Multi-vendor demo celebrates its premiere
Three years after its launch, the OPC Foundation's Field Level Communications (FLC) initiative has now completed the second release candidate - a multi-vendor installation demonstrates the progress made.
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Three years after its launch, the OPC Foundation's Field Level Communications (FLC) initiative has now completed the second release candidate - a multi-vendor installation demonstrates the progress made.

'We Create Digital Transformation' was Sick's trade fair motto to present intelligent sensors as pioneers of digitalization as well as digital services and software solutions based on their data.

Rafi launches the KIS.ME communication and process control system, which serves to digitize non-networked work, logistics and production areas.
Brinkmann Electronic Berlin has developed a modular hardware and software platform for integrating safety technology into existing automation systems.

Real-time industrial controllers from Zander with deterministic response times of 2 to 3 µs have been in series production in packaging processes, for example, for several years. Now there are innovations.

Will industrial groups get so big at some point that they get in their own way? Siemens and Philips are constantly selling off parts of their companies or taking them public. Now the US competitor GE is breaking itself up. The goal: more growth.

Siemens raised its forecast three times in the current 2021 fiscal year and has now significantly exceeded it: Profit after tax rose by 59% to €6.7 billion.

Siemens and Merck want to enable machines to communicate more and better with each other in order to ensure the quality of manufactured products.

The RevPi Connect+ feat.Codesys from Kunbus can be used as a modular and powerful small controller for a variety of different automation tasks and, according to the provider, represents an alternative to complex and cost-intensive PLCs.
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