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The most significant economic trend of the current decade? Ownership is becoming a burden and more and more customers are paying for services on a subscription basis. The service subscription is thus becoming the central building block of the Industry 4.0 digital economy in the 21st century.
read more...Continuous communication right down to sensor/actuator level, bidirectional and with access to additional data - IO-Link also increases the potential of industrial cloud services.
read more...The convergence of information technology and operational technology means that essential parts of IT security must be transferred to operational technology. Security expert Andreas Philipp outlines five important measures for this.
read more...Since the end of 2018, the ZVEI and Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg have been working with manufacturers in the automation industry to implement the 'Digital Nameplate 4.0' project. Gunther Koschnick, Managing Director of the Automation Association in the ZVEI, comments on the status quo.
read more...IIoT Building Blocks from iT Engineering Software Innovations is a platform for evaluations and machine learning applications directly in the factory environment.
read more...Industrial IoT and edge computing play a key role in the digitalization of production. But why is machine learning so important in this context?
read more...Industrial edge servers must be extremely flexible in order to integrate the broad spectrum of tasks. Virtual machines in particular are increasingly being used to consolidate a wide range of Industry 4.0 workloads.
read more...Automatically detecting all IO-Link devices in a machine, automatically downloading their device descriptions and parameterizing and monitoring them over their entire life cycle independently of the control system and fieldbus - a software tool meets this challenge.
read more...Our latest issue 5 is now available as an e-paper. Read now what's happening in the automation industry in May.
read more..."Three questions for..." - the May edition
People react differently to the coronavirus and its consequences. What is it like in everyday working life? In the new part of our "Three questions for..." series, we look at this topic and asked automation experts for their opinions.
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