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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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...