Choose your cover photo favorite of the year 2021
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read more...Industrial Controls
read more...The top articles of the year
What connects Google and industrial robots, hovering shuttles, app stores and exoskeletons? It's simple: these topics are among the top articles of 2021. We take a look back at them...
read more...With a focus on electromechanics
The e-paper of issue 12/2021
Your opinion is needed at the end of the year: in issue 12, we present the nominees for the 'Products of the Year 2022' readers' poll. We also take a closer look at automated guided vehicles in our special Robotics&Automation section.
read more...OPC communication and IoT cloud connection
dataFEED OPC Suite Extended from Softing is software for OPC UA and OPC Classic communication and cloud connectivity in a single product.
read more...Edge products in the Siemens App Store
Softing Industrial plans to offer its first products on the Siemens Industrial Edge Marketplace in the first quarter of 2022. The background.
read more...On the way to becoming an Industry 4.0 enabler
The PNO has long been trying to expand its range of tasks beyond the fieldbus topic. The development of the Omlox positioning service points the way in a direction that is now being continued with the projects on MTP and a robot interface.
read more...Relief for the PLC
Condition monitoring with the SeGMo system from Lenord+Bauer permanently monitors positioning drives and simplifies condition monitoring.
read more...5 % growth expected for 2022
Electrical automation technology is benefiting from the economic recovery in mechanical and plant engineering: in the first nine months of the current year, incoming orders rose by 38% and sales by 23% compared to the same period of the previous year.
read more...The top articles in November
What do billion-dollar sales, coronavirus in the workplace and apps for industry have in common? They made it into the top 10 most-read articles in November. However, they were unable to assert themselves against a technology with a long history.
read more..."Monocultures are always vulnerable"
The trend in automation technology is also moving towards open source. Boris Crismancich and Nicolai Buchwitz from Kunbus explain why this is the case - and reveal what their company will be presenting this fall.
read more...Hardware virtualization against component shortage
At the moment, it is not necessarily easy to find automation devices. TTTech is therefore promoting its approach of an industrial edge computing platform at the trade fair.
read more...E-Paper THE OFFICIAL DAILY Day 3
The official SPS daily newspaper for you. Issue 3 is also packed full of automation news for you: exciting interviews, new technologies and the latest product innovations. The new interactive e-paper is now available.
read more...Benchmarking - a slightly different approach!
PLCopen has also carried out benchmarking in the past, focusing on various user applications, including motion control. This time, however, everything is a little different.
read more...A new alliance based on IEC 61499
Manufacturer-independent automation! This demand is at the heart of the newly founded UniversalAutomation.org. The association wants to use the IEC 61499 standard to create new possibilities for engineering more efficient and flexible systems.
read more...An open app store for automation?
Hilscher is currently developing an app store for the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance. On May 6, Hilscher presented the Community App Store to Alliance members. Hans-Jürgen Hilscher explains the next steps.
read more...The Industrial APP Marketplace from OWL
At the end of April, the OWL Mechanical Engineering Initiative presented the Industrial APP Marketplace: an online platform for Docker containers. What is behind the Marketplace and what opportunities does it offer users? Sascha Heymann from Fraunhofer IOSB-INA explains in an interview.
read more...The foundation of open app stores
Open app stores require virtualization technologies such as Docker containers to achieve the desired data consistency. But there is more behind these technologies. What potential could these technologies actually open up for automation?
read more...AI not going it alone
Artificial intelligence at the edge is becoming increasingly important for Kontron. Head of Marketing Norbert Hauser explains how the IPC manufacturer intends to integrate AI into its approach to holistic IoT solutions.
read more...Fast analog input processing
Real-time industrial controllers from Zander with deterministic response times of 2 to 3 µs have been in series production in packaging processes, for example, for several years. Now there are innovations.
read more...2G conditions in Nuremberg
The SPS 2021 in Nuremberg will take place under 2G conditions. This means that only those who are fully recovered or fully vaccinated with vaccines approved in Germany will have access.
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