
Electrically powered eye-catcher
At Hannover Messe 2023, Contact Software is making the benefits of digitalization tangible with its Elements low-code platform: an electric formula racing car, its digital twin and a racetrack simulation.
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At Hannover Messe 2023, Contact Software is making the benefits of digitalization tangible with its Elements low-code platform: an electric formula racing car, its digital twin and a racetrack simulation.
Future-proof OT network solutions are the basis for advancing digitalization in industry. High-performance industrial Ethernet switches with a large number of ports, high data rates and extensive functions are required to ensure reliable and secure data exchange between the OT and IT network worlds.

Industry 4.0 and Intralogistics 4.0. are changing the production environment and thus have an impact on AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) and AMRs (Autonomous Mobile Robots). In order to allow the industry to follow the trends with fast, cost-efficient development, Markus Fenn and Prof. Dr. Stefan May have developed Eduard, a teaching and prototyping platform that can be used to map the current trends. Markus Fenn talks about this in an interview with Andreas Mühlbauer.
Sensors with IO-Link for extruders

38 nominees competed in six categories for the INDUSTRIAL Production Product of the Year 2023. The winners were awarded on the evening of March 30, 2023.


clipx Engineer, the engineering software from Phoenix Contact, is the software for control cabinet construction that optimizes data consistency from the circuit diagram to the control cabinet.

At embedded world, Voice Inter connect presented a kit developed in-house for industrial voice control and intercom modules for crystal-clear hands-free communication, even in noisy environments.

Systems and customized solutions
At embedded world 2023, the Hy-Line Group presented innovations and systems through to complete customer-specific solutions with hardware and software development.
Claus Bischoff will become the new CTO of the global automation specialist Lenze on May 1. He succeeds Dipl.-Ing. Frank Maier, who is leaving the company on April 30 after 14 years on the Executive Board and 18 years with the company.