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Increasing complexity is changing the situation for many sheet metal workers. The production steps are becoming more complex. The demand to keep costs and delivery times low is increasing. Small series through to individual products in batch size 1 should be just as profitable as large series.
read more...Collaborative assembly of multi-variant products. In the "KoKoMo" research project, a total of eleven partners are working on the question of how collaborative assembly can be integrated into product lifecycle management.
read more...KUKA is currently presenting intelligent automation concepts for the production of tomorrow at the Hannover Messe under the motto "industrial intelligence 4.0_beyond automation".
read more...Interview with Arno Reich, Hannover Messe
Deutsche Messe has combined the two trade fairs Industrial Automation and MDA to form the new IAMD at the Hannover Messe. SCOPE editor Andreas Mühlbauer spoke to Arno Reich, Global Director IAMD and Digital Factory in the Hannover Messe team, about the impact of the new technologies.
read more...GFT becomes an implementation partner of Software AG - with a focus on the IoT platform "Cumulocity IoT".
read more...The combination of the physical and digital worlds generates enormous amounts of data in the manufacturing industry. IoT platforms make it possible to analyze data from different sources in real time and trigger the necessary actions in a targeted manner. It is crucial that the data is linked and correlated.
read more...From 16 to 20 April 2018, the CK.Conference by ComputerKomplett will be all about Industry 4.0. It will not only provide information on the topic of digitalization, but also show how it works: Interested parties will have the opportunity to follow all expert presentations live from their workplace or from home.
read more...Marposs will be presenting its broad product portfolio for quality assurance on two stands at this year's Control trade fair. While the versatile application possibilities of the leakage test will be presented in Hall 6, the main stand in Hall 3 will focus on hand-held measuring devices, optical measuring technology and various solutions for safe operator guidance during measurement.
read more...Digitalization and Industry 4.0 will also profoundly change the tube and wire industry in the coming years, the SMS Group is certain, and promises new impetus for the industry with its trade fair appearance at Wire & Tube 2018.
read more...Generation of assembly information
Flexible assembly assistance. The development of an assembly assistance system for areas with small batch sizes and a large number of variants is a research activity of the Chair of Production Systems (LPS) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB).
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