Best of 2020
The top articles of the year
2020 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year of the coronavirus - but it also brought some remarkable technical developments, including Single Pair Ethernet, the Omlox standard and the digital twin! Not forgetting the virtual coffee corner for the home office ...
Top 10: 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.
Top 9: Corona: Change as an opportunity
People react differently to the coronavirus and its consequences. What is it like in everyday working life? In the new part of our "Three questions for..." series, we look at this topic and asked automation experts for their opinions.
Top 8: The new user organization for Industry 4.0
The VDMA and ZVEI founded the Industrial Digital Twin Association on September 23, 2020. What is this new user group all about? Dr. Christian Mosch (VDMA) and Meik Billmann (ZVEI) take a stand.
Top 7: IEC 62368 replaces electrical safety standard IEC 60950
The electrical safety standard IEC 60950 will be discontinued at the end of 2020 and replaced by the more flexible IEC 62368 standard. This may cause problems for some devices and applications, including power supplies.
Top 6: The top 10 technology trends for 2020
Alibaba Damo Academy, the global research initiative of Alibaba Group, has announced a forecast on the leading trends that will gain momentum in the technology industry in 2020.
Top 5: Is your patience wearing thin? Stefan Schönegger in conversation
With Single Pair Ethernet - SPE for short - a standardized Ethernet on a one-pair basis is currently being developed. However, two groups of companies - one under the leadership of Harting, the other under the leadership of Phoenix Contact - are favoring competing mating faces for the standard.
Top 4: Fighting the coronavirus with robots
Within a week, Siemens and Aucma have developed an intelligent disinfection robot that will soon take up the fight against viruses in hospitals.
Top 3: The new standard Omlox
Making it easier to use driverless transport systems and drones in production - that is the aim of the new Omlox standard. But what exactly is behind this acronym?
Top 2: The Logo! on the cloud
Automation with a cloud connection - a complicated undertaking? Not necessarily: In combination with Logo! 8, implementing simple automation tasks via the cloud can be really fun.
Top 1: Corona crisis: virtual coffee corner for the home office
Meetings at the coffee machine, a chat in the doorway with a coffee cup in hand - informal conversations between colleagues are an integral part of everyday working life and are important for the flow of information. What to do in times of the coronavirus crisis and working from home?
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