OT-ready IT technologies in mechanical engineering
The Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Systems (ISW) at the University of Stuttgart is hosting a one-day workshop on March 31, 2026, in which, together with its partner Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation, it will demonstrate in a practical setting how IT technologies made OT-ready can complement or replace traditional control concepts – hardware-independent, flexible in terms of time and location, and future-proof.
Following an introduction to the underlying technologies and architectures, participants will gain concrete insights through live demonstrations. The deep dive will focus on the real-time control of a robot and a milling machine.
In addition, the workshop offers a tour of a test hall and a hands-on session in which participants will implement a container deployment with the EtherCAT Tap App, including visualization. Here, they will use Hilscher’s netFIELD device and app management system to keep their edge installation cyber-secure in compliance with CRA and to roll out and operate their control and IIoT apps.
The workshop is aimed at users in control system development, machine and plant manufacturers, as well as technical decision-makers who wish to strategically advance their control systems.
Hilscher’s on-site contact is Dipl.-Ing. Uwe Schnepf, responsible for the product segment of the Linux-based netFIELD platform.