18 March 2022 This year will be “a turning point” for industrial automation, with the average manufacturer spending more on industrial software than on automation hardware for the… Read More
3 April 2019 A group of European suppliers of equipment and software for smart factories have formed an alliance that wants to ensure that 80% of the machines… Read More
29 January 2019 At the recent SPS IPC Drives show, a German start-up demonstrated a technology for connecting industrial sensors and actuators rapidly to almost any cloud platform,… Read More
18 December 2018 The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced results of a testbed project which has been looking at how operators of established manufacturing facilities can connect… Read More
13 September 2018 The digital factory market is expanding at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 35% and will be worth $111bn by 2026, according to a… Read More
15 June 2017 The sensor manufacturer ifm has developed a software tool that transmits data from IO-Link-equipped sensors directly to high-level systems, such as SAP, for applications including… Read More
12 September 2016 Four members of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) – SAP, ifm electronic, TE Connectivity and the OPC Foundation – have been given the go-ahead for… Read More
9 June 2016 A crowd-puller at the recent Hannover Fair was a collaborative demonstration by several companies showing Industry 4.0 concepts – in particular, mass customisation – in… Read More
22 March 2016 A German plant producing hydraulic valves has become the first in the world to combine the technical standards of Germany’s Industry 4.0 platform with those… Read More
3 March 2016 Two groups working on future industrial architectures – the Industrial Internet Consortium and Germany’s Plattform Industrie 4.0 consortium – have agreed to work together to… Read More
