Digital Twin Consortium / OPC Foundation
The digital twin in production
The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) and the OPC Foundation have now announced a collaboration to accelerate the development and adoption of digital twin technologies.
read more...read more...Battle for the EU as an industrial location
Von der Leyen sees need for billions
The sums involved are in the hundreds of billions. Industries of the future, such as clean energy production, are being courted worldwide. Following an initiative by Ursula von der Leyen, the EU is now facing intensive debates.
read more...SmartFactory-KL and "Manufacturing-X"
Milestone towards Production Level 4
Resilience, sustainability, flexibility, digital twins, interoperability, skill-based manufacturing architecture and distributed production - all this is Production Level 4. "Manufacturing-X" shows how it works.
read more...Profibus User Organization e.V.
PI Conference 2023 will take place in Frankfurt
On March 22 and 23, 2023, the 8th PI Conference will take place at the House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM) in Frankfurt am Main. This year's event of the Profibus Nutzerorganisation e.V. will be held under the motto "PI technologies for digital transformation".
read more...The virtual edge gateway
Automation technology discovered Docker containers several years ago. But what potential can actually be leveraged with this virtualization concept?
read more...SPS expands into the USA
SPS - Smart Production Solution is expanding to America. It will make its first appearance as "Automation Sector powered by SPS" at IMTS 2024 in Chicago, and from 2025 as an independent trade fair in Atlanta.
read more...Electrical industry on record course
Business in the German electrical and digital industry is booming despite the energy crisis, the war in Ukraine and inflation. However, companies are concerned about the energy transition and infrastructure.
read more...IoT gateways made to measure instead of off the shelf
IoT gateways are "in" as a means of digitalizing existing production systems. However, standard solutions are only suitable to a limited extent for many automation specialists. Grossenbacher Systeme uses specific applications to show how important individual solutions are.
read more...Digital sector continues to grow
The consequences of the war in Ukraine, disrupted supply chains and inflation are currently affecting many companies in Germany. The digital economy is coping better with the difficult conditions than most other sectors.
read more...Fast-track to the ISO/IEC standard
The Eclipse Foundation has now announced the release of Sparkplug 3.0. The Sparkplug specification, which enables a "Plug n Play" Internet of Things, is about to become an official ISO/IEC standard.
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