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From product to solution provider
Customers are not looking for products, but for solutions to their problems. For companies, this means that they have to transform themselves from product providers to solution providers. Science divides this path into five evolutionary stages, whereby many companies have already left the first stage of pure manufacturer behind them.
read more...Packaging, filling or palletizing food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products - safety technology is required at every step of the packaging process to reliably protect people, machines and processes from hazards and malfunctions.
read more...At AMB 2022, Euchner will be showcasing its latest safety solutions that can communicate in an Industry 4.0-capable manner. Product highlights include the new compact CTS guard locking and the flexible all-rounder in the field of key systems: the new CKS2 for machines and systems.
read more...Single Pair Ethernet is the technology that enables migration from various legacy networks to a universal physical layer. This is a further step towards making data available from the individual edge sensor through production to the desktop or laptop.
read more...Increasing energy efficiency is an important prerequisite for the success of the energy transition. The increased use of direct current can make a major contribution to this. An energy grid designed for direct current would achieve an overall efficiency of 90 % - compared to 56 % today.
read more...Reliable communication that leads to secure data exchange between Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) is the backbone of digitalization.
read more...For a manufacturer of lift tables, the collaboration with Blickle has paid off in full. The wheel and castor specialist supplied castor solutions with the ErgoMove electric drive system.
read more...A cost-effective system also enables small and medium-sized companies to switch to automated loading of machine tools.
read more...The digital future has long since begun in mechanical and plant engineering. ASi-5 as a standardized fieldbus for the first level of automation and IO-Link as a fieldbus-independent interface for communication at field level are technologies that can be used to network sensors, actuators and control systems intelligently and efficiently.
read more...Reliable data communication with high data rates and deterministic time behavior is one of the prerequisites for production in accordance with the principles of Industry 4.0.
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