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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 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

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 publish

​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 pub

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 conc

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 Systems

Robustness validation of stand-alone Electronic Control Units. More than 140 pages documented the practical application, methods of extrinsic reliability detection and prevention of failures. It pro