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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 updated position paper summarizes why the trend of using more non-automotive parts in automotive applications is inevitable and will continue to grow. It emphasizes that modern,…

Robustness Validation is a valuable failure-mechanism-driven approach to product reliability and qualification, which relates real application conditions to test conditions. This brochure is…

​Early integration of the Robustness Validation [RV] approach in the development phase is a key factor for successful qualification. This Manual supports the application of RV as described in the…

With this 3rd publication the focus is drawn to the validation of robustness of a group of two or more interacting Electronic Control Units respectively Electrical/Electronic Modules. This brochure…

The manual of the AK Field failure analysis is to help the electronics supply chain – conformal the VDA recommendation – to reduce the inspection expenditure for well-known failure causes and to…

The progress report 2013/14 of the Application Group (APG) Automotive in the ZVEI provides a comprehensive overview of the main automotive-specific activities of the Electronic Components and…