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The top articles in May 2022
The Top 10 shows clear movements in the market: all kinds of premieres were announced and automation companies reported positive results and forecasts. In addition, interest in product trends continued unabated, as did interest in our new medium. Read for yourself.
Top 10: New skills are in demand
What new skills does the digital transformation in mechanical and plant engineering require from employees? A joint study by Kienbaum and VDMA gets to the bottom of this question.
Top 9: First Europe-wide satellite-based LoRa program
Echostar Mobile Limited, provider of mobile satellite services, announces the launch of an early adopter program for the pan-European satellite-based IoT service based on the LoRa protocol.
Top 8: Sales, EBIT and consolidated net income higher than ever before
The sensor company Sick can look back on a successful 2021 financial year: among other things, it achieved incoming orders of EUR 2321 million and sales of EUR 1964 million.
Top 7: Continental enters the AMR market
At Logimat, Continental announces the start of series production of AMR for external customers. The automotive supplier founded the Continental Mobile Robots division to distribute the robot solutions.
Top 6: These are your "Products of the Year 2022"!
Here they are, the winners of the "Products of the Year 2022" readers' poll! Find out which products and solutions from 2021 impressed our readers!
Top 5: Severe setbacks, positive conclusion
German companies have had extremely positive experiences with digitalization projects and want to invest significantly more in them in the future. This is the result of the annual study on digital transformation by Couchbase.
Top 4: Pneumatic cobot celebrates its premiere
Festo is launching what it claims is the world's first pneumatic cobot on the market. The aim is to make it economical for SMEs, which are often characterized by manual work processes, to use cobots.
Top 3: Russian sanctions depress Siemens' profits
Siemens is discontinuing its business in Russia after around 170 years. The sanctions against the country reduce profits in the 2nd quarter by around 600 million euros.
Top 2: Fieldbuses are not finished yet!
The market for industrial networks is expected to grow by 8% in 2022. Industrial Ethernet continues to show the highest growth and now accounts for 66% of all newly installed nodes (65% in the previous year).
Top 1: Computer&Automation Interactive - The new e-paper experience
Where print reaches its limits, our e-paper unfolds its full potential - true to the motto: pictures say more than 1000 words. From now on, our e-papers will contain more information in the form of videos, GIFs, web links and picture galleries! See for yourself!
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