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Together with Qualcomm, Siemens has implemented what the two partners claim is the first independent private 5G network in a real industrial environment using the 3.7/3.8 GHz frequency band.
read more...Red Lion Controls / MB Connect Line
Red Lion Controls and MB Connect Line have entered into a strategic collaboration to provide remote-enabled and secure connectivity solutions that utilize Red Lion's ruggedized versions of automation devices.
read more...On November 1, 2019, Frank Steinhoff took over the position of Managing Director at Softing Industrial Automation at its headquarters in Haar near Munich.
read more...Moxa, provider of industrial communication and network technology, has appointed Jens Holzhammer as Managing Director of its European subsidiary Moxa Europe.
read more...At the end of last year, Beckhoff presented 'Ethercat G' as an extension of Ethercat. The gigabit solution has now been officially incorporated into the ETG. ETG Director Martin Rostan comments on the role of 'Ethercat G' - especially with regard to Ethernet TSN.
read more...The LP-5231PM-4GE from ICPDAS is a compact Linux gateway PC with an integrated 4G communication unit. Thanks to the free LIN-PAC SDK, many applications can be realized. The 1.0 GHz Cortex A8 processor with 512 MByte SDRAM enables more complex tasks to be completed.
read more...The new, publicly available 0G network from Sigfox, which is currently being expanded worldwide, is specially designed for IoT connections, but is limited to 12 bytes per message. Can everything that OEMs need fit into such a message?
read more...The Internet of Production (IoP) is based on the idea of enabling a new level of cross-domain collaboration. The Cluster of Excellence IoP at RWTH Aachen University is working to realize this vision. Rahman Jamal, member of the Industrial Advisory Board, explains the goals.
read more...To make electric vacuum generators, grippers or compact ejectors visible for the smart factory, they must supply digital energy and process data in real time. This works using interfaces such as IO-Link, Ethernet or NFC in the vacuum components.
read more...The OPC Foundation has now announced the official certifiability of OPC UA servers based on version 1.0 of the open OPC UA stack open 62541. To date, the stack is the only open implementation of OPC UA programmed entirely in C.
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