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25 years iTAC: A pioneer of microservice-based automation
iTAC Software AG is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. In 2021, the iTAC.MOM.Suite became its core product, a holistic, flexible manufacturing management system with functions for controlling, optimizing and forecasting production...
ERP, PLM, MES And CRM – New Perspective With Pyramid?
A response to the theses of Jörg W. Fischer Prof. Jörg W. Fischer has dealt intensively with the current development of automation and has formulated very valuable theses in two articles that build on each other, on what effects this development...
“In PLM, Too, The Future Lies In The Cloud,” Says Frank Patz-Brockmann
A conversation with Frank Patz-Brockmann, Director Software Development, Contact Software. After the official launch of the CIM Database Cloud, I was able to have a conversation with Frank Patz-Brockmann, Director Software Development at Contact...
EF|A Eplan Forum for Automated Engineering Attracts Great Interest
On September 21 and 22, EF|A will take place in Düsseldorf and online. Modularization, standardization and automation - these are the topics again this year. The enormous pressure to act in mechanical and plant engineering explains a high number of...
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Composable Software – Renaissance of Industrial Software
Unless everything is deceptive, we are currently experiencing a veritable renaissance of industrial software. The buzzword is “composable”. Web services encapsulated in containers are now also the answer in industry to the great challenge: software development as an innovation driver and core competence. That’s what this series is all about.
New background series: Interviews on 40+ years of CAD
For almost half a century, CAD has been an important and often driving element in industrial digitalization. What will it be in the future? And what does the acronym mean for the suppliers still active in this market? Look forward to the experts’ answers. First up are those from Siemens and PTC.
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Internet of Production (IoP)
Due to an increasingly dynamic environment, companies are facing numerous challenges, such as the micro-segmentation of markets and ever shorter product life cycles. One way to address these challenges is to sustainably increase their innovative strength.
The »Smart Factory 4.0« Demonstration Cell
The way to Industrie 4.0 involves the trial, testing and skilful combination of novel methods, concepts and technologies. To this end Fraunhofer IPK has developed the »Smart Factory 4.0« demonstration cell which uses batch size 1 production to make the modes …
Enabling System Lifecycle Management through neutral data interfaces
The complexity of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementations has already reached an unpleasantly high level, and the rise of complexity of products and their development will probably accelerate further. By establishing System Lifecycle Management (SysLM) as the next level PLM …
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PLM, Digitalization, IoT, …
Composable Software – Renaissance of Industry Software
German Edge Cloud – Composable Software in Practice
2021, German Edge Cloud (GEC), the merger of three start-ups, became a Friedhelm Loh Group company. From the beginning, GEC was a member of the Gaia-X and Catena-X consortia and is actively involved in important lighthouse projects of the Industrie 4.0 platform and...
Siemens Is Excited About Technology Disruption – Embracing And Driving It Forward
Siemens Digital Industries Software is one of the few vendors of industrial software, who covers the management of most of the core processes in discrete manufacturing and process industry. Like most software, in the past this has been monolithic software. In 2019,...
PLM Service Provider ECS With New Services as “Composable Software”
ECS Engineering, Consulting & Solutions in Neumarkt, Bavaria, has been a successful IT consulting and solutions provider in the industry for many years. One of its specialties is integration solutions that enable customers to derive additional benefits from their...
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