Growing market for servo drives
Almost six out of ten machine manufacturers expect demand for servo drives to increase in the future. These are the findings of a recent study.
read more...read more...B&R company founder passes away
Erwin Bernecker, founder of B&R Industrial Automation, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on March 30, 2019. Together with Josef Rainer, Bernecker founded the industrial electronics company in Eggelsberg in 1979.
read more...Smart transport - three approaches in the video
How can material and product transport in machines and systems be reorganized in the age of Industry 4.0? Beckhoff, B&R and Bosch Rexroth presented interesting approaches in this regard at SPS IPC Drives 2018.
read more...Safety via Bluetooth
Schildknecht announced a partnership with the EPSG. The goal: the secure and stable transmission of the openSafety protocol via Bluetooth data radio.
read more...New products in Nuremberg
What new products will exhibitors be presenting at SPS IPC Drives 2018? Computer&AUTOMATION provides an overview of what visitors to the Nuremberg exhibition halls can expect this year.
read more...The UN of automation
What role will the Ethernet standard TSN play in the future activities of the OPC Foundation? The OPC Foundation provided answers to this question at a press conference at SPS IPC Drives.
read more...The end of the fieldbus war!
The so-called fieldbus war has been going on for a good 30 years now; users have to deal with around 20 different fieldbus variants! Will this change with TSN plus OPC UA? The negotiations are in full swing!
read more...Review of the TSN/A Conference 2018
How quickly and with what consistency is the real-time Ethernet standard TSN being adopted? The TSN/A Conference on September 26 and 27, 2018 explored this question. Over 500 experts learned about the status quo - a review in pictures.
read more...TSN - on the verge of a breakthrough?
Time Sensitive Networking - TSN for short - is being touted as the future communication standard for industry, the automotive sector and the consumer world. Over 500 participants at the TSN/A Conference at the end of September learned about the status quo of the Ethernet real-time variant.
read more...News from the Software & IT sector
Software & IT is also becoming increasingly essential for manufacturing. As a result, numerous products with this focus are coming onto the market - as the following series of images shows:
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