VDMA and the Spanish company Trimek were honored with the 'BAIDATA Excellence Award 2025' in the category 'Excellence in the Deployment of Innovative Pilots and Use Cases'.

With a ground-breaking ceremony, Werma has given the official go-ahead for the next major factory expansion in the Dillgarten Ost industrial estate. The new building marks the most comprehensive investment in the Rietheim-Weilheim site to date.

Images

Demographic change poses enormous challenges for industry and logistics, because while the shortage of skilled workers is increasing, people remain irreplaceable in many processes. This is where wearable assistants come into play, providing employees with targeted support, making processes more efficient and contributing to ergonomic workplace design at the same time.

Images

When an AI Agent recommends replacing critical network infrastructure based on subtle performance degradation patterns, human operators face a  trust challenge. Should they allocate budget and resources based on advice from the "digital colleague"? What if the recommendations involve substantial investments in time, equipment replacement, or system modernization?

Images

In a world where efficiency, sustainability and digitalization are shaping industrial development, FOM Industrie and Lenze are setting standards. Their partnership shows how technological excellence and shared visions can accelerate the evolution of manufacturing.

Images

Bihl+Wiedemann is a medium-sized, owner-managed company - founded in 1992 by Jochen Bihl and Bernhard Wiedemann in Mannheim. It develops and manufactures complete solutions for functional safety and data communication in machines and systems.

Images

The CODESYS highlight at the SPS 2025 trade fair is the virtual safety controller in the container certified by TÜV Süd in accordance with IEC 61508 SIL3 - on any number of devices. New: Now also on ARM-based systems and with FSoE.

Images

Intelligent manufacturing starts with the sensor. At SPS 2025, the sensor specialist will be demonstrating how Baumer innovations create added value in factory automation

Images

In modern industrial environments, safety and security are a basic requirement for efficient and reliable processes. For the transformation of industry, Pilz offers automation solutions with which machine builders and operators can ensure the protection of people, machinery and the environment.

Images

Automation solutions from Turck support the profitability, efficiency and sustainability of machines and systems. In this way, they not only increase competitiveness, but also contribute to more environmentally friendly production and intralogistics.

Images

SICK will be presenting itself at SPS 2025 (25-27 November, Nuremberg, Hall 7A, Stand 340) as a holistic partner for automation solutions with suitable, future-proof cybersecurity and service offerings.

Images

With the certified safety modular system from Neuron Automation, OEMs can implement functionally safe control solutions faster, more flexibly and more cost-effectively - from hardware and firmware to the application. Functional safety 'in time', 'in budget' and ready for SIL 3.

Images

How can robotics help to make packaging more sustainable? Kuka is looking for creative and innovative ideas in the new round of the Innovation Award.

Reliable measurement of pressure and level - with this one competence in mind, BD|SENSORS is the full supplier of an extensive product range of electronic measuring devices for pressure and level as well as the most precise evaluation and display technology for the data obtained.

Images

In a world of increasing automation, functional safety is essential. Plant operators not only have to comply with legal requirements, but also ensure efficiency and availability. For more than 70 years, EUCHNER has been supplying customized solutions for safeguarding guards - combining the highest safety standards with simple integration and future-proof communication technology.

Images

According to a recent study by the Capgemini Research Institute, agent-based AI systems could generate an economic benefit of up to USD 450 billion worldwide by 2028 — provided that humans remain actively involved.

Together with Dive imaging systems, the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS has established a step towards resource-saving semiconductor production. The installation of an optical measuring device from Dive in the Fraunhofer IPMS clean room has significantly reduced the amount of inspection work required during wafer production.

In the first quarter of 2025, the sensor and measurement technology industry recorded sales growth of three percent compared to the previous quarter - according to the results of the quarterly member survey conducted by the AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement.

A new short study by the VDMA Impuls Foundation shows: International cooperation remains indispensable for Germany's ability to innovate. The study calls for more strategic knowledge management to ensure a balance between knowledge protection and openness.

Images

The automotive industry in Japan installed a total of around 13,000 industrial robots in 2024. This is an increase of 11% compared to the previous year and marks the highest level since 2020, according to preliminary results from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).