which recently started building a large-scale femtosecond laser facility in Vilnius, the laser industry is a clear example of how automation can help smaller businesses to scale. For LITILIT, it will allow the company to manufacture up to 3,000 femtosecond lasers a year, one of the highest capacities in the world, with just around 150 employees.

"Typically, building a femtosecond laser required highly trained specialists, because these advanced lasers evolved from scientific systems. While they deliver strong performance, they are notoriously difficult to produce at scale. We build ours on a patented, purpose-built architecture with fewer components, allowing us to significantly speed up production and reduce headcount," he says.

Another advantage of automation is making precision repeatable at scale. Femtosecond lasers require tiny optical components to be aligned with extreme accuracy, work traditionally done by highly trained specialists one unit at a time. Automation allows manufacturers to maintain that same level of precision across thousands of lasers while reducing variation between units.

Gavrilinas notes that automated manufacturing will also help LITILIT advance its goal of making femtosecond lasers scalable. The company is on track to finish its Vilnius factory this October and immediately begin production, gradually increasing capacity.

"Femtosecond lasers are used in fast-developing fields, from manufacturing the latest generation of semiconductors and data center equipment to performing complex eye surgeries. As demand for these advanced lasers grows, it would be very difficult to meet it using traditional methods, where complex assembly makes it difficult to scale output," Gavrilinas explains.

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From computer-on-module to cloud.

An active patent for cybersecure communication between operational technology (OT) and IT infrastructure.

aReady.COM from congatec encompasses application-ready embedded hardware and software building blocks, enabling companies to simplify and accelerate the integration of IoT connectivity, security, virtualisation, and AI into their solutions.

Patent number WO2025186118A1 describes the interaction between the conga-zones hypervisor and the conga-connect IoT software running on a COM. The conga-zones hypervisor provides isolated system partitions, operating via a gateway to create strict data separation between the OT data acquisition side and the IT data transmission side. A security barrier between these two virtual machines prevents direct data forwarding from the IT side to the OT side and vice versa. Furthermore, transmission via data projection prevents external access to the OT device via the IT infrastructure, as well as access to the IT infrastructure via the embedded device. This approach enables machine, application, and communication functions to be combined within a single platform that is secure by design.

These modules allow customers to increase functionality on consolidated system architectures, shorten development times, and optimise total cost of ownership (TCO). At the same time, the filing of this patent is a clear indication of congatec’s technical development capabilities and the disruptive potential of its aReady.COM approach. It establishes that congatec consistently thinks beyond COMs as pure hardware, presenting them as pre-integrated, application-ready system building blocks for secure and connected industrial edge applications.

“With aReady.COM, we address key challenges faced by our customers: developing market-ready systems and new digital services for new business models faster; integrating more functionality into their systems; and simultaneously reducing complexity, integration risks, and operating costs,” says Andreas Bergbauer, Manager Solution Management at congatec. “The patent shows how conga-zones and conga-connect work together within aReady.COM to provide secure data exchange as well as isolated functional domains – for example for AI, real-time control, and user interfaces.”

“The patented combination of isolated partitions, controlled data exchange, and VPN-based communication is an important building block for ensuring the security by design of our aReady.COMs in secure and cost-effective edge architectures,” adds Konrad Garhammer, COO & CTO at congatec. “With aReady.COM, we simplify the use of complex embedded technologies and create the basis for simple system consolidation, high functional integration, and optimised TCO in industrial applications.”

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