
These are your winners!
We put 96 products in twelve categories to your vote in December, and now the winners have been chosen! The trophies were presented at a 'Winner's Dinner' at the Seehaus in Munich. These are your "Products of the Year 2024"!
In view of the increasing damage caused by cyber attacks and EU directives such as the CRA, holistic cybersecurity is becoming indispensable. Dr. Christopher Tebbe, security expert, and Kilian Fröhlich, manager in OT security consulting, explain how Wago is tackling this.

On September 1, Dr. Sebastian Schatt will take over responsibility for the further development of the electrical connection technology division as a member of the Wago Group's management board.

Wago, a provider of electrical connection and automation technology, and Radiflow, a specialist in OT cyber security, are entering into a partnership and pooling their expertise. Together, they want to strengthen resilience against potential cyber threats.

Strategies for the future are one of the topics covered in the current issue of Computer&Automation. Read about the reforms that associations are demanding from politicians, the opportunities offered by technologies such as ChatGPT and SPE and the role that robots play in control cabinet assembly.

To enable complex applications with higher requirements, Wago is expanding its portfolio with two powerful edge computers with 16 Gbyte RAM and 32 Gbyte RAM.
The shortage of skilled workers and digitalization are also of concern to enclosure manufacturers. Dr. Michael Dörbaum, Head of PM Cabinet Components & Offerings, explains the background to Wago's vision for the future.
The Wago Group is growing for the third year in a row and will achieve sales of EUR 1.37 billion in 2023. This means that the manufacturer of electrical connection and automation technology has increased its turnover by 2.2% compared to the previous year.
Simplicity and flexibility won over the readers of Computer&Automation in the 'Electromechanics' category.

With the acquisition of Bauer Systeme, a company for handling systems in control cabinet construction, the Wago Group is expanding its offering for customers in this segment.
Anniversaries and partnerships, trends in new cloud solutions and digital transformation, networking developments for process and factory automation as well as new and award-winning products - we take a look back at them in the most-read reports of 2023.