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Zur Hannover Messe 2016 stellte B&R schon ein Shuttle-basiertes Transportsystem namens 'SuperTrak' vor. Auf der SPS IPC Drives 2017 hatte nun der vollkommen in Eigenregie erstellte Nachfolger ‚ACOPOStrak‘ Premiere.
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Zur Hannover Messe 2016 stellte B&R schon ein Shuttle-basiertes Transportsystem namens 'SuperTrak' vor. Auf der SPS IPC Drives 2017 hatte nun der vollkommen in Eigenregie erstellte Nachfolger ‚ACOPOStrak‘ Premiere.
The successful continuing development of the Industry 4.0 concept depends among other things on smooth orchestration of very different devices. Meaning that central importance attaches to the communication interface between the building blocks.

Safety and the cloud – what first might sound like a conflict of terms was the central theme of Schmersal at this year‘s show. So what is this all about?

Hilscher, IBM and X-Integrate demonstrated an intelligent cloud solution for automated quality management in Hall 2.

PC-based realtime control under Windows: That is the aim of cooperation between Spectra and Sybera. Klaus Rottmayr, member of Spectra management, answers questions about motives, and concrete benefit for users.

The process industry still seems to be a little reluctant where I4.0 is concerned. Ralf Höll, product manager system components and communication at Vega, explains how his company is approaching Industry 4.0.

Eplan and Mitsubishi Electric were at the SPS IPC Drives with a new integration solution from Eplan Electric P8 for Melsoft iQ Works. The aim: joining electrical engineering to automation, based on the AutomationML standard.
Significance already attaches to near-field communication (NFC) on the consumer market. Richard Schmidmaier, senior marketing manager of NXP, explains why this technology was justified in taking a place here at SPS IPC Drives.

Renesas is offering longterm Linux support for its RZ/G processors. The chips deliver powerful graphics, are aimed at control panels, control and communication devices.

Renaming itself Airbus instead of EADS does not change the fact that Airbus too has a mighty military division. Its interests by no means concentrate just on “physical“ warfare.