
Schmalz: Digital solutions for vacuum technology
With a new bin-picking solution, the use of the digital twin and a software tool for centralized access to IO-Link components, Schmalz offers a number of innovations for the smart factory.

With a new bin-picking solution, the use of the digital twin and a software tool for centralized access to IO-Link components, Schmalz offers a number of innovations for the smart factory.

The MyDataEconomy platform acts as a digital data marketplace for industrial data sources and large volumes of data that have previously been difficult to network. The platform is now entering a closed alpha phase with its first pilot customers.

Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced the Teamcenter X software: a new PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solution provided as a service.

MVTec launches Progress Release 20.05 of the Halcon software. It offers new features and revised technologies.

Siemens Digital Industries Software has launched a new solution for capturing concepts in 2D. With the NX Sketch software tool, users can now sketch in CAD without having to define parameters, design intent and relationships in advance.

OPC UA is one of the fastest growing standards in machine-to-machine communication. UR's cobots now support the interface standard via a software solution from UR+ partner Rocketfarm.

Apprentices become "energy scouts" at switch cabinet manufacturer häwa. Initial projects lead to significant electricity savings. The goal: production with 100 percent green electricity.
If a cable is moved thousands of times over the years, it will eventually reach the end of its service life and need to be replaced. Until now, finding the right time has been a lottery.

Machines, logistics and products communicate in modern industrial plants. At INDUSTRIAL production + handling, Fraunhofer IPMS will be presenting solutions for industrial communication in the technology fields of Li-Fi, RFID sensors and communication IP cores.

5G Tango research project completed
Weidmüller has taken part in the 5G Tango project funded by the European Union. The knowledge gained is now to be transferred to production.