In focus: Intralogistics
The e-paper of issue 03/2024
How will technologies such as 5G, TSN, Industrial Control as a Service or ChatGPT influence factory automation? You can find answers to these questions, among others, in the current issue of Computer&Automation. Integrated in the current issue: the special issue Safety&Security.
Topic highlights
- On the road to self-sufficiency
Harting's efforts to be climate-neutral by 2030 (page 7) - Concentrated power in the intralogistics industry
LogiMAT opens its doors in Stuttgart (page 8) - Prompt engineering
Using the potential of ChatGPT effectively (page 10) - TITLE: Field communication via IO-Link Safety
Implementing functional safety with IOLS (page 14) - Developing edge servers efficiently
Ecosystem for the development of edge servers (page 18) - Industrial Control as a Service
Virtualization of the infrastructure and control of a production plant (page 21) - TSN series part 22
TSN application engineering (page 29) - Efficiently to the bus controller
How electronic circuit breakers can be monitored (page 33) - Follow up! - with Dr. Gunther Kegel, ZVEI
"Recognizably alien to industry" (page 50)
Special issue Safety & Security
- Start with protection
Interview with Dr. Terence Liu, CEO of TXOne Networks (page 36) - Cybersecurity 101
Start of the series of articles on the basics of security (page 38) - Up to date with the state of the art
Identifying and implementing the relevant requirements of the Machinery Directive (page 41) - The rules of collaboration
What is important for collaboration between humans and robots? (page 44) - Current products (page 48)
IN FOCUS: Intralogistics
- Decentralized for warehouse logistics
Machine vision concepts reduce susceptibility to errors (page 24) - Products for Logimat (page 26)
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