The Flexible Factory Partner Alliance (FFPA), an association of major technology companies and research institutions recently founded in Japan, has appointed DFKI professors Andreas Dengel (pictured) and Hans Schotten as its leaders.
read more...Datafeed Edgegate is a gateway for industrial IoT and Industry 4.0 solutions from Softing Industrial. It is used for communication between devices in industrial networks and cloud applications.
read more...Wago Kontakttechnik is expanding its product portfolio of fieldbus couplers with the further development of the CC-Link coupler '750-310' to version '750-325' with CC-Link V2.0.
read more...The Ethernet IO modules from Pepperl+Fuchs support common Ethernet protocols such as Profinet, Ethernet IP and Ethercat in one device. Thanks to the integrated IO-Link master function, end-to-end diagnostics and parameterization are possible.
read more...Time Sensitive Networking - TSN for short - is a real-time extension of standard Ethernet. The effects on all sectors - from industry and automotive to the consumer world - will be the focus of the TSN/A Conference on September 20-21, 2017 in Stuttgart.
read more...According to Sercos International, Bosch Rexroth is now making the Sercos SoftMaster available free of charge as open source software as part of its Sercans XS package.
read more...Laying the foundations for the future of the industrial internet - this is the aim of the 'Find' research project. Under the leadership of the DKFI, an intelligent network management system for Industry 4.0 is to be developed.
read more...Machine and plant manufacturers who rely on automation technology from Lenze will be able to offer online and remote services more easily in future. The manufacturer has entered into a cooperation with the company ei3, which offers a combination of ...
read more...In the first part of the article series, Klaus-Dieter Walter from SSV Software Systems reported on the initial experiences of a LoRa pilot project in Germany. Jürgen Kern, Managing Director at NetModule, describes the LoRa situation in Switzerland in particular.
read more...Welotec offers a dual-band WLAN omnidirectional antenna with an articulated joint, a classic blade antenna for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WLAN in buildings. The joint allows an angle of 0 to 90° and a 180° rotation around its own axis.
read more...The OPC Foundation and Sercos International have been cooperating since 2011 with the aim of improving communication between machines (peripherals) and higher-level IT systems. The jointly developed Sercos OPC UA Companion Standard is now available.
read more...Industry 4.0 is driven and implemented more by 'upper' SMEs and corporations than by small and medium-sized enterprises. What is the reason for this and what new approaches can be used to give SMEs easy access to Industry 4.0?
read more...Ethernet TSN is considered a promising approach for establishing open real-time communication. However, the diversity of the TSN standards also increases the complexity of the networks. Management and automatic configuration mechanisms are currently still simple.
read more...Driven by their end customers, automation technology providers are currently in the process of solving the first task in modern industrial IoT applications: End-to-end communication based on open standards such as OPC UA and TSN.
read more...As part of the IoT trend, new IoT wireless networks are now emerging that are being positioned as competitors to existing mobile networks - such as LoRa. Klaus-Dieter Walter, Managing Director of SSV Software Systems, talks about his initial experiences with a LoRa pilot project in Germany.
read more...Will OPC UA in particular, in combination with TSN, replace fieldbuses? Andreas Huhmann, who is also a board member of SmartFactory-KL, questions this theory and makes a plea for the long-serving fieldbus.
read more...Scientists at the Technical University of Munich are working on a holographic process that generates three-dimensional images of the surroundings based on the radiation from a WLAN transmitter. In future, this could be used to automatically track objects on their way through the factory floor, for example.
read more...Ethernet TSN allows deterministic transmission of real-time critical messages via standard hardware. How can sercos and Ethernet TSN be combined to transmit real-time and normal Ethernet communication via a uniform network standard?
read more...At the beginning of April 2017, around 1,000 international experts met in Shenzhen, China, for the second China manufacturing 2025 Summit, which focused on the topic of 'Global transformation to intelligent manufacturing'. Rahman Jamal was there and shares his impressions.
read more...A firmware update is now available for the modular industrial routers in the MRX series from Insys icom. With version 2.1 of the 'icom OS', the device software has already received a software wizard that helps users to set up ...
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