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The Industrial Internet of Things will connect devices, machines and entire systems to each other and to the cloud. As in other industrial sectors, the challenge for robotics is to master the resulting explosion in data volumes.
read more...Industry 4.0 is driven and implemented more by 'upper' SMEs and corporations than by small and medium-sized enterprises. What is the reason for this and what new approaches can be used to give SMEs easy access to Industry 4.0?
read more...Ethernet TSN is considered a promising approach for establishing open real-time communication. However, the diversity of the TSN standards also increases the complexity of the networks. Management and automatic configuration mechanisms are currently still simple.
read more...As part of the research project 'Robust multi-sensor technology for condition monitoring in Industry 4.0 applications', experts from research institutions and industry are researching development methods for intelligent multi-sensor systems. The status quo.
read more...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.
read more...At the beginning of April 2017, around 1,000 international experts met in Shenzhen, China, for the second China manufacturing 2025 Summit, which focused on the topic of 'Global transformation to intelligent manufacturing'. Rahman Jamal was there and shares his impressions.
read more...The administration shell is a crucial element on the path towards Industry 4.0. But how should this component be designed and what does the actual implementation look like? The 'openAAS' project gets to the bottom of these questions. The status quo.
read more...Can China develop into a leading Industry 4.0 market? Despite some misguided incentives due to government intervention, investment bubbles and overcapacity, China's innovative strength should not be underestimated: There are pioneers to learn from when it comes to smart manufacturing!
read more...Two concepts dominate research into cloud-based control systems: Virtualization of PLCs and structuring a PLC according to the service principle. Industrial implementation depends primarily on engineering tools and suitable business models.
read more...Close collaboration between different departments is essential for the implementation of Industry 4.0. Henning von Kielpinski, Head of Business Development at Consol, explains why the DevOps concept is predestined for this.
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