Yokogawa Electric has entered into a distribution partnership with Tokyo-based Sensyn Robotics with the aim of offering comprehensive drone services to customers in various industries.

Verizon collaborates with Nvidia to power AI workloads on 5G private networks with Mobile Edge Compute.

Belden expands its ‘Lion’ series with new Lion-Safety I/O modules for functional safety in highly automated processes.

The Y-Circ M Push-Pull system with internal locking from Yamaichi Electronics, compliant with IEC 61076-2-012, offers IP65/IP67 protection against water and dust.

The BLDC internal rotor drives of the ECI-80 motors from ebm-papst with an output power of up to 720 W are now equipped with K5 electronics.

The autumn of 2024 has also been a challenging period for the German machinery and plant engineering sector, with order intake remaining at a low level in November 2024.

The security of OT systems is a high priority for many companies. Sophos conducted a survey to find out exactly how these companies protect their OT systems against cyberattacks and asked 201 companies in the DACH region about their security strategy.

Hexagon has announced an agreement to acquire Septentrio, an OEM provider of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technologies.

Robotic systems use cameras to explore previously unknown terrain, buildings or danger zones. In the '3D-InAus' project, researchers at Fraunhofer FKIE are using a LiDAR laser on a moving robot that measures distances with laser pulses. Geometrically accurate 3D environments are created in the visualization.

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Optimizing operational processes, reducing costs, developing new business models - the right use of AI opens up opportunities to overcome current challenges. In this article, you will find out what requirements are necessary and what use cases there are.

Witheffect from January 1, 2025, Martin Heinz has taken overthe position of CEO of MES/MOM provider iTAC Software. Together with CFO Andreas Eckert, he now forms the company's Management Board.

Sick and Endress+Hauser are putting their strategic partnership in the field of process automation into practice: Sick's gas analysis and flow measurement technology is now an integral part of Endress+Hauser's instrumentation portfolio.

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Light guides integrated into glass have the potential to significantly improve the measurement quality of sensors for research and industry. A consortium including Fraunhofer IZM is working on how in the '3DGlassGuard' project.

In the Luna hall, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has researched how payload boxes, sensors, rovers and astronauts connect to form a network. They exchange signals that can be used for communication and navigation at the same time.

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Quantum Brilliance, a provider of diamond-based quantum technology, is supplying the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF with a quantum accelerator that works at room temperature.

In 2025, OT cyber security will play a key role in protecting industrial environments and critical infrastructures. Phil Tonkin, Field CTO of Dragos, names key measures for the coming year.

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Synapticon, provider of solutions for integrated motion, announced the launch of Synapticon Intelligence as an internal project in the springtime. Synapticon Intelligence is now being established as an independent business unit based at the AI xpress center in Böblingen.

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The Harting Technology Group generated revenue of EUR 940 million in the past financial year 2023/24. This means that revenue was 9.2 percent (currency-adjusted -7.9 percent) below the result for the 2022/23 financial year of EUR 1,036 billion.

TXOne Networks presented version 2.1 of its edge devices at the SPS trade fair, designed to protect industrial processes and critical infrastructures from unauthorized access.

According to Exotec, these trends in particular will dominate the industry in 2025: Increasing automation, a focus on investment security and flexibility, and the use of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) in system planning and presentation.