
New name at the turn of the year
In October 2021, the Garz & Fricke Group and all of its companies became part of the globally active company Seco. From January 1, 2022, the company will operate as Seco Northern Europe and Seco Mind Germany.

In October 2021, the Garz & Fricke Group and all of its companies became part of the globally active company Seco. From January 1, 2022, the company will operate as Seco Northern Europe and Seco Mind Germany.

Congatec - provider of embedded and edge computer technology - is changing its management team. One of the aims of the new management team is to accelerate internationalization.

In a long-term partnership, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and QuTech - a collaboration between TU Delft and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) - are working closely together on the development of the quantum internet.

The embedded world Conference and the electronic displays Conference bring together application-oriented research and industrial inventiveness - and an international community of speakers and participants.

In close coordination with the exhibitors, NürnbergMesse is postponing embedded world 2022 to June 21-23. This also applies to the accompanying conferences.

NürnbergMesse is offering exhibitors the opportunity to postpone embedded world, which was planned for March, until June 2022. The result should be finalized next Thursday.
The Eclipse Foundation's annual survey focusing on edge computing, AI and security brings new trends to light. An overview.

Researchers in Darmstadt want to find out how quantum computers can be used sensibly in science and industry in the future.

The fanless industrial PC C6 E22 in book format from KEB Automation is specially designed for motion control applications.
Interview with Martin Steger, iesy
The OSM standard of the SGeT has been specified since 2020. Embedded specialist iesy already presented the first modules at embedded world, and an evaluation board should now follow at SPS. Martin Steger explains why it is worth investing in OSM modules.

Yaskawa is giving its Windows-based Panel PCs a comprehensive update with new Windows 10-based software. In addition, the capacity has been increased to 8 Gbytes of RAM and 64 Gbytes of operating system and user memory.

Revolution Pi is an open, modular industrial PC from Kunbus based on the Raspberry Pi. Housed in a slim top-hat rail housing, the three available basic modules can be expanded with a variety of suitable I/O modules and fieldbus gateways.

Kontron's powerful Blade PC VX3060-S2 is a 3U VPX single board PC based on 11th generation Intel Core processors.

The KBox A-150-WKL from Kontron, the latest member of the 'KBox' family, has been specially designed for IoT gateway applications in industrial environments.
The Eclipse Foundation has now announced the launch of the Oniro project. Oniro is intended to be a transparent, vendor-neutral and independent alternative to established IoT and edge operating systems.

Spectra's UniCloud is a no-code IIoT platform for manufacturers and operators of devices, machines and vending machines.
Data-intensive applications such as autonomous driving and smart factories require a new decentralized approach. Edge computing brings processing intelligence to the source and is therefore the most important building block for an intelligent Industry 4.0.

Plug-in Electronic offers the ECX-2600 PEG from the manufacturer Vecow, which can be combined with Nvidia graphics cards and measures just 260 mm x 240 mm x 123 mm.

The OEM M81 embedded computer from Syslogic is suitable for controlling automated guided vehicles (AGVs) or robots thanks to real-time Ethernet and direct control of the sensors.

The PCAN-Router Pro FD, a 6-channel CAN FD router and data logger from Peak-System, is optionally available with an RJ45 Ethernet interface.