Safety on flexible production lines
The new F3SG-SR light curtain series from Omron offers finger, hand, arm, leg and body protection, from machine openings to the outside of equipment.
read more...read more...Trade fairs for process and factory automation: New dates
In 2020, Meorga will once again be organizing an MSR specialist trade fair for process and factory automation for each of the economic regions of Rhine-Main, Rhineland, Southwest and Rhine-Ruhr.
read more...Daily attacks with ransomware
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...Additive manufacturing in modern production
For the fifth time, everything at Formnext revolves around additive manufacturing. Even in the run-up to the trade fair, everything is set for growth: more exhibitors, more space and a variety of special topics.
read more...Minimal downtimes in the event of a fault
Baumüller has integrated an individually and safely parameterizable delay time into its new safety modules - for increased machine availability.
read more...The right hand for lightweight robots
Gripping, moving, depositing - all this is unthinkable in automated processes without the right gripper. The vacuum specialist Schmalz therefore develops flexible systems and supports the user in selecting and configuring the right components: a challenge because the number of variants is constantly increasing and batch sizes are converging towards one.
read more...Fully automatic HSC hard machining
Although complex injection moulding tools are often individual items, consistent standardization of workflows and automation of machining processes in conjunction with the right machine can achieve both quality and cost benefits.
read more...Festo supports GAIA-X
At the Digital Summit on October 28 and 29, the Federal Ministry of Economics presented the GAIA-X project to build a networked, open data infrastructure as the "cradle of an open, digital AI ecosystem". Festo is supporting the development of such a data infrastructure for Europe.
read more...Partnership: T-Systems and Siemens
Driving forward the digitalization of German industry
T-Systems and Siemens announced a new partnership for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) at Digital X 2019 in Cologne.
read more...ERP system for networked production
Control all internal processes
The demand for concepts for digitizing production processes in mechanical engineering has increased noticeably in recent years. Wedderhoff IT offers a solution with the ERP system Wias Enterprise.
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