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A striking feature of the Leuze trade fair stand - otherwise traditionally kept in the corporate color red - is a yellow wall this year. The intention behind it: To draw attention to the sensor manufacturer's safety products and solutions.
read more...Endress+Hauser measurement technology
The process industry is still in its infancy when it comes to Industry 4.0 and digitalization. Benedikt Schumann, Product Manager Industry 4.0, explains how Endress+Hauser is helping users here.
read more...What role will the Ethernet standard TSN play in the future activities of the OPC Foundation? The OPC Foundation provided answers to this question at a press conference at SPS IPC Drives.
read more...ifm is launching an AS-i fiber optic repeater at SPS IPC Drives 2018. For the first time, AS-interface signals can be implemented via an optical medium and vice versa.
read more...Two important building blocks of Industry 4.0 are the RAMI model and the Asset Administration Shell. And activities are underway at PLCopen for both.
read more...Eaton is presenting the new generation of the Easy control relay series for the first time: the EasyE4. But what is new about the small controller, which is designed to implement simple control tasks as well as more extensive configurations with high process efficiency?
read more...Connect industrial sensors and actuators to any cloud platform? Via plug & play? The company Cloudrail shows how this can be done.
read more...Klaus Rupprecht, authorized signatory at Sys Tec electronic, is a strong advocate of open source. For him, openness is an important prerequisite for increasing the utility value of the Internet of Things and exploiting the cost benefits.
read more...The Shaper group of companies was committed to the goal of establishing TNS plus OPC UA as 'the' communication standard - from the sensor to the cloud. Now that the work for this path has been transferred to the OPC Foundation, the group of companies is disbanding.
read more...With the 'Ethercat G/G10' technology extension, Beckhoff aims to raise its Ethernet-based communication system to the next performance level. Another trade fair premiere at SPS IPC Drives 2018: the XPlanar transport system.
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