
Management Board of the Group expanded
From July 1, 2023, the Executive Board of the ifm Group will have one more newly created function, that of Chief Operating Officer (COO).
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From July 1, 2023, the Executive Board of the ifm Group will have one more newly created function, that of Chief Operating Officer (COO).

The e-paper for the special issue
Intelligent sensor technology always requires smooth interaction with software and surrounding systems. The examples in this e-paper demonstrate what this can look like in individual cases. This shows that team play counts - in sensor technology as in life.

Read which automation company congratulated the competition with a banner several meters in size, how the ODCA wants to bring DC technology to factories worldwide and why the OPC Foundation is reaching its limits in its push into the IT world.

Georg Stawowy has moved from cable and connection systems manufacturer Lapp to fluidics specialist Bürkert, where he took over as CEO in April. The new CEO's main focus is on the digital transformation of the company.
As part of the Endress+Hauser Water Challenge, the company's employees raised money for a water project in Vietnam in record time with charity runs. The campaign is now entering a second round.
Real-Time Systems, Fraunhofer ITWM
In times of IoT and 5G, edge computing is becoming increasingly important: data is processed decentrally via devices such as sensors, gateways or PLCs instead of in data centers or the cloud. A Fraunhofer project team is working on solutions based on intelligent edge electronics.
With the IIoT platform 'TAS', Turck promises an easy-to-use and standardized overall solution for the commissioning and management of Turck devices in industrial Ethernet networks, from the sensor to the controller. The tool celebrated its premiere at the Hannover Messe.

Prof. Dr. Holger Hanselka, currently President of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, is to become the new President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Reimund Neugebauer, who resigned by mutual agreement after almost eleven years at the helm.

Endress+Hauser invested more money in research and development in 2022 than ever before - a total of 7.2 % of turnover was invested in R&D.

The exhibitors at Sensor+Test 2023 and organizer AMA Service have drawn a consistently positive conclusion from the event: over 5,000 trade visitors from Germany and abroad came to the Nuremberg exhibition halls, around 20% more than in the previous year.