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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…

This white paper is based on the knowledge and expertise of more than 80 supply chain experts from different companies and thus provides a sound knowledge base for all industries with a special…

The electro industry supports the target of the REACH regulation to replace SVHC successively by appropriate substances or technologies as far as they are economically and technically…

Suitable LED power supply units and LED modules combined with harmonised luminaire designs can help achieve effective protection from transient overvoltages.

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