OPC UA makes life easier for measurement technicians METAV 2020 showcasing the integration of length measurement technology in digitalised metalworking

The non-pro­pri­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion stan­dard OPC UA (Open Plat­form Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Uni­fied Archi­tec­ture) is cur­rent­ly expe­ri­enc­ing rapid growth because the open plat­form facil­i­tates the inte­gra­tion of new machines and devices into pro­duc­tion. The VDMA is cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing cor­re­spond­ing domain-spe­­cif­ic infor­ma­tion mod­els (“Com­pan­ion Spec­i­fi­ca­tions”) for length mea­sure­ment tech­nol­o­gy. Trade vis­i­tors will be able to receive first-hand infor­ma­tion from…

Digital yet sustainable — How so?

EMO Han­nover 2019: Dig­i­tal approach­es to sus­tain­able machin­ing Frank­furt am Main, 03. sep­tem­ber 2019. Indus­tri­al process­es can either be dig­i­tal or sus­tain­able – at least that is the belief of many who have not yet giv­en the issues involved the con­sid­er­a­tion they deserve. But the VDMA Tech­nol­o­gy Forum at EMO Han­nover will be prov­ing the oppo­site: applied…

Gestalt Robotics automating industry

Start-up area at EMO Han­nover 2019 pre­sent­ing many excit­ing new­com­ers Frank­furt am Main, 03 sep­tem­ber 2019. – Start-ups are sought after. Many estab­lished com­pa­nies are look­ing to make con­tact and coop­er­ate with them and/or invest in them. Thomas Staufen­biel, one of the three founders of Gestalt Robot­ics GmbH in Berlin, is just such a sought-after…

Exploiting new digital possibilities in the recruitment of young talent

Good spe­cial­ists are the back­bone of any com­pa­ny. Employ­ers there­fore have to come up with nov­el ideas to make sure they do not lose these impor­tant assets. But how can employ­ers raise their appeal in the age of dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion? How should com­pa­nies recruit junior staff and how can they retain their exist­ing employ­ees? EMO…

Mobilising maintenance through digitalisation

The Smart Fac­to­ry and the relat­ed dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion offer wide-rang­ing poten­tial for long-term and pre­dic­tive main­te­nance. But what are the ben­e­fits for com­pa­nies? And what are the pre­req­ui­sites for ensur­ing that the data nec­es­sary for plan­ning, pro­cess­ing and doc­u­ment­ing main­te­nance mea­sures is exchanged reli­ably? What is cer­tain is that main­te­nance staff are by def­i­n­i­tion pro­duc­tion service…

IMTS 2018 shows high procurement levels in North America

The IMTS (Inter­na­tion­al Machine Tool Show), the largest and most impor­tant met­al­work­ing event in North Amer­i­ca, took place in mid-Sep­tem­ber in Chica­go. The US machine tool asso­ci­a­tion AMT, the organ­is­er of the event, cap­tured the suc­cess with head­lines such as “Boom­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing econ­o­my” and “Vis­i­tors have cap­i­tal and are ready to invest!” A broad range…

AMB impresses on every count

1,553 exhibitors, more than 91,000 vis­i­tors and of course Messe Stuttgart itself can look back on a suc­cess­ful AMB 2018. All the glob­al mar­ket lead­ers pre­sent­ed their pro­duc­tion inno­va­tions on more than 120,000 gross square metres of exhi­bi­tion space spread across ten halls – and the AMB proved once again just how much Stuttgart has…