How can small and medium-sized companies get started with robotics and networked production and where is the trend in production heading after the coronavirus crisis and the war in Ukraine? Patrick Theobald, Managing Director of Peakboard, talked about this in an interview with Daniel Schilling.
read more...Industrial drive systems hold great potential for greater energy efficiency as well as for increasing productivity. Andreas Schader, Global Marketing Manager Standardization at ABB Motion Germany, spoke to Andreas Mühlbauer about digitalization, sustainability and retrofitting drive technology.
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Ukraine war: technology export and import bans
VDMA President Karl Haeusgen comments on the EU's new sanctions against Russia, which are to include technology exports and Russian coal imports:
read more...What can digital transformation achieve in a company and what are the difficulties involved? Bernhard Günthner, Executive Vice President IoT Software at Kontron, spoke to Andreas Mühlbauer about this. In the interview, he also explains why some companies struggle with networking.
read more...... is this war of any use? Why can't people live together peacefully? Why does everything have to be devastated?", wrote Anne Frank on May 3, 1944. Unfortunately, this is topical again.
read more...Almost three quarters of respondents feel directly or indirectly affected by the war.
read more...What does the breach of international law mean for the economy?
read more...... beats in the metalworking industry in Germany. Reason enough to focus on this topic in the current issue. A major topic is networking and digitalization, as in the report on Pitmatec Zerspanung in Ellwangen (from page 10), a young company that has been preparing its processes for Industry 4.
read more...... in the new year? If we look at the German economy, it grew by an impressive 2.7% in 2021 despite coronavirus and the lack of semiconductors - according to the first estimate by the Federal Statistical Office.
read more...Advent time - anticipation and contemplation, like every year. Canceled, again. Surprise! Instead, another routine takes hold: catching up on the prevention we missed in the fall.
read more...... is the paradox of the fading coronavirus pandemic. The global economy wants to grow again.
read more...Man and machine. People were already fascinated by this topic more than 100 years ago. In 1909, E. M. Forster described a world in "The Machine Stops" in which people are completely dependent on a machine and thus surrender to their own downfall.
read more...... is better than repairing damage. Predictive maintenance is therefore one of the drivers of digital transformation in the manufacturing industry. Networking is important, but more important are computing power and intelligent, adaptive algorithms at the edge, on the machine - and technology is developing rapidly in this area.
read more...... all indicators point to this. At most of the annual press conferences attended by the editorial team in recent weeks, the company managements looked to the future with positive expectations.
read more...... is teaching robots for individual tasks. This has been demonstrated by our work on our current issue's focus "Robot programming and integration".
read more...... we, the INDUSTRIAL Production team, and you, our readers, were supposed to meet at the trade fair grounds in Hanover in the next few days. But this meeting, like so many before it and so many more to come, has had to be canceled.
read more...... is how the production of prototypes now works. The prototype is a decisive step in the production process.
read more...... and usually limited. Regardless of whether we are talking about human labor, machine time, energy, raw materials or money: Our day-to-day work is first and foremost about resources, and some of these are becoming increasingly scarce in Germany: skilled labor, for example, or steel at the moment. Other resources are becoming more expensive, such as energy, which is a political priority.
read more...... is digitalization. Take the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, for example: Israel, of all countries, is way ahead of the game. The fact that the country's government ordered enough vaccine in good time is only one side of the story.
read more...... we would have been spared the Covid-19 pandemic? The joyless anniversary of the first diagnosis of the disease in a patient in Wuhan is just behind us. Nevertheless, suddenly there is hope again.
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