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The top articles in May
The most-read articles in May clearly show that there is no sign of stagnation. A lot is happening in the industry: new records, investments and collaborations between companies, Gaia-X with showcase projects and, of course, product innovations. Read for yourself.
Top 10: An app store for the industry
Hilscher is currently developing an app store. The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance has now awarded this development project the "Open Industry 4.0 Alliance Community" label for the first time. What is behind it?
Top 9: The e-paper of issue 4/2021
In the e-paper of our issue 4, you can find out why the focus of IoT application development is shifting away from the cloud and towards the edge. You can also read more about TSN in conjunction with Linux and RTOS and how to close security gaps in your company.
Top 8: A first Gaia-X solution
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is now announcing solutions to help companies use Gaia-X. The focus is on a framework, a marketplace and services.
Top 7: Wago strengthens its commitment to power supplies
Wago expands its commitment in the field of power supplies and founds Wago Electronics at the new Erwitte site.
Top 6: Siemens and Schaeffler work together
Intelligent condition diagnostics for drive systems is the aim of the collaboration between Siemens and Schaeffler. To this end, an analysis service from Schaeffler is being integrated into the IIoT platform Sidrive IQ from Siemens.
Top 5: Automated inspection
Until now, optical inspection in 3D was associated with high programming effort and costs, meaning that users had to resort to 2D solutions. A new type of laser-based 3D vision system is now set to put an end to this.
Top 4: Lenze sells 'Mobile Drives' division
Lenze is divesting the 'Mobile Drives' division of its Swiss subsidiary Lenze Schmidhauser. A buyer has already been found.
Top 3: Breaking the 100 million barrier
The total number of Profibus and Profinet products installed in systems has exceeded an impressive threshold of 104 million. Profinet has reached its highest ever annual figure of 7.3 million products brought onto the market.
Top 2: Jump in profits for Siemens
Siemens' profit rose from 697 million to 2.4 billion euros compared to the previous year. This was driven by the automotive industry, mechanical engineering and software activities. The Flender sale did the rest.
Top 1: This is what winners look like!
In 2020, we presented over 500 products and systems across all our channels. From this pool, we selected 96 products in twelve categories and put them to the vote. Over 6100 readers responded to our call and cast almost 50,000 votes.
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