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Paddy Francis is CTO of Airbus CyberSecurity. Andreas Mühlbauer spoke to him about the threats posed to industrial companies by cyber attacks, the security of cloud systems and the possibilities and chances of success of defense strategies.
read more...Mosca has launched a new version of the KOV-111-16 including a high-performance unit. The strapping unit has a tensile force of up to 7,000 newtons and enables the use of 19 millimetre strapping with a thickness of up to 1.3 millimetres.
read more...Sustainable alternative drives
The irregular availability of renewable energies requires new energy sources and electricity storage technologies. Schaeffler has recognized the enormous potential of hydrogen technology as an energy source of the future and has developed key components for fuel cells and fuel cell stacks, so-called metallic bipolar plates.
read more...The major cloud providers have now also recognized that a large proportion of IT will not be located in data centers in the future. However, the promise of end-to-end edge-to-cloud environments will only be fulfilled if a convergence of industrial and information technology is established at the edge.
read more...Halcon from MVTec Software can capture and process images from MIPI camera modules as standard. This means that the standard machine vision software is equipped for new developments in the embedded vision environment.
read more...Conveyor technology in use at glass...
Bottles, packaging glass, hexagonal glass, wire hanger glass or various special glasses: Noelle + von Campe has more than 600 glass shapes in its range. Since the 1990s, the company has been expanding its production and logistics lines with innovative conveyor technology and has fully automated manual processes. The company relies on over 60 years of experience from HaRo Anlagen- und Fördertechnik.
read more...Crate.io, developer and provider of CrateDB, which is optimized for use in IIoT environments, has introduced version 4.0 of the database. The new release supports more SQL functions and PostgreSQL tools than its predecessor and offers new options for working with time series.
read more...Rutronik offers the ultra-low-power multiprotocol module MS88SF2 from Minew. It is based on the short-range radio microcontroller SoC nRF52840 from Nordic. The module can be operated with the Bluetooth 5.0, ZigBee 3.0, Thread and ANT radio protocols as well as with proprietary 2.4 GHz stacks.
read more...Composite materials, components - Materials
The Fraunhofer Group for Materials and Components has a new chairman: Professor Peter Gumbsch, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, takes office today. Professor Bernd Mayer will continue in his position as Deputy Chairman.
read more...The R7100 PID controller from Elotech also offers data logger functions, graphical display of curves and a multifunctional display interface.
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