With its devices for the direct marking of products and packaging, Bluhm Systeme offers a cost-effective alternative to labeling.

With KSS-Online 4.0, the lubrication specialist Bantleon offers a digital fluid logistics management tool of the latest generation. The machine is identified via a 14-digit barcode, fed with all specific information such as target values, fluid designation, filling volume, cost centers, responsible employees and hazard warnings.

i.safe Mobile has launched the IS540.1 smartphone. It is approved for ATEX and IECEx Zone 1/21, supports 5G frequency bands and Wi-Fi 6.

Würth Elektronik is adding new products in a 10 mm pitch to the WR-TBL series of terminal block connectors based on the wire protection principle: three THT terminal block series with screw fixing.

Augmented reality is also an interesting technology for industrial environments and applications. Virtual 3D models, which are projected into the room as holograms, enable collaborative work on prototype design development - the joint development of prototypes in real time, regardless of location and in individual teams.

Siemens cooperates with Hilscher and thus offers a wide range of communication protocols.

Andrea Alboni is responsible for the Western Europe region as General Manager at Universal Robots. At Motek, he spoke to editor-in-chief Daniel Schilling about current developments on the German cobot market, challenges for production and turnkey systems.

Manufacturers of CNC laser and plasma cutting systems are aiming for significantly shorter development times and faster time-to-market. The MTX CNC system from Bosch Rexroth supports this, for example with functions for simple engineering.

Automating the loading and unloading of machines increases efficiency in production - especially if the subsequent manual visual inspection is also carried out automatically. AI-pro develops individual solutions for this and adds robots and artificial intelligence to machines such as the servo press from Tox Pressotechnik.

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Designing pure process environments quickly, modularly and safely - Item showed how this can be done at Cleanzone in Frankfurt. The company has added numerous components to its modular system.

For four days, Formnext 2022 turned Frankfurt into the metropolis of global industrial 3D printing. With 802 exhibiting companies and 29,581 trade visitors, the event almost reached pre-corona levels.

With i³ Control, Yaskawa presented a completely new automation platform for the first time in spring. Now the company is officially launching the first products.

In its current situation report from October 25, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) describes and analyzes the current IT security situation using examples and incidents from practice.

The Institute of Assembly Technology at the University of Hanover is working on the collaboration of several mobile robots for the assembly of large components.

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The ZVEI welcomes the European "Cyber Resilience Act" and has been advocating horizontal regulation from the manufacturer to the user for years in order to create uniform rules.

Designing modern electrical installations to be trouble-free and safe is becoming increasingly demanding. On the one hand, regulations are becoming stricter and stricter, and on the other hand, loads are increasing so that the installation must be able to withstand higher currents.

Many companies find it difficult to establish efficient cyber security structures for various reasons. This is the result of a study commissioned by Secunet.

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The risk of cyber attacks has increased rapidly in recent years. Internal IT employees are often unable to efficiently prevent an attack or respond adequately to an attack.

Exports in the German electrical and digital industry rose by 11.7% year-on-year to EUR 21.4 billion in September 2022.

Electric motors usually only become application-specific drive or positioning systems in combination with other components, i.e. reduction gears, brakes, an encoder and the appropriate control electronics.