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The bilingual Smart Automation market overview of open, Linux-based automation platforms, currently 12 manufacturers of 13 platforms, has been available since mid-2024. The first update for 2025 is now online. With two, soon probably three new participants, while two are no longer included, and with new comparison tables. The market is evolving,...

Whether 2025 will be the year of open platforms remains to be seen. In any case, the market overview has received its second version, the first for this year. The Smart Automation Market Overview 2025/1 is online. With a number of new features, and not just in the menu. Two new providers and platforms, one more name will be added soon, two have...

After this year of crises and wars, it is realistic and necessary to proclaim a new dawn for industry in the coming year. Because in the background of the general slump, numerous companies have not only come up with creative ideas, they have also built up a market in just a few years that industry, which is thirsty for innovation, can now rely...

ueCloud and internet access are not required for Weidmueller's new edgeML machine learning solution. Learning algorithms can run directly on the edge. edgeML is manufacturer-independent as a Docker container and can be used on all common industrial controllers, provided they support Docker containers. The solution is particularly suitable for...

I was looking forward to this SPS and was not disappointed. The Linux-based platforms that have been included in the Smart Automation market overview since the spring are playing a growing role across all industries. This can be seen in the increasing number of industrial companies presenting themselves at the SPS with productive use of such...

Managing Director Dieter Meuser took over one hundred percent of German Edge Cloud (GEC) from the Friehelm Loh Group (FLG) in a management buy-out on November 1. Together with his team, he will continue the business activities of the former FLG business unit "Digital Industrial Solutions" in full.The new and former Managing Director Dieter Meuser...

SPS Smart Production Solutions 2024 from November 12-14 in Nuremberg is the most important trade fair for industrial automation. This year, numerous providers of Linux-based platforms will once again be exhibiting, while the discontinuation of Windows versions for industrial PCs is also likely to be a topic of conversation in the halls. This will...

Interview with Steffen Winkler, Sales Manager Business Unit Automation & Electrification Solutions, Bosch Rexroth ctrlX AUTOMATION is an open, Linux-based automation platform with ctrlX OS as a real-time capable operating system, the ctrlX OS Store with currently more than 80 apps in 16 main categories, and the partner network ctrlX World...

Interview with Andreas Zerfas, CTO of GEC In 2022, German Edge Cloud (GEC) was one of the first providers of cloud-native software in an area previously served by monolithic solutions for MES and ERP: the smart factory, with its ONCITE Digital Production System (DPS) production platform. Two years later, a veritable market of open, Linux-based...

6th Bosch Rexroth trade press conference on ctrlX AUTOMATION at Bosch Blaichach Bosch Rexroth presented interesting news and new partners at the sixth ctrlX AUTOMATION trade press conference on September 26. The open, Linux-based automation platform is growing through extensive further developments by the manufacturer, but also through partners...

Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Linz, Austria, KEBA operates as an automation specialist in various fields. At KEBA Industrial Automation, hardware and software solutions for industrial automation, for example for robotics and the plastics industry, are the main business. KEBA Handover Automation specializes in solutions for contactless...

At SPS 2024 in Nuremberg, Germany, TTTech Industrial will once again focus on secure IIoT solutions with the open automation platform Nerve at its booth #230 in hall 5. With MVTech and 40Factory, two new partners of the ecosystem will be introduced. In 2023, TTTech Industrial became one of the first Austrian companies to be certified by TÜV...

Interview with Georg Stöger, Director Training and Consulting TTTech Industrial Automation AG has been operating as an independent company since 2019 under the umbrella of TTTech, which was founded in 1998 as a spin-off of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). As a manufacturer and provider of the open edge computing platform NERVE,...

SPS Smart Production Solutions 2024 will take place in Nuremberg from 12 to 14 November. The number of around 1,200 exhibitors announced by the organiser is slightly lower than last year, when the trade fair recorded an increase compared to 2022. According to the organiser, all halls are occupied.The industry's economic difficulties and the...

Operation Technology (OT) was the name given to the software for the shop floor, for production. The software in the offices and in management was called Information Technology (IT). In between stood an invisible yet impenetrable wall. IT could not control any device in real time. OT was not considered part of IT. Now this wall is collapsing. The...