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Every industrial process incorporates a risk of harming people, damaging production plants or polluting the environment. It is therefore easily seen in more and more regions of this world that…

The German electrical industry is strongly in favor of an extensive opening of the transatlantic markets through the elimination of existing tariff and non-tariff trade barriers.

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As semiconductors are most complex and test needing devices the new test approach is described exemplarily for those, which could also be transferred to all other components. Many companies,…

The brochure „Energy Efficiency with Electric Drive Systems“ shows the energy-saving potential of electric drive systems and presents the standards and regulations on the national and interantional…

By 2025, the smart work piece will be produced in the smart factory. Work pieces taking care of their own processing will be a perfectly normal phenomenon. What a great opportunity for the German…

The continuous further development of products and solutions in automation requires standardised and flexibly adaptable industrial services that are oriented to the entire life cycle of an…

Download: The Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)

Driven by ever shorter product launch times, the chemical/pharmaceutical industry, in particular, is developing modularization concepts for its process plants.In 2013, the “Modular Automation”…

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on the requirements and implications of the implementation of the Construction Products Regulation 305/2011 EU updated in 2014. This information…

Obsolescence describes the state which occurs when an item or process is no longer available. The causes of obsolescence are, among other things, non-profitability, Innovation cycles and…