The smartphone as a role model
Bosch Rexroth has designed a new automation platform and taken a lot of inspiration from smartphone technology. - But what is different about ctrlX Automation compared to conventional control systems?
read more...read more...Five measures for OT security
For a long time, proprietary systems were considered safe from cyberattacks. With increasing networking, OT and IT environments are growing closer together and production is becoming the focus of hackers. Time to act.
read more...Between analog and digital
When measuring with piezoelectric sensors, the charge amplifier is an indispensable link in the measuring chain. As automation progresses, this component undergoes its own evolution from analog to digital.
read more...Simply monitored
Basic knowledge of industrial IoT applications is available in many companies today - but they often lack the know-how to implement them independently. A solution that can be integrated quickly should help to easily monitor the status of decentralized machines and systems.
read more...Cooled with heat pipe
Congatec presents a new 100 W ecosystem for embedded edge and micro servers. The computing core is a COM Express Type 7 Server-on-Module with 65 to 100 W power.
read more...AI follows its own rules
At the end of last year, Google put the icing on the cake of the advancing development of artificial intelligence with its quantum supremacy test. America and China are engaged in an AI race. What role does Germany and Industry 4.0 play in this?
read more...Safety for smaller systems
With the CES-C07 safety switch and the ESM-CB safety module, Euchner has a duo in its portfolio that, according to the manufacturer, opens up new freedom in the design of safety solutions for smaller systems.
read more...Alexa, Cortana & Co on the machine
Are completely new control elements such as Alexa, Google, Siri and Cortana moving into the factory? This can only succeed if open IT platform solutions become established in factories.
read more...From a fashionable topic to reality
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are the hot topics in the Industry 4.0 environment - but what can already be implemented in practice today? Philipp Wallner, Industry Manager at Mathworks, takes a stand.
read more...Plug-and-work as the maxim of gripping technology
Grippers for collaborative industrial robotics must support the flexibility of robots - in terms of adaptation, commissioning and operation. Dr. Kurt Schmalz, Managing Partner of vacuum technology manufacturer J. Schmalz, explains the background.
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