Together with a university network in Ghana, students with IT expertise are to be approached to work remotely for mechanical engineering companies in Germany.

The Eclipse Foundation has now published the results of its latest IoT and Edge survey on commercial use. One of the results: 73% of companies now include open source in their deployment plans.

Andreas Lachenschmidt has been supporting the Kunbus management team led by Dr. Martin Kunschert (Partner & CEO) and Sándor Kaufmann (COO) as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) since March 1, 2023.

JavaScript UI frameworks are a dime a dozen. Which ones are there and how do they fit in with industrial HMI applications? Can employees provide technical support for them? And why should users pay attention to who is behind the frameworks?

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Rose has designed the 'S-Line Gen. 5' panel PCs as a complete HMI system that is suitable for operation as well as for programming, visualization, long-term archiving and simulation of processes in all areas of automation.

With the 'GS-Multiline' series, Graf-Syteco offers a device family with a combination of tactile keypad and display. The keypad was developed and designed for use in mobile commercial vehicles and work machines.

Traditionally, the physical connections and the control and safety-related logic of devices are mapped separately. But why redraw functions neutrally when the Piping & Instrumentation Diagram already contains so much basic data?

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With Prime OS, Schubert System Elektronik develops specialized operating systems with and without containerization for various target applications.

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The new Embedded PCs from Beckhoff Automation can be used as compact controllers. The 'CX82xx' Embedded PC family is a further development of the 'CX81xx' series.

EKF presents the CompactPCI serial SBC 'SC9-Toccata'. Based on the 11th generation Intel Xeon processor, it offers a clock rate of up to 4.7 GHz (base rate 2.6 GHz).

Plug-In Electronic presents the embedded computer system 'EAC-5000' based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin platform. It has been specially developed for performance-intensive edge AI applications, including those with real-time requirements and for video analysis with AI.

DH Electronics 'DHCOM i.MX8M' with dual or quad Cortex-A53 processor with Neural Processing Unit (NPU) is particularly suitable for real-time control, machine learning, AI, advanced multimedia and industrial automation.

Small, robust enclosures are required for the integration of miniaturized electronic components, sensors and wireless technologies. The plastic enclosures in the 'Mini-Data-Box' series from OKW Gehäusesysteme meet these requirements.

The 'Toreo-P650' camera from Becom Systems combines several 3D measurement methods in one housing. For object detection, it uses a VGA time-of-flight sensor in combination with two 2D color sensors for a high-resolution stereo system.

The 'IS540.1' smartphone from i.safe Mobile is an ATEX and IECEx Zone 1/21 approved smartphone with supported 5G frequency bands and Wi-Fi 6 connectivity.

With the 'Remote Access Platform (RAP)', Sigmatek offers a secure, web-based option for remote services - from monitoring and remote maintenance, debugging and commissioning to software updates or data insights.

The 'Smart-Switch' from Elektrosil enables one-handed operation based on a combination of turning and pushing movements. This concept allows new sequences, combinations and speeds for machine control.

The BE-DCEB10A DC inrush current limiter from Bicker Elektronik protects against high currents that occur when capacitive DC loads are switched on and can damage the power supply or trigger fuse elements.

The GRM-H series power controllers from Gefran are based on the scalable 'GRx' platform for managing electrical loads in industrial heating applications and have integrated diagnostic functions.

With 'Elements', Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence presents simulation software that is easy to learn for systems engineers.