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Phoenix Contact has announced its figures for 2016. According to the figures, the Blomberg-based group of companies was able to increase its turnover by 3.2% last year. This year, the 2 billion euro mark is set to be reached.
read more...Many plant operators are asking themselves how they can upgrade their existing machines for Industry 4.0. When it comes to implementing a simple connection of solutions for condition monitoring, for example, the use of IoT gateways is a worthwhile approach.
read more...Hannover Messe 2017 / Industry 4.0
The really exciting topic at this year's Hannover Messe is not so much new technologies, says Eric Schaeffer, industry expert at Accenture. In this interview, he explains what he will be paying particular attention to in Hanover.
read more...How many jobs are threatened by automation? The data portal Statista has processed figures from McKinsey in an infographic.
read more...In summer 2016, BMW, Intel and Mobileye announced their partnership to bring autonomous driving solutions to production maturity for the mass market by 2021. Intel now wants to acquire its partner Mobileye for 15.3 billion US dollars (around 14 billion euros).
read more...The obstacle many companies face when switching to Industry 4.0: existing machinery that cannot be networked. However, there are now elegant solutions for integrating machines into Industry 4.0 scenarios.
read more...IBM opened the Watson IoT Center in Munich on February 16, 2017. Computer&AUTOMATION was able to take a look inside the Industry Lab, where IBM is working with partner companies on a wide range of Watson projects.
read more...Cisco has now launched the Innovation Alliance. Together with eleven medium-sized IT companies, Cisco wants to support German SMEs with digitization.
read more...Industrial Ethernet with 1 GBit/s
CC-Link IE is the only common industrial Ethernet standard based on a data transmission rate of 1 GBit/s. The CLPA has now specified the 'Basic Mode', according to which products with a 100 MBit Ethernet port can easily be made compatible with CC-Link IE.
read more...That was the Wireless Congress 2016
Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet and IoT are driving the development of new wireless technology. Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) are currently predicted to grow rapidly. Several wireless technologies are competing with each other - and with mobile communications.
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