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Growing Ecosystem Shows The Potential Of ctrlX OS
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...
KEBA Industrial Automation: Complete Solution As An Open Platform
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...
TTTech Industrial At SPS 2024: Cybersecurity In Production With Nerve
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...
NERVE From TTTech Industrial – Secure IIoT Basis For Industry
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 2024: 12 – 14. November, Nuremberg Exhibition Centre
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...
Fall Of The Wall Between OT And IT
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...
Typical Automation Company, Atypical Solution: SALZ Automation
Interview with Managing Director Dr Thomas Holm SALZ Controller is an open, Linux-based and hardware-independent automation platform. Founded in 2021, the start-up SALZ Automation also offers complete solutions including control cabinet, relay, controller and power supply from a single source. Industrie-Digitalisierung spoke to one of the two...
EPLAN Forum 2024 – September 25 / 26
The worldwide expert exchange EPLAN Forum (previously EF|A) will take place as a hybrid event again in Cologne, this year on September 25 and 26. Topics include: Automated engineering, machine cabling and ERP and PDM integration.Solution provider EPLAN welcomed over 300 guests on site and online last year. The EPLAN Forum 2024 invites interested...
ONCITE DPS Track & Trace From GEC Available at Cofinity-X
The ONCITE DPS Track & Trace application from German Edge Cloud (GEC) is now available on the Cofinity-X marketplace. The solution offers manufacturing companies in the automotive industry improved transparency, efficiency and traceability. ONCITE DPS is Catena-X certified and meets the high standards of the ecosystem."The automotive industry...
TTTech Industrial With Its Own Page On Smart Automation
TTTech Industrial has released another supplier page for the Smart Automation market overview. With an architecture graphic for the NERVE platform, a wealth of detailed information on specific functions and explanations of the key aspects of the graphic.It is becoming increasingly clear what added value such additional pages from the individual...
German Edge Cloud With Its Own Provider Page On Smart Automation
Now German Edge Cloud (GEC) and its ONCITE Digital Production System (DPS) are also represented with their own exclusive special page in the Smart Automation market overview. It is well worth a visit. The special page does what a general listing and brief information on providers and solutions cannot do.In addition to the free listing and...
OT versus IT? No. Composable versus monoliths!
The terms Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) stood for strictly separate worlds in the manufacturing industry. Then there was the theory that there would be a convergence. Most recently, there was even talk of a merger. Instead, something else is probably happening: the terms are becoming obsolete. This is because...
Hidden Champion SCANLAB: ERP/PLM In A Double Pack
Bluestar PLM in Microsoft Dynamics F&SCM SCANLAB invited to its modern, rapidly growing headquarters in Puchheim near Munich to talk about the implementation of Bluestar PLM, which was a successful project, where the team together with Microsoft- and Bluestar PLM-partner Be-Terna needed less than two years from system selection to go-live....
Smart Automation Market Overview: Bosch Rexroth With Supplier Page
Just a few weeks after the go-live of the Smart Automation market overview in mid-April, Bosch Rexroth launched a dedicated subpage. Expert discussions are being held from Industrie-Digitalisierung with all providers in order to work out the special features of their platform strategies. The market overview has obviously come at the right time....
Prof. August Wilhelm Scheer: The Trend Is Towards Platforms
On June 6, Scheer Network hosted a roundtable in Munich with Prof. August Wilhelm Scheer entitled "Digital transformation: What is the outcome for your company?" Scheer's answer, briefly summarized: Platform thinking and the composable enterprise. Entrepreneurs need to have a strategic view of challenges and possible solutions and be able to...