
New Deep Learning Toolbox
Mathworks introduces release 2018b of Matlab and Simulink. It includes enhancements for deep learning as well as new features and improvements in all product families.
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Mathworks introduces release 2018b of Matlab and Simulink. It includes enhancements for deep learning as well as new features and improvements in all product families.

In five flagship projects, companies and research institutions in the it's OWL leading-edge cluster aim to develop new fields of technology for German SMEs. The focus is on machine intelligence, digital platforms, digital twins and the working world of the future.

The Copa-Data company is offering its Zenon software platform with new application templates. These are designed to ensure greater efficiency and include ready-made project components such as visualization, symbols, calculation logic and evaluations.

Software & IT is also becoming increasingly essential for manufacturing. As a result, numerous products with this focus are coming onto the market - as the following series of images shows:
Machine and system manufacturers are increasingly moving towards simulating control software before commissioning in order to correct any errors in advance. Instead of carrying out the tests manually as before, it is advisable to switch to an automated procedure.

IBM wants to acquire the software manufacturer Red Hat, which relies on open source and Linux. The aim: to become the leading hybrid cloud provider.
Analyzing and visualizing data is essential for gaining deep insights into manufacturing processes. Microsoft's Power BI platform - which relies on optimal data models - is ideal for this purpose. A helping hand.
Auria Solutions produces floor panels that are supplied just-in-time to car manufacturers. In order to make this possible despite numerous variants, the supplier had its ERP software expanded into a system for automatic production control using an OPC router.

Mepis Energy from T&G is suitable for linking previously isolated systems with each other. A wide variety of data can be recorded and transferred to a higher-level management system via various communication channels such as S0 bus, M-Bus, CAN bus or Ethernet.

According to the news agency Bloomberg, Microsoft is strengthening its commitment to the open source sector with the acquisition of the software development platform GitHub.