A dream becomes reality
Lapp employee Désiré Kope comes from the African country of Ivory Coast. He saved his earnings for years to found a school in his home country. The inauguration took place in October 2019.
read more...read more...Five finalists for Kuka Innovation Award 2020
Research teams from all over the world applied for the Kuka "Medical Robotics Challenge". These five teams made it to the final of the 7th Kuka Innovation Award.
read more...New location, new DACH Managing Director
The Austrian location of manufacturing software specialist Coscom Computer has the newest member of the DACH management team, Christian Erlinger, and has already moved to a new, larger branch at the end of the year.
read more...Digitalization and Industry 4.0
Schaeffler: World of education for junior staff
With an investment of almost six million euros and a fundamentally new concept, Schaeffler has created a state-of-the-art training environment at the Schweinfurt site that prepares junior staff for the challenges of digitalization and Industry 4.0 in addition to the traditional training content.
read more...Ziehl-Abegg with new Chief Financial Officer
Olaf Kanig has been appointed Commercial Director at motor and fan manufacturer Ziehl-Abegg in Hohenlohe. The 45-year-old industrial engineering graduate comes from a large automotive supplier.
read more...Clamping, screwing and closing
AMF with declining turnover in 2019
After six record years in a row, the annual turnover of Andreas Maier GmbH & Co. KG (AMF) fell slightly again for the first time in 2019. At 47.3 million euros, the specialist for clamping, screwing and fastening recorded a decline of just under 5.5 percent.
read more...Pupils develop vending machines
Five students from Heubach have developed a machine specifically for packaged spices together with engineers and trainees from EMAG LaserTec GmbH.
read more...Human resources in the industry
Interview: Taking the employee with you
The industry is facing various challenges. But what do digitalization and the shortage of skilled workers mean for human resources? In an interview with SCOPE editor-in-chief Andrea Gillhuber, Anette Skau Fischer, Vice President Global Human Resources at Walter, talks about recruiting and employee management in times of digitalization.
read more...Half of German companies use robots
Almost half of German companies are already using robots. This was the result of a representative survey of 1600 European decision-makers conducted by the retailer Reichelt Elektronik. Reducing the workload of employees is an important motive.
read more...Record: 300,000 industrial robots in use in Korea
The number of operational industrial robots in the Republic of Korea rose to a new record of around 300,000 units in 2018 (up ten percent), as reported by the International Federation of Robotics in the World Robotics Report.
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