The transmission manufacturer Nidec Graessner supplies drive solutions for driverless transport systems (AGV). AGVs do the monotonous, arduous and injury-prone warehouse work faster and more precisely - 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Torsten Nolting took over as head of ABB's Electrification business area in Germany on August 1, 2021. He succeeds Uwe Laudenklos, who became Lead Business Area Manager Northern and Central Europe for the same business area on April 1 of this year.
VDMA raises real production forecast for 2021 from previously plus 7 percent in real terms to now plus 10 percent. Furthermore, new technologies are contributing to the achievement of the Paris climate targets.
Profinet is the market leading Industrial Ethernet system in Factory and Process Automation. With Industrie 4.0 and IIoT, new requirements arise that needs to be fullfilled by these systems. Opening up the Shopfloor and connect it to IT systems raise new questions regarding Safety and Security of Industrial Ethernet solutions.
A few years ago it was still science fiction, today technology is science fact. What inspires children and adults alike as a gimmick on the mobile phone and the pad, but also has great advantages in production and logistics. In this lecture you will find out what these are, how they can be implemented and what is already being used in practice. The Webinar is in German language.
Datalogic buys the Italian sensor manufacturer Micro Detectors for 37 million euros. With its 200 employees, it becomes part of the subsidiary Datalogic S.r.l. The previous owner was the industrial holding Finmasi Group.
Andreas Strobel joins the management team of Dr. Heinrich Schneider Messtechnik GmbH on January 1, 2021. The 42-year-old has since been responsible for sales, marketing and service. He now forms a dual leadership with Dr. Wolfram Kleuver.
In February, the Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Foundation awarded a prize to a scientific paper in the field of non-contact dimensional metrology at a ceremony held on the premises of Werth Messtechnik in Giessen.
B&R presented the Acopos 6D system. It is based on the principle of magnetic levitation technology: shuttles with integrated permanent magnets move without contact on a surface made up of motor segments.
