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SPS 2025: Open Automation On The Rise
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 (CRA) is also a real boost for open platforms. SPS has grown again. 1,175 exhibitors...
Eplan Platform 2026 – Tailored To The User
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 Customer Journey (Foto Eplan).Jan Fleming, VP Customer Journey at Eplan, summarizes the...
ctrlX AUTOMATION: On The Right Track In Difficult Times
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 operating system ctrlX OS and ctrlX CORE to apps, soft safety and specific AI...
Is The Industrial Location Missing Its Chance?
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 background series Composable Software). At the moment, this seems to me to be the most important...
Eplan Forum 2025 On September 23 And 24, Live In Cologne And Hybrid
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 from Europe will share their best practices. Visitors can be inspired by...
iTAC And Red Hat Agree On Strategic Technology Partnership
In a press release dated July 23, 2025, iTAC Software AG announced a strategic technology partnership with Red Hat. The aim is to create a future-proof, modular platform for production management based on the iTAC.MOM.Suite and the Red Hat Advanced Compute Platform, based on OpenShift - operable from edge to on-premises environments to the cloud....
Weidmüller Expands u-OS With Data Hub
u-OS is Weidmüller's open, Linux-based operating system. It allows users to run their own automation apps or those created by third parties. Weidmüller is now adding the Data Hub to the u-OS operating system. The Data Hub, which is fully integrated into the operating system from version 2.2.0, makes it easier to use data transparently between...
Cognibotics With Software For Open Automation Platforms
Open, Linux-based automation platforms create space for innovation. A good example is provided by the young Swedish company Cognibotics, which is presenting its brand-new Juliet&Romeo software at two booths of partners at automatica 2025: Bosch Rexroth and KEBA. Openness and the use of standards make it possible to focus on core expertise...
Open, Linux-based Smart Automation: User Survey
Open, Linux-based platforms for automation have been available for years. But the public is still not very aware of the advantages in use. Users have not yet been asked about this. The news portal Industrie-Digitalisierung wants to change that. With your help! The Smart Automation market overview has been around for a year and is currently in its...
NOA: A Toolbox For Flexible, Digital Automation
KEB Automation is a successful supplier of automation technology. Karl Ernst Brinkmann founded the company in 1972 with six employees to develop, produce and sell brakes and clutches. Today, KEB Automation is a globally active company with 1,400 employees, 1,000 of them in Germany. The product range covers all elements of automation, including...
Cideon Solution Days June 3 and 4, 2025 in Düsseldorf
Cideon invites you to the Cideon Solutions Days under the motto "Forging the future: Innovation sparks for digital engineering" on June 3 and 4 in Düsseldorf. A varied programme with presentations, workshops and plenty of networking will address the latest trends in engineering, product development and digitalization.Visitors can once again...
Eplan Copilot: AI agent equipped with specialist expertise and standard data
At Hanover Fair 2025, Eplan demonstrated online the possibilities offered by its new Eplan Copilot for the automation of control cabinet development. Industrial AI, made in Germany, helps to achieve results in seconds that would normally take days or weeks. For AI, Eplan and its team led by Marcus Reitz, Head of Data Science Services, rely on...
Convergence Of OT And IT Changes Cybersecurity Needs
The previous strict separation of IT (information technology) and OT (operational technology) is coming to an end. OT is opening up its paths to the internet, cloud and AI via Linux. This increases the risk of cyberattacks on the one hand, but also opens up new doors for cybersecurity on the other. But one thing is clear: all companies must now...
ctrlX OS from Bosch Rexroth Ready for Cyber Resilience Act
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) came into force across Europe in December 2024. By the end of 2027 at the latest, companies must be able to prove that their digital products are fully secure. According to the manufacturer's press release dated March 18, 2025, Bosch Rexroth's ctrlX OS operating system is already equipped to meet the requirements of...
ONCITE DPS from German Edge Cloud makes Koller Kunststofftechnik Catena-X-ready
Under the old and new CEO Dieter Meuser, German Edge Cloud shows that its management buy-out on November 1, 2024 was a good decision. The potential of the Linux-based ONCITE DPS platform can be realized quickly, as the customer example of Koller Kunststofftechnik shows.View of production (Photo: Koller Kunststofftechnik)As a manufacturer of...