German mechanical and plant engineering companies suffered significant losses on foreign markets in Q1 and Q2 2024. Exports are nominally 4.8% lower than in the previous year.

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Creating individual malware variants requires programming skills - a barrier for potential attackers until now. The AI category of large language models, or LLMs for short, has the potential to simplify and accelerate the generation of malware.

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In the face of digital transformation, companies need a solid understanding of OT cybersecurity and the differences between the two in addition to IT security. Jan Hoff explains what this entails.

Sick and Endress+Hauser have signed an agreement to jointly drive forward the decarbonization of the process industry. The companies are establishing a joint venture for this purpose.

More than ever, companies need so-called "incarnation figures", i.e. people who embody the company itself and to whom employees can orient their actions. This article shows what qualities today's leaders need to have.

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With the 'WDAP-1800AX' and 'WDAP-3000AX' from Planet, Acceed has added two dual outdoor access points to its range. The robust industrial access points for outdoor use in harsh environments work with the WiFi 6 protocol (IEEE802.11ax).

Wöhr is expanding its 'Surta' industrial keyboards with versions 15 and 16, which have been specially developed for environments such as medical and dental areas, the pharmaceutical, clean room and food industries, as well as general industry and automation technology.

Binder is expanding its M12 portfolio to include flange connectors with a continuous M12×1 mounting thread, which are now equipped with mounted stranded wires. In addition to the previously available dip soldering variants, this version is now available in a second connection type.

AMDT (formerly Auvesy-MDT), a provider of versioning and change management for automated production, has appointed Eva Wittka as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO).

The current e-paper "Robotics & Automation" is all about tricky tasks: It's about "reaching into the box", which is one of the most difficult tasks for a robot, about pick & place applications and about robots that can perceive stimuli from the environment.

On September 26 and 27, students at Amberg-Weiden University of Applied Sciences will be able to find out how computer simulation can be applied directly to research and development projects. CADFEM and Ansys invite you to the big live simulation student kick-off.

A new study led by TU Darmstadt has revealed the limitations of AI models such as ChatGPT. The researchers came to the conclusion that it is a fallacy that LLMs can perform complex tasks correctly without human support.

The demand for computing power, especially for AI, is growing so rapidly that a new level of scaling, cooling, power distribution and energy efficiency is required in data centers. Philipp Guth, CTO of Rittal, explains the need to switch to water cooling.

Fischer Elektronik offers the right housing for the Raspberry Pi 5. The housing consists of an upper and lower shell made of punched and bent 1.5 mm thick aluminum sheet.

The electronic 4-channel circuit breakers (ECBs) 'Pisa-M' from Puls are aids for protection and power distribution in applications with power requirements from 90 W to 480 W.

'Prime Panel Touch' and 'Prime Panel Extend' from Schubert System Elektronik (SSE) are suitable for sophisticated visualization concepts in industry.

The Technical University of Dresden (TUD) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have opened the new "launchhub42 ComSpace". In addition to cutting-edge research for future 6G communication networks, it also focuses on visionary ideas from the fields of robotics and sensor technology.

Four and a half years after its introduction, the research allowance is becoming increasingly popular with innovative companies as an additional funding option. There are still a number of pitfalls for companies when it comes to implementation.

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Artificial intelligence in the form of LLMs is suitable for analyzing existing software and automatically creating architecture documentation from it. This article shows how this works.

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Orders in the German electrical and digital industry continued to fall in June. The decline is particularly noticeable this month, which is due to the good month of the previous year.