Intelligent data visualization
If you can visualize your process data in real time, you can use it effectively. But how can intelligent data visualization be implemented for digital production processes?
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read more...Digital twin revolutionizes maintenance
As virtual representatives of real machines, digital twins open up new possibilities for maintaining and servicing complex industrial plants and systems. A project report.
read more...AI follows its own rules
At the end of last year, Google put the icing on the cake of the advancing development of artificial intelligence with its quantum supremacy test. America and China are engaged in an AI race. What role does Germany and Industry 4.0 play in this?
read more...Computer&AUTOMATION on Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram & Co
Computer&AUTOMATION is the media brand for the modern world of automation.
read more...Aaronn Electronic and Advantech expand partnership
With "WISE-PaaS", Advantech supports its customers with an IoT cloud platform. It is used to network hardware and implement projects in the areas of IoT, big data and artificial intelligence. One of the first partners in Europe is Aaronn Electronic.
read more...Engineering directly in the cloud
Beckhoff is presenting 'Twincat Cloud Engineering' at SPS 2019. The new solution allows the existing engineering and runtime products from the Verl-based company to be instantiated and used directly in the cloud.
read more...Lack of trust in employees
Since 2016, the importance of digital transformation has steadily increased in large German companies. Now it is declining for the first time, according to the latest survey by digital consultancy Etventure. One of the main reasons: trust in their own employees is waning.
read more...Supporting service processes with artificial intelligence
On January 1, 2020, the 'Service-Meister' project was launched under the leadership of the eco Association. The aim is to create an AI-based service ecosystem for technical services in the age of Industry 4.0.
read more...The interaction of EDI and ERP
The implementation of electronic document types and the associated paper documents is not trivial and is a challenge for the automotive industry and its upstream suppliers alike. The interaction between EDI and ERP is crucial for the efficiency of the processes.
read more...A test catalog for the certification of AI
Fraunhofer IAIS and the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) want to develop a test catalog for the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications as part of the KI.NRW competence platform.
read more...The 'Fast Ramp-Up Challenge'
Together with partner companies, Siemens has launched an initiative to enable the rapid construction and conversion of production facilities. Other companies are still invited to join in.
read more...Significantly more processors affected by attacks
Not only high-end processors are susceptible to side-channel attacks. Researchers from Kaiserslautern and Stanford have shown that common embedded processors also have similar security vulnerabilities.
read more...A new look for the user interface
Suite X is the next generation of Wscad's E-CAD solution, which is designed for cross-trade work in the disciplines of electrical engineering, control cabinet construction, process and fluid technology, building automation and electrical installation.
read more...ABB and Dassault Systèmes agree partnership
ABB has entered into a partnership to combine its 'Ability' digitalization portfolio with the '3DExperience' platform from Dassault Systèmes. The focus is on factory automation and robotics, building automation and the process industry.
read more...Follow-up with Dr. Michael Hecker
From financial IT to the industry
GFT is actually at home in the financial sector. With the new 'Industry Solutions' business field, the company now wants to specifically address companies from the manufacturing sector that are still at the beginning of their digital transformation.
read more...IoT platforms in use
Data is always at the heart of IoT solutions: it shows customer behavior, provides information about processes in a machine or transmits location information. This makes them the basis for data-based business models in the Internet of Things - as concrete practical examples show.
read more...Follow-up with Philipp Wallner
The AI challenges
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a real hype topic, but concrete projects are still in short supply in the industry. Philipp Wallner explains why this is the case and which tools can help to change this.
read more...Solid business figures - Russwurm heads the Supervisory Board
The Voith Group achieved solid growth in orders received and sales in the past 2017 / 2018 fiscal year - despite the weakening Group Division 'Hydro'. Ex-Siemens top manager Siegfried Russwurm will lead the Supervisory Board in future.
read more...E-CAD 4.0 - intuitive and consistent
Suite X' is the new generation of WSCAD's E-CAD solution, which offers a completely redesigned, intuitive user interface. But that's not the only new feature, as Managing Director Dr. Axel Zein explains.
read more...Assembly automation - online configuration in 3D
Schunk is further expanding its digital tools based on the eCATALOGsolutions technology from Cadenas: with a 3D configurator for gripper swivel units.
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