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Efficient product development is crucial to increasing a company's profits. This is because time-to-market has a direct impact on a company's profitability. The increasing maturity of digital technologies now gives manufacturing companies the opportunity to significantly shorten this time.
read more...Artificial intelligence is already much more common today than it seems. This is because the use of AI is rarely visible. It usually takes place in the background - and increasingly so.
read more...Smart products made from tribo-polymers
To enable predictive maintenance, Igus has developed various sensors and monitoring modules for energy chains, cables, plain, linear and rotary table bearings with its Smart Plastics products. By networking with the icom.plus module, the data is integrated into the customer's IT system.
read more...Interview: Trends in Industry 4.0
Automation, digitalization, artificial intelligence, visual computing - how can these trend topics be classified correctly? And how can old machines be integrated into production networks? Andrea Gillhuber spoke about this with Mario Klug, Senior Manager Product Marketing Boards at Rutronik.
read more...Electric gripper for bottle handling
Industry 4.0 opens up a wide range of possibilities for manufacturing customized mass products flexibly and economically. The Zimmer Group participated in a project for an automation concept for customized beverage bottles by developing a gripper.
read more...Similar to the IoT, data security is also immensely important in the IIoT. However, hacker attacks in the industrial environment can have much more serious consequences than in the consumer environment.
read more...The new trade fair for maintenance and services, right at the heart of the market - in the center of German mechanical and plant engineering, is scheduled for the first time from 23 to 24 October 2019 at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre. The organizer is Messe Stuttgart.
read more...The analysis of industrial process data makes optimization potentials visible and can contribute to increasing the company's success.
read more...A compact Industry 4.0 solution package for azimuth drives for wind turbines is the result of a long-term development partnership between Bonfiglioli and Schaeffler.
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