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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...
Smart Automation Market Overview: Online With A Link To Providers
The Smart Automation market overview has been available since mid-April. It is an online market overview that is alive and developing. It now offers direct contact to the listed providers. And the first subpages of individual platform manufacturers will be added shortly.Market overviews are an important companion to the development of new...
The X Factor In Smart Automation
An encouraging article in the FAZ Stephan Finsterbusch published an article entitled "The X-Factor" in the FAZ on April 23, 2014, on the Hannover Messe. The article is encouraging when looking at Germany as an industrial location. It shows where our industry - the big names as well as the hidden champions - not only has the future in its sights....
“The Platform Must Be Really Open”
Open source in manufacturing with FLECS Interview with FLECS Technologies Managing Director Samuel Greising FLECS Technologies, manufacturer of the Linux-based automation platform FLECS, (- one of the platforms in the Smart Automation Market Overview -) was founded in 2021 and is based in Kempten, Germany. The founders and managing...
Encouraging Start For Smart Automation With Great Potential
This start was not to be expected: the day after the online launch with nine providers of open automation platforms, three further registrations were received. Now there are already 12 providers of currently 13 platforms represented in a Smart Automation Market Overview. With a direct comparison of important features in tables. Now it's time to...
EPLAN In Hanover With Preview Of eVIEW AR
The use of augmented reality (AR) has long been known in the field of mechanical engineering. Now EPLAN also offers this option for components installed in enclosures, including access to electrical engineering documentation - for tablet and smartphone. As a preview on Hanover Fair. The real enclosure is overlaid with its digital twin. In future,...
prostep ivip Symposium: Good Communication Remains In Demand
Now in its 31st year, the prostep ivip Symposium has lost none of its appeal. With 665 participants in Munich on April 10 and 11, there were again slightly more than last year in Stuttgart. However, the large growth figures from before the pandemic were not reached. The motto: "Digital Engineering - Ready For Seemless Collaboration". Meetings and...
Smart Automation Platforms At A Click
Smart Automation is online. Nine providers of 10 open, Linux-based app platforms in industrial automation are available here for the first time with brief information at the click of a mouse. They are also directly compared with each other in key aspects in a market overview. And from now on, the providers can also highlight the special features...
Rittal, Eplan, Cideon, GEC: Joint Booth With Open Platform
Two years ago, the companies of the Friedhelm Loh Group presented the ONCITE Digital Production System (DPS) platform from German Edge Cloud (GEC) for the first time in Hanover. Now, for the third time at their joint booth at the Hanover Fair, the companies are demonstrating the role that combined hardware and software development can play in...