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Trade fairs are to take place again in the fall. This was only recently decided by politicians. But there is still a great deal of uncertainty among companies and people. This is shown by the exhibitor survey conducted by Messe Stuttgart.
read more..."I didn't even see her coming, suddenly she was standing there, tall as a giant. She said: 'Hello, hello, my name is Krise!" This is how Krise introduces herself in Max Raabe's song of the same name before she moves in with him.
read more...Editorial Drive and fluid technology
Who would have thought at the beginning of March that a few weeks later, many production facilities would be running on the back burner or shut down completely? The VDMA conducted a survey of almost 1,000 of its members, according to which the vast majority of manufacturing companies were suffering from massive restrictions at the end of March.
read more...On March 26, the impact of the coronavirus and the resulting Covid-19 disease on the industry and our professional lives became very clear once again ...
read more...Germany's economy is weakening. The culprits were also quickly found: US President Donald Trump and the British with their Brexit rollercoaster. Trump's (Twitter) gaffes have certainly caused a lot of global political and economic damage.
read more...When I started working for "Elektronik", the trade journal for electronics developers and industrial users, in 2008, the industry was discussing cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things.
read more...A craftsman categorically rules out working for a certain professional group. The reason: poor payment ethics and know-it-all attitude. A call for more acceptance.
read more...In 2010, I had a conversation with Christian Wolf, Managing Director of Turck, about the enormous growth of the automation specialist at the time: shortly after the 2008/2009 crisis, in which the company had to cope with a 30 percent slump, turnover grew at an above-average rate.
read more...Last year, the German mechanical and plant engineering industry reported double-digit growth in some sectors, and the VDMA has also issued a good sales forecast for the current year 2018.
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