Restructuring at Schaeffler
Schaeffler AG has sold the Barden plant in Plymouth. The Group also acquired the company Xtronic. In addition, two new members were elected to the Supervisory Board at the Annual General Meeting.
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Schaeffler AG has sold the Barden plant in Plymouth. The Group also acquired the company Xtronic. In addition, two new members were elected to the Supervisory Board at the Annual General Meeting.

Kuka has relaunched its best-selling KR Quantec product series to date. The first deliveries are scheduled for April 2019.

Hardware and software for automotive
Nikola Motor Company presents the hydrogen-powered Nikola Two truck for the first time. Bosch has supplied numerous innovations for this development collaboration to power the fuel cell truck and equip it with modern features.
Software for post-process measuring systems
Blum-Novotest is focusing on its new M4P measurement and evaluation software at the Control trade fair. The software was specially developed for the company's post-process measuring systems.

Together with Rinspeed, Kuka, innogy, SAP and MHP, Harting has presented intelligent connectivity with solution packages for Cloud, Edge and IIoT.
At the Control trade fair, Gleason will be presenting two analysis systems designed to open up new possibilities for gear testing: the 300GMSL multi-sensor gear testing system and the GRSL double flank gear tester with integrated laser technology.
The highest demands are placed on surface inspection in the automotive sector. The requirements for inspection are correspondingly complex. Quality assurance with automatic optical in-line inspection, such as from Isra Vision, is recommended here.

Vision sensors now even more flexible
The Visor series from manufacturer Sensopart has been given a makeover: With their slim metal housing, improved lighting and new functions such as aiming laser and motorized focus, the vision sensors can now be used even more flexibly and are easy to operate.
For the "OT meets IT" congress, we were able to win Wolfgang Dorst as a keynote speaker. He is an expert on Industry 4.0 and co-founder of the Labs Network Industry 4.0 e.V. and the Industry 4.0 association platform.

The newly developed Movikit Robotics is a standardized software module for the modular automation system Movi-C from SEW. It enables the universal control of serial and parallel robot kinematics.