Industry 1.0 meets Industry 4.0
What does a lathe from the year 1887 have to do with a high-tech industrial automation show like SPS IPC Drives? The Bosch Rexroth booth presented the answer.
read more...read more...Sensor technology 4.0 - what next?
Data are the real 'treasure' when working Industry 4.0. Delivering them is usually the job of sensor technology. The future demands facing producers and users when it comes to this are explained here by Bernhard Müller, member of the Sick executive.
read more...Process visualization takes a big step forward
Process visualization in augmented reality: An application example from Inosoft showed how the Microsoft HoloLens can support workers in operating and servicing a machine.
read more...Software construction guidelines - latest results
Although there are construction guidelines for many programming languages, they are virtually non-existent when it comes to industrial control (IEC 61131-3 and its PLCopen extensions).
read more...MindSphere available on Azure in future
Siemens plans to make its open IoT ecosystem MindSphere available on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform in the course of 2017.
read more...Clearer criteria for Industry 4.0
The ZVEI is working with other institutions to concretize the RAMI 4.0 reference architecture and the Industry 4.0 component and enrich them with practical relevance. The association presented a guideline and an open source project at SPS IPC Drives 2016.
read more...The eyes of Industry 4.0
Machine vision technology is becoming increasingly important on the road to Industry 4.0: it provides the data required for process optimization, increased efficiency, preventive maintenance and human-robot collaboration.
read more...IO-Link becomes safe
The IO-Link community has published the IO-Link safety specification for international review on its website (www.io-link.com).
read more...OPC UA on Auto-Pilot!
OPC UA is to achieve the status of a globally recognized standard for the Industrial Internet of Things IIoT by 2019 at the latest - according to the plans of the OPC Foundation. The press conference at the trade fair provided an update on the current status.
read more...Twelve cores on the top-hat rail
As a pioneer of PC-based automation, Beckhoff is bringing even more power to the DIN rail from next year. At SPS IPC Drives 2016, the company is announcing new embedded PCs that operate with up to twelve CPU cores.
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