Strengthening IIoT expertise through acquisition
With effect from January 1, 2022, Sick will increase its minority stake in Mobilisis to 100%. The Croatian IT company will thus be fully integrated into the company.
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The e-paper of issue 12/2021
Your opinion is needed at the end of the year: in issue 12, we present the nominees for the 'Products of the Year 2022' readers' poll. We also take a closer look at automated guided vehicles in our special Robotics&Automation section.
read more...The field level is followed by the cloud
The OPC Foundation's Field Level Communications Initiative was established at SPS 2018. Three years later, its President Stefan Hoppe announces a similar initiative for cloud activities. An update.
read more...New 'Machine Information Interoperability' department
The VDMA has now founded the new 'Machine Information Interoperability' department to continuously optimize the interoperability of production environments and the Industry 4.0 ecosystem. The focus of the work is OPC UA interface development.
read more...Edge products in the Siemens App Store
Softing Industrial plans to offer its first products on the Siemens Industrial Edge Marketplace in the first quarter of 2022. The background.
read more...Industrial automation outperforms agriculture
The Eclipse Foundation's annual survey focusing on edge computing, AI and security brings new trends to light. An overview.
read more...On the way to becoming an Industry 4.0 enabler
The PNO has long been trying to expand its range of tasks beyond the fieldbus topic. The development of the Omlox positioning service points the way in a direction that is now being continued with the projects on MTP and a robot interface.
read more...The digital twin as a basis
Wolfram Schäfer, Managing Director of iT Engineering Software Innovations, explains in an interview how software is changing automation systems, what opportunities this is creating and what role the digital twin plays in this.
read more...Research center for quantum computing planned in Darmstadt
Researchers in Darmstadt want to find out how quantum computers can be used sensibly in science and industry in the future.
read more...The top articles in November
What do billion-dollar sales, coronavirus in the workplace and apps for industry have in common? They made it into the top 10 most-read articles in November. However, they were unable to assert themselves against a technology with a long history.
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