
Zeiss buys MES company Guardus
With the Manufacturing Execution System from Guardus, Zeiss wants to expand its portfolio in the direction of networked intelligent production.
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With the Manufacturing Execution System from Guardus, Zeiss wants to expand its portfolio in the direction of networked intelligent production.

Networked mobility / Smart Factory
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By exhibiting at the trade fair for the first time, SAP showed that the company also wants to play a pioneering role in the digitalization of manufacturing. SAP Leonardo is intended to serve as a link between the IoT, the factory floor and business processes.

Dürr combines its production-related Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Ecoemos with the software solutions of iTAC Software AG, acquired at the end of 2015, to form the iTAC.IoT.Suite.

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The Linz-based software company Industrie Informatik has appointed Markus Zalud as a new member of the management board. Zalud (44) is responsible in particular for consulting and commercial issues.

In June 2017, Industrie Informatik presented the latest release of the MES solution Cronetwork. The focus was on the newly integrated OPC UA server. Thomas Krainz, member of the management team and responsible for product management, explains what this is all about.

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The Kistler Group has acquired the MES provider IOS. The aim of the acquisition is to cover the entire value chain from a single source - from sensors to production planning and control.

The company Guardus has updated and expanded its MES solution: The focus is on intuitive applications for mobile action management, graphical inspection/defect data handling and checklist recording.