
Siemens and AES establish joint venture
Siemens and AES Corporation establish Fluence, a joint venture offering large energy storage systems for grid stabilization.
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Siemens and AES Corporation establish Fluence, a joint venture offering large energy storage systems for grid stabilization.

With the current firmware version V3, the Simatic RF600 RFID system supports the open OPC UA interface. This allows the device to be connected via the industrial IoT gateway 'Ruggedcom RX1400' with MindConnect or the MindConnect Nano cloud gateway, for example.

The smart factory is increasingly taking shape. Computer&AUTOMATION shows which products are already pointing the way to the factory of tomorrow in a series of pictures.

Digital manufacturing / Internet of Things
The Siemens Group wants to further develop the potential of digitalization in China. In the presence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser signed extensive cooperation agreements in Berlin.

Transformation into an independent company
"Flender GmbH, a Siemens Company": This is the name under which the Siemens Mechanical Drives division will be launched as an independent company on October 1, 2017.

With the 3KF product range, Siemens has developed switch-disconnectors with fuses for currents of up to 800 A.
Dust, dirt, moisture: operating devices must be able to cope with these challenges. A system family of IP65-protected HMI devices provides solutions for the entire range of stationary, machine-oriented operation and monitoring.

Siemens has added new modules and functions to the 'Simatic S7-1200' basic controller: The 45 mm wide SM1238 energy meter module allows energy flows to be recorded precisely directly on the machine, processed directly in the CPU and visualized with an HMI system.

What would the smart factory of today and tomorrow be without sensors? Sensors are indispensable as the basis of every industrial production system. Computer&AUTOMATION has summarized current trends in a picture gallery.
On May 9, 2017, AutomationML e.V. elected a new Board of Directors at its annual general meeting. There was a change with a signal effect in the position of Chairman.