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With 'Conrad Connect', the electronics mail order company Conrad is now making an IoT platform available in a free beta test: It is intended to offer the possibility of controlling networked products across manufacturers and linking them intelligently with each other.
read more...Where does Germany stand internationally in terms of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0? What are the resulting forecasts? The VDE surveyed its 1,300 member companies and universities in the field of electrical engineering and information technology.
read more...The requirements for tomorrow's sensors and measuring systems in the context of Industry 4.0 can be determined with the help of cyber-physical production systems. The Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL) at RWTH Aachen University is presenting one of these.
read more..."Industry 4.0 live at Bosch" - under this slogan, Bosch demonstrated at the Hannover Messe 2016 how production can be networked along the value stream and across company boundaries. What components and concepts are behind it?
read more...Hannover Messe 2016 / Closing figures
The 2016 edition of the Hannover Messe ended on April 29 with a significant increase in visitor numbers compared to 2014. The organizer is particularly proud of the many concrete application examples for Industry 4.0.
read more...Stuttgart-based Robert Bosch GmbH posted a record year in 2015 with a clear double-digit increase in turnover. The technology group expects moderate sales growth of 3 to 5% for the current year.
read more...The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has carried out a security analysis to assess the quality of OPC UA's security mechanisms.
read more...The OPC Foundation is working hard to make OPC UA fit for end-to-end communication from the sensor to the cloud. Stefan Hoppe, Vice President of the OPC Foundation, explains the status quo of current projects at the Hannover Messe.
read more...Softing will be presenting the first implementation of the Pub/Sub model in OPC UA at the Hannover Messe 2016 - in conjunction with the Ethernet standard TSN.
read more...Kick-off at the Hannover Messe 2016
The German industry associations and standardization organizations are founding the 'Standardization Council Industrie 4.0' for the Hannover Messe 2016. The aim of the initiative is to initiate standards for digital production and to coordinate these nationally and internationally.
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