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Mechanical and plant engineering
At the VDMA's economic press conference, association president Carl Martin Welcker announced an increase in the production forecast to 5%. This increase is based, among other things, on good demand prospects in the German mechanical and plant engineering sector.
read more...Bosch Rexroth achieved sales growth of 10.4% last year. The highest growth rates were recorded in the areas of mobile applications and factory automation. Growth in the traditional core business of industrial hydraulics was rather moderate in 2017.
read more...Industrial Ethernet communication
Everyone is talking about Ethernet TSN. At Hannover Messe 2018, Siemens is now also using a robotics trade fair model to demonstrate how OPC UA Pub/Sub based on TSN is used at the control level.
read more...SEW-Eurodrive intends to tackle the topic of machine automation even more intensively than before - with a new business unit and corresponding complete mechatronic solutions.
read more...The five finalists for the Hermes Award 2018 have been announced! Deutsche Messe, organizer of the Hannover Messe, has made its decision. The winner will be announced by Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek on April 22 following the opening ceremony of the industrial trade fair.
read more...The OPC Foundation has released Part 14 of the OPC UA standard: known as Publish-Subscribe or "PubSub" for short. The specification extends the preferred area of application of OPC UA to include a wide range of advanced use cases down to the lowest field level.
read more...Real-time radio location solutions
Greater efficiency in production and logistics through precise positioning: Siemens acquired Agilion on March 29 with this goal in mind.
read more...EU General Data Protection Regulation
The EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into force on May 25, 2018, with draconian penalties looming. Implementing the complex requirements poses major challenges for many companies. The VDMA and ERP providers want to provide support.
read more...Once again this year, Siemens' trade fair presence will revolve around the digital company - including new apps for Mindsphere and a TSN demonstrator.
read more...As production processes become more flexible, the number of servo axes and the need for easy-to-handle servo axes in the machine increases. In response to this, Lenze has now put together a scalable axis package.
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