First recyclable plastic bicycle frame
Igus continues to expand its bicycle component business and launches the first injection-molded bicycle frame made of composite material for advanced bikes.
read more...read more...Award for climate-friendly innovation
Continental has awarded the Climate Solutions Prize to a sustainable solution for the first time: Biotic, a biotech start-up specializing in biological plastic alternatives, came out on top in the 'Pioneering Sustainable Material' technology competition.
read more...Detailed planning with real-time tool
The real-time planning module Felios-Liveplanner from Inform makes it possible to combine short-term manual rescheduling on the store floor with global production planning.
read more...AS-Interface for drive and conveyor technology
ASi-3 for collecting individual binary signals, ASi-5 for complex tasks where high transmission speeds and large data bandwidths as well as efficient addressing of participants are important - a 'dream team' especially for intralogistics systems.
read more...Interview with Maria Dobritzsch, Lapp
Green copper
Lapp aims to reduce the carbon footprint of its products by 20 percent by 2025, based on the 2020/2021 financial year. Maria Dobritzsch, responsible for sustainability at Lapp, explains the role of copper as a raw material in this.
read more...Raw materials lying dormant in the drawer
According to Bitkom, around 210 million old cell phones were stored in German households last year. This means that 87% of people had at least one discarded cell phone. This figure has more than doubled since 2015.
read more...Plan production changes with foresight
Contact Software launches a new version of the open low-code platform Elements.
read more...Highest level of electronic waste expected
Broken and unused electrical appliances are a thorn in the side of environmentalists. In light of International WEEE Day, they are calling on consumers to repair or recycle appliances.
read more...Apps as microservices
Msg Plaut is now presenting an IT marketplace called Smart Factory Platform. Companies will be able to use it to purchase agile individual solutions and thus keep their production processes up to date.
read more...German companies often lose out
Warehouses cost money. For this reason, manufacturers have started to shift warehousing to the transportation chain. However, this only works as long as the required parts are available and deliveries arrive on time. This is exactly what is increasingly lacking at the moment.
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