
Individually programmable
The MC PMRL router from MC Technologies has a mobile radio module and is also individually programmable with OpenWrt Linux.
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The MC PMRL router from MC Technologies has a mobile radio module and is also individually programmable with OpenWrt Linux.

Collecting and analyzing data: These are the basic requirements for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance solutions. Computer&AUTOMATION presents new products from these areas.
With its small data packets, the Sigfox network allows even the simplest things to be connected to the Internet. Just twelve bytes alone enable completely new business models for mechanical and plant engineering.
Companies can prevent production downtimes with predictive maintenance and repair measures. This is where decision software based on advanced fuzzy logic combined with artificial neural networks can help.
What a shame about all the energy that is generated and wasted during industrial processes! Waste heat, for example, can be used to generate electricity - and even monitored at remote locations via remote maintenance.

Joachim Strobel has been the new CEO of Infoteam Software AG since July 3, 2018. He succeeds Christian Zahn.

The Stuttgart-based company Lapp, a provider of cable and connection technology, has taken over its long-standing Swiss sales partner Volland. The system provider of cable technology currently employs 35 people.

Production in I4.0 is based on the networking of machinery data with traditional IT applications. The availability of process data allows applications such as control stations, big data analytics, predictive maintenance and KPI monitoring to be implemented.

Every two years, igus presents the Vector Award, which recognizes "outstanding applications with energy chain systems". Out of 187 applications submitted from 30 countries, a company from Spain won the race for the golden Vector.

With the icom Data Suite, Insys icom offers a flexible software package for the MRO and MRX router series, which supplements the devices with functions for recording and processing application data.