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RS, a provider of product and service solutions with increased consulting needs for industrial customers, has appointed Stefan Gierse as Managing Director DACH on August 1, 2025. Ralf Hellwig will retire from this position and take on a new project-related role.
read more...Profibus & Profinet International
A recent analysis by the market research institute Omdia confirms that Profinet is the leading technology in the field of industrial Ethernet protocols. In addition to its broad market penetration, Profinet's consistent focus on security is particularly impressive - a decisive factor in times of increasing networking and digital threats.
read more...The production of fiber optic cables in Germany has fallen by over 43% in the last ten years. In order to avoid long-term strategic dependencies, the ZVEI is calling for the maintenance and expansion of industrial capacities for network components in Germany and Europe.
read more...Kubermatic and Flecs will work together in the future to make industrial applications easier to provide and production environments more flexible to control.
read more...Stefan Becker has been appointed Managing Director of Eckelmann Automation Technology in Shanghai and will manage the subsidiary together with Zhongwei Huang.
read more...On July 1, 2025, Sascha Niederhagen took over the position of Executive Vice President EMEAI in the Wika Group.
read more...Omron has appointed Stéphane Chômienne as Regional Sales Director for the Central region effective July 1, 2025. Chômienne will lead the sales activities in the region, including Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH region) as well as France.
read more...Unchained Robotics from Paderborn raises 8.5 million euros to radically simplify industrial automation with robots. With smart software, the start-up enables the integration of robots from a wide range of manufacturers into production - with simple operation, just like a smartphone.
read more...International Federation of Robotics
The European automotive industry continues to invest heavily in production automation: With a total of 23,000 industrial robots installed, the industry has achieved its second-best result in the last five years. This is according to preliminary results from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
read more...Wandelbots and Schaeffler presented a new model at the Nvidia GTC Europe that digitally maps industrial automation from simulation to production.
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