
Retrofitting the PCI bus
Many industrial computers in the industrial environment are still equipped with a PCI bus and do not have the faster PCI Express standard.
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Many industrial computers in the industrial environment are still equipped with a PCI bus and do not have the faster PCI Express standard.

The SPS IPC Drives 2017 is already over. What technical highlights awaited the more than 70,000 visitors this year in the 16 exhibition halls? Look at this film by Computer&AUTOMATION to find out.

SPS IPC Drives 2017 ended as a record-breaking trade fair. What were the technical highlights of the automation trade fair? How was the new Hall 6 "Software and IT" received? The Computer&AUTOMATION trade fair film provides a picture of the mood.

Kontron presents the SMARC-sAMX7, a new SMARC 2.0 module. Thanks to its economical NXP i.MX7 dual-core and single-core configurations, it is characterized by its ...

IBM wants to drive quantum research forward together with industry and has also gained Daimler as a partner. The automotive group wants to research how quantum technology can be used to develop potential applications for the automotive industry.
The French IT service provider Atos is planning to take over the Dutch smart card manufacturer Gemalto. The offer amounts to a total of around 4.3 billion euros in cash, Atos announced in Paris on December 11, 2017.

The previous BEG-Bürkle managing directors Hans-Joachim Bürkle and Wolfgang Bürkle have transferred their divisions to Joachim Müller - and appointed him as the company's sole managing director.

Portwell has announced the XM-1 IoT gateway. The modular design allows hot-plugging: communication modules can simply be unplugged from the system chassis.

Schneider Electric is expanding its range of HMI solutions to include cloud applications for secure remote maintenance and programming of industrial machines.

Rockwell Automation offers new versions of the Factorytalk Analytics for Devices application and the Factorytalk Teamone app. The latter is designed to simplify collaboration with the help of detailed alarm information in real time and has been supplemented with alarm modules.