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Rittal Offers New Cabinet Configurator With RiPanel
With RiPanel, individual enclosures and accessories can be configured online and ordered with live price information. Plant planners and designers need also for individual cabinets simple configurators that include accessories, plausibility checks and 3D visualization. Rittal now offers this with RiPanel. Predefined drilling patterns come from...
Rittal ePocket – Digital Circuit Diagram Pocket
The sister companies Eplan and Rittal present Rittal ePocket, a digital circuit diagram folder, on 25.11.21. The new space in the cloud does away with the paper document folder and offers operators, planners, switchgear constructors and maintenance personnel easy access to the always up-to-date data for better collaboration.With the development...
Siemens Simcenter Now Also With NVH Prediction
Siemens Digital Industries Software now offers NVH prediction functions for motor vehicles in Simcenter. NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) behavior concerns the interior and exterior noise of a vehicle, which can be simulated even before physical prototypes are built. The prediction capabilities cover all powertrain types: Hybrid, all-electric...
SPS 2021 Canceled
Nun also doch kein Messetrubel: Die Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH sagt die SPS - Smart Production Solutions, die vom 23.-25.11.2021 in Nürnberg stattfinden sollte, ab. "In addition to the continued rise in infection rates and hospitalization rates, the new 2G Plus regulation and the set caps for events make it impossible to implement the SPS,"...
PROCAD Group acquired by Revalize in Jacksonville
It has taken less than a year for PROCAD, for decades an important software partner for medium-sized industry in Germany under CEO Volker Wawer, together with the new management and the just acquired keytech Solutions and ACATEC Software, to be sold to the next level of investors from the investors in Baden-Württemberg, LEA Partners, who are...
Data Factory NRW At Claas And Schmitz Cargobull
How production in Germany can remain internationally competitive with artificial intelligence is the task of the 'Datenfabrik.NRW' project of the leading-edge cluster it's OWL. It has a total volume of 14.5 million euros and is being funded with 9.2 million euros by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is supported by a consortium formed by...
Cideon Enify as an incident solution in the cloud
With Cideon Enify, Cideon offers medium-sized machine and plant manufacturers a new software solution in the SaaS rental model for incidents. It allows machine builders and operators to visually communicate with each other worldwide in real time. With the new solution, Cideon aims to ensure that faults and malfunctions in the live operation of a...
Since July 2021: SME-Digital Center Ruhr-OWL
On August 26, the Mittelstand Digital initiative, which was launched back in 2012, provided information about the establishment of a Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Ruhr-OWL in July 2021, which will receive 5.9 million euros in funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy until June 2024. Project partners are Fraunhofer...
Industry 4.0 lighthouse project: Tool-Arena from EWS Weigele
Many talk about SMEs lagging behind in terms of digitalization. In Uhingen, a typical representative of SMEs has built an intelligent platform solution on its own initiative that makes the digitally connected future a reality for mechanical engineering and offers the best prospects for global expansion. This earned it an award as a “lighthouse...
Joint Product Configurator From PROCAD And ACATEC
PROCAD has launched its first joint development with recently acquired ACATEC. According to the company, the "PRO.FILE Product Configurator powered by ACATEC" integrates product lifecycle management (PLM) and configure, price, quote (CPQ) into a common solution. The new product configurator can be adapted to specific customer needs with a...
Roadmap for SAP/Siemens Integration
In July 2020, SAP and Siemens announced the foundation of a strategic partnership for a digital common thread that would run through customers' engineering, manufacturing and operations businesses. Today, SAP S/4HANA President Jan Gilg and Siemens Digital Industries Software President Tony Hemmelgarn announced details of a roadmap for this...
Siemens Acquires FORAN Software For CAD/CAM/CAE In Shipbuilding
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced July 20 that it has acquired the FORAN software business from the Spanish technology and engineering company SENER. SENER Group will retain its traditional marine engineering business. Siemens plans to add FORAN to its Xcelerator portfolio.While Siemens mainly mentions sustainability requirements in...
Industrie 4.0 Won’t Work Without SMEs
The Industrie 4.0 initiative is already ten years old. A platform has been established, standards have been jointly defined and successfully tested. Pilot projects abounded, and numerous approaches are already productive, albeit almost exclusively in the area of production, maintenance and logistics. The fact that no further progress has been...
Top dialog of the research advisory board of the Industrie 4.0 platform – and where are the SMEs?
Ten years after the launch of the Industrie 4.0 initiative, Professors Kagermann and Wahlster, two of the initiators, had already published an FAZ article at the end of March in which they claimed an all-round success. Now a top dialogue was to confirm this on June 16. And if one reads the FAZ of June 18 to it (and the comments under it not),...
The Power Lies In The Medium-Sized Industry
For years, there has been talk of the digital transformation of industry. What this means for manufacturing companies, what they will use to generate their sales in the future and how they will get there is rarely discussed. At present, there are indications that the roles of those involved will change first and foremost. Large-scale industry may...