Smart Factory
The contactless connector
15. February 2022
The contactless connector
Maik Stemme and Norbert Schulz actually look quite normal. Two fit gentlemen in their prime, casually dressed and relaxed amidst cables, measuring devices and monitors. But they are part of…
We’ve got it
26. February 2020
We’ve got it
We’ll stay at the lovely Blomberg. The final stage of the search for the digital twin takes us to the heart of Phoenix Contact. The company’s own tool shop is…
We print with it
25. February 2020
We print with it
It is back to Blomberg, the main location of Phoenix Contact. A subsidiary of the company also resides here. A particularly attractive one at that. It is called Protiq and…
We control with it
24. February 2020
We control with it
It goes back to Bad Pyrmont. There you will find a particularly hot trace of the digital twin – namely in the printed circuit board production, which is at home…
We train it
24. February 2020
We train it
Off we go to Blomberg, on the hunt for the digital twin. Here we find the next trace of the digital clone. We’ll start at a field office, not directly…
We feed it
24. February 2020
We feed it
The first station of the search for the digital twin leads us to Bad Pyrmont. There we meet Markus Becker. He is supposed to work with the twin … Markus…
On the hunt for the digital twin
24. February 2020
On the hunt for the digital twin
Anybody dealing with the topic of Industry 4.0 will, after just a short time, inevitably encounter the digital twin. This refers to the digitalized image of a real object or process.…
Data for the pot
18. November 2019
Data for the pot
How are you supposed to access the data generated by a bearing that is located in a gigantic mixing tank in which hot molten plastic is sloshing around? A research…
Future with (in) system
15. November 2019
Future with (in) system
COMPLETE line means much more than a grouping of terminal blocks and technology. The complete connection technology solution can be a building block for successfully coping with demographic change in…
Build it like LEGO
11. November 2019
Build it like LEGO
The chemical industry is in transition. Time to market, sustainability, digitalization. One solution: modular systems that can be connected together where necessary and that can be used flexibly. Evonik is…