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B&R will be supporting the OPC Foundation's new working groups, whose goal is to add real-time capability to the OPC UA communication standard.

B&R hit record sales of €535 million in 2014 for an impressive 13 percent growth. "We intend to continue on this course for expansion," announced general manager Peter Gucher at the company's international press conference, held in mid-April in…

reACTION technology achieves safety response times down to 100 microseconds. B&R is thus presenting programmable safety technology with the world's fastest response times.

With a new series of safe digital mixed modules from its X20 SafeIO family from B&R, integrated safety technology is now no more expensive than conventional relay solutions even in the smallest applications.

B&R's new safe I/O modules make programmable safety technology an economical solution even for woodworking applications on the smallest scale. These and other innovations will be on display in Hall 17 / Booth G20 at the Ligna trade fair from May…

B&R recently founded its 25th subsidiary in Singapore. From the strategically located office, managing director Mark Meng and his team will serve B&R customers across all of Southeast Asia.

Users of B&R's APROL process control system can now enjoy even more of the benefits provided by OPC UA. An OPC UA server and OPC UA client are available directly on Linux-based runtime servers to allow vendor-independent communication.

New solutions for cooperation between humans and robots in the food and beverage industry will be the focal point of B&R's exhibit in Hall 7 / Booth 39 at the Anuga FoodTec trade fair being held March 24-27 in Cologne, Germany.

With SafeMOTION Release 1.9, B&R has updated the safety functions for the ACOPOSmulti servo drive family. Two new functions – Remanent Safe Position (RSP) and Safely Limited Acceleration (SLA) – are now available.

Centralized acquisition of operating and process data is now much easier. The new APROL PDA solution can be used "off-the-shelf" or integrated into an existing APROL system.