Doubling production capacity by 2026
Nabtesco is investing in a third production site, doubling its production capacity to two million precision gearboxes per year by 2026.
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... 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...More data - less waste
Industry needs to step on the gas when it comes to digital transformation. And fortunately, this is already happening in many places: according to IBM, 67% of manufacturing companies have accelerated their digital projects since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic - usually to improve their operational efficiency.
read more...Plan network structures correctly
Companies know that the end-to-end digitalization of their production facilities is essential if they are to remain competitive in the market in the future. To avoid getting in their own way, existing structures need to be rethought, new ones created and the paths to data sources opened up. Whereas the IT and OT areas were previously separate, holistic network thinking is now required. This is where the OT area can benefit from the experience of IT.
read more...26.1 percent more sales, 177 percent better result
Lapp closed the 2020/21 financial year (October 1 to September 30) with exceptionally strong growth. Turnover increased by 26.1 percent to 1,423 million euros.
read more...Production expected to increase by 14 percent
"The machine tool industry has a good chance of having a successful year in 2022,"said Franz-Xaver Bernhard, Chairman of the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association) at the association's annual press conference in Frankfurt am Main.
read more...Significant rise in IT crime in 2021
The number of cyberattacks has risen rapidly in 2021. With the growing networking and integration of software, operational technology (OT) is also increasingly becoming the focus of attackers.
read more...Networked assistance system for manual assembly
At Productronica in Munich, Bott and Elabo presented an Avero production line on which LED lights were assembled live to demonstrate efficient processes for the digitalization of manual assembly.
read more...All good ...
... 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...Efficiency through optimization
Axel Grigoleit, Key Market Manager Machine Tools at Hawe Hydraulik, talks about digitalization and miniaturization in hydraulics as well as technical progress in the industry.
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