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At the end of August 2017, it was announced that this year, for the first time, SPS IPC Drives will be bundling the topic of software & IT in manufacturing in its own hall - Hall 6: Now the organizer Mesago is following suit: With Hall 10.1, the trade fair will grow to a total of 16 halls.
read more...This year, for the first time, SPS IPC Drives is bundling the topic of software & IT in manufacturing in its own hall - Hall 6 - in response to the increasing convergence of the two sectors in the age of digital transformation.
read more...The Flexible Factory Partner Alliance (FFPA), an association of major technology companies and research institutions recently founded in Japan, has appointed DFKI professors Andreas Dengel (pictured) and Hans Schotten as its leaders.
read more...Wago Kontakttechnik is expanding its product portfolio of fieldbus couplers with the further development of the CC-Link coupler '750-310' to version '750-325' with CC-Link V2.0.
read more...The Ethernet IO modules from Pepperl+Fuchs support common Ethernet protocols such as Profinet, Ethernet IP and Ethercat in one device. Thanks to the integrated IO-Link master function, end-to-end diagnostics and parameterization are possible.
read more...Time Sensitive Networking - TSN for short - is a real-time extension of standard Ethernet. The effects on all sectors - from industry and automotive to the consumer world - will be the focus of the TSN/A Conference on September 20-21, 2017 in Stuttgart.
read more...According to Sercos International, Bosch Rexroth is now making the Sercos SoftMaster available free of charge as open source software as part of its Sercans XS package.
read more...The Industrial Internet of Things will connect devices, machines and entire systems to each other and to the cloud. As in other industrial sectors, the challenge for robotics is to master the resulting explosion in data volumes.
read more...The OPC Foundation and Sercos International have been cooperating since 2011 with the aim of improving communication between machines (peripherals) and higher-level IT systems. The jointly developed Sercos OPC UA Companion Standard is now available.
read more...Ethernet TSN is considered a promising approach for establishing open real-time communication. However, the diversity of the TSN standards also increases the complexity of the networks. Management and automatic configuration mechanisms are currently still simple.
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