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Software can be regarded as the key link between the components of the automation architecture. Its development or maintenance already makes up a large share of the total outlay. This White Paper exa

​The German electrical industry plays a key role when it comes to implementing smart factories in the manufacturing and smart plants in processing industry. This position paper deals with what need

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 ele

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 applicatio

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” workin

Position paper on the assessment and classification of industrial connectors in accordance with the Low-voltage Directive, 2006/95/EC  Herunterladen

This Submodel template for the Asset Administration Shell allows suppliers of industrial equipment to describe technical data for such equipment in a framework that is equally perceivable by humans a

In the current ZVEI publication "Data Sharing Models in the Electrical and Digital Industry", five different industrial data sharing models are identified on the basis of the "Digital Business Models