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The top articles in October
A touch of anarchy surrounds the most-read articles from October - from data chaos and new standards to an event with no mask requirement at all.
Top 10: Data anarchy still prevails!
What about data value creation in companies? Hewlett Packard Enterprise got to the bottom of this question. The results.
Top 9: 5G - A security risk?
Trend Micro, a provider of cybersecurity solutions, has published a study highlighting new threats to 4G/5G campus networks. Many attacks specifically exploit the difficulties organizations face in patching critical OT environments.
Top 8: Secure IIoT connection for automation devices
OPC UA and MQTT have become established for accessing data from automation devices from the IT level in a production plant. Device manufacturers must therefore implement both IIoT protocols in addition to the traditional fieldbuses. Not an easy task.
Top 7: No cage, but still safe!
Particularly high safety requirements apply at the interfaces between humans and robots. However, this is precisely where enormous efficiency potential can be exploited, as the example of the modernization of a 'Kitkat' factory shows.
Top 6: Ethernet APL is here!
Ethernet with an Advanced Physical Layer (Ethernet-APL) enables long cable lengths, explosion protection, communication and power supply via two wires. The first devices with this interface are now coming onto the market.
Top 5: Intensified partnership with Schaeffler
DMG Mori has received a software development order from Schaeffler: Together, the companies want to develop a new, dynamically integrated manufacturing system and implement it worldwide at Schaeffler.
Top 4: SPS relies on 3G plus regulation
The SPS in Nuremberg will take place as a so-called 3G plus event. Vaccinated persons, recovered persons and persons with a negative PCR test may take part.
Top 3: Cable business sold to investor
Leoni is selling the Industrial Solutions Business Group, which is part of the WCS Division (Wire & Cable Solutions) and accounts for significant parts of its industrial business, to BizLink.
Top 2: The e-paper of issue 9/2021 in a new look
With issue 9, we have given ourselves a design upgrade. In terms of content, we remain true to our claim: to present the trends and technologies of the automation industry. Issue 9 features interviews with seven industry experts.
Top 1: The latest update!
Accelerating day-to-day work and making users of the Codesys platform fit for the technological innovations in automation: these were the main motives behind the development of the recently released update of the Codesys package.
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