Despite all the trade disputes and political squabbles, new machines and systems were also in demand worldwide last year: according to VDMA estimates, sales of machines rose by 4% to 2.6 trillion euros in 2018.
read more...The 'SPS - Industrial Automation Fair Guangzhou' (SIAF) took place for the 10th time at the beginning of March and attracted a record number of visitors. Together with Asiamold, which was held at the same time, the three-day trade fair attracted almost 99,000 visitors, an increase of 37%.
read more...Artificial intelligence (AI) - is opening a new chapter in the digital transformation of manufacturing. Implemented in the control system - and therefore directly on the machine - it helps to significantly reduce conventional programming and engineering work.
read more...The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has discovered pre-installed malware in the firmware of some smartphones and tablets that are sold online.
read more...The Kempten-based Codesys Group (3S-Smart Software Solutions) achieved significant double-digit growth in the past financial year and sold more than one million licenses.
read more...Business figures / 1st quarter 2019
Rockwell Automation has published its financial figures for the first quarter of 2019. Compared to the same period last year, the US provider of industrial automation and information solutions increased its turnover to 1.64 billion US dollars - an increase of 3.5 %.
read more...Production in mechanical engineering
According to preliminary calculations by the Federal Statistical Office, production in the mechanical engineering sector in Germany rose by 2% in 2018. This fell well short of the VDMA's forecast of 5% growth.
read more...Figures for the first quarter of 2019
Siemens has announced its figures for the first quarter of 2019. While incoming orders set a new record, profits halved. The 'Digital Factory' and 'Process Industries and Drives' divisions recorded some of the strongest sales growth.
read more...What is currently happening on the market in the areas of material flow and process management? Computer&AUTOMATION has compiled an excerpt of what exhibitors are showing at the Logimat 2019 logistics trade fair in Stuttgart in a series of images.
read more...How strong is the influence of IT on mechanical engineering? And how well do German mechanical engineering companies compare internationally when it comes to IT? Rainer Glatz looks back over two decades.
read more...Since January 2019, Florian Spiteller has been Head of External Relations & Support and thus a member of the Executive Board of the German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies in DIN and VDE (VDE|DKE), a standardization organization supported by the VDE.
read more...The German electrical industry continued to grow in 2018. New records were set for both sales and exports. For 2019, the ZVEI is expecting a further one percent increase in production in "uncertain times".
read more...Manufacturers of automation devices can now offer their customers the functionality to manually distribute the various tasks of the PLC application to symmetrical processor cores of the control CPU in Codesys.
read more...Cloud solutions form the basis of Industry 4.0. However, the tasks of a cloud in the factory environment are different to those for 'normal' public tasks. Smart factory concepts therefore rely on edge and fog computing as a supplement to the cloud. But what does such a solution look like?
read more...New hall, new topics and a new name - that was SPS IPC Drives 2018 in seven minutes.
read more...Since December 1, 2018, Uwe Claus (second from left) has been the new Managing Director of Italian automation specialist Camozzi Automation in Albershausen. He has taken over from Tilman Bechem, who has represented the Camozzi Group since 1981.
read more..."The forecast production growth in the German mechanical engineering sector of 5% to a record EUR 228 billion in 2018 is ambitious, but achievable," said Carl Martin Welcker, President of the VDMA, at the association's annual press conference in Frankfurt.
read more...From November 27 to 29, 2018, the Nuremberg exhibition grounds were once again all about electric automation. The Computer&AUTOMATION team captured everything there was to see on site with its camera.
read more...The Codesys Group is presenting the upcoming 'Codesys Automation Server' for the first time at SPS IPC Drives 2018. We spoke about this with Dieter Hess, one of the two managing directors.
read more...With the Digital Service Assistant - DSA for short - Bosch Rexroth is making a new service app available in the Apple Store and Google Play Store for smartphones and tablets in the first quarter of 2019. What's behind it?
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