
Maintenance instead of replacement
The circular economy starts with the machinery
Sustainability in industry starts with machines, says our guest author from Deguma: How maintenance, modernization and the 5R strategy save resources, energy and CO₂.
Final preparations are underway in Dortmund: On February 21, 2024, maintenance will start as the leading trade fair for industrial maintenance and with it Pumps&Valves as the trade fair for industrial pumps, fittings and valves.

RS, a provider of product and service solutions for industrial customers, will be demonstrating its end-to-end product offering and its portfolio of value-added solutions at SPS 2023.
The seamless integration of AI into the consumer sector has helped to improve our quality of life and make interactions with technology more efficient. In industry, AI vision with machine learning opens up new possibilities that are not covered by rule-based image processing. Nevertheless, we are still a long way from widespread industrial use of AI methods. Is a rethink necessary?

Companies are dependent on their systems - and should therefore take good care of them. Predictive maintenance is one way of doing this.

Baumüller offers a drive-based software solution to diagnose the machine status. The Smart Condition Monitoring tool runs on the PLC integrated in the drive controllers and uses the drive to record signals. Sebastian Maul, application engineer at Baumüller, presents the predictive maintenance solution.

In 2023, the automation expert Omron can look back on 90 years of innovative company history, in which many technological boundaries have been crossed and milestones set.

The company Lauda Dr. R. Wobser is working together with the Institute for Drive Technology (IAA) at Aalen University on the development of a PHM (Prognostics and Health Management) system for AI-based condition monitoring of temperature control units on automotive test benches.

Development of intelligent connectors
TE Connectivity and Tacterion partner to develop smart solutions for connectors and components.

With the new IO-Link Bluetooth adapter EIO344 and the Bluetooth base station EIO404, ifm offers a solution to provide sensor data wirelessly for IIoT applications without having to intervene in the control technology and lay additional cables.

Edge computing is one of the key technologies in the manufacturing context and ensures that companies are able to leverage their benefits at the interface between IT and OT.