Fischer Elektronik offers the right housing for the Raspberry Pi 5. The housing consists of an upper and lower shell made of punched and bent 1.5 mm thick aluminum sheet.

The electronic 4-channel circuit breakers (ECBs) 'Pisa-M' from Puls are aids for protection and power distribution in applications with power requirements from 90 W to 480 W.

'Prime Panel Touch' and 'Prime Panel Extend' from Schubert System Elektronik (SSE) are suitable for sophisticated visualization concepts in industry.

The Technical University of Dresden (TUD) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have opened the new "launchhub42 ComSpace". In addition to cutting-edge research for future 6G communication networks, it also focuses on visionary ideas from the fields of robotics and sensor technology.

Four and a half years after its introduction, the research allowance is becoming increasingly popular with innovative companies as an additional funding option. There are still a number of pitfalls for companies when it comes to implementation.

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Artificial intelligence in the form of LLMs is suitable for analyzing existing software and automatically creating architecture documentation from it. This article shows how this works.

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Orders in the German electrical and digital industry continued to fall in June. The decline is particularly noticeable this month, which is due to the good month of the previous year.

The 'SWAP-IT' production architecture developed by a consortium of Fraunhofer Institutes is ready for use - for capacity-optimized, flexibly arranged production modules that are loaded by driverless transport systems and can manufacture many products.

The demand for computing power from AI and high-performance computing requires a modified IT infrastructure, as the power density in data centers is increasing rapidly. Cooling technologies are particularly affected.

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The Supervisory Board of Siemens has announced personnel decisions at Managing Board level in order to further expand its position as a leading technology company and to accelerate the increase in value.

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Siemens is struggling with a weakening automation market in the third quarter. The software business, on the other hand, is developing strongly. It remains to be seen whether this will continue after the switch to a SaaS model.

Raquel Torres succeeds John Conway as President of UniversalAutomation.Org.

The motto of the Kuka Innovation Award 2025 is 'Medical Robotics Challenge 2.0'. Five international teams have made it to the final with their robotics ideas for the future of medicine. The winner will receive 20,000 euros in prize money.

Ransomware groups use information from stolen data to force companies to pay. This also includes using sensitive employee data to put the company under pressure. This is shown in the latest Sophos X-Ops Report.

The new version of the EU NIS Directive not only increases the minimum requirements for cyber security, it also affects significantly more companies than before. What measures should companies take now? Dirk Wocke lists the five most important points.

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Marc Hüske is the 31st member of the Industry 4.0 Research Advisory Board, which is coordinated by Acatech and has the task of identifying research-based solutions for the further development and implementation of Industry 4.0.

The industry's call for a stronger focus on competitiveness has finally been heard, according to the VDMA. The association sees the "Clean Industrial Deal" as a competitive successor to the "EU Green Deal".

Claroty works with Amazon Web Services to help companies realize the full potential of the cloud.

The safety relays in the 'Tethys IP65' family from Zander Aachen include the Tethys IP65 SR safety relay and the Tethys IP65 KR safe coupling relay. Their housing functions as a mini switch cabinet and requires no additional protection.

With the Sigmatek 'SCP 211' safety CPU, it is possible on the software side to create customized macro libraries and parameter lists for safety applications.