Vector News

Bringing High-Performance into the Vehicle: Take Advantage of Everything That AUTOSAR Has to Offer with PREEvision 9.5

Modern electric/electronic systems combine the computing power needed for data-rich applications with the flexibility to improve and evolve during life time by updates and upgrades. PREEvision 9.5 helps you to develop such future-proof E/E systems based on high-performance computers and the AUTOSAR Adaptive platform. With PREEvision, you can easily integrate HPCs and AUTOSAR Adaptive into existing architectures.

BYSTRONIC News

SHAPING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE OUTSET

Automation and industrial image processing are two fields of strategic importance for Bystronic. The combination of the two technologies is crucial for the optimization of the manufacturing processes of sheet metal processing companies. With its investment in the startup LIP Automation, Bystronic is positioning itself to play an active role in shaping key technologies of the future.

Liebherr News

Liebherr is starting sales of the new self-service concrete plant

Its market launch will commence in summer 2020. Offer quick and easy access to high quality concrete: The new self-service concrete plant from Liebherr makes this possible. It gives building material suppliers a unique opportunity to supply their customers, such as small professional buyers or DIYers, in a flexible manner. Due to the adjustable concrete discharge, the concrete can be collected by anything from small trailers right up to large truck mixers.

Schmersal News

Cybercrime: Schmersal Group operational again following cyber attack

The call came at 4.45 pm on 20 May – the Schmersal Group was officially informed that cyber criminals were planning to launch a targeted attack on the company’s network. The call was verified (it could have been a fake) and it was then down to the IT managers to think fast and take action. Their decision was ultimately to shut down the entire network – a hugely significant action. The connection to the internet was terminated within ten minutes, and within 90 minutes, the entire IT network worldwide was offline. Everything had been disconnected, from the telephone system to the entire ERP system infrastructure, as well as the entire production process and fully automated storage, at all locations.

Bauer gears News

Specifying geared motors to reduce HACCP risk factors

Geared motors are found throughout food and beverage production sites, used to drive conveyor belts, stirrers & agitators, packaging machinery and other equipment along the production line. The geared motor design lends itself to energy efficiency and reliability, a must for any modern production facility. However, the food & beverage industry also requires strict hygiene compliance, meaning that specialised geared motors are a wise choice for such facilities.

NUM News

Powerful new software from NUM provides manufacturers of CNC cylindrical grinding machines with an elegant means of adding non-circular grinding capabilities to their products – without incurring significant development time and cost

Non-circular grinding is used in a wide variety of automated manufacturing applications, such as the production of camshafts, crankshafts, cams and eccentric shafts. However, it is an extremely complex task, because the non-circular contour leads to constantly changing engagement and movement conditions between the grinding wheel and the workpiece.

Ecocooling News

On the verge of a green and clean era in the metal tool industry: Ionized, cooled air to replace metalworking fluids

Expensive metalworking fluids are no longer needed to cool and lubricate workpieces and cutting tools in the machine tool industry. Instead, there is now a proven green and clean method, EcoCooling, that uses only ionized and cooled air and has none of the environmental hazards and costs related to oil-based fluids.

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