
PTC expands the AR platform
Augmented reality is one of the hot topics in industrial automation. The company is now demonstrating that PTC is serious about the technology with a series of measures.
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Augmented reality is one of the hot topics in industrial automation. The company is now demonstrating that PTC is serious about the technology with a series of measures.

Has US President Donald Trump undermined the dominance of Google's Android system in the smartphone market with his action against Huawei? Huawei now wants to establish its own system as a global alternative to Android. However, this is no easy undertaking.

The Ludwigsburg-based automation specialist Jetter is strengthening its international presence in mobile automation: at the beginning of July 2019, it acquired 100% of the Hungarian company Elan Systems.

In line with the trend towards machine integration and data exchange, Wachendorff Prozesstechnik is launching the cMT series, an HMI solution that offers powerful HMI products for integration into existing systems.

Ecom is now introducing a smartwatch for the Ex area in Zone 2/22 and Div. 2. The watch is based on the Samsung Galaxy Watch and can be combined with the Ecom Smartphone Smart-Ex 02 and Featurephone Ex-Handy 10.

The senior managing directors of Inosoft - Peter Tanneberg and Roland Riediger - handed over their responsibilities to Jens Klocke, the youngest member of the previous management team, on April 1, 2019.
Many operating instructions contain warnings 'to death'. This may be reassuring for the manufacturer, but for the reader it means that relevant information is barely noticed - possibly with fatal consequences for people, the environment and the product.

Program online - Keynote from Kuka
The DESIGN&ELEKTRONIK and Markt&Technik editorial teams are organizing the IoT conference in Munich for the fifth time. Heinrich Munz, Lead Architect Industry 4.0 at Kuka AG, will give the keynote speech on November 20, 2019.

With so many applications being presented on different displays on the shop floor, managing the numerous content sources is a challenge for manufacturers.

Rafi is expanding its range of industrial-grade capacitive 'Glasscape' touchscreens to include TwinTouch input technology, which evaluates not only touches on the panel but also the forces applied to it.