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The all-in-one security testing suite SINEC Security Inspector from Siemens offers a single user interface for a software framework combining different cybersecurity tools.

The new TAS Turck Automation Suite simplifies the management and configuration of Turck devices in industrial Ethernet networks. In particular, the batch functions speed up many operations.

NX™ is a software platform from Siemens that supports product development, simulation, and manufacturing, including additive manufacturing. For Simulation Driven Design, Siemens has made several enhancements to the NX™ CAD/CAM software, including Topology Optimizer and Design Space Explorer. The combination of these two products makes it possible to create a comprehensive digital twin of a 3D model while easily validating multiple design options. Simulation Driven Design is an approach in the...

TDK Corporation presents the introduction of the 20 W TDK-Lambda brand PYD20 series of DC-DC converters. Featuring an 18:1 ultra-wide input range of 8.5 to 160 Vdc, these board mount products are packaged in the industry-standard 2 x 1 inch format measuring 50.8 x 25.4 x 10.2 mm (L x W x H).

Mak­ing prod­uct data for plant com­po­nents avail­able dig­i­tally and at all times – that is the basic idea of the Dig­i­tal Data Chain (DDC). Siemens is a pi­o­neer in map­ping the en­tire dig­i­tal data chain as the com­pany has now sup­plied Bayer’s Crop Sci­ence Di­vi­sion with sev­eral SITRANS P320 pres­sure trans­mit­ters with stan­dard­ized ID links for unique ob­ject iden­ti­fi­ca­tion.

With the KRT 3C contrast sensor, Leuze is presenting the smallest contrast sensor it has ever made for the packaging industry. Plant operators benefit from a compact device that can be used in many different ways.

Maintenance events in industrial production sites can only be anticipated, evaluated and properly handled with the right strategies. The main task is to decide which strategy is to be used in a given situation. Using structured methods for this task results in sustainable increase in availability, reduction of waste and thereby a significant business advantage. Synostik describes the appropriate approach in the following article.

Wind River Supports Airbus in its Certification Milestone for Automatic Air-to-Air Refueling (A3R). Wind River®, a global leader in de­liv­er­ing soft­ware for mis­sion-crit­i­cal in­tel­li­gent sys­tems, has col­lab­o­rated with Air­bus to sup­port the A330 Multi-Role Tanker Trans­port (MRTT) for au­to­matic air-to-air re­fu­el­ing (A3R) air­craft. The MRTT air­craft is the world’s first tanker to be cer­ti­fied for au­to­matic air-to-air re­fu­el­ing boom op­er­a­tions in day­light.

Digital platforms have sprung up like mushrooms in recent years. Every company involved with digitalization and Industry 4.0 has at least thought about the potential benefits of building its own digital platform – many have already entered the market. Numerous providers cover the sector; the technology has been perfected and proven.

Programming of a laser stripper during operation by operators without software know-how. MBDA, a leading European aerospace manufacturer, wanted to robotise certain processes in small series or even single unit production, by allowing an operator with no programming skills to teach the robotic system, in just a few seconds, the process to be carried out, and then to execute the cycle with complete confidence without human supervision. Fuzzy Logic's Repplix™ application software module addresses...

Siemens AG has launched an open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator, to accelerate digital transformation and value creation for customers of all sizes in industry, buildings, grids and mobility. The business platform makes digital transformation easier, faster and scalable.

5i.​Quality app enables holistic tracking of quality issues. 5thIndustry supports preventive quality work with the cloud-based app 5i.​Quality – so companies can easily and effectively eliminate causes of defects and track measures, without email chains and paperwork. Automotive suppliers, medical technology manufacturers and high-tech machine builders in particular can leverage productivity potential in this way.

Many manufacturing companies still find it difficult to get started with Artificial Intelligence (AI), not least because of the complex hardware selection. In the new AI workstation, Robotron and Kontron now combine two of their innovative solution approaches for the uncomplicated and fast application of computer vision. The multi-purpose AI workstation enables training, execution and inference of algorithms for a wide range of models and frameworks. The standardized approach covers up to 90...

Visevi Robotics offers novel vision-based encoders ViseJoint now for generic angular measurement applications without sensors on the joint. Measurement of one or multiple joints is performed remotely, using a computer vision software and a camera that looks onto the joints from a distance. The solution can be used for smart robots.

Future Technology used in Everyday Work. CAD models as holograms. Modifiable and collaboratively editable. Augmented Reality (AR) is expected to revolutionize workflows in factory planning. At BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, the use of AR already shows great potential.

Sierra Space, a lead­ing com­mer­cial space com­pany at the fore­front of cre­at­ing and build­ing the fu­ture of space trans­porta­tion and in­fra­struc­ture for Low Earth orbit (LEO) com­mer­cial­iza­tion, has im­ple­mented Siemens’ Xcel­er­a­tor port­fo­lio of soft­ware and ser­vices as the foun­da­tion of its next-gen­er­a­tion dig­i­tal en­gi­neer­ing pro­gram.

Intelligent one-stop solution for cloud-based plant monitoring reduces downtimes and relieves maintenance specialists. The specialists from 5thIndustry GmbH and endiio have presented an end-to-end solution for the efficient integration of condition monitoring data into daily maintenance processes. endiio supplied its energy-autonomous wireless sensor modules for this purpose.

Wind River delivers the security technologies and expertise to help companies combat new cyberthreats emerging from the IoT era. Wind River is committed to active threat monitoring, rapid assessment, proactive customer notification, and timely fixes. Explore useful resources to help you navigate an evolving threat landscape.

"Comos Mobile Worker" is a software application for mobile data management with integrated augmented reality functionalities from Siemens. It was developed in cooperation with Augmensys GmbH, a specialist in the field of mobile data management and augmented reality.

The energy industry is increasingly turning to a more decentralised and diverse range of energy sources, including wind, solar and hydropower. In the ongoing state of digital transformation, cloud-native software based on microservices deployed in containers helps tackle challenges of this transition, see how.

Check out what a real-time, mission-critical intelligent systems DevOps environment can provide to digitally transform your system: Automated build workflows and templates, digital feedback loops, and much more.

Join Wind River® technical experts for a deeper look at the technologies shaping embedded development and the evolving new world of intelligent systems. You will get the chance to ask our technical experts anything you want about these new technologies.

Embedded systems and the RTOSes they run are typically responsible for processes and machines of critical importance. Learn how VxWorks® enables embedded developers to take a modern approach to build next generation embedded designs without compromising security, safety, reliability, and performance.

The Panasonic Campus Munich with the Customer Experience Center is neither an in-house exhibition nor a museum or archive for products and developments. Instead, the Customer Experi¬ence Center in the heart of one of Bavaria's most important technology locations is a center of encounter, a meeting place of ideas, around which service centers, laboratories, and development departments are grouped to work creatively on new, even unconventional approaches to solutions and to use synergies.

Embedded systems and the RTOSes they run are typically responsible for processes and machines of critical importance. Learn how VxWorks® enables embedded developers to take a modern approach to build next generation embedded designs without compromising security, safety, reliability, and performance.

In 2020, 18,325 total common vulnerability exposures were reported (CVE Details). Each CVE must be evaluated independently to ensure system success and to determine the appropriate mitigation tools. With the Wind River STAR LAB SECURITY On-Demand Recording you will learn the classes of CVEs and how to protect embedded systems even if the attacker has already gained entry.

As of 2020, 66 percent of enterprises are using cloud-native methodologies for new applications. Wind River® Studio includes a cloud automation framework that supports software-driven service delivery. With the Wind River Deeper Dives On-Demand Recording you will learn how to create and publish blueprints and how to create and execute deployments to VxWorks devices.

It´s not a fair fight! When attacking an embedded system, it takes only one vulnerability to lead to an exploit. Learn hot to secure your embedded system with the experts of Star Lab, the Wind River cybersecurity and technology protection group.

Upcoming Trainings and On-Demand Recordings. The future is now. Are you ready for it? Join Wind River experts for a deeper look at the technologies shaping embedded development and the evolving new world of intelligent systems. You will get the chance to ask our technial experty anything you want about these new technologies.

Once isolated and purpose-built, embedded systems are increasingly software-defined with much greater requirements for connectivity, reliability, and flexibility. VxWorks® continues to lead this evolution with even greater capability, giving developers the power to be more productive and innovative. Learn how VxWorks enables embedded developers to take a modern approach to build next generation embedded designs without compromising security, safety, reliability, and performance.

Ma­chin­ery and plants as well as pro­duc­tion processes gen­er­ate a con­tin­ual flow of data. Com­pa­nies that are able to gen­er­ate added value from this data will be able to enjoy suc­cess in the fu­ture. How­ever, the large amount of gen­er­ated data must be eas­ily ac­ces­si­ble to the ma­chine op­er­a­tor via a HMI (Human Ma­chine In­ter­face). With the u-cre­ate PRO­CON-WEB SCADA soft­ware tool and PRO­CON-WEB Em­bed­ded Sys­tem, Weidmüller pro­vides vi­su­al­i­sa­tion so­lu­tions with...

Innovative robot teaching without programming efforts. It is no longer possible to imagine the industrial environment without robots. They are the backbone of the smart factory. Increasingly, however, the digital helpers can also be found in other environments. The Dresden-based company Wandelbots has now developed a solution that makes the use of robots interesting for small and medium-sized companies in many industries. An industrial PC from Kontron plays a central role in this setup.

CoreTechnologie's 3D printing software 4D_Additive enables quality check, repair and preparation of models in accordance to CAD‑engineering standard. Considering the demographic development and the fact that the baby boomers will retire within the next fifteen years, industrial production will have to be guaranteed in the future with increasingly scarce human resources. A drastic population decline is also forecast in China. Thus, the disappearance of the world's extended workbench is a very...

An intelligent multi-axis system – quicker, more convenient and more cost‑effective than ever before: Bosch Rexroth now makes this possible with the new Smart Function Kit for Handling. After the Smart Function Kit for Pressing and Joining, the linear motion technology experts are expanding the Smart MechatroniX solution platform with a second predefined subsystem which can be operated intuitively.

iTAC.​SMT.​Edge: Efficient solution for standardisation and centralisation of data in SMT production. Data is becoming more and more important in electronics manufacturing. It is the basis for increasing efficiency, avoiding errors and creating more value, for example through prevention and prediction services. SMT manufacturers and other manufacturing companies are faced with the challenge of having to collect and analyze data accordingly in order to be able to develop such services. Especially...

Wearables from ProGlove make humans a driving force of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. The Digital Twin is a digitized model that maps the physical characteristics of a production environment as well as the processes. But this mapping has its limitations, as it only includes data from machines and not from humans. At the same time, human employees will continue to play an important role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0. The challenge lies in combining the...

The mobile app easymon from in-tech enables real-time monitoring of machines and plants - worldwide and locally. The app supports the open control platform PLCnext Control and is available from Phoenix Contact's PLCnext App Store. On request, the engineering specialist in-tech can develop customer-specific extensions. Modification to other control families is planned.

Solutions and innovations for factory automation, material flow, laboratory, and people counting. High-precision sensors for medical technology, high-performance control technology, and IIoT-based material flow solutions – Panasonic Industry Europe presents innovative products and solutions to meet today‘s challenges across industries and in society.

Seamless production sits at the core of every company‘s operations. If production stops, due to an error for example, a quick response is required. But what if the specialist for the plant is not on site? Thanks to digitalisation, the magic words in this case are often remote maintenance. Estimates assume that up to 60 percent of errors can be resolved or at least supported via remote access. Weidmüller‘s u-link remote access service offers a system that is easy to install, easy to configure...

Turck's IO-Link system box, consisting of I/O module, sensors and indicator light enables users to discover the benefits of the communication standard.

Turck is now offering a compact starter kit for users wishing to discover the benefits of the IO-Link digital communication protocol. The IO-Link devices contained in the box enable interested users to set up their own system and thus gain hands-on experience in the technology.

With each new generation, electrical devices are becoming smaller, more powerful and safer to use. The devices have to meet the ever-growing market requirements and within increasingly shorter development cycles. In addition, the digital transformation in industry continues to progress and requires reliable and stable connections for its implementation. All this presents device manufacturers with major challenges that must be solved using the right device connection technology.

What was unthinkable a few years ago is now becoming reality with digitalisation and additive manufacturing – for example customized bicycle helmets. The head is simply scanned with a smartphone app and the process for the custom-made helmet is initiated. Siemens, together with EOS, has supported this vision of the bicycle helmet manufacturer Hexr.

dSPACE and Velodyne Lidar Inc. have entered into a partnership to accelerate future developments of lidar technologies for autonomous driving. To this end, dSPACE, a leader and partner for simulation and validation in the automotive industry, has joined the Velodyne program ‘Automated with Velodyne.’ The program aims to accelerate ecosystem interactions and rapidly integrate lidar innovations into a range of autonomous solutions including autonomous driving.

Climate change requires a rapid rethinking of energy policy worldwide. Renewable energy plays an important role in this context. In Germany, power generation with wind turbines is a key component of the turnaround in energy policy. However, critics fear that the expansion of wind farms will be at the expense of nature. With a solution based on embedded computing technology from Kontron, Fleximaus GmbH is building a bridge between wind power and species conservation.

Thanks to the new design, links to the warehouse and numerous functional updates of the configurator from Bosch Rexroth, users can now reach their goal even more quickly.

Ice cubes. A shot of rum. Stir in the cola. Preferably add a slice of lime. And voilà: the Cuba Libre is ready. But on the rooftop terrace of the TownHouse Duomo Hotel in Milan, the drink is not mixed by a bartender, but rather by a robot. With “Toni”, a KUKA robot from the KR AGILUS series, visitors can order their drink via app – and then enjoy it freshly prepared a few minutes later. “Toni” merely has a few problems with the small talk.

The completely new developed visualization system Simatic WinCC Unified, which is based on native web technologies, initially consists of the visualization software Simatic WinCC Unified and the new generation of HMI operator panels Simatic HMI Unified Comfort Panels. The new system provides the user with a solution for HMI and SCADA applications, and in the future also for Industrial Edge, Cloud and Augmented Reality scenarios.

Above all, standardisation, automation and process-wide solutions offer considerable optimisation potential for time-consuming, manual activities such as panel building. Weidmüller has been working very intensively on these areas and has developed solutions for every work step, speeding up processes by up to 80 per cent.

Linux is one of the most widely used open source operating systems and is available in many different variants. This wide set of choices can make it confusing and challenging to determine the right version for a given use case. Wind River's article offers an introduction to Linux for the enterprise and Linux for embedded products.

Regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) frequently adopt regulations aimed at optimizing solutions for patient care and life-saving systems to make medical devices safer. The article shows which solutions Wind River proposes to meet regulatory requirements with integrated safety & security features. The solutions can also be used for industrial automation applications.

Siemens and Bentley Systems announced the introduction of PlantSight at the Bentley Conference Year in Infrastructure 2018. PlantSight is a digital solution to benefit customers through more efficient plant operations. It enables as-operated and up-to-date digital twins which synchronize with both physical reality and engineering data, creating a holistic digital context for consistently understood digital components across disparate data sources, for any operating plant.

As global manufacturers face increasing competition, the need to optimize the efficiency, productivity, and quality levels within their discreet manufacturing facilities is becoming a matter of business survival. This article shows which solutions Wind River proposes.

It used to be the case that space was beyond reach to all but the richest governments and a handful of private enterprises. Today, opportunities in space look very different. Commercial space activities have taken off, driven in large part by greater functionality in smaller packages. With faster time-to-market, better size, weight, and power features at lower price points, and lower launch costs, new business models and significant venture funding are finding their way to commercial space...

It started with a blank. But how does the workpiece get onto the line or into the machine? Depending on the state it is delivered in, this task can quickly become very complex. Reliable 3D object detection systems optically capture and evaluate data. Liebherr works with a variety of 3D vision systems to match the requirements and smoothly handles the supply of every haphazardly stored part with process precision.

Siemens will be ex­hibit­ing at the au­to­mat­ica 2018 with an array of in­te­grated and user-ori­ented Dig­i­tal En­ter­prise so­lu­tions de­signed to sharpen the com­pet­i­tive edge of both end users and ma­chine builders. Ex­hibit­ing under the ban­ner “Dig­i­tal En­ter­prise – Im­ple­ment now!”, Siemens will be fo­cus­ing on ways in which in­dus­trial en­ter­prises of all sizes can ben­e­fit from the dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion – along the en­tire value chain from prod­uct de­sign and...

Whether building a new aircraft or designing new capabilities into industrial and medical control systems, choosing the right system software and hardware architectures is crucial for the success of the program. The aerospace and defense industry and the embedded community continue to shift towards adopting the latest hardware to solve challenging performance problems that address a variety of workloads.

With the mobile assistance system smartConnect by in-tech, authorised users can keep track of the production status, service requirements and KPIs at all times, even on the move.

BOGE is using Weidmüller's In­dus­trial An­a­lyt­ics in its high-speed turbo com­pres­sors for oil-free com­pressed air pro­duc­tion. This ap­pli­ca­tion is a prac­ti­cal ex­am­ple of the close col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween cus­tomers and users when it comes to dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion so­lu­tions.

Digital Transformation. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Next Generation Industrial Control. Industry 4.0. Enough buzzwords for you? However, these buzzwords do not help in the implementation of Industry 4.0. In this article, Wind River addresses six important requirements to be considered in the modernization of industrial control systems.