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…

METAV 2020 International Trade Fair for Metalworking Technologies – Running like clockwork for 40 years now

Reg­is­tra­tions can be sub­mit­ted until 31 August 2019 It was in March 1980 that METAV (then sub­ti­tled “The Mar­ket For Met­al­work­ing”) opened its doors for the first time in Düs­sel­dorf. It very quick­ly became the lead­ing trade fair for met­al­work­ing in the even years. Today it sets the pace in the largest indus­tri­al met­ro­pol­i­tan area…

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…