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Ixon CEO Willem Hofmans talks in an interview about the market situation and growth opportunities for machine manufacturers.
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Ixon CEO Willem Hofmans talks in an interview about the market situation and growth opportunities for machine manufacturers.

Condition monitoring via app - engineering specialist in-tech now offers the intelligent easymon app for all Beckhoff controllers with Automation Device Specification (ADS) interface.

Robotics can help small and medium-sized companies to compensate for the shortage of skilled workers in the welding industry.
A new cloud-based solution is designed to ensure the safety of people and equipment when production comes to a planned or unplanned standstill.
There is no networking without common standards. As Head of Strategic Alliances at Kuka, Dr. Christian Liedtke is responsible for this special form of cooperation. He spoke to Daniel Schilling about partners, standards and why cooperation does not rule out competition.

With the Smart Item Picking solution, Bosch Rexroth is automating picking tasks for multi-variant inventories that could previously only be carried out manually.

One of the themes of Hannover Messe 2022 is the turning point in international economic and energy policy, which is accompanied by rising energy prices and disrupted supply chains.

TeamViewer has announced that its Frontline AR platform will be integrated into SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM).

Although many countries were still in lockdown at the beginning of the year, 2021 turned out to be a year of major technological innovations.
Digitization and security retrofit
In order to remain competitive, industry must move with the times and digitize both processes and (infra)structures. The opportunities are manifold: manufacturing companies can increase efficiency, save costs, meet growing functional and safety challenges and develop new business models such as entire "industrial services as a service". But what if the equipment used for this cannot be networked appropriately or is inadequately equipped in terms of cyber security?