Products of the year 2023 - your vote counts!
96 products in 12 categories are up for election for the "Products of the Year 2023"! Take part and win Saturn vouchers worth €500, among other things!
read more...read more...Environmental Mobility
The four pillars of the smart factory - digitalization, intralogistics, IT-OT integration and industry ecosystems - will determine the automotive production of the future. What matters now when it comes to 'environmental mobility'.
read more...Investments in next generation technology
Economists agree: drastic measures are needed to put a stop to runaway inflation. Bold and targeted investment decisions in next-generation technology innovations are needed right now.
read more...IoT building blocks for edge gateway applications
SSV believes that the development of an industrial IoT application requires solid planning and a DevOps process chain with a development process that covers the entire life cycle of the application.
read more...When AI takes over IT maintenance
Using SAP as an example, this article explains how much profit potential there is in automating business-critical platforms with the help of AI operations and how the previous maintenance effort can be reduced.
read more...Follow up with Stefan Messerkliger, B&R
"The same mistakes!"
In industrial manufacturing, OPC UA is regarded as the data exchange format of the future. In the world of mobile machinery, such an agreement is still missing. Stefan Messerklinger calls for OPC UA to be introduced in this sector too.
read more...How companies use data for product development
Where do companies stand when it comes to collecting data from products and using it to develop new products? Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA have investigated this in a study.
read more..."A path through the zoo of standards"
The OPC Foundation used its traditional press conference at SPS to call for more cooperation between OT and IT. The implementation of OPC UA cloud interoperability by AWS and Microsoft shows where the path needs to go.
read more...Interview with Ekrem Yigitdöl, OI4A
What about the app store(s)?
The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance is working intensively on the topic of app stores. Ekrem Yigitdöl, Managing Director of the Alliance, explains the status quo of the work.
read more...The VDA 5050 standard
The VDMA and VDA associations have jointly developed an interface, the VDA 5050, so that driverless transport systems, or AGVs for short, can work together in intralogistics and production environments.
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