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The top articles in July 2024
Innovative spirit and entrepreneurial thinking characterize the most-read articles from July. Find out more about competitive advantages through AI, click through award-winning developments and read more about model-based design and quantum sensor technology.
Top 10: Why waiting is not an option
If you want to remain competitive in automation and control technology, you should take the first steps towards AI. It is important to avoid dead ends, reduce task complexity and keep an eye on the issue of fleet observability.
Top 9: Industrial Ethernet dominates
Every year, HMS Networks conducts a market analysis of industrial networks. The latest study shows that the market for industrial networks continues to expand, with an expected growth of 7% in 2024.
Top 8: Standard-compliant, agile verification and validation
Model-based design simplifies the development of mechatronic systems by using virtual models from the outset. The second part of the article series highlights methods and functions in the area of software testing - also in relation to the IEC 61508 safety standard.
Top 7: These are your winners!
Here they are: The winners of the Computer&Automation readers' choice "Products of the Year 2024"!
© Julia Bergmeister Photography / Computer&AutomationWe put 96 products in twelve categories to your vote in December, and now the winners have been chosen! The trophies were presented at a 'Winner's Dinner' at the Seehaus in Munich. These are your "Products of the Year 2024"!
Top 6: Robotics Institute Germany founded
Prof. Angela Schoellig (left), Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger and Prof. Tamim Asfour from KIT.
© BMBFTogether, the top robotics locations in Germany will establish the Robotics Institute Germany (RIG), which is to become the central contact point for robotics in Germany in the future.
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Top 5: The e-paper of issue 07/2024
Read in the current issue of Computer&Automation how ChatGPT can provide support in the design phase, how LLMs are used in code analysis and whether TSN can be considered as a backbone for virtualized control systems.
Top 4: Joachim Herz Foundation invests
The Hamburg-based Joachim Herz Foundation acquires a stake in Weidmüller as part of a capital increase and thus holds around 20% of the shares in the family-owned company. The commitment is aimed at long-term corporate development and accelerated growth.
Top 3: Establishing global headquarters in Switzerland
The Harting Technology Group, a provider of industrial connection technology, has announced that it will be bundling supra-regional top management positions in Switzerland to further drive global management.
Top 2: Requirements management
Can generative AI be inventive? In view of the rapid evolution of AI, this can perhaps be answered with a "yes" at present. In any case, LLMs are already useful tools when it comes to formulating requirement descriptions.
Top 1: Quantum minimalists
How do you turn a highly complex physical laboratory setup into a marketable product? The art lies in reduction, as the start-up Quantum Technologies shows.























