SPS 2025: Open Automation On The Rise

Dec 1, 2025 | News, Smart Automation Platforms

Open Linux-based automation platforms gained even more prominence at this year’s SPS trade fair in Nuremberg. Numerous developments and entire trade fair presentations, including press conferences, suggest that the imminent enactment of the Cyber Resilience Act...

Eplan Platform 2026 – Tailored To The User

Oct 14, 2025 | News

Eplan has launched the new Eplan Platform 2026: a fundamental revision of all products and a portfolio that is more tailored to the user and his needs. And some previously optional extensions are now standard in some expansion stages. Jan Fleming, Vizepräsident...

ctrlX AUTOMATION: On The Right Track In Difficult Times

Oct 8, 2025 | News, Smart Automation Platforms

The 7th trade press conference on the open, Linux-based ctrlX AUTOMATION platform from Bosch Rexroth made it clear that the right strategies are the basis for visible success, even and perhaps especially in economically and politically difficult times. From the...

Is The Industrial Location Missing Its Chance?

Sep 9, 2025 | News, Smart Automation Platforms

The “Composable Software” background series is now complete. With an article in which I focus on the great opportunity that the Smart Automation platforms from Germany and Austria offer the industrial location of Germany and D,A,CH (final article in...

Eplan Forum 2025 On September 23 And 24, Live In Cologne And Hybrid

Sep 8, 2025 | News

As in previous years, Eplan invites you to the Eplan Forum on 23 and 24 September, which is once again organized as a hybrid event. The international event is an industry get-together with a focus on digitalization and automation in engineering. Renowned companies...