
Into the future with new management
On January 1, 2019, Matthias Klein started as the new Managing Director of Schubert System Elektronik GmbH (SSE), based in Neuhausen ob Eck. Klein now manages the company together with Lothar Kümmerlin.
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On January 1, 2019, Matthias Klein started as the new Managing Director of Schubert System Elektronik GmbH (SSE), based in Neuhausen ob Eck. Klein now manages the company together with Lothar Kümmerlin.

Mobile data traffic in Germany is growing faster than the speed of mobile networks. This means that the expansion of 5G networks is becoming increasingly important.

OPC UA is now finding its way into new products across the board. But more and more companies are also including the term TSN in their product descriptions. The picture gallery presents some of these innovations.
Network and real-time specialist TTTech is working flat out to further optimize its TSN solution for broad rollout - and link it to its growing IIoT platform. An interview with Georg Kroiss, Business Development Manager Industrial.
Will OPC UA in combination with TSN become 'the' standard for industrial communication? What role do licenses play in this question and what part does OSADL play?
Safety over OPC UA based on Profisafe: A year ago, the OPC Foundation and PI launched a joint concept for this. Now the specification is about to be published and is available for OPC UA-based controller-controller communication.
It was the news at SPS IPC Drives 2018: the 'Field Level Communication' initiative is being created under the umbrella of the OPC Foundation. The 'who's who' of automation is getting involved to define a new standard for communication at field level.
B&R was and is one of the companies that is strongly committed to the development and standardization of OPC UA over TSN - for communication at controller and field level. What are the reasons for this commitment?
TSN is intended to create a uniform standard for industrial communication. But can we trust the declarations of intent? How are manufacturers of communication components reacting to the announcements? Sebastian Hilscher takes a stand for Hilscher.
What is the migration strategy of fieldbus providers towards TSN- and OPC-based communication? Mitsubishi and the CLPA describe the path for the CC-Link communication system.