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Securing software supply chains

With Omnect, Conplement Nuremberg offers a solution for the increasing requirements in the area of software supply chains.

Simulation and industrial software

Billion-euro deal: Siemens takes over Altair

Siemens wants to strengthen its software business with a billion-dollar takeover. The Munich-based company intends to take over the US company Altair Engineering for around 10 billion US dollars (around 9.2 billion euros), as Siemens announced.

Digital transformation

Digital adoption as an opportunity for industrial production

Manufacturing SMEs in Germany do not have it easy: a shortage of skilled workers, geopolitical conflicts and the associated supply difficulties and inflation are just some of the challenges in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment.

Flexible automation

Variation in unmanned milling

A customizable platform allows a machining company to flexibly design its automation and add new machines at any time.

Intralogistics project

Ensuring the efficient flow of materials

One of Prismat's largest EWM projects has been in live operation at Phoenix Contact since the end of last year. Since then, the company has benefited from a highly efficient material flow in its distribution center thanks to the standards-based implementation by the SAP professionals.

Platform for an efficient store floor

Improve production workflows even further

Parts manufacturers have to overcome many challenges. These include errors resulting from paper-based production information. The intelligent and seamless networking of machine tools makes it possible to achieve greater transparency and data consistency in production. Siemens presents "Mcenter" for this purpose.

Initiative from Simus Systems

Data management for digital twins as a service

Simus Systems is launching the "Interoperable data for the digital twin" initiative for companies that want to make their data fit for the digital twin. The service includes a data check in a pilot phase, individual optimization workshops and quality assurance. The Simus Classmate software suite provides the tools for this.

Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize 2024

Simulation methods: time-saving mapping of complex processes

Simulations and digital twins are indispensable for many companies. Because highly dynamic processes often cannot be mapped satisfactorily with conventional software, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM have developed the Meshfree tool, a solution that works without a rigid computing grid and can simulate complex processes with great time savings.

Corporate partnership

Zollner Elektronik and Luminovo cooperate

EMS provider Zollner Elektronik relies on Luminovo, a quotation, procurement and collaboration software for the electronics supply chain, as a key partner in its digitalization strategy.