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This year, everything at Rutronik's trade fair stands will revolve around the Internet of Things (IoT), security and sensing. According to the company, Rutronik Embeded offers visitors system concepts ranging from networked sensor nodes to gateways and enterprise solutions.
read more...In addition to strict regulatory requirements and high quality standards, increasing digitalization, the required productivity and the reduction of operating costs over the entire life cycle are playing an increasingly important role.
read more...Interview with Werner Rieche, Software AG
The Internet of Things (IoT) is already playing an important role in manufacturing today. Predictive maintenance is just one of many applications based on it. This requires many components to communicate with each other. Werner Rieche, Managing Director of Software AG Germany, explains in an interview why the IoT is becoming increasingly important for smaller companies too, what requirements a company needs to fulfill in order to set up an IoT infrastructure and where the advantages of the new solutions lie.
read more...Unitronic is presenting its latest Sensor2Cloud product portfolio and demonstrators at Embedded World. The focus will be on an energy harvesting board with solar panels, IoT smart parking sensors, OBD-II modules, IoT modules and new wireless modules.
read more...Image processing is one of the key technologies for automation in logistics. At Logimat, Framos is focusing on measurement, classification and sorting intelligence and will be showcasing a new generation of cognitive systems and specific logistics applications with Intel Realsense technology.
read more...Researchers in Lemgo provide the impetus for a new standard in food quality assurance: Continuous, predictive monitoring using cyber-physical systems and Big Data.
read more...Motion control for micro-assembly
Micro-screwing processes in the micro-assembly of cell phones or hearing aids - with fast cycle times and integrated feeding - place the highest demands on automated screwdriving systems.
read more...Konica Minolta opened the Digital Manufacturing Hub at its Darmstadt site today, February 1, 2018 - it is the global headquarters of the newly created Digital Manufacturing Business Unit. From here, SMEs in particular will be advised and supported in the digitalization of their production.
read more...The multifunctional gripper from Roteg is equipped with numerous sensors and enables multifunctional handling of different packages. The palletized goods consist of differently shaped containers and require differentiated handling technology.
read more...Two all-about-automation trade fairs are scheduled for the beginning of 2018: on January 24 and 25 in Hamburg and on March 7 and 8 in Friedrichshafen.
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