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In engineering, fault tolerance means the property of a technical system to maintain its functionality even when failures and error conditions occur.  Fault tolerance increases the availability…

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…

The request for individual mobility in our society is constantly rising. Today and probably for the next decade the individual as well as commercial demands for mobility solutions are mainly…

Download: Electrical connectivity for Industrie 4.0? - Challenges for electrical connectivity as a result of emerging “Industrie 4.0” concepts

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…

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”…