Open source: best friend or worst enemy?
Developed with the idea of open collaboration in sectors such as education, e-commerce, healthcare and production, open source software (OSS) has become an integral part of software development.
read more...read more...Interview about HANNOVER MESSE 2023
"Where there are risks, there are also opportunities"
HANNOVER MESSE is startingthis year in a difficult economic environment . Annina Schopen and Andreas Mühlbauer spoke with Hubertus von Monschaw, Global Director Trade Fair and Product Management HANNOVER MESSE and Basilios Triantafillos, Global Director HANNOVER MESSE, Energy, ComVac & Global Business and Markets about the importance of the trade fair in this situation and about the trends in the industry in 2023.
read more...Printing and appliqué in one step
Good legibility and permanent marking are of the utmost importance for industrial marking. At the same time, it is considered time-consuming and laborious to assemble the individual markers, especially when many conductors and cables need to be labeled.
read more...SaaS as the future of digitalization
Customers increasingly expect intelligent, networked and integrated products. As a result, these products and the processes for their development and manufacture are becoming increasingly complex. Product and production complexity is becoming an integral part of the way companies function and collaborate - between departments as well as with customers, suppliers and partners.
read more...Robot assistance of tomorrow
The RobIn4LeMi project aims to support physically impaired people with the help of robots and thus enable them to participate in working life.
read more...Resource-saving plastics processing
Efficient all the way to the cloud
PC-based control, the PC- and Ethercat-based control and drive technology from Beckhoff, offers the potential to make machines and systems for the plastics processing industry work more sustainably.
read more...Materials for printed LED displays
Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in the Potsdam Science Park at Lopec 2023 in Munich showed what is already technologically possible in the field of printed electronics.
read more...31 percent more sales, 10 percent more employees
Despite geopolitical and economic challenges, the Lapp Group once again closed the past 2021/2022 financial year (October 1 to September 30) successfully.
read more...Energy efficiency needs electrical engineering and IT
The energy crisis makes one thing clear: it is not enough to simply screw a photovoltaic system onto your roof or purchase green electricity. Industry is faced with the challenge of reducing consumption in order to counter the rise in energy prices, reduce itscarbon footprint and at the same time be prepared for taxonomies imposed by investors and/or politicians. Hannover Messe offers solutions to these challenges.
read more...KraussMaffei cuts several hundred jobs
Several hundred jobs are to be cut in non-production areas at the Munich-based mechanical engineering group KraussMaffei. There are no plans to cut jobs in production and assembly. The details are still being negotiated with the works council.
read more...