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The recovery of the machine tool industry has been postponed once again, predicts Dr. Markus Heering, Executive Director of the VDW. The association does not expect to return to a stable growth path until 2026.
According to a representative Bitkom survey, 52% of Germans use a mouse, controller or smartphone at least occasionally. Gaming is also widespread among senior citizens - one in five people aged 65 and over play games.
RS, a provider of product and service solutions with increased consulting needs for industrial customers, has appointed Stefan Gierse as Managing Director DACH on August 1, 2025. Ralf Hellwig will retire from this position and take on a new project-related role.
PTC has appointed Jon Stevenson as Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer. Stevenson will be responsible for the strategy, development and delivery of PTC's Digital Thread product portfolio.
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TÜV Süd has successfully tested and officially certified the IO-Link Safety Specification V1.1.4. This lays the foundation for the broad industrial use of the open-technology safety solution.
These were probably the most difficult scenarios by far since the premiere of the European Robotics Hackathon (EnRicH) in 2017: at the beginning of July, more than 120 robotics experts from all over Europe and Canada met at the never-commissioned Zwentendorf nuclear power plant near Vienna to test their ground robots and drones under realistic conditions at the 5th EnRicH.
Fujitsu has launched a project funded by the Japanese National Institute for Research and Development to develop a superconducting quantum computer with a capacity of over 10,000 qubits. Completion is planned for the 2030 financial year.
The assets of the Field Device Tool Group (FDT) were transferred to the FieldComm Group in 2024, which in turn also owns Field Device Integration technology (FDI). What does this mean for field device manufacturers who relied on FDT?
Siemens continued its growth trajectory in the third quarter of fiscal year 2025 (ending June 30, 2025). However, the Industrial Business recorded a decline of 7 percent.
Endress+Hauser is now the sole owner of the software company CodeWrights. The Swiss provider of measurement and automation technology acquired the remaining 33 percent of Pepperl+Fuchs' shares with effect from July 1, 2025. Endress+Hauser held two thirds of the shares since 2002, while Pepperl+Fuchs owned the remaining third.
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A recent analysis by the market research institute Omdia confirms that Profinet is the leading technology in the field of industrial Ethernet protocols. In addition to its broad market penetration, Profinet's consistent focus on security is particularly impressive - a decisive factor in times of increasing networking and digital threats.
The production of fiber optic cables in Germany has fallen by over 43% in the last ten years. In order to avoid long-term strategic dependencies, the ZVEI is calling for the maintenance and expansion of industrial capacities for network components in Germany and Europe.
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence is driving up the energy consumption of data centers and jeopardizing global sustainability goals. Schneider Electric presents six practical solutions to meet the new requirements.
Critical Manufacturing, a provider of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) solutions, has announced the acquisition of Convanit - an artificial intelligence company specializing in image-based analytics in high-tech manufacturing.
AI Agents in the Industry | Part 3
Companies are increasingly using AI agents as digital employees in industrial environments. This raises a crucial question: how can we effectively connect these agents to the data sources they need to do their work? Two approaches to connecting AI agents with enterprise data sources.
The IO-Link community has published a new Security Deployment Guideline. This is intended to help users evaluate and implement security measures for the use of IO-Link technology.
On July 23, Janitza electronics acquired a majority stake in Digimondo from Hamburg - a strategic step on the way to becoming a complete solution provider for energy management and power quality.
With the new draft law to implement the EU NIS 2 Directive, the German government is comprehensively modernizing IT security law. In future, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) will be responsible for the supervision of around 29,500 institutions.
The German Federal Cabinet has passed the national implementation law for the European NIS 2 Directive. The TÜV-Verband sees this as an important step towards greater cyber security, but calls for changes to exemption rules, verification requirements and implementation in practice.
The German government has passed a cabinet resolution on the national implementation of the EU NIS 2 Directive. Experts welcome the move, but criticize the lack of clarity regarding exemptions and responsibilities.
