Publications

Preliminary remarks

Digitalisation brings a fundamental structural change to both the economy and society. The German electrical industry interlinks with its products and solutions the analogue and…

There is a great need for industrial services over the entire life cycle of machines and plants, which are increasingly influenced, changed and expanded by the digital transformation. The Service…

The replacement of the two standards EN 60950-1 and EN 60065 by EN 62368-1 generates a lot of movement in the standards landscape. The official successor is EN 62368-1, but it clearly focuses on the…

The electrical industry stands for a strong and united Europe, for open markets and competition, for common values and solidarity. This is why the ZVEI is presenting a position paper on European…

European-wide uniform technical requirements for fire protection of all used materials in rolling stock.

UL 1446 is an administrative test standard, which is primarily concerned with the chemical…

The present white paper "Fault tolerance in machine safety" describes for the first time a way in which fault-tolerant safety functions can be used to maintain the continued operation of a…

Lead oxides and complex oxides containing lead, which are well known constituents of ceramics, were added to the 8th revision of the SVHC candidate list of the EU REACH regulation (EC) No 1907/2006…

Lead oxides and complex oxides containing lead, which are well known constituents of glass, were added to the 8th revision of the SVHC candidate list of the EU REACH regulation ((EC) No 1907/2006)…

Industry 4.0 is inconceivable without connectivity and communication. The elements of the various value chains exchange different types of data for different purposes in order to fulfil their…

The goal of the DC-INDUSTRIE research project is to redesign the power supply ofindustrial plants via a smart, open DC grid and to digitalise the industrial powersupply architecture.  This will…