Digitalization
Ifm and the Schuler Group have now agreed to work together to monitor and improve quality in press shops through digitalization. The aim is to offer customers greater transparency and increase efficiency in sheet metal forming. Presses for sheet metal forming are among the most important machines in all industries in which sheet metal is processed. Schuler has over 180 years of experience in...
The challenge of the shortage of skilled labor poses significant challenges for industry. The increasing lack of qualified personnel requires new approaches to avoid outages and bottlenecks. This is where the digital solution “MK|Workforce” comes in. The tool helps companies to use their human resources more efficiently and to prevent production downtime through innovative planning.
Mitsubishi Electric is presenting itself digitally and with a new concept at this year's SPS in Nuremberg. Together with its partners Iconics, Takebishi and Mesalogic, the company is showing solutions for the digital transformation. The SMKL concept is at the center of the trade fair appearance. Smart Manufacturing Kaizen Level helps companies to advance their digitalization in small, efficient...
From 8 to 15 October 2025, the global plastics and rubber industry will meet in Düsseldorf for K, the world's most important trade fair for the industry. Preparations for K 2025 in Düsseldorf are in full swing. The exhibition space is already fully booked a year in advance. A number of new and established special shows are planned under the motto ‘The Power of Plastics! Green - Smart - Responsible...
Production facilities are increasingly the target of cyberattacks. Industrial companies are therefore required to identify and close potential vulnerabilities in their systems. To address the need to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities on the shop floor as quickly as possible, Siemens has launched a new cybersecurity software-as-a-service, that will be showcased for the first time at Hannover...
Analytica will once again bring the international laboratory industry together in Munich from 9 to 12 April 2024. This year, the trade fair will address more sustainability in the pharmaceutical laboratory, for example with energy-efficient devices, as well as the megatrends of artificial intelligence and data management. Armin Wittmann, Exhibition Director, and Susanne Grödl, Deputy Exhibition...
For the first time, an industrial product was certified for the United States after some of the required tests were digitally simulated and the results were only confirmed by physical tests. This achievement by Siemens and UL Solutions is likely to be a first for national certification processes of this kind worldwide. The result of the successful certification proves the precision and reliability...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) officially announced the 11th batch of global lighthouse factories Mid of December 2023, and Siemens Industrial Automation Products Chengdu Production and R&D Base, also known as Siemens Industrial Automation Products, Chengdu (SEWC), has been awarded the "Sustainability Lighthouse". SEWC is a practical example of Siemens' technology-enabled sustainable development...
In October 2023, the first AI pilot projects of the “Green AI Hub Mittelstand”, an initiative by the German Federal Ministry for Environment geared towards small and medium sized enterprises, have begun work. Within the project, over the course of six months, AI experts developed sustainable AI applications for at first five small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and now implemented them right...
Expanding the own competitiveness, protecting the climate, driving prosperity: these are the major tasks currently facing industry. New technologies are the key to meeting these challenges. Hannover Messe 2024 provides answers to how companies can efficiently use automation, artificial intelligence, renewable energies and hydrogen. “Innovative technologies like those we see in April at Hannover...
