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Harting offers the edge computing system 'Mica (Modular Industrial Computing Architecture)' to know the status of machines and process data further.
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Harting offers the edge computing system 'Mica (Modular Industrial Computing Architecture)' to know the status of machines and process data further.

The Harting Technology Group, based in Espelkamp, East Westphalia, achieved a turnover of 672 million euros in the 2016/2017 financial year. This is the highest figure since the 72-year-old family business was founded.
The path in automation is leading to an end-to-end Ethernet system from the cloud to the furthest corners of industrial production. This requires a suitable infrastructure that has to shrink due to ever smaller end devices. - Three examples.
Will OPC UA in particular, in combination with TSN, replace fieldbuses? Andreas Huhmann, who is also a board member of SmartFactory-KL, questions this theory and makes a plea for the long-serving fieldbus.

"Integrated Industry - Creating Value" is the motto of the world's most important industrial trade fair, Hannover Messe 2017. Computer&AUTOMATION shows an excerpt of the products that can be seen in Hanover in a picture gallery.
Harting sees itself as a "pioneer of digital transformation" and wants to set the tone in terms of edge computing and e-mobility at the Hannover Messe 2017.

Deutsche Messe, organizer of the Hannover Messe, is calling on companies and institutions to apply for the 'Hermes Award 2017'. The condition: Their product should be on display for the first time at Hannover Messe 2017.

Harting founded the MICA.network user community in June. Two months earlier, the Mica mini industrial PC received the Hermes Award at the Hannover Messe. Now the community's partner companies are presenting their first applications.

Harting has developed an ID Module for CAN networks that identifies machine-level components with little effort and integrates them in a production network.
Is it technically feasible to transmit 100 Gigabit Ethernet via symmetrical copper cabling systems? Reutlingen University has investigated this question in a joint project with Leoni and Harting.