
Item enters into cooperation with CCI
Item enters into a development partnership with the Center Connected Industry (CCI) at RWTH Aachen University. The focus is on smart sensor technology, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Smart Factory and 5G.
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Item enters into a development partnership with the Center Connected Industry (CCI) at RWTH Aachen University. The focus is on smart sensor technology, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Smart Factory and 5G.
Climate protection. In the Anthropocene, the human age, humans also have a decisive influence on the climate. Not least through the production and use of energy and the consumption of other resources.
New "Ready to Go" cloud box solutions enable companies to regain power over their data by evaluating it directly on the production line, i.e. in the edge device, using machine learning algorithms. The decision on forwarding is also made here.

System concepts for embedded technologies
Rutronik's presence at Embedded World will focus on new Bluetooth standards, IoT and 5G applications and display technologies.

From March 10 to 13, the metalworking industry will meet at Metav in Düsseldorf. Here too, the focus will be on the challenges of digital transformation, especially for medium-sized companies.

Interview with Christian Wolf, Turck
A weakening economy, digitalization, 5G and edge computing are influencing automation technology. In this interview, Turck Managing Director Christian Wolf talks about the challenges facing automation specialists and why growth could be possible in 2020.

The FIR is involved in several projects to research and develop industrial applications based on 5G. The new mobile technology will also have a decisive impact on the future of industrial companies, because with increasing digitalization, 5G will open up many value-adding applications and new business models.
Real-time communication via light
In automation technology, messages often have to be transmitted in the microsecond range, for example to synchronize machines or drives with each other. Fraunhofer IPMS has combined Li-Fi and Time Sensitive Networking to enable real-time capable and deterministic data transmission wirelessly.

Siemens and Qualcomm Technologies have implemented the first stand-alone private 5G network in a real industrial environment using the 3.7 to 3.8 GHz frequency band.

The automation platform ctrlX Automation from Bosch Rexroth includes software technologies for engineering as well as all PLC and motion tasks. Software functions can be combined in almost any way thanks to ready-made, self-created and customizable apps.