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In the course of digitalization, there is rightly a lot of talk about cybersecurity. But safety technologies have also made great progress with this development. Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Lumme, Product Manager Extreme at Steute Technologies, explains these developments in an interview with Andreas Mühlbauer.
read more...In order to digitalize a company holistically, it is fundamental to network the office level with the production level. The challenge lies in linking the individual systems.
read more...High-resolution 3D stereo camera systems with up to 12 megapixel sensors and an integrated projector enable new Industry 4.0 applications.
read more...More intelligent, more efficient, easier to operate - robots are developing rapidly. Among other things, great care is required when setting them up and operating them in order to avoid cost-intensive downtimes. Robot simulation tools are increasingly being used to support this.
read more...Replique, provider of a 3D printing platform that makes OEMs' parts management more efficient and sustainable, is using Formnext to launch RSure, an innovative quality tracking module that enables OEMs to directly track each of their 3D printed parts and ensure that parts meet the necessary quality requirements.
read more...Baumüller relies on OPC UA as an interface for the transfer of data between different participants, such as visualization or edge controllers, and has developed the ProDataX software tool for communication via the control technology to the drive level.
read more...The new Eplan platform 2023 simplifies and accelerates project planning with new cloud-based article management and multi-standard support for circuit diagram macros. This allows users to achieve results faster, especially in international projects, thanks to simplified article data management.
read more...Advanced robotics applications
Artia is a prototype developed jointly by ArtiMinds Robotics and Siemens that connects the ArtiMinds Robot Programming Suite and Simatic Step 7. The aim of the software connector is to minimize the effort involved in implementing advanced robotics applications by automatically creating a communication interface between the robot controller and the PLC.
read more...At Formnext, Arburg will be showcasing the new Freeformer 750-3X, whose installation space is around 2.5 times larger than that of the Freeformer 300-3X, which will also be presented in Frankfurt.
read more...At the end of the 2021/22 financial year on June 30, 2022, the Trumpf Group recorded the highest turnover in the company's 99-year history with a strong increase in turnover of 20.5 percent to 4.2 billion euros.
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