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CONTROL AND ANALYSIS IN THE ERA OF INDUSTRY 4.0

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traditional company with a broad perspective: whether intelligent houses or smart factories, pioneering projects need intelligent, electrical control. Saarland’s Hager Group has solutions to suit.

A start-up that reads your power signature: what do you do if your machinery pool hails from the pre-network era, so it is not IoT-capable? The start-up 2log, also from Saarland, has a solution.

Developing Industry 4.0 approaches in as targeted a way as possible requires more than just a strong IT landscape with a command of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. It also requires an industry that is open to innovation. Saarland is a traditional industrial hub that built up research and development skills in IT at an early stage. The region boasts high levels of competence thanks to the Saarland University, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), two Max Planck Institutes for Informatics and Software Systems, and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. In close collaboration with local companies, they develop products and strategies that have had an impact well beyond the

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borders of Germany’s smallest federal state.

To ensure that companies do not only benefit from an excellent research landscape and an associated supply of young talent but also other ideal conditions, gwSaar Saarland Economic Promotion Corporation has developed industrial sites and commercial properties to meet all needs. The economic promoter also looks after all parts of the relocation process for new companies, including networking with local stakeholders.

We spoke to two Saarland companies who view Industry 4.0 as not just a buzzword, but rather a tool enabling efficiency and customer-oriented production.

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Hager Group

he Hager Group offers solutions and services for electrotechnical installations in residential, industrial and commercial properties.

Its core business ranges from power distribution to cable routing to intelligent building control and security technology. The Hager Group covers the brands Hager, Berker, Bocchiotti, Daitem, Diagral, Efen and Elcom.

The company is continually developing innovative solutions for the control requirements of the key technological advances of our time, such as charging stations for electromobility, assistance solutions to support everyday life, and technologies for an intelligent home.

This Saarland-based company is a European company (Societas Europaea, SE). The Hager Group sets great store by cultural diversity and its European roots.

The company is active across the globe with 11,500 employees and achieved a turnover of 2.19 billion euros in 2019.

Interview: Dr. Ralph Fürderer, CTO, Hager Group

What does intelligent production mean at Hager and what are the benefits?

Dr. Ralph Fürderer: At the Hager Group, the digitalisation of industrial processes – or Industry 4.0 – is approach designed to supplement improvements to our overall efficiency.

It is in particular a way of boosting added value for our customers, but it can also improve business performance in terms of the quality, competitiveness, flexibility and transparency of our production and information flows.

We do not follow trends, but rather make targeted use of the opportunities available.

Let me explain: to us, Industry 4.0 does not mean just selectively incorporating new technologies such as additive processes (3D printing), collaborative robots or interactive data glasses into the production process. It is about linking up systems and machinery and seamlessly connecting digital information flows with the reality of production processes.

Targeted data analysis and the use of artificial intelligence improve the performance of our production flows for the long term. This means that new technologies promote the implementation of our end-to-end vision as part of Industry 4.0.

One good example of this is the digitalisation of our maintenance activities: •Networked tablets are already supporting preventative maintenance.

•Tools, machinery and systems exchange operational data in real time.

•Cloud platform strategies in particular enable the exchange of information with our partners and service providers.

•AI functions identify immediate spare parts needs and directly trigger the ordering process.

•Big data analytics will increasingly form the foundation of future predictive maintenance activities.

Is your company pursuing a clear Industry 4.0 strategy?

Dr. Ralph Fürderer: The topic of Industry 4.0 is a broad and fragmented one, with new innovations virtually every day.

In this context, it is important not to get lost in the plethora of opportunities, but rather to focus on a clear strategy.

The aim of our strategy is to create visible added value for our customers. For us, this in particular means that our production processes need to be as efficiently designed as possible, from brainstorming right through to rollout.

What does this actually mean?

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•Brainstorming: We collate internal requirements and compare these with the opportunities offered by Industry 4.0.

•Options: We check which solutions best help us to achieve our goals.

•Development: We integrate new solutions into the existing environment, adapted to our standards.

•Rollout: We analyse the implementation process and

decide whether to use this solution at all of our sites.

•Learning factory: We continuously evaluate our results and improve our technology base.

Industry Dr. Ralph Fürderer: Our Industry 4.0 ‘Tool Management’ project in 2014 made us the first industrial company in this environment, and even then we were performing vertical and horizontal integration of machinery, sensors, processes and systems. Our digital tool management gives our employees the opportunity to understand new technologies and identify their benefits for the company.

This project formed the basis for the Hager Group’s current digital Industry 4.0 application infrastructure. In recent years, we have been continually further digitalising our manufacturing processes and deploying them across various production sites.

Saarland is home to the German Research Center for Artificial intelligence (DFKI) and other renowned IT research institutes. DFKI is one of the birthplaces of Industry 4.0. Does your company benefit from this research expertise in Saarland?

Dr. Ralph Fürderer: The Hager Group has been working closely with local institutions such as DFKI, HTW Saar and the August-Wilhelm Scheer Institute for many years.

The learning factory has become reality at the Hager Group You mentioned a ‘learning factory’. Does the factory make mistakes? If so, how is the learning process managed?

Dr. Ralph Fürderer: From our perspective, a ‘learning factory’ is based on a seamlessly digitalised manufacturing process. This begins with raw material provision and is configured based on the aforementioned principles of Industry 4.0 right through to the finished product.

We learn by testing innovations in advance on a smaller scale before they are put to use in large-scale activities.

We of course also make mistakes during this process, but these can be remedied in agile and lasting form in a controlled pilot environment.

At this point, let me highlight the vital role played by our employees in the industrialisation and ultimate use of Industry 4.0 technologies. Our colleagues’ knowledge is absolutely crucial: without their flexibility and skills, we would not be able to implement any learning production processes whatsoever.

This means that in a smart, learning factory, mechanical facilities and systems are interlinked via modular devices and IoT components. These intelligent devices and applications enable industrial installations to learn and continually improve their processes. Ultimately, it is a matter of gathering process data and intelligently evaluating it within a short period of time, so that we can continuously optimise our processes and provide our customers with the best possible service.

You won awards with your Tool Management 4.0 project. Have you since set up further processes and tasks based on the principle of Industry 4.0?

We have implemented various projects with our partners in this innovative environment. Examples include a project on the neural networks of real-time facial recognition (2018 in DFKI), energy management for a new Hager Group building in Blieskastel (2017 with the August-Wilhelm Scheer Institute), and the ‘Liongrid’ project on the virtual energy plan (2017 with Scheer and HTW Saar).

Our group was also a founding member of the East Side Fab in Saarbrücken, a network of regional stakeholders from business, science and related areas.

Projects that are currently underway or in the pipeline include the ‘SUITE’ project for adaptive support based on artificial intelligence (with DFKI), the ‘Flexchain’ project for providing flexibility to consumer-side networks (with the August-Wilhelm Scheer Institute and Stadtwerke Saarlouis), and the ongoing application to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (BMWi) for the ‘ELIAS’ project covering the automatic linking of electric vehicles with charging infrastructure, in conjunction with East Side Fab, DFKI and HTW Saar.

The Hager Group is active all over the world. Does Saarland offer benefits thanks to its location near the French border?

Dr. Ralph Fürderer: The Hager Group operates all over the world and makes use of local expertise. Our local focus is therefore as relevant as our global one. Some employees at our German site in Blieskastel are French.

Similarly, we also have German colleagues at our Obernai site. As our roots are French and German, we have strongly internalised this culture. This also provides easier access to partners in business, science and other areas in both countries.

The Hager Group is therefore the only company in its competitive environment to occupy such a strong market position in both Germany and France.

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2log.io This company, established in 2019, provides IoT capability to anything with a plug. 2log.io views itself as an Industry 4.0 transformation partner, particularly for SMEs in the manufacturing industry.

With their smart meter, 2log switch, and RFID registration option, they offer soft, safe and cost-effective access to Industry 4.0.

Customers enjoy maximum configuration options, not least thanks to open interfaces.

Interview : Tim Vollmer, CEO, 2log.io

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compatible with Industry 4.0. What is your approach to doing this?

Tim Vollmer: We wondered why companies were not making use of Industry 4.0. A survey undertaken by the German digital association Bitkom cited the three biggest obstacles for SMEs as being high investment requirements, a lack of staff to maintain systems, and IT security worries. These legitimate concerns have meant that only 16% of companies with fewer than 100 employees make use of sensor data and big data.

We wanted to become a transformation partner for these companies and create a system that would allay these concerns. Key priorities in this were that it should be possible to integrate existing machinery pools, and that there should be no changes to the machinery itself to avoid voiding warranties and guarantees.

How does the 2log.io system work?

CEO Tim Vollmer demonstrates how the 2log.io system makes any machinery pool IoT-capable using plug and play

Tim Vollmer: The lowest common denominator for all machinery is the power source. We therefore developed a smart meter called the 2log switch which is integrated into the power supply. At 230V this just requires an adapter plug, whilst 400V devices get a larger switch unit. We use the smart meter to record the power supply to individual machines, and the system then transmits this data to the cloud via WLAN. It can also switch off the power, offering both analysis and control capabilities.

So you record the power supply. What information can you derive from these values?

Tim Vollmer: Power consumption values are an extremely potent source of information, because we

Hardware and software developed inhouse by the Saarland start-up

can use the specific power signature to understand what the machine is doing. Take the example of monitoring an automatic coffee machine – you can use the power

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signature to precisely identify whether the drink being

Industry Assignment to individual users can also ensure safety at

made is a black coffee, a milk coffee or an espresso. So

work – employees without training cannot even switch

a relatively simple pattern assignment enables us to

the machinery on.

identify what is being produced. This can be transferred to industrial machinery one-to-one, and we can precisely

The big data recorded can of course be used to develop

identify what recorded machinery has processed.

entirely new areas of business. For example, machinery manufacturers can adapt their maintenance schedule to

However, we are also interested in who is working on a

meet actual needs and prevent production losses.

machine or what project the machine is being used for, so we developed a smart RFID reader that controls access to

Despite the attractions of other locations, 2log opted

the machinery. Users sign on via an authorisation system

for Saarland. What are the benefits of this location?

using their smartphone or an access card.

Tim Vollmer: Saarland is not yet ‘overrun’ by start-ups.

What do you see as potential applications?

We get very individual support here, as well as easy access to funding instruments. Our fixed costs (such

Tim Vollmer: The power supply also serves as a very

as office space) are lower than in well-known start-up

generalisable interface, and thus provides a generalisable

hotspots in German metropolises. In addition, Saarland

sensor value. Companies can be creative when it comes

University trains excellent computer scientists, making it

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Automation is more than just implementing technology components T Four key players from Germany‘s Saarland explain what they think is important

he way that companies undertake production and work together with suppliers is rapidly changing across all sectors. The digitalisation of all processes and the integration of learning algorithms promise to transform the vision of Industry 4.0 into a reality.

However, successful automation is not built solely on IT. Experience and expertise from production facilities must also be incorporated into innovative developments. Traditional industrial locations that have built up IT skills from an early stage offer significant benefits for both established and new companies.

Germany’s Saarland is such a location. This traditional industrial hub has been working to develop its IT research landscape since the 1980s and 1990s, and has become home to the German Research Center for Artificial intelligence (DFKI), two Max Planck Institutes (for Informatics and for Software Systems), and most recently the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security.

So it is no surprise that Saarland now boasts both highly automated, efficient industry and an excellent research landscape that draw inspiration from each other.

To ensure that the area offers the perfect conditions for companies and research institutions, the gwSaar Saarland Economic Promotion Corporation has developed industrial sites and commercial properties to meet all needs. gwSaar’s services also cover supporting companies throughout the entire relocation process, including networking with local stakeholders. At gwSaar’s suggestion, we interviewed four of these stakeholders from research and industry on the topic of automation and the state.

Karlsberg Given the high quality and safety requirements of food production, it is a perfect place to use modern sensor technology and production

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process automation. The same goes for connections with suppliers and logistics providers. In our interview, we talked to Christian Weber – CEO of Karlsberg Brauerei KG Weber – about the importance of automation in the brewery’s factories and what he values about the human factor.

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As well as undergoing automated quality controls, beer in the Karlsberg Brewery must also stand up to to the boss’s critical eye.

Question: Mr Weber, does increasing automation make your life easier?

Christian Weber, Karlsberg Brewery: Automation allows us to achieve better quality in our processes. It serves as a helping hand that enables us to improve even further. It lightens our employees’ load and thus allows them to put their skills to more targeted use.

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Question: Karlsberg is one of the sector’s most innovative companies. Does greater automation allow more room for creativity?

Christian Weber, Karlsberg Brewery: Automation helps to streamline and improve the quality of processes. For example, it allows you to talk to customers about new topics rather than about troubleshooting. One key element is the time savings it creates, thus providing valuable time and freedom that can be used to move projects forward.

Question: Despite all this automation, Karlsberg Brewery seems to set great store by its employees. They are authentically featured in advertisements and even shown on some of your products. How would you rate the availability of expert labour and the loyalty of Saarland staff?

Christian Weber, Karlsberg Brewery: People are our core, our starting point. Our employees are linked by a culture of camaraderie and shared set of values. We work hard to ensure that anyone who wishes to can actively and responsibly contribute. In the context of continually changing requirements (particularly as regards technological innovations), it is vital that we also continue to further develop as an employer and ensure that we stand in an attractive position compared with other interesting companies. There has been visible change, for example in the training we provide: we recently decided that from the 2021 training year onwards, we will be training automation technology electronics technicians rather than operating technology electronics technicians.

Question: Key aspects of successful automation, such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and sensor technology, are represented by renowned research institutes in Saarland.

Do you benefit from this as an SME? Christian Weber, Karlsberg Brewery: Yes. We have established contacts with the aforementioned institutes and have already been collaborating, for example in the field of cybersecurity.

Similarly, in the field of AI, we have been discussing the topic of predictive maintenance and predictive quality with a Saarland company from the university environment.

Prof. Rainer Müller has given ZeMA a broad base with the Sensors and Actuators, Manufacturing Processes, and Assembly Processes research divisions, in order to promote development with and for industry.

The Centre for Mechatronics and Automation Technology (ZeMA) does not simply conduct research from an ivory tower. The Centre is an industry development partner and ensures that research and development findings from Saarland’s universities and institutes are quickly and efficiently fed into the processes used by local companies. We talked to Prof. Dr. Ing. Rainer Müller, CSO of ZeMA, about collaborations between research and the private sector, industrial moves to increase the level of automation, and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on processes and sites.

Question: Prof. Müller, you have been running ZeMA in Saarland for more than eight years. Germany’s Saarland is a strong industrial location with an excellent research landscape in the fields of automation, AI and cybersecurity. How do local companies benefit from this research expertise?

Prof. Dr. Ing. Rainer Müller, ZeMA: Saarland is indeed a strong industrial location, and also has some excellent institutes and professorships in the areas you have listed. This means that both sides can directly benefit, although this could be developed even further. In general, existing local companies benefit from the Saarland’s research output and expertise on the one hand via contract research and on the other through various regional, national and European research programmes to which institutes, professorships and companies can apply with joint research ideas. Another increasingly relevant point – as national and European programmes show – is the transfer of knowledge directly to companies, e.g. via awareness raising, events, workshops, and training sessions in particular relating to digital transformation, the use of artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. Another aspect that it is important Machine - Automation & Electricity / World News 2020 13

Industry not to overlook is spin-offs and start-ups, which often grow out of cutting-edge research insights and offer corresponding added value to the state.

Questionr: What questions do companies ask the institute?

Prof. Dr. Ing. Rainer Müller, ZeMA: This has to be viewed from numerous angles. You know that we at ZeMA have a very broad base with our Sensors and Actuators, Manufacturing Processes, and Assembly Processes research divisions. As a result, some companies come to us with questions about the research and development of new products (e.g. using intelligent materials) or new production technologies and processes (e.g. in the automotive industry or using robotics technology). We often support such companies right through to developing initial prototypes and function testing. Other companies come to us so that we can analyse existing production processes and work with the company to optimise them. We provide these companies with support through analyses, concepts and feasibility studies. The same goes for Industry 4.0 and digitalisation.

As part of our projects, such as the Saarbrücken SMEs 4.0 Centre of Excellence, we work with our partners – the August-Wilhelm Scheer Institute for Digital Products and Processes and saarland.innovation&standort e.V. – to support digital transformation. We also work with university professorships and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in this area.

ZeMA demonstrator at work

Question: The level of automation in German companies is generally considered high. Where do you see the biggest potential for further automation in companies, and what benefits does this offer?

Prof. Dr. Ing. Rainer Müller, ZeMA: Many companies have already automated the processes that need automating as part of their optimisation activities. However, this does not mean that there is no potential for further optimisation in this area.

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Automation often offers great benefits, especially for repetitive processes with very high volumes and low variance. The benefits of automation can be reduced costs, increased volumes, guaranteed quality and other factors. However, although we are an automation technology centre, we do not take the view that everything should be automated. Automation definitely has its advantages, but it is not the only solution to the challenges that companies are currently facing, with customised products and multivariance as key concepts.

Instead, we believe that automation (especially in the sense of digitalisation) and hybrid, intelligently supported manual processes are the future.

Question: Cost-effectively producing batch sizes of one or, producing product variants personalised by the customer in a mass production environment is one of the future visions of automation. Do you think that it will be possible to make production processes this flexible in the future? And what are the conditions for implementing this?

Prof. Dr. Ing. Rainer Müller, ZeMA: This goes back to the point I raised earlier. Of course, automation solutions will continue to become more versatile, more flexible and also more intelligent in the future. However, our work and research has shown that simply automating a process cannot be the end in itself. Instead, automation needs to be tackled in the context of the real and digital/virtual world. It is more a matter of supporting people in factories or production with intelligent systems, such as expert systems, remote support, condition monitoring or assistance systems in the workplace. Why? Because multi-variant ‘mass production’ is making the environment increasingly complex, and there is often further potential for optimisation in improving existing processes or understanding cause and effect. Condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and AI-based quality controls are some examples that show significant potential and require intelligent automation in the sense of digitalisation, as well as the use of artificial intelligence.

Production and process data, and in particular its intelligent processing and context-sensitive provision, are therefore increasingly important for production transformations and ultimately also for the leading role played by our business location – whether as an exporter of top-quality products or the next generation of innovative investment items.

Question: Supply bottlenecks during the coronavirus pandemic have led to a change in thinking in industry. Many companies want to establish more regional supply chains. Can automation help create efficient solutions here?

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Prof. Dr. Ing. Rainer Müller, ZeMA: It is important to use digitalisation to create automated and standardised processes within the supply chain and reliably share data or information. One goal must be transparency regarding production and supply status and the quality of components and assemblies within the supply chain. Automation can then of course support individual processes such as labelling and identification – in other words, general tracing or product tracking.

Qbing Logistics processes play a central role in the automation of production facilities. They are the gateway to suppliers and ensure stable production progress, tidy storage and efficient, accurate transportation of goods. Linking this up with goods management systems is now indispensable.

Saarland start-up Qbing has developed a plug-and-play solution that allows companies to integrate this into an existing operation. Co-founder and CEO Christian Schwindling explains why this is an advantage, where additional automation steps are called for in logistics, and why the company opted to be based in Saarland.

Christian Schwindling (centre) and his Qbing team develop plug-and-play solutions for logistics

Question: Mr Schwindling, your system is used to integrate auto-ID solutions. What exactly does it do, and which companies could it benefit?

Christian Schwindling, Qbing: Our QIS.TE (pronounced KIST-UH) software enables autoID and RFID hardware to be integrated into corporate networks using plug and play. This takes just a handful of steps and some simple settings in the associated configuration tool. No detailed technical knowledge or programming work is needed. The investment required is also significantly lower than for conventional connections. Our aim is to facilitate auto-ID or RFID access for as many users as possible – out-of-the-box RFID, so to speak.

Qbing system modules

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Industry Question:

Question:

What areas do you see as offering further potential for improvement – particularly in logistics? And what challenges do companies need to overcome in order to tap this potential?

Mr Sinnwell, how does the company consistec assist companies with the automation process?

Christian Schwindling, Qbing:

Our work relates to OT (operational technology) security.

Control systems can be found anywhere where there is automation of physical equipment and processes.

They can be hacked and sabotaged. We use monitoring and analysis to ensure that our customers are aware if something like this happens, in both IT and OT.

In my view, all manual steps such as scanning and inputting goods and materials or posting certain process steps have great potential to be automated. This would do more than just save time – digitalising data also boosts transparency and offers other benefits.

The challenge with this is to select appropriate hardware, i.e. sensor and actuator technology, for each application and to choose and integrate data into appropriate systems.

Question: Start-ups are highly sought-after and can cherry-pick their location. You deliberately avoided the large metropolises and went for Saarland. What attracted you to Saarland as a business location?

Christian Schwindling, Qbing: Qbing arose from a research group at htw saar (University of Applied Sciences). This link to Saarland’s research landscape is something that still benefits us today.

Saarland offers an excellent network for entrepreneurs, with rapid decision-making processes and a point of contact for every concern. I have always felt in good hands in Saarland, both during the initial phase and in our current growth phase, and I also believe that QIS GmbH continues to be well served here.

Consistec ‘Automation without cybersecurity is a risk’, in the expert view of Thomas Sinnwell, CEO Research & Development of consistec. Mr Sinnwell explains what the company does to secure its customers’ automation processes and why it has chosen to do this from Saarland.

Thomas Sinnwell, consistec:

Question: Does increasing automation also increase the risk of attacks?

Thomas Sinnwell, consistec: In principle, yes. Automation is now being applied to systems that are no longer proprietary. However, proprietary protocols and compartmentalised networks previously provided good levels of protection. All major manufacturers now use the IP protocol, and internet connections provide new vectors of attack. If I identify weaknesses in just one major control technology provider, this enables me to attack a multitude of companies.

Question: Does this mean that IoT poses a further problem?

Thomas Sinnwell, consistec: Exactly. If you look at the home automation sector, there are countless systems that I can attack and misuse.

Security is therefore becoming increasingly important.

Question: What are the dangers of ignoring security aspects?

Thomas Sinnwell, consistec: Automation without cybersecurity is a risk. There has been a huge increase in attacks in industrial environments.

Facilities are being crippled and companies blackmailed, and this trend is rising. Cyberattacks have become a criminal business opportunity. It is not even that difficult any more – there are numerous guides and tutorials, and for not very much money I can buy lots of malware, or even personalised malware, that I can use to attack a wide range of companies.

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How do you integrate security into networked production facilities?

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consistec uncovers OT/IT security flaws and system vulnerabilities in real time

Thomas Sinnwell, consistec:

Question:

For new facilities, security systems should be planned

You started your company in Saarland. Does this location

right from the outset.

offer benefits for companies?

For existing systems, the challenges are more complex.

Thomas Sinnwell, consistec:

OT systems are not generally patched, meaning that they often run for 5-20 years using the same software version.

In this instance, there is only one way of protecting them: they have to be regrouped and the individual segments secured using an industrial firewall or edge boxes. With the edge box concept, I can intercept data and link it up with monitoring. This is how we operate with our customers. We introduce edge boxes to enable monitoring of old existing installations and allow us to connect to our analysis software. It is important that this is reactionless, i.e. that the analysis system itself cannot import any malware. This also complies with the Federal Office for Information Security’s specifications for segmentation. I ensure that if there is an attack, this does not cripple the entire factory.

One tangible benefit is the fact that Saarland is an exceptionally good IT location, including in the field of cybersecurity. The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, which is based here, is one of the top three research institutes in the world. This is a fantastic starting point. Similarly, we maintain close contact with the German Research Center for Artificial intelligence (DFKI), which is also located in Saarland. This collaboration is a huge plus point, as machine learning is an important topic for us when it comes to identifying anomalies in networks. The top-quality education offered by Saarland University and the research institutes provides us with exceptionally well-trained staff. In addition, Saarland still has numerous manufacturing companies. Working with these companies is an invaluable asset for further developing our systems to meet the needs of our target market.

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TRANSFORMING INDUSTRY IS A COLLABORATIVE TASK Germany’s Saarland – an industrial region is capitalizing on its roots and striding purposefully into the future.

Germany’s Saarland – an industrial hub by persuasion of its well acknowledged central location

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ven before the coronavirus pandemic, industry was facing a massive upheaval. “Industry 4.0”, “advanced manufacturing” and “on-demand production” are some of the buzzwords accompanying this upheaval and ushering in a new industrial age.

The automotive industry, in particular, is experiencing a complete system change. New fleets with alternative drive technologies must be developed and brought to market. It can be safely assumed that the new production processes required will go beyond anything now offered by “Industry 4.0”.

As one of Germany’s strongest automotive regions and a key production location for other industries, the companies, the research and the politics of the Saarland have a significant impact on the development of “Industry 4.0”, across nearly all areas of production and process management.

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Saarland companies are implementing Industry 4.0 principles The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has its headquarters in Saarland. It is regarded as one of the birthplaces of “Industry 4.0”, so it is no wonder that Saarland companies recognised its potential early on and have been exploiting it across multiple sectors.

Bosch Rexroth set up the world’s first “Industry 4.0” assembly, at its Saarland plant, and received the 2014 ‘Industry 4.0 Award’ for this technological step. Two hundred different hydraulic valves from two thousand different individual parts are now produced on one production line, where six different lines were previously required. Line workers are supported by help texts, videos, and light signals. This technological step forward has enabled the company to boost productivity, reduce inventory

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stock and save half a million euros a year.

Logistics specialists are also repositioning their services and creating intelligent interfaces with their customers.

Marco Eglseder, CEO of Rein Spedition, expects AI to be widely used in logistics

Marco Eglseder, CEO of the Saarland company Rein Spedition, forecasts important development in the logistics sector. “As a service provider to major industry partners, we do not just wait for our customers’ specifications. Instead, we actively develop solutions that combine Industry 4.0 production principles and “Big Data” with our services. In Saarland, this is also easy to implement for mediumsized companies. Good networks and collaborative cooperation with local research institutes are a clear competitive advantage for us.” Rein Spedition is particularly interested in the benefits offered by AI. “We participate and contribute our resources and research interests in relevant local research projects. We are convinced that AI applications will be a basic requirement for future collaborations with our customers.’

One of the most crucial aspects and deciding factors for the success of the data-oriented industry is cybersecurity.

“Industry 4.0 can only be achieved with IT security X.0 that is consistently several steps ahead of new industrial applications’, explains Prof.

Dr. Mana Mojadadr, CEO of MBC Cybersecurity. To ensure that the increasing digital networking of machines and infrastructure has any chance of being sustainable, we use machine learning technology. We work with companies from a wide variety of sectors to develop forward-looking software solutions.’ The CEO of MBS emphasises the vital role that cybersecurity plays for technological advances in industry. “A cybersecurity problem in critical infrastructure can quickly become a safety problem.

Anticipatory use of cybersecurity software therefore ensures trust in Industry 4.0.” Germany’s Saarland has shown itself to be ideally equipped for the challenges that companies are facing, as the example of MBC makes clear: ‘In Saarland, we have access to highly trained people and an exceptional research landscape, particularly in the IT and cybersecurity sector.’

Industry Companies receive full support from the state government.

Prof. Dr. Mana Mojadadr, CEO of MBC Cybersecurity, views data security as crucial for Industry 4.0 Success results from commitment and support working hand in hand To ensure that companies enjoy ideal conditions in Saarland, the state’s economic development agency, gwSaar, is developing tailor-made industrial sites.

Thomas Schuck, CEO of gwSaar, explains what is being offered: ‘The development of new industrial sites is the responsibility of Saarland’s Economic Promotion Corporation.

Thanks to decades of collaboration with investors from every sector, we have a good overview of what companies require. These requirements are the maxim when we develop our industrial sites. The quick, goal-oriented and caring support we provide to relocation projects is well known. The package offered is a comprehensive service, from project-specific site information through to fully developed sites or optimum real estate. A package that can provide companies with decisive timeline and budgetary advantages when implementing their projects.”

Thomas Schuck, CEO of gwSaar, creating optimal conditions for investors

Anke Rehlinger, Minister of Economics, Labor, Energy and Transport and Deputy Prime Minister of Saarland, emphasises: “The Saarland is a state that gained its economic success from coal and steel. What are the coal deposits of the 21st century? Digital infrastructure and networking are without a doubt a key part of future industry. Innovation and digital networking are not at odds with industrial tradition – they are the key to ensuring that our economic success continues in the future. We in the state government are supporting the economy via a major expansion of speedy Internet services and investment in technological advances such as hydrogen. Industry will continue to offer well-paid jobs in the future, if we are able to actively engage with this future!’

Anke Rehlinger, Saarland’s Minister of Economics, Labour, Energy and Transport, is committed to Saarland as an industrial hub Saarland is promoting innovation in local SMEs via the Zentrale Technologieprogramm Saar. However, applied entrepreneurial research and development takes more than just funding: It also requires a goaloriented interconnection between industry and science. In Germany’s Saarland, therefore, companies can rely on an effective research infrastructure.

Partnering industry: Saarland’s research landscape The Centre for Mechatronics and Automation Technology (ZeMA) in

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Industry the Saarland serves as a key partner for regional and national companies when it comes to introducing new technologies to industrial floors.

Local companies, in particular in the fields of mechanical engineering, consumer goods and the automotive sector, benefit from the active transfer of technology from the Centre’s applied research.

Projects, such as the Saarbrücken SMEs 4.0 Centre of Excellence, conducted by ZeMA and other Saarland partners, particularly give small and medium-sized enterprises an opportunity to work with the Centre’s experts to develop specific solutions for Industry 4.0 advancements. This ensures that SMEs can rapidly incorporate research findings into their everyday production and processes.

The use of new technologies in industry and the continuous improvement of production and business processes secures existing jobs and ensures that our region will continue to play a pioneering economic role in the future’, explains Prof. Rainer Müller, Scientific CEO of ZeMA.

for research into artificial intelligence and one of the most important centres of excellence worldwide Applications of tomorrow are being developed in numerous industrial projects The institute’s scientific expertise covers a wide range of areas, from agents and simulated reality to algorithmic business and production, cognitive assistance systems, language technology and multilingualism as well as smart service engineering.

“In Saarbrücken, DFKI and its around 400 employees are closely networked with all university and independent research institutes as well as - and this is particularly important to us with medium-sized companies in Saarland”, emphasises Antonio Krüger, Professor of Computer Science and CEO of the German Research Centre for Artificial intelligence (DFKI). “We see many tangible results have been achieved from these yearlong, intensive and constructive dialogues. The successful development of the nonprofit DFKI GmbH shows that trustbased cooperation and a state that keeps red tape to a minimum can sustainably support and accelerate structural change towards a knowledge-based society. The DFKI makes a significant contribution to the continuing development of the Saarland as a production and industry hub.”

Prof. Rainer Müller of ZeMA points the way to Industry 4.0 In the future, production will involve networking all available data streams. Data streams from customers, suppliers and logistics providers will be incorporated into internal processes. As a result, companies that make efficient and secure use of big and mega data will have a clear competitive advantage. In addition, this treasury of data can lead to new business and revenue models.

DFKI, headquartered in Saarbrücken, is considered as the largest centre

Antonio Krüger, Professor of Computer Science and CEO of DFKI, supports medium-sized companies via cooperation ZeMA and DFKI have pooled their skills to create the industry Power4Production (P4P) platform. P4P focuses on intelligent production technologies that enable the intel-

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ligent networking of products and the production environment along the entire value chain. The aim is to tackle specific tasks in industry and ensure that the resulting solutions are quickly transferred to an industrial environment.

Communication between workpiece and machine, human-robot communication (HRC) and cyber-physical production systems are focus areas for the platform’s researchers and companies. P4P also supports companies with other challenges, including robust networks, cloud computing and energy efficiency in production.

The work focuses on transferring the results of applied research into industry, and on collaboration in research projects to solve specific industry problems.

Transforming industry is a collaborative task The example of Germany‘s Saarland shows that industrial change and development in the sense of Industry 4.0 requires the cooperation of all actors. One obvious prerequisite is cooperation along the entire value chain, including research. Optimal siting and expansion conditions ensure entrepreneurial investment in the future.

Informed and creative political decisions can improve the framework of conditions for resident companies.

Germany has established a stimulus package of 130 billion euros in response to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. These funded projects will assure that the industry and production processes of the future will remain a key focus on both a state and federal level. *****************************

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Author: Anja Petschauer Marketing Director gwSaar Saarland Economic Promotion Corporation a.petschauer@invest-in-saarland.com

Your Germany’s Saarland contact in Turkey: (Ms) Derya Araç Temsilci gwSaar Türkiye / Representative gwSaar Turkey gwSaar Saarland Eyaleti Resmi Ekonomik Kalkınma Şirketi M: +90 / 531 958 83 88 E: d.arac@invest-in-saarland.com

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FTP

FPT INDUSTRIAL IS BACK ON THE TRACK: AN OFFICIAL PARTNER OF THE APRILIA RACING TEAM IN THE MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Performance, reliability, and power, but also advanced research, a love of a challenge and competition at the highest technological level. These are the values shared by FPT Industrial and Aprilia Racing, which have led the CNH Industrial brand to become an official partner of the racing department of the Noale company in the MotoGP World Championship - the championship that represents the technological pinnacle of motorcycle racing.

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he FPT Industrial logo will debut on the track, displayed on the new Aprilia RS-GP ridden by Aleix Espargarò and Bradley Smith, starting on July 19th with the Spanish Grand Prix held at the Jerez circuit. It will accompany the bikes, riders, and the entire Aprilia Racing Team at all the stages of the world championship season that promises to be very close-run and hardfought, right up until the last chequered flag.

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As part of the Piaggio Group, Aprilia has 54 world titles to its name, and with 294 Grands Prix wins in the Motorcycle World Championship, it holds the record for victories amongst all the European manufacturers in the history of the greatest motorcycle competition. Before the start of the season, the many Aprilia fans and motor enthusiasts that are part of the FPT Industrial world had the opportunity to “virtually” test the new Aprilia MotoGP in the Powered by FPT version, riding it on ‘discovery’ laps of the Mugello racetrack.

From May 23rd-30th, aspiring Grand Prix riders were able to challenge the famous e-gamer eleghost555, in a specially prepared video game, trying to beat his lap time at the prestigious and challenging Tuscan track. The fact that thousands of gamers participated in the challenge and the evident enthusiasm it inspired across all social media networks are testament to the rousing emotions to be experienced on track with FPT Industrial and Aprilia.

“At FPT Industrial we also feel at home at the MotoGP circuits. We look forward to the start of the World Cup to see Aprilia Racing take to the track as well as to celebrate ‘Made in Italy’, especially after such a difficult period.

Together we want to be the engines of the restart,” confirms Carlo Moroni, Communications Manager for FPT Industrial. The Brand loves challenges.

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In the past, it achieved record speed on water with its Cursor 16 marine engine, which reached 277.5 km/h and got on the podium of the historic Dakar race with its Cursor 13. It also equipped a grape harvester with its N67 engine, which harvested 197.6 tons of grapes in Australia in eight hours, corresponding to about 200,000 bottles of Shiraz.

“The partnership with FPT Industrial takes on a special character precisely because it has come into being in such a difficult year, not only for Motorsport and the MotoGP but also for the entire industry, domestic and worldwide,” says Massimo Rivola, Aprilia Racing’s CEO. “It is, therefore, more than just a strong sign of restarting; it is proof of the strength and determination of two Italian brands who are collaborating to compete at the most difficult of moments in a championship at the highest level, united by their love of a challenge”.

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EMAG

EMAG takes over Scherer Feinbau, expanding its product range and customer base

The Southern German machine builder will take over the Lower Franconian company Scherer Feinbau based in Alzenau, a specialist for CNC vertical lathes and vertical shaft turning machines.

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or more than 40 years, Scherer has been developing efficient production solutions for the automotive, aerospace, mechanical engineering and casting industries - from metal cutting machining to parts handling and automation.

The focus is on vertical CNC lathes for workpieces with turning diameters of between 160 and 550 millimeters and shaft turning centers for workpieces with turning diameters of between 250 and 350 millimeters. A classic application for Scherer is the highly efficient series production of brake discs.

The specialists rely at this on machines that have been specially optimised for brake discs and have thus gained a high level of acceptance in the market. Two machine platforms enable different, easily automated production lines, matching the volume and hall layout of the customer.

on the one hand, Scherer’s CNC vertical lathes are marketed worldwide by EMAG. EMAG’s excellent global network within the automotive industry provides an ideal basis for future success. The worldwide EMAG service network will also be available as a contact for Scherer customers in the future. On the other hand EMAG is expanding its technological know-how with this takeover. Most notably, the aforementioned years of experience in the field of brake disc machining play a role here, as Markus Heßbrüggen, CEO of the EMAG Group confirms: “Over the past few years Scherer has developed robus solutions for this application, which will continue to be of great importance for the automotive industry in the future - across all types of drives. We expect new market impulses and development chances from this knowhow”.

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Focus on technological know-how

Scherer Feinbau was founded in Mömbris in 1978 and has been part of the CHIRON Group, headquartered in Tuttlingen, since 2012. With effect from August 1, 2020 Scherer will be taken over completely by EMAG. In doing so, the EMAG Group is continuing a long-term strategy.

The company, headquartered in Salach near Göppingen, has repeatedly succeeded in expanding its own know-how and market position through a clever expansion strategy. “As a result the EMAG Group is today one of the few manufacturers that covers the entire process chain from soft to hard machining with its production systems and can boast a wealth of application know-how. With the takeover of Scherer we are continuing that road to success”, says Heßbrüggen.

TEAMTECHNİK

The basis for major projects is process expertise and professional project management Systems specialist teamtechnik also regularly creates build-to-print systems for its customers - with order volumes even into the multiple millions. Time and again, the key feature here is short delivery times. The projects range from single machines through to complex turnkey systems with sophisticated process technology. The systems specialist builds them exactly to the technical specifications provided by its customers – and in an astonishingly short time.

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rerequisites for successful implementation of build-toprint projects are professional project management, efficient process workflows already in place and comprehensive process know-how. Over many years teamtechnik has standardized its entire organizational and process flows – throughout the entire value chain. Thanks to these best-practice methods and a global positioning with plentiful resources, the system builder is able to complete

major projects within a tight time frame.

‘Trust in expertise and a mastery of assembly and testing processes plays a major part when awarding contracts for large build-toprint projects. This is where we score points’, says Frank Hack, Managing Director Medtech at teamtechnik Maschinen und Anlagen GmbH. For over 40 years teamtechnik has developed and built custom assembly and test lines.

Experienced engineers and software specialists create automated production solutions for companies in the automotive, medical technology and new energy sectors. ‘This experience is crucial for the tight budgets and schedules of our build-toprint projects. And this is how we can implement even highperformance systems with complex integrated testing technology within a short period of time’, stresses Frank Hack.

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THE FIRST “POWERED BY FPT” MARINA ESTABLISHED IN PORTO ROTONDO

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he partnership between FPT Industrial and the Fishing Division of the Porto Rotondo Yacht Club, in Sardinia, was officially inaugurated on July 9, 2020. The event was commemorated with the installation of a permanent plaque next to the main entrance of the clubhouse.

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Porto Rotondo Yacht Club

chaired by Roberto Azzi and Sandro Onofaro for the fishing division. This technical partnership between the global powertrain brand of CNH Industrial and the Fishing Division of one of the most prestigious Italian Yacht Clubs inaugurates the first ”Powered by FPT” Marina. The project’s objective is to promote the Brand and, above all, its division dedicated to marine engines for both commercial and pleasure powerboating pursuits. Through this collaboration, FPT

Industrial is reaching out to its end customers, nurturing firsthand experiences and customer centricity.

Currently, FPT Industrial produces seven types of commercial marine engines and eight variants dedicated to pleasure crafts. Among the main models are: the 735 kW C16 1000 which is capable of generating high levels of power density and torque, combined with reduced fuel consumption and a low environmental impact;

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Yacht Club marina in Porto Rotondo

the 578 kW C16 600 which is able to provide the power of an 18-liter engine in the from a 13-liter version; the 478 kW C90 650 EVO which guarantees high injection pressures and timing accuracy in any operating condition with consequent greater efficiency and responsiveness at each speed; and the lightweight 331 kW N67 570 EVO, which is compact and with low operating costs to provide high specific power with minimum consumption.

All of these engines can be paired with the Red Horizon integrated marine control system, developed by FPT Industrial in collaboration with ZF, a technology supplier of systems for the next generation of mobility, and Navico (Simrad), a manufacturer of marine electronics. Red Horizon is the integration of the most advanced marine

technologies in terms of engine, monitoring and control systems. By combining state-of-the-art technologies from all partners, Red Horizon guarantees full navigation control and safety, best piloting comfort, easy handling and mooring.

The inaugural event - by invitation only and limited in number in compliance with the current social distancing rules - was attended by representatives of the Board of the Porto Rotondo Yacht Club and FPT Industrial.

“Our goal is to promote highlevel fishing events in the Porto Rotondo area that can meet the requests of demanding professionals and their boats,” commented Sandro Onofaro, IGFA Captain (International Game Fishing Association), Federal Guide of sport fishing, a European Record holder for sea fishing with a watercraft,

and Director of the YCPR Fishing Division, the fishing division of the Porto Rotondo Yacht Club. “The partnership with FPT Industrial - the leader in the field of marine engines - unites us in developing not only the focus on marine conservation, but also a passion for challenges and for fair competition of the very best caliber. Furthermore, it will enable us to make a further qualitative leap that will allow Porto Rotondo to become a new favorite hot spot for sporting fishermen from all over the world.”

“The collaboration agreement with FPT Industrial that we are celebrating today,” said Roberto Azzi, President of the Porto Rotondo Yacht Club, “is the ideal continuation and completion of the twinning policy with other prestigious clubs around the world, from Cape Town to Punta del Este,

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FTP INDUSTRIAL from Plymouth to Cuba just to name a few - which our partnership has been promoting for several years.

The fact that we can rely upon theRIAL collaboration and experience of a partner who, in the marine engine sector alone, has an impressive number of victories and world records to its credit, will contribute to further amplifying the reputation of Porto Rotondo as a go-to destination for tourism, pursuing 360 degrees of allround excellence. As such, our Yacht Club becomes a meeting and reference point for those who want to experience the sea for active and dynamic sporting pursuits.”

“On behalf of FPT Industrial, we are delighted and proud of this agreement that entrusts

us with the prestigious role of Technical Partner for this top-class Yacht Club,” declared Carlo Moroni, Head of Brand Communication at FPT Industrial, at the end of the inauguration ceremony.

“In our vision, the agreement represents the first step in a strategy aimed at exporting the concept of tangibility to our brand, as well as highlighting our commitment to sporting initiatives that focus on protecting and studying the sea. The latter is of the utmost importance to us, as we’ve demonstrated in the past, also with the implementation of our ‘Fishing for Plastic’ project.”

The partnership between FPT Industrial and the Porto Rotondo Yacht Club includes

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the Brand acting as a sponsor of important sporting events linked to the Big Game Fishing world, the first of which will take place on 21-22 August: The O’ Offshore Trolling “Powered by FPT”, a sport fishing competition with the “catch & release” formula, dedicated to the imperial needlefish. A scientific project on deep sea fishing and satellite monitoring of the imperial needlefish has been active since 2019; deriving from the collaboration between the Maguro-San Foundation, IGFA and Stanford University. The goal is to learn the migratory and behavioral habits of the imperial needlefish by means of the most refined and modern technology available today.

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ETV

ETW Energietechnik expands biogas plant to regenerative storage Flex operation

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n Wehrbleck in Lower Saxony, the company ETW secures Energietechnik from Moers surcharge expanded an agricultural biogas plant into a regenerative storage power and option plant in 2019. The CHP experts were supported for longer by the planning company Energethik from OsnabrĂźck. compensation In addition to the new Flex CHP with the TCG 2020 V20 biogas engine from MWM with 2 megawatts, electric and 2.3 megawatts, thermally, ETW also installed a combined gas storage tank with 8,490 and a heat storage tank with 1,000 cubic metres. The total investment amounts to 1.6 million euros.

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and 4.1 million kilowatt hours of thermal energy before the expansion. Since its expansion into a storage power plant, the plant now produces 5.7 million kilowatt hours of electrical energy and almost 5.8 million kilowatt hours of heat per year. The electricity is fed into the grid; the waste heat is fed into a district heating network for heating private and municipal buildings and is used to dry wood chips.

Part of the heat is diverted to keep the engine warm when it is not running. This allows the direct marketer to quickly restart the engine if necessary and immediately access the full output of the CHP. Flex operation ensures profitability In addition to the increase in output, the plant now operates flexibly. In return, Rohlfs will earn an additional flexibility surcharge of 40 euros per kilowatt over the next five years. Afterwards, the farmer can optionally apply for a further ten-year

EEG payment by means of a tender. His main advantage: thanks to the Flex CHP, his plant is now operated in such a way that electricity and heat can always be fed in at the most productive time of day. For this purpose, the biogas plant is controlled by a direct marketer in such a way that the storage tanks are always optimally filled when prices are at their highest and that the largest possible quantities of electricity and heat are available for this purpose.

Safety alarm stops gas supply preventively The plant is powered by desulphurised biogas. For this purpose, the sulphur content is conditioned down from around 5,000 parts per million (ppm) to around 2 ppm. A safety alarm with integrated stop of the gas supply to the storage protects the CHP at a sulphur content above 2 ppm. This is particularly necessary because the sulphur content can rise faster in flex operation.

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After the preventive shutdown, operation of the engine is maintained with the gas from the storage tank.

Space available for SCR catalytic converter „In order to be prepared for future NOx limits, ETW has already reserved the necessary space on the CHP container for an SCR catalytic converter. The plans also take into account a reserve for exhaust back pressure,“ explains Alexander Szabo, the responsible sales manager at ETW Energietechnik.

This makes it possible to reduce biogas production at low electricity prices so that the CHP unit can be shut down for up to two days if necessary without overloading the gas storage tank.

The heat storage tank can store 40,600 kilowatt hours of thermal energy and thus supply the heating network for around

50 hours without the CHP unit having to be put into operation.

The bottom line is that the CO2 savings achieved by the regenerative storage power plant in electricity production can be estimated at 2,683 tonnes per year and in heat production, including process heat, at around 1,300 tonnes.

Flexible substrate input The variation of the substrate quantities also contributes to the flexibility of the CHP operation.

In addition to the new Flex CHP with the TCG 2020 V20 biogas engine from MWM with 2 megawatts, electric and 2.3 megawatts, thermally, ETW also installed a combined gas storage tank with 8,490 and a heat storage tank with 1,000 cubic metres.

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Tesla Gigafactory Texas İs ‘Happening Full Speed’, Says President Of Automotive, Lots Of Job Openings

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esla president of automotive Jerome Guillen says that “Gigafactory Texas is happening at full speed” as the automaker is already announcing a lot of job openings.

After Tesla finally confirmed a site next to Austin for its next factory in the US last month, the automaker started moving quickly.

A contractor has already taken over the site and started ground preparation to clear a massive space to start construction.

Originally, Tesla used its core team that worked on other Gigafactories to move forward with Gigafactory Texas, but it now also has to hire a local team for construction and soon production.

Jerome Guillen, Tesla President of Automotive, posted on LinkedIn earlier this week: Giga Texas is happening, full speed! Lots of job openings.

Matt is a great leader and is looking for supply chain experts for large-scale construction. Please apply if you are interested, feel qualified, and want to embrace the project of a lifetime!

“Matt” is Matt Burkholder, Tesla’s director of global supply management, and he is building a new supply management team for Gigafactory Texas.

Tesla has now listed about 40 new job openings for Gigafactory Texas.

Most have to do with the construction of the new factory, but Tesla is also looking for environmental engineers, supply chain managers, automation engineers, mechanical engieers, factory design engineers, and more.

As we previously reported, Tesla is planning to move fast at the new factory.

The automaker wants to produce the Cybertruck and Tesla Semi electric trucks at the location by the end of next year.

Tesla is also planning to produce Model Y and Model 3 vehicles at the factory, and we heard that the automaker plans on deploying some level of Model Y production at the plant first.

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Techman robot, ntust training program is very successful All 26 students goin to TM to have the training courses, which included built-in vision,3D,AOI,AI, TMM for three weeks.

Techman Robot, NTUST training program is very successful.

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Delta and NTUST Cooperation Delta and National Taiwan University

of Science and Technology (NTUST) announced the establishment of the “DeltaNTUSTJointResearchCenter”.

At least 30 million investments will be made for the project in three years.

building the international competitive advantage of the enterprise.

Delta has been working very closely with universities in cultivating talents, including establishing Joint Research Center with top universities.

Through the close interaction between teachers and students and the industry, it strengthens the students’ practical In the future, the center will invest more experience and cultivates top talents in research on 5G, cloud computing, AI, for the industry. and other cutting-edge technologies.

The center will fist focus on #datacenter and #energystorage systems.

This Joint Research Center also successfully obtained the “AcademiaIndustry Research Center #AIRCenter)” subsidy from the Ministry of Science and Technology, realizing the alliance of industry, government, and academia, and

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THE CREATIVITY OF IED STUDENTS FOR FPT INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS

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he engine has been conceived and perceived not only as a generator of power but also as a brand ambassador, designed as a “means of communication” of the founding values and passions of the brand itself.

While a focus on the aesthetics of an engine is not common within the traditional powertrain industry, FPT Industrial, always seeking to innovate, has collaborated with the Turin campus of IED (European Institute of Design), the prestigious school, founded in 1966, operating in the field of 40

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training and research in the disciplines of Design, Fashion, Visual Arts and Communication, to create cutting-edge powertrain engines with a unique, artistic design that is balanced with function and efficiency.

The partnership between FPT Industrial and IED is a first in the industry. This collaboration aims at giving immediate visibility to the design and production quality of the brand’s engines, to the humanization process that sees the product become more and more user-friendly, and to the return to the color red for

FPT as a distinctive symbol of power and passion for performance. Through their projects, the students have successfully created style and creativity exercises that convey the products’ excellence and the brand’s intrinsic uniqueness.

Starting from the end of October 2019, four teams, each made up of product, transportation, and graphic design students, supported by a company tutor for each group, have been involved in a tight schedule of factory visits and intense talks with the various company managers, aimed at creating

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first-hand knowledge of the world of engine production and stimulating participants to interpret this world through different eyes and directing their creativity to look at new rules.

The Texture Team was chosen to create a series of patterns to be applied to the body of the powertrains to make them immediately recognizable, even if the engines themselves are repainted by customers. This resulted in proposals making creative use of FPT’s logos with themes that ranged from the animal world to that of the transmission of sound in space.

The Label Team, on the other hand, decided to characterize the engines of the brand by adopting a sustainable solution in all respects, including from a cost point of view, intervening on those elements - such as the oil dipstick - which are always visible and take on a wider meaning but are also more pleasing to the eye if personalized with the brand logo. The team has also created a recycled plastic label that describes some of the engine’s characteristics and offers space for multimedia content.

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The Shape Team has undertaken the difficult challenge of making the engines exhibited at trade fairs not only unique, distinctive, and immediately recognizable, but also comparable to actual contemporary works of art. The resulting proposal, which plans to involve the participation of artists such as Cao Fei, a digital art guru, has given rise to a completely new way of presenting products and their performance by communicating actively with the public and with the exhibition spaces.

A note of merit also goes to the Color Team, which suggested decorating some key parts of the engine with a heat-sensitive paint that, as the temperature increases, reveals previously invisible details and content, giving a strong external meaning to what is happening inside the engine.

These Teams shared their ideas in the presence of FPT Industrial and the CNH Industrial Design Center senior management.

“It was very exciting and engaging to see these students reaching out to our sector and trying their hand at our world, which at times

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can appear focused exclusively on engineering topics. They did this without preconceptions and with an inexhaustible spark of enthusiasm, creativity, and positivity,” comments Egle Panzella, Brand Equity, Sustainability, and Heritage manager of FPT Industrial and Project Manager. “The results speak for themselves, with many teams that not only have produced excellent ideas for content and feasibility but have also gone beyond the assigned task, exploring through multimedia new ways and new worlds in which the FPT Industrial engines can act as protagonists.”

“The teams surprised us with very original ideas that demonstrate their creative effort to introduce elements inspired by the latest design trends on the engine,” says Silvio Meoni, F1A Program Manager. “Our goal was precisely to receive unusual proposals and the students explored without limitations, letting themselves be inspired, demonstrating how the engine can also be an object that can encourage creative solutions.”

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Seco/Warwick Organizes The World’s First Such Online Event – Heat Treatment 4.0 E-Seminar

SECO/ WARWICK – the leader in heat treatment and vacuum metallurgy – will hold the industry’s

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“ he world has moved predominantly online and its population leads parallel lives there: private, work and business.

It is in this network that we work, meet, discuss, watch, explore, get to know and learn. Hence the need for e-SEMINAR 4.0 Heat Treatment & Metallurgy,” says Katarzyna Sawka, Global Marketing Director of the SECO/WARWICK Group.

The event organized by SECO/ WARWICK is not another webinar, it is not a product promotion, it is not a virtual fair – it is a platform for the exchange of knowledge and experience, a meeting of practitioners and scientists, an event perfectly adapted for today’s times.

Thousands of participants from all over the world will meet in safety and comfort without any time or territorial limits. The industry will share knowledge and experience; they will see, hear, read, learn, discuss the business and challenges of heat treatment, and unravel industry secrets.

3 thematic blocks, 3 different points of view There will be three thematic blocks with three different views on the industry, one each from the point of view of business, maintenance and management, titled: “Business 4.0”, “Daily challenges of heat treatment”, and “Secrets of heat treatment”. To boldly look into the future requires seeing it from different perspectives. This will be possible thanks to sessions held in English taking place in 3 parallel meeting rooms, run and cohosted by industry and scientific authorities. e-SEMINAR – virtual meeting of the industry Big companies and names meet on September 9 on the SECO/ WARWICK e-SEMINAR platform for the exchange of knowledge and experiences. The virtual meeting is tailored to the capabilities and needs of today’s specialists in the heat treatment and metallurgy industry. By creating the world’s first event of this type, the organizers

have taken care of the safety of participants, ensured a TV-quality broadcast of the sessions, and established the opportunity for interaction between participants and speakers.

SECO is ECO “The pandemic has shown everyone the great need of our planet, so we decided that a symbolic $1 of each ticket sold will be donated to one of three social organizations: WWF, PETA or Greenpeace. The participants of the event will decide to which of the social giants the collected money will go. SECO is ECO and so are its partners,” concludes Katarzyna Sawka.

first virtual meeting of international specialists, and will share their knowledge and experience online.

The world of heat treatment and metallurgy is now meeting online: https://www.secowarwick.com/ en/eseminar/.

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SAP Phases Out PLM to Become Reseller of Siemens Teamcenter in Surprising Alliance Longstanding

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After what must have been years of negotiations, two longstanding market competitors have become more like friends with the announcement of SAP and Siemens Digital Industries deciding to form a partnership that includes PLM.

For Siemens, this applies more specifically to the cPDm side (collaborative Product Definition management) where everything indicates—even if it’s not stated outright— competitors that SAP will begin to phase out its main solution SAP PLM, which consists of a number of related modules. Instead, SAP will start selling Siemens’ PLM suite, Teamcenter.

For SAP, Siemens will sell SAP’s Intelligent Asset Management solution (“plant SAP and management system”), as well as SAP’s Project and Portfolio Management.

Of course, it’s the nature of things that these companies are launching this partnership Siemens Digital as a win-win deal for both parties, and there are certainly those elements in the plan.

But a reasonable assumption is that above all this deal makes Siemens’ PLM side and the Teamcenter PLM backbone suite the big winner.

Industries This is the most reasonable interpretation of the sensational news that these companies released this morning. How? I will take look at that and some other aspects of the partnership in today’s article. announce

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SIEMENS DIGITAL A REORGANIZATION OF RELATIONSHIPS. “As the industrial world has evolved, companies need to come together in new ways to enable the digital transformation,” said Siemens Digital Industries’ global CEO, KLAUS HELMRICH, in a commentary on today’s surprising partnership announcement between Siemens and business systems giant SAP. He adds that the partnership between these companies is an excellent example of such a ‘reorganization’ of relationships.

“This exciting collaboration between two industry leaders is about more than just interoperability and interfaces; it is about creating a truly integrated digital thread that unites product and asset lifecycle management with the business that enables customers to optimize production of products.” (Image courtesy of Handelsblatt.)

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n a deeper level, the meaning of this surprising partnership is still unclear in terms of in-depth details. In a press release published this morning, the tone is general.

It initially is stated that “together, industry leaders Siemens and SAP will deliver integrated end-to-end software solutions across product lifecycle, supply chain and asset management.”

The idea here is obviously that within the framework of this alliance, SAP and Siemens should systematically and under a formal partner relationship begin to utilize each other’s expertise and technology, and also put effort into creating the integrations needed for users to have really smooth flows. Furthermore, it is noted that this is about, “providing a true digital thread that helps enterprises eliminate process and information siloes, drives digitalization and delivers a comprehensive solution for the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0).”

New Constellations are Needed to Develop Competitiveness Klaus Helmrich, Siemens Digital Industries’ CEO and member of Siemens AG’s Board of Directors, states as a background to the new alliance that digital transformation will be crucial to the manufacturing

industry’s ability to increase productivity, flexibility and accelerate innovation.

“Therefore, companies must come together in new ways to enable the digital company,” he says, and adds that the partnership between Siemens and SAP is the excellent example of such a ‘reorganization’ in these relationships.

“This exciting collaboration between two industry leaders is about more than just interoperability and interfaces; it is about creating a truly integrated digital thread that unites product and asset lifecycle management with the business that enables customers to optimize production of products,” said Helmrich.

“As manufacturers design and deliver smarter products and assets, access to real-time business information across networks is critical to bring new and improved innovations to market faster,” asserts Saueressig.

He added, “Bringing together expertise from SAP and Siemens to offer Industry 4.0-enabled business processes allows enterprises to create a digital thread for the entire product and asset lifecycle. With this end-to-end solution, teams across the business network can efficiently work together to design and deliver innovative products productively, profitably and sustainably.”

Thomas Saueressig, head of Product Technology and Member of SAP’s Board.

Formulations in this style belong to the business rhetoric surrounding large alliances of the kind that this partnership entails. But no matter how much you want to “beat the drums” for this partnership, it is important to act with some caution, not least because of the tough antitrust laws that apply both in the U.S. and in the EU. The fact of the matter is that SAP is the world’s largest business systems player. Nearly 80 percent of the world’s total IT business transactions take place on an SAP system.

Furthermore, Helmrich and his SAP partner Thomas Saueressig, head of Product Engineering and member of SAP’s board, claim that this agreement will complement and integrate their respective offerings to supply customers with the first truly integrated and improved product lifecycle management solutions (PLM from Siemens), supply chain, service and asset management (ERP/ SCM/EAM from SAP).

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TC works with other ERPs and SAP with other PLMs. But now to stop trying to compete with PLM systems enables SAP’s important investment in the PLM area, which is the basis for Experience Economy (XO), which SAP has invested over $10 billion in recently.”

The new arrangement should create some concern for Dassault chief executive Bernard Charles (pictured), who is battling with Siemens Digital Industries over PLM leadership. The same applies to competitors such as PTC and Aras.

Siemens and SAP Partnership Should Worry Competitors such as Dassault, PTC and Aras

At the same time, Siemens Digital Industries has advanced rapidly in recent years and was in CIMdata’s 2019 reports regarding direct software revenues on the PLM side— the largest player before Dassault Systèmes, Autodesk, IBM and PTC. But it doesn’t stop there.

Due to the merger between the PLM and automation divisions a few years ago, Siemens is by far the world’s largest actor in terms of tools for both product development and factory automation of the type necessary for the Industry 4.0 concept.

These are conditions that antitrust authorities will take a closer look at, so it is important that SAP and Siemens keep these pieces apart in a tasteful way, while at the same time making it clear that this is an alliance that only applies to certain areas.

For example, SAP is related to things such as manufacturing industry in automotive, aerospace, machinery, telecom and other large industry segments when it comes to things like production of “manufacturingBOMs” (manufacturing Bill of Materials), while Siemens is big on “engineeringBOMs”—that is, BOMs from the product development side created in PLM systems.

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This has always been a tough, competitive situation where a number of players from the product development and PLM side have cast bright eyes on the manufacturing area. This is because, as former Siemens PLM manager Chuck Grindstaff once said in an interview with engineering.com, “it would be natural for” manufacturingBOM’s to be developed within the framework of the system that created the products, i.e. the PLM system.”

Regardless of how things stand in this matter, it is important to clarify that in this and similar cases, “full business battle still applies” and other PLM players such as Dassault or PTC are treated in a fair way.

Per Högberg, SAP digitalization evangelist for PLM strategy and implementation, commented on this aspect in a LinkedIn statement where he said, “That SAP would stop others like Dassault is unreasonable.

The strategy that has described this step (which has now been going on intensively for a while) is to generally build ERP and PLM together and have TC as the basis there. Some parts are more ERP close and others PLM close, which is why the intersection point is not easy, not least because

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Of course, it can also be assumed that competitor PLM developers such as Dassault Systèmes, PTC and Aras PLM will probably view this collaboration with some concern.

It is easy to understand why. A reasonable interpretation and foreseeable consequence of the approach of SAP being a Teamcenter reseller is that Siemens is the big winner commercially. Why? Here’s how you could reason this: No one can be the best at everything, not even the giant SAP. The German ERP developer’s investment in the PLM area in this perspective has been a bit sluggish, and technically they have not managed to take their solutions to the top—neither in terms of the number of users, although formally many are said to have received PLM solutions as almost free modular options if they bought into SAP’s large business system, nor in terms of technical capacity and sophistication.

Above all, disruptive things have happened in the field of technology related to the PLM and product development tools, particularly with sophisticated and technologically complex solutions including IoT, IIoT, generative design, VR/AR/MR, solutions for additive processes, advanced simulation and others that require full focus and significant human resources to be developed.

From this perspective, one could say that today’s message is tantamount to SAP seeing the difficulties in developing the competitive solutions required to remain in the top tier.

It is probably an exaggeration to say that SAP gave up the battle for PLM, but it is probably not too far from the truth. Instead of continuing to develop their own solutions, SAP has chosen to bet on and focus their resources in areas where they are already sharp, and instead become a reseller of a PLM system that can live up to the highest market requirements.

Instead, today’s announcement indicates that SAP and Siemens together aim to develop sharp integrations towards this globally dominant cPDm solution, and on the business side to take home a positive net result when compared to staying in competition with expensive development costs and in the long run uncertain sales levels related to the difficulties of being able to match the others’ technology content and platform-integrated approach.

By doing so, SAP can focus on solutions and areas where they are already globally dominant and technically sophisticated, such as the SAP HANA database, their cloud solutions and S/4HANA including financial systems, facility management solutions, edge computing, transaction systems for the engineering industry and more.

Siemens Teamcenter platform, including the digital manufacturing suite Tecnomatix, covers most areas of product development.

“tired” sales organization. It’s not a rare phenomenon to find there’s a risk of being a little “spoiled” as a representative of the marketdominant player. Without burdening their own sales organization too much, Siemens can take home a net income with SAP as the commercial driver can.

But as I said above, even though on the surface this looks like a better deal for Siemens than for SAP, it should not be forgotten that Siemens has many customers who may be interested in SAP’s software in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) project and portfolio management solutions.

Right now, what remains is to work on the further integration between the two partners’ software platforms, put together good and fast solutions to get the respective organizations to both learn the other party’s solutions and to develop a strong sales methodology around these.

These are not easy challenges, with tens of thousands of employees who will need to be “trained” in the new solutions, but it is possible.

A Positive Tone from Analysts In conclusion, both SAP and Siemens will profit from this cooperation, and both will be able to offer new solutions that combine their technology to help companies shorten their time to market by utilizing Industry 4.0-enabled

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data with intelligent facilities and products. This will also give organizations the benefit of integrating customer insights into product development through comprehensive solutions, from product design to service and asset management.

As a first step in the partnership, SAP will offer Siemens Teamcenter software as the core foundation for product lifecycle collaboration and data management, and Siemens will offer SAP “Intelligent Asset Management” and SAP “Project and Portfolio Management” solutions to maximize business value for manufacturers and network operators.

Both companies will work together to develop end-to-end life-cycle applications to help users achieve a seamless digital thread that improves overall business performance.

“Combining Siemens’ Team Center and SAP S/4HANA software gives companies the ability to handle everything from product design to decommissioning,” comments Bob Parker, senior VP of Industry Research at IDC. “The IT benefits of pre-integration of PLM, ERP, asset management and supply chain applications and the business benefits from having a more resilient response to changing market demand make this a compelling consideration for companies seeking a competitive advantage in the digital economy.”

A Commercial Hit for Siemens Teamcenter In my opinion, today’s announcement really represents a commercial hit for Siemens. Very few of the world’s large and medium-sized companies do not use SAP, while Siemens Teamcenter does not have the dominant position. This opens up a great opportunity for Siemens to get a series of exchanges of SAP PLM solutions for Teamcenter with SAP’s extremely large, but sometimes a bit Machine - Automation & Electricity / World News 2020

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Seco/Warwıck Discloses A nonymous Hate Case

As one of the top five heat treatment leaders and an entity involved in the world economy, SECO/WARWICK confronts numerous challenges in everyday business life.

Currently, such a challenge has become the network, specifically Internet hate.

Almost every entity operating on the market has a presence on the Internet where it builds its reputation every day and confronts the opinions of the environment. SECO/WARWICK consciously uses the Internet to create and manage content, applying a great deal of effort in it, because we care about a reliable and positive perception and representation or our brand. / Anonymous hate aimed at the company The Internet is a huge environment that can help but also harm, because it allows anonymity of the recipient and sender, including certain anonymous vilification that SECO/WARWICK has experienced. Initially, our partners, suppliers and contractors received e-mail correspondence alleging alarming and misleading information about the situation of the Group. Now employees and customers have joined the group of consumers flooded with black PR. We are concerned that after a wave of hate sent to customers, hate speech on the Internet will start. SECO/WARWICK says NO to this prospect.

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controversial discussions.

According to specialists researching the phenomenon of online hate, such a person feeds his low self-esteem, harms someone who is jealous or stands in the way of his alleged success. Our online troll, by providing information extracted from the context and presenting it in a selective manner, manipulates the facts. This attack is an act of economic hate,” says Sławomir Woźniak, President of the SECO/ WARWICK Group.

It is not the competition that works under the pseudonym, but one of our former contractors, who formulates unfounded claims and negative opinions, and then slanders and sends this information to a wide audience. SECO/ WARWICK is pending litigation against this contractor, but it turns out that legal sanctions for violating our good name and reputation are not relevant to the author of the email. Despite the conviction, he continues to slander the company, which is done, among other means, via anonymous e-mails which, although not identified explicitly, suggest the authorship of the entity: a former contractor who has been in litigation with SECO/ WARWICK for many years.

The operating scheme and the way the wording is formulated clearly indicates that the emails are authored by the same and former SECO/WARWICK contractor.

We will fight these anonymous slanders, because the good name of the company and its employees is vilified, and the information itself misleads our partners. As a listed company, SECO/WARWICK is guided by the principle of transparency in business, relations and

communication. We are not anonymous in what we do, because we believe that the facts speak for themselves. / The authorities stand behind the SECO/WARWICK wall “Cyber-bullies who feed on the possibility of making others’ lives miserable are a very severe phenomenon and I am sorry that the sign of the times is affecting such a reputable company as SECO/WARWICK” says prof. Jolanta Baranowska from the West Pomeranian University of Technology.

“I have cooperated with SECO/ WARWICK Group for decades.

This is the first time I have met a situation in which a global leader must defend itself against online frustration. A wave of hate poured out by this man hiding under a pseudonym offends and touches us, the scientific support team of the Group,” comments prof. P. Kula from the Lodz University of Technology.

“As heat treaters we all work hard to promote the many benefits of our industry and spread the word that we are the most cost-effective solution to the needs of manufacturing.

The last thing we need or want is unnecessary distraction, especially from an unknown source questioning our motives and damaging our industry’s reputation” wrote Daniel H. Herring, “The Heat Treat Doctor.”

“Over my long career, I have had the privilege of working with most of the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide and many of our suppliers as well. Each is highly ethical, acts in a professional manner and, simply stated, have their hearts (and focus) in the right place, serving the industry we love.

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SECO/WARWICK, both here in the United States, in Europe and around the world is no exception.

Any attempt by anyone to suggest otherwise detracts from our ultimate goal, the advancement of the thermal processing industry so as to offer our customers the best tools to succeed.

In this way, we all serve our better angels”, added Daniel H. Herring. / The industry is telling the hater – ENOUGH Nobody wants to be publicly defamed, because destroying reputations affects employee morale, business, decisions of potential clients and partners, or can weaken relationships. But SECO/WARWCIK, with a faithful group of suppliers and customers in 70 countries, and always taking care of relations with partners, can boast and show that in this situation our partners are with us.

“This defamation is an offense that involves slandering a company that could expose it to loss of credibility and trust. We have not lost confidence in SECO/WARWICK; we believe and confirm its credibility and the credibility of its devices. Proof - years of collaboration and dozens of solutions for this brand,” says Mike Jarvis, Engineering Director, Wallwork Heat Treatment Ltd. “After receiving the e-mail, our reaction was to forward correspondence to SECO/WARWICK without asking us to explain the matter. Because we do not respond to anonymous correspondence. As a transparent company, we require transparency from partners and those who want to be in dialogue with us. Anonymity does not embrace dialogue or transparency,” 50

comments Sebastien Matray, GAUBERT MATRAY INDUSTRIES CEO. “We were surprised by the correspondence received and the information contained therein.

The surprise was all the greater because we’ve been working with SECO/WARWICK for 10 years, on 10 projects. We know who our contractor is and our relationship has long since we crossed the threshold of partnership and are now at the stage of business friendship. As a friend, we tell the hater - NO”, noted Sylwester Pawęta, Chief Operating Officer and Commercial Proxy at HART-TECH. “In response to the defaming emails sent about SECO/WARWICK, Rex Heat Treat has not experienced any out-of-the-norm difficulties in our dealings with the company. RHT has purchased standard vacuum furnaces, first of its kind vacuum oil quenching furnace, bell style tempering furnaces, and the tallest oil quenching vacuum furnace in the world from SECO/WARWICK. We have found the entire group to be professional and highly creative for our unique needs. Rex Heat Treat looks forward to our continued relationship and next purchase from SECO/WARWICK and SECO/VACUUM Technologies,” said Johnathan W. Rex, General Manager.

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“Metals India and SECO/WARWICK relations are not impacted with such kind of communication as we have had a wonderful experience in the past and continuing through present day”, commented Ankit Gupta, Managing Director of Modern Metals India.

“I was extremely disheartened to read this slanderous correspondence about SECO/WARWICK. This absolutely does not fit the standard of business behavior. All the more so because working with SECO/ WARWICK as a business partner is always a great pleasure, combined with mutual respect and trust; with such experiences, it is impossible to believe these accusations,” adds Magdalena Nizik, General Director of CPP Poland.

Although the presented circumstances are completely independent of the Company, we apologize to our partners for any inconvenience caused. We declare that we have taken legal steps related to the situation that misrepresents our situation to our partners. We are guided by the principle of transparency, one of the most powerful forms of defending the good name of the company and its employees. Thus, this public message from the Group.

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ABB expands small robot family with fast and powerful IRB 1300 for confined spaces

IRB 1300 dramatically improves cycle times with classleading lifting ability, reach and path accuracy,

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BB is extending its family of small six-axis industrial robots with the launch of the IRB 1300, to meet demand for a faster and more compact robot able to rapidly lift heavy objects or loads with complex and irregular shapes.

Building on the success of ABB’s IRB 1600 robot for payloads up to 10kg, the IRB 1300 offers a 27 percent improve-ment in cycle times and is nearly 60 percent lighter and 83 percent smaller than the IRB 1600.

With a footprint of just 220 mm by 220 mm, the IRB 1300 is designed for use in small spaces, enabling more robots to be deployed in a confined area.

“The IRB 1300 is an exciting addition to our portfolio of small industrial robots and means we can now offer an even greater breadth of capability and performance”, said Antti Matinlauri, Head of Product Management for ABB Robotics. “We’ve designed the IRB 1300 to help our customers achieve new standards of speed and accuracy as they develop solutions to lift heavy, complex or irregular shapes, even in small workspaces.”

With improved payload and reach for materials handling, machine tending, polishing, and assembly and testing ap-plications, it is aimed at electronics, food, beverage, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods processing, pack-aging and logistics applications.

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in a smaller kg/0.9 m, 10 kg/1.15m and 7 kg/1.4 m. The 11kg payload for the 0.9 m reach variant is higher than any other competing robot in its class.

Powered by ABB’s OmniCore™ controller, the IRB 1300 offers advanced motion control and best-in-class path accuracy, allowing it to handle an expanded range of applications such as polishing and machine tending.

To maximize the versatility of the IRB 1300, the OmniCore controller can be equipped with a range of additional equipment, including fieldbus protocols, vision solutions and force control. OmniCore also offers a simple user inter-face on the intuitive FlexPendant, which features a large multi-touch display with standard gestures such as pinch, swipe and tap allowing users to quickly get to grips with programming and operating their robot.

The IRB 1300 offers 20 Input/Output ports, 50 percent more than the IRB 1600, to enable the IRB 1300 to be used with more sophisticated grippers or end-effectors, allowing users to improve productivity by handling an increased number of work pieces simultaneously.

Supplied with IP40 ingress protection as standard, the IRB 1300 has the option of IP67 protection against solid parti-cles and water ingress, or Foundry Plus2, designed to protect against the extremely harsh conditions in foundries and other metal processing plants. It can also be supplied to IPA Clean Room protection standard.

For more information about the IRB1300, click here.

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Closer Link

WELTEC BIOPOWER and Nordmethan to Operate under a Single Name For many years, the German companies WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH and Nordmethan GmbH have been cooperating

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as part of the same group. While WELTEC builds biogas and biomethane plants around the globe, Nordmethan

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supplements the portfolio with the operation of energy plants.

Within the scope of a strategic realignment, all companies of

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both businesses will henceforth operate under the globally recognised umbrella brand WELTEC BIOPOWER.

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WELTEC BIOPOWER and Nordmethan to Operate under a Single Name.

Closer Link between Energy Plant Construction and Operation.

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While WELTEC builds biogas and biomethane plants around the globe, Nordmethan supplements the portfolio with the operation of energy plants. Within the scope of a strategic realignment, all companies of both businesses will henceforth operate under the globally recognised umbrella brand WELTEC BIOPOWER.

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his brand realignment was necessary in order to perpetuate our global success story and reinforce our positioning as a competent biogas specialist in all areas of the industry. By operating under a single name, we intend to further increase the efficiency of the synergies between the individual business areas, which we had already been making use of“, explains Jens Albartus, Director of the WELTEC Group, pointing to the main motives for the closer cooperation.In the course of its history – which started in 2001 with the establishment of WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH – more and more components of the biogas value chain have been developed and bundled within the Group. Key elements include the design, planning and setup of energy plans. „To date, we have set up more than 300 plants with an output of up to 10 MW

each in 25 countries. Soon, five additional biogas plants are going to be built in Asia. Moreover, we are currently rolling out projects in several European countries“, says Albartus. He adds: „The high proportion of customdeveloped components is a key USP that enables us to reduce interfaces.“As far as the operation of biogas plants is concerned, the WELTEC Group does not concentrate solely on its own nine sites, which produce about 96 million m³ of climate-friendly biogas and biomethane a year. „We also share our expertise with other operators and take care of the plant operation on behalf of banks, liquidators and investors on a temporary or ongoing basis“, says Albartus and adds: „What is more, we regularly assist customers who run their own biogas plants with our mechanical and biological service.

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of the WELTEC Group have also included sustainable usage concepts for the output flows, e.g. in the form of heat contracting.

Currently, the biomethane produced by the Group‘s plants is used to supply communities, horticultural facilities and other businesses at 16 locations.In all its activities, the biogas specialist endeavours to remain close to its business partners and to roll out projects in an individual manner. Thus, the WELTEC Group‘s sales and service network spans the entire globe. The range of customers includes businesses from sectors such as agriculture, food, municipal administration, waste and wastewater. Jens Albartus explains: „The combination under a single name will in no way impair our existing collaboration.

Rather, we will be able to align our service offerings even more effectively with our customers‘ quality requirements.“

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Corona crisis holding down German machine tool industry orders

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rders received by the German machine tool industry in the second quarter of 2020 were 46 per cent down on the same period last year. In the process orders from Germany fell by 36 per cent. 51 per cent fewer orders were received from abroad. In the first half of 2020, the level of orders fell by 35 per cent. Domestic orders were 28 per cent lower than in the previous year. The level of orders from abroad was reduced by 39 per cent.

“The second quarter figures clearly show the impact of the corona lockdown,” said Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, Executive Director of the VDW (Verein Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken – German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), Frankfurt am Main, commenting on the results. Many customer sectors, especially the aviation and automotive industries, are experiencing sharp declines in sales. Short time work, temporary production shutdowns and liquidity shortfalls are the consequences. Global investment activity nearly came to a virtual standstill during the hard lockdown phase. It is encouraging to note, however, that the downturn in the level of orders received now appears to have bottomed out. In June, there was a noticeable increase compared with the two previous months.

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represents growth. The increase came as somewhat of a surprise and was broad-based, covering China, the US and the eurozone, including Germany, France and Italy. According to Ifo, the capital goods industry in Germany has raised its expectations. Retail sales are recovering, with industrial production and exports increasing again in June. This could herald the hoped-for recovery in the second half of the year, said Schäfer.

However, experience shows that it will take longer for this to filter through to the machine tool industry, which is a late-cycle capital goods sector. Accordingly, the industry’s expectations for the coming six months remain subdued. The latest sales figures support this view. Sales in the first half of the year were 26 per cent down on the previous year.

Companies that are driven by digitalisation and 5G expansion and are working for the medical technology and electronics sectors, and for parts of the mechanical engineering sector, are in a slightly stronger position. “However, in all areas there are still great risks attached to a second wave of infection. This makes it is very difficult to state with any accuracy when international investment activity will stabilise,” says Schäfer. The companies are doing all they can to get through the crisis, pushing ahead with development and trying to hold on to their core workforce by furloughing them. The number of employees in May of this year was 3.7 per cent down on the previous year.

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Tesla Battery Day: a raft of tech advances will deliver cost reductions worth waiting for We’re used to extremely ambitious (not to say unrealistic) timelines from Tesla—a new Terafactory in a few months, a fleet of Robotaxis before the end of the year—so Elon Musk’s measured, conservative predictions at the long-awaited Battery Day event caught the mainstream press on the wrong foot.

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news the masses were “ n three years…we can expecting, and TSLA stock do a $25,000 car that got hammered. will be basically on par It may just be that [with], maybe slightly Musk has matured, and better than, a comparable adopted a new policy gasoline car,” said the of under-promising and u n c h a r a c t e r i s t i c a l l y over-delivering. Another cautious Musk. Three thing that’s going on years? Slightly better? As here is that, as usual, our one analyst put it, to be colleagues in the generala “long-term investor” interest and financial these days means looking media have missed the ahead one year. This real implications of Tesla’s wasn’t the blockbuster news.

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How fortunate that we more tech-savvy EV journalists are here to enlighten them, and you, dear readers.

So, to sum up the message of Battery Day in plain language: The Oil Age is ending.

The main event was the unveiling of Tesla’s new, in-house battery cell, dubbed the Tesla 4680 cell in honor of its dimensions (46 mm by 80 mm).

The larger cell offers five times the energy capacity, and six times the power capacity of Tesla’s previous cells (capacity, not density—Tesla did not reveal the amount of improvement in energy density).

Simply making the cell larger allows an increase in capacity and a reduction in cost. Tesla claims that the larger form factor will increase vehicle range by 16%, and reduce cost per kWh by 14%. However, making the cell larger makes thermal management more challenging, which Tesla has dealt with by creating a new tabless cell design that offers much less resistance compared to existing designs.

The new cell design is only part of the story. Elon Musk and Drew Baglino, Tesla’s Senior VP of Powertrain and Energy Engineering, described important innovations in at least four other aspects of battery production: •

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According to The Verge, the average EV on the US market cost $55,600 in 2019, considerably pricier than the average dinosaur burner at $36,600.

The numbers represent some sweeping generalizations and a large dose of uncertainty, but if Tesla comes anywhere close to reaching its announced goals, we should start to see gas cars sitting out in the rain with the last of the cathode-ray-tube TVs sometime in 2023.

Tesla will build the nextgen batteries in Fremont.

The company hopes to be producing 10 GWh per annum within about a year, 100 GWh by 2023, and 3,000 GWh by 2030.

Massive vertical integration is the order of the day. Tesla is talking about mining its own lithium (and, naturally, making production of the light white stuff more efficient, cheaper and greener).

Every Tesla event has to have a bit of lagniappe, and this time around it was the Model S Plaid, which will be the highest-performance Model S ever. In fact, the tri-motor, allwheel drive sedan will be the quickest production car ever, with a 0-60 mph time of less than two seconds, as well as a 200 mph top speed, over 520 miles of range, and a starting price of $139,990. The superTesla isn’t at the top of the priority list, however—Musk confirmed that production is expected in “late 2021.”

By combining all these innovations, Tesla hopes to cut the cost per kWh of battery packs in half within the next three years or so. Will that get us to the Grail? Absolutely.

Industry observers are predicting that the EV industry will breach the holy $100/kWh number by 2023, but some believe that Tesla is already very close to that figure. The new, more circumspect Musk didn’t specify an exact price target, but he did say that Tesla’s three-year plan will bring the price below Grail level.

Napkins covered with scrawled a new type of silicon that math are all over the table. The will allow more Si to be Verge predicts Tesla’s $25,000 used in the anode in place EV will have a $6,000 battery of graphite, reducing costs pack (a reduction of almost by 5% 100% from current costs in a new cathode production the industry). Electrek’s Fred process that eliminates Lambert, a keen Tesla-watcher, wastewater and uses nickel is more sanguine—he believes more efficiently (12% cost Tesla’s current pack-level savings here) cost is around $110/kWh, so a new battery pack that halving the cost would put the forms a structural part of price of a 50 kWh pack at only the vehicle, linking the $2,500—a tenth of the cost of large underbody castings, the original Model S pack. which could reduce overall How would a $25,000 EV vehicle mass by 10% (which might just be called Model 2) affect the global auto World Media Group (WMG) industry?

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Sumitomo (SHI) Demag reports machine order increase during corona crisis Schwaig, August 12, 2020 – Compared with the first half of 2019, injection moulding machine manufacturer Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is ending the first half of 2020 with a healthy order book. During the first six months, the value of incoming orders for machines produced in Germany rose by almost 25 percent.

Image: The face of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag: Henrik Langwald, Paolo Zirondoli, Anatol Sattel, Jürgen Schulze, Arnaud Nomblot, Gerd Liebig, Siegfried Köhler, Thorsten Thümen (left to right)

C autiously optimistic for the future, CEO Gerd Liebig

provides some context behind the healthy growth curve, which he predominantly attributes to orders placed by the packaging and medical technology sectors. “ Our intentional strategic focus on these two growth markets over the past few years has placed us in a stronger position, helping us to survive during these difficult times with a strong order increase”.

As with the entire plastics industry, demand from the automotive industry has slumped sharply for the Japanese-German manufacturer of injection moulding machines.

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The Group’s forecast for the consumer segment is also rather cautious: Due to the tense situation on the labour market and the declining propensity of consumers to buy, the company anticipates a lower inclination among moulders to invest. In contrast, the packaging and medical segments are developing very positively this year, and demand for all-electric machines is also rising sharply. “To cope with the increase in orders, we are utilising all available resources and increasing production capacities in our IntElect series considerably. “ Liebig continues.

As a result of stable sales, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag expects to report a year-on-

year 17 percent increase in overall incoming orders for 2020. “Our plant in Wiehe is operating at full capacity and from November 2020 we will be producing the all-electric small machines at the historic high cycle. The strategic focus on this series is now paying off in full: By the second half of 2020, we will double our production capacity once again in order to meet demand,” says Gerd Liebig.

As a result of this increase, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is pushing ahead with the planned cooperation with its Japanese parent company, with Japan commencing production of IntElect machines later in 2020.

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INEOS STYROLUTION PUBLISHES 2019 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT • Report outlines commitment and actions to transition to a circular and low-carbon economy • Focus on expanding the Styrolution ECO portfolio of sustainable styrenics products

INEOS Styrolution’s fifth sustainability report provides a comprehensive review of the company’s environmental, social and governance

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he report highlights INEOS Styrolution’s strong focus on circular solutions with its expanding ECO family of sustainable products.

Launched at the K-Show in October last year, the Styrolution ECO portfolio comprises styrenics products made from post-consumer recycled material as well as products made using renewable feedstock.

The report covers topics that are important to the company such as reduced carbon footprint, marine litter and pellet loss, health & safety, sustainable procurement, and fair business practices.

(ESG) It also contains special sections addressing the company’s actions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We are committed to making a low-carbon, circular economy for styrenics a reality, help our customers to meet their sustainability targets, and make a positive impact on our planet and our people”, says Steve Harrington, CEO INEOS Styrolution.

This report has been prepared in accordance with Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) Standards, the most widely recognised reporting framework for sustainability.

performance over the past year.

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INEOS STYROLUTION AND TRINSEO ADVANCE PLANS FOR A FIRST EUROPEAN POLYSTYRENE RECYCLING PLANT IN FRANCE • Planning process progresses to conceptual design phase • Reaffirmation of the companies’ commitment to drive up styrenics recycling for food contact applications • This plant will mark a step change in polystyrene recycling in Europe

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recycling plant based NEOS Styrolution and on depolymerisation in Trinseo, global leaders Wingles in the north of in the manufacturing of France. The planned full polystyrene and other commercial scale recycling styrenic materials, facility will be capable of announced today that processing up to 50 tonsthey are advancing perday of post-consumer plans to build the first- polystyrene feedstock of-its-kind polystyrene and is expected to be fully 60

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operational by mid- 2023.

In previous project milestones, the depolymerisation of polystyrene has proven to be an ideal recycling process showcasing polystyrene’s unique intrinsic capability for full circularity.

The plastics-to-plastics depolymerisation technology converts polystyrene food packaging waste directly back into its original liquid monomer, which then can be repolymerised into recycled polystyrene for the same high-quality end applications, including food contact applications much like virgin polystyrene.

Sven Riechers, Vice President, Business Management, Standard Products EMEA at INEOS Styrolution, said: “Our collaboration between Trinseo and INEOS Styrolution is a significant commitment of capital and resources and a major milestone in truly closing the loop with food grade recycled content. It forms part of INEOS Styrolution’s

During the conceptual design phase two technology concepts from Agilyx and Recycling Technologies will be evaluated with regards to quality, efficiency and adaptation to different waste streams.

“We are excited to move to the next phase of engineering of this plant, as we are well on track to deploy the gamechanging depolymerisation technology with the construction of this recycling plant in France,” said Nicolas Joly, Vice President, Plastics & Feedstocks at Trinseo and President of Styrenics Circular Solutions. “This plant will be part of establishing a novel recycling infrastructure for styrenics in Europe together with key players from across the entire value chain, which will mark a step change in polystyrene recycling.”

and Trinseo’s commitments to use, on average, 30% recycled content in products destined for polystyrene packaging in Europe by 2025.”

Trinseo and INEOS Styrolution are founding members of Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), the value chain initiative to increase the circularity of styrenics. Jens Kathmann, Secretary General of SCS, concludes, “The construction of a polystyrene depolymerisation plant is much awaited by the market and brings our joint vision one step closer to fruition to deliver on the unique circularity potential of styrenics. In parallel, SCS, its members and partners are continuing to advance our

İneos styrolution food contact mechanical recycling and dissolution technologies that complement our portfolio of plastics-toplastics recycling to jump start the availability of recycled polystyrene.”

Background: AmSty, INEOS Styrolution and Trinseo have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to accelerate the introduction of circularity for one of the most recyclable polymers, polystyrene.

The JDA targets advancements in all technical aspects to enable scaled investment in advanced commercial recycling solutions and optimize recycling technologies for large-scale commercial use.

Polystyrene is a unique polymer suitable for multiple advanced recycling solutions like depolymerisation. Its properties make it ideal for a circular economy – even enabling food contact compliancy of the recycled material, often considered the holy grail of polymer recycling.

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INEOS Styrolution and AmSty Announce Joint Facility for Advanced Recycling of Polystyrene in Channahon, Illinois, using Agilyx Technology Partnership

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paves the two of the largest global way for closed loop recycling to keep polystyrene out of landfills

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producers of polystyrene, announce plans to construct a joint 100 ton per day facility in Channahon, Illinois, that will utilize the Agilyx advanced recycling technology to recycle post-use polystyrene products back into virgin-equivalent styrene monomer.1 “Discarded single-use items like polystyrene foam cups and yogurt cups can now go right back to the same applications over and over at the same purity and performance with no need to landfill,” said Greg Fordyce, President Americas for INEOS Styrolution. “We are excited to join forces with AmSty on this ambitious project, which we expect will elevate polystyrene as a sustainable material of choice.

In particular, this facility will dramatically increase recycling rates in the greater Chicago area.”

In 2018, AmSty and Agilyx formed their Regenyx joint venture to advance the development of a similar facility in Tigard, Oregon, using Agilyx’s breakthrough pyrolysis technology. The Channahon facility will be engineered on a larger-scale in cooperation

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with Agilyx to represent the next generation of advanced recycling technology.

“Polystyrene products can offer sustainability advantages where less material is required (e.g., a polystyrene foam cup is 95% air),” said Tim Barnette, Vice President – Polymers and Sustainability at AmSty. “Polystyrene is particularly advantageous for advanced recycling because it can be “unzipped” back to its original liquid form, styrene monomer. Other plastics can also be converted into useful intermediates, but polystyrene offers a truly circular solution.

Polystyrene remains the best option for a range of applications such as food and beverage containers. We view polystyrene waste products as valuable feedstock for circular recycling. Keeping plastics out of the landfills not only makes sense from an environmental standpoint, but it makes economic sense as well.”

“Advanced recycling technologies are key to creating a circular economy for plastics,” said Tim Stedman, CEO of Agilyx. “Agilyx’s technology for converting waste polystyrene is proven at scale, having been operational for several years now in Oregon.

This new facility in Illinois will be the largest of its type in the world, and will meet the growing demand from brand owners who want more recycled plastic, allowing them not only the possibility of recycling food grade material back to the same products but also for the upcycling of lower quality non-food grade products to meet food grade usage requirements.”

Agilyx will also source and supply plastic waste feedstock for the facility through its recently formed Cyclyx subsidiary. “In addition to the technology, we have developed a feedstock management system, which is just as important as the technology in developing the supply chain for this new market,” said Joe Vaillancourt, Cyclyx’s President.

“The overarching goal of Cyclyx is to dramatically increase the recyclability of post-use plastics with a priority for fully circular pathways, as well as assisting in the development of new supply chains that will aggregate and preprocess larger volumes of post-use plastics than current systems.”

Engineering design for the Channahon facility is under way, with construction and commissioning as the expected next phases.

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INEOS STYROLUTION’S COMPOSITE STYLIGHT® SELECTED BY CASCO

INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, announced today the selection of its StyLight® composite by Casco for the

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he German company CASCO is a leading designer and manufacturer of quality safety helmets and glasses. The company offers a broad portfolio of solutions for bicyclists, skiers, skaters, riders and rescue teams like fire brigade, police and others.

The company decided to base their latest designs for bicyclists and skiers on INEOS Styrolution’s innovative StyLight® composite.

StyLight became popular as the first styrenics based thermoplastic composite delivering an amazing surface quality in combination with superior stiffness and rigidity.

CASCO selected the carbon composite StyLight

of safety

Hybrid S as the material of choice for their new helmets for designs offering customers not only protection in most demanding environments, but also giving bicyclists and them a product that addresses their lifestyle.

Manfred Krauter, CEO CASCO International skiers.

GmbH, comments: “Our company tries to stay at the forefront of innovation. The performance of this new material fits exactly our needs and we appreciate the support from INEOS Styrolution.

We are confident that our customers will like the new StyLight helmets.”

Pierre Juan, VP Future Business and Innovation at INEOS Styrolution, adds: “I very much like the entrepreneurial spirit of CASCO and I look forward to a long collaboration with the company.”

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Sigmetrix Selected

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ABB unmasks the future of customized automotive painting with PixelPaint PixelPaint is 50 per cent faster and more sustainable, using an inkjet head to eliminate overspray, ensuring two-tone paint and individual designs are applied in one pass, without masking and de-masking.

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are driving demand for greater i n d i v i d u a l i za t i o n , increasing the need for customized vehicle paint schemes, using either a second color, a different paint finish such as matte, or a special design.

Previously, applying a two-tone or customized design onto bodywork was a time and laborintensive process that required the vehicle to be put through the painting line twice, once for the first layer and then, after the areas had been masked, again for the second color.

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Typically, masking the bodywork required around 10 to 20 operators per shift, with two operators also needed to demask it after the second color had been applied.

With only 70 to 80 percent of the paint being applied to the bodywork surface, significant quantities of paint are wasted, increasing costs through recycling and having to purchase additional paint.

ABB’s innovative PixelPaint solution incorporates a high painting inkjet head, dosing control package and easy to

use RobotStudio® programming software for two tone and decorative painting applications.

“In today’s fiercely co m p et i t i ve a u t o m o t i v e manufacturing market, vehicle producers need solutions that can help them to improve their flexibility, efficiency and cost competitiveness while delivering a high quality paint finish, including individualized options to meet the growing demand for non-standard and customized designs,”

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said Mi-chael Larsson, Managing Director Automotive OEM for ABB Robotics. “With PixelPaint, 100 percent of the paint is applied to the bodywork surface, so there’s no overspray.

Not only does this reduce operating costs and improve environmental performance by ensuring that no paint is lost, PixelPaint also eliminates the process of masking and de-masking each car, helping to reduce bottlenecks in automotive paint shops.”

Pixelpaint is available as a cell using two ABB IRB 5500 robots. The nonoverspray technology prints paint directly on

to a target area using the printing nozzle head instead of spraying with a conventional atomizer, resulting in 100 percent transfer efficiency.

With no need for masking or de-masking, a customized paint job can be carried out in a single pass, reducing cycle times by around 50 percent.

ABB’s non-overspray PixelPaint solution was recognized as a groundbreaking innovation with a “Technology” award at the SURCAR annual conference in Cannes in June 2019. SURCAR is a forum for the global car body finishing community.

In addition to robots and application-specific equipment, ABB offers standardized production cells for the auto-motive industry, as well as the design, planning and implementation of complete production lines.

The ABB Ability™ platform enables customers to benefit from various digital services such as process optimization, and predictive maintenance.

PixelPaint will be unveiled at the China International Industry Fair (CIIF) in Shanghai on September 15.

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ABB driving sustainable public transport through E-buses

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his year’s EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK (Sept. 16-22) theme is ‘Zeroemission mobility for all’, reflecting the ambitious targets of a carbon-neutral continent by 2050. Across Europe measures are being taken to promote a carbonneutral environment. And as a world leader in electric vehicle infrastructure, ABB is supporting numerous emobility bus projects to help drive a global transition to sustainable public transport.

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a larger transit system, they have unique requirements.

Showcased here are a few landmark European initiatives supported by ABB that are making significant contributions to the rapid growth of the electric bus market and together will save the emission of many thousands of tonnes of noxious gases every year.

“Individually these e-bus projects are making significant contributions towards emission reduction and sustainable public transport in their respective cities and regions.

And when we take a global view it’s clear to see how the shift towards sustainable public transportation systems

is gathering momentum and making a very significant contribution to atmospheric carbon reduction,” says Frank Muehlon, Head of ABB’s global business for E-mobility Infrastructure Solutions.

Above the Arctic Circle Beginning in the summer of 2021, 31 new electric buses from Volvo will operate in the Arctic city of Bodø, Norway, powered by charging solutions from ABB. These will be the northernmost electric buses in the world and the first to be put into operation north of the Arctic Circle. They will serve as a proof point that electrification of road transport in cool, Arctic areas is a viable solution.

As part of its climate goals, Norway has decided that all of the country’s city buses must be emissionfree by 2025, to support the country’s target of a 50 to 55 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

City bus lines in Bodø only to be served by battery-electric buses from July 1, 2021. The emission savings are estimated to correspond to 1,200 diesel cars, or a reduction of almost one million liters of diesel annually. In addition, the electric buses will have a major impact on the urban environment such as reduced noise level.

Germany’s first fully electrified bus terminal for a system carrying 200 million riders a year. The company is committed to having its entire fleet of 1,000 bus electric by 2030 to provide the benefits of cleaner air and lower noise that are the goals of urban transportation planners everywhere.

ABB Bern’s OppCharge buses are in year XX of the four-year trial period where they have replaced the non-electric vehicles previously used Thanks to ABB’s charging stations and drive technology, BERNMOBIL’s five e-buses, which entered ser-vice ln December 2018,

The electric buses will be charged with ABB 450 kW pantographs, a modular solution for high-power charging of heavy vehicles.

Opportunity Charge or also known as OppCharge, is an open interface for the automated charging of single and double deck electric buses, using a pantograph to connect the bus to the charger. A pantograph lowers from the charging station, connects to the battery via rails on the roof of the bus and charges it with up to 600kW With typical charge times of three to six minutes the pantograph system can easily be integrated in ex-isting operations, ensuring zeroemission public transit during the day without impacting the nor-mal operation of the route.

Hamburger Hochbahn A bustling port city in northern Germany, Hamburg has set ambitious sustainability goals to cut CO2 emissions by half from 1990 to 2030, in large part through the development of e-mobility initiatives. The local transit authority has chosen ABB to supply the charging infrastructure for what will be Ger-many’s first fully electric bus depot.

In terms of local public transport, Hamburger HOCHBAHN AG is contributing to the Hamburg climate plan with a wide-reaching fleet electrification program that includes

ABB supplied a turnkey solution including the installation of 44 ABB Heavy Vehicle Charger (HVC) 150C charging stations, alongside the planning and implementation of the electric infrastructure and the con-nection of the depot to the grid. This solution allows 44 buses in the fleet, each with a range of up to 150 km in normal conditions, to be simultaneously charged in the central bus depot. For added con-venience and space saving, the high-power chargers are installed on the roof of the bus depot providing an intel-ligent and cost-effective approach to overnight charging for the city’s large and growing e-bus fleet.

Switzerland’s capital A pioneering electric bus project in Switzerland’s capital, Bern, underlines the country’s position as a leader in e-mobility and sustainable transportation. The buses on line 17 of BERNMOBIL’s network also use the OppCharge system to run solely with electric power, in the process saving 500 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.

are running from Bern’s main train station without overhead power lines, need-ing only a single charge at their final stop. Each charge takes around five minutes, during which a pan-tograph descends from the charging station, connects to rails on the bus roof and charges the battery with 450 kW. In addition, the vehicles receive a 50kW overnight charge in their depot. Even without fast charging, the buses’ battery capacity is sufficient to allow them to cover their route three times – a range of approximately 35-40km.

It is anticipated that the pilot scheme will be extended and further OppCharge lines added to BERNMOBIL’s network.

A further benefit of the Bern OppCharge buses is that they run on hydro-electricity, giving the city’s150,000 residents the chance to use fully sustainable urban transport every day.

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Ineos

The fourway NDA signifies a commitment to a circular economy of polystyrene

Agilyx Joins AmSty, INEOS Styrolution and Trinseo as Technology Partner to Accelerate Realization of Circular Polystyrene Four of the leading players in polystyrene production and recycling have initiated a Non-Disclosure Agreement to explore and optimize advanced recycling technologies for polystyrene, such as depolymerization. The agreement will accelerate steps by the industry to reduce plastic waste by creating a more circular economy for polystyrene.

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gilyx, the pioneer in and serves chemical recycling of postuse plastic streams, will as a basis for collaborate with leading polystyrene producers AmSty, exploring and INEOS Styrolution and Trinseo to identify and develop the optimizing best design and supply chain approach to produce new advanced high-value recycled products from polystyrene waste. recycling Agilyx’s approach builds upon the intrinsic properties technologies of polystyrene to allow the production of even food grade material from polystyrene for post-consumer waste.

polystyrene “It is encouraging to see the industry coming together to accelerate the circularity of polystyrene,” said Tim Stedman, CEO of Agilyx. “Polystyrene is an ideally suited material to achieve circularity, something we at Agilyx have an expertise in fulfilling.

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With our deep technology expertise in converting polystyrene waste back to styrene, we are confident in driving the development of polystyrene recycling further with these three leading polystyrene producers.”

Dr. Randy Pogue, President and Chief Executive Officer, AmSty, commented: “We hope to signal to the industry, in particular to companies along the value chain in a circular economy, that we are very serious about circularity for polystyrene. Since 2018, AmSty and Agilyx have already worked together in our joint facility in Tigard, Oregon, using Agilyx’s breakthrough pyrolysis technology. We are delighted to see Agilyx join our program and couldn’t imagine a better partner.”

Dr. Alexander Glück, INEOS Styrolution, added: “Recycling of plastics is a challenge that crosses company barriers and we believe that cooperation will be key to successful implementation and further development of recycling programs. We are very pleased to have so much expertise come together and we also encourage partners from other parts of the value chain to join our effort.”

“Circularity of polystyrene allows us to take advantage of the benefits of the material while reducing the impact on the environment to a minimum”, said Nicolas Joly, Vice President Plastics & Feedstocks, Trinseo.

“Polystyrene is an ideal material for the recycling future, and it’s a strong sign that this group of companies has agreed to drive this future.”

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Weltec

WELTEC BIOPOWER Builds 7-MW Biogas Plant Near Seoul The controllers of the Graphix and Display series complete the range of accessories.

In autumn 2020, WELTEC BIOPOWER starts building a biogas plant in South Korea. The plant is being set up in the province of Gyeonggi-do, some 60 km north of Seoul, and will transform biogas into heat in an integrated gas boiler. As early as spring 2021, the seven megawatt plant is to go live and digest up to 93,000 tons of food waste a year, some of which will also come from local households.

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ince President Moon Jae-in assumed office, the government has been making concerted efforts to achieve autonomy in the power and heat sector and to significantly increase the share of renewable energies. Recently a Green New Deal was announced in order to deliver net zero carbon emission by 2050. South Korea will be the first country in East Asia to set a timeframe to end its contribution to climate change. First efforts were already made in 2017 with the „Renewable Energies 2030 Implementation Plan“, where biogas was given a key role. Nevertheless, the biogas market has not yet developed as desired. This is due to the immature technologies of some providers, which merely deliver an inefficient process for the digestion of biomass to biogas. This is now to change.

In view of these experiences, it was only sensible that this waste-to-energy project was awarded to WELTEC BIOPOWER. Around the globe, the German biogas specialist is renowned for its technologically mature plants and has received multiple international prizes

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in recognition of its waste processing plants. Moreover, WELTEC had already planned and built two biogas plants in South Korea based on the digestion of organic waste in 2012 and 2016. Both plants are custom-tailored to the framework conditions and boast a high level of plant availability and profitability.

The experience that WELTEC has gained in the waste industry is especially valuable for the modern plan in Gyeonggi-do.

Every day, the two bioreactors are filled with more than 250 t of food leftovers. „For this purpose, we customized the two duplex steel digesters of the newest generation with a capacity of 6,200 and 2,700 m³, respectively, to the conditions on site“, says Vladimir Bogatov, the responsible sales manager for Asia. For example, a special format will be used for these digesters: „Due to the space limitations on site and local requirements, the tanks are very slim and have a height of 8.80 m“, says Bogatov.

In addition, the other components are customtailored. For instance, the raw materials will arrive in

processed form and will be fed into the plant as a ready-to-use liquid mix. Bogatov explains: „To ensure efficient pre-treatment, we will equip the upstream storage units with special mixing and pump technology.“ In gas boilers with a thermal output of seven megawatt, the carbon-neutral biogas will be transformed into heat.

Vladimir Bogatov continues: „Our custom-developed SPSbased LoMOS control system will make sure that the substrates are automatically pumped from the pre-storage unit into the digesters, thereby ensuring uninterrupted heat supply.“ The sustainable cycle finishes with the processing of the digestate in a clarification stage. The solid matters generated in this process are used for composting.

The project stands out with its efficient transformation of the versatile biogas into heat. In South Korea, law supports the use of green and sustainable heat. Therefore, the climatefriendly energy source from technically mature biogas plants is set to unleash its potential.

Weltek

Around the globe, the German biogas specialist is renowned for its technologically mature plants and has received multiple international prizes in recognition of its waste processing plants. Moreover, WELTEC had already planned and built two biogas plants in South Korea based on the digestion of organic waste in 2012 and 2016.

The experience that WELTEC has gained in the waste industry is especially valuable for the modern plan in Gyeonggi-do.

Every day, the two bioreactors are filled with more than 250 t of food leftovers. „For this purpose, we customized the two duplex steel digesters of the newest generation with a capacity of 6,200 and 2,700 m³, respectively, to the conditions on site“, says Vladimir Bogatov, the responsible sales manager for Asia.

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FTP

FPT Industrıal A Key Partner Of The Imperıum Project Targetıng 20% Fuel Consumptıon Reductıon In Truck Transportatıon

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the exclusive and unbeaten HI-eSCR2 after-

operating costs and improve the efficiency

With higher efficiency in mind and under the

of long-haul trucks, thus increasing truck

aegis of the European Commission and the

competitiveness in the transport industry. A

European Green Vehicles Initiative EGVI, a

matter of great importance to FPT Industrial,

contractual Public Private Partnership (cPPP)

as demonstrated by the Brand´s numerous

dedicated to delivering green vehicles and

inventions, innovations and patents, including

mobility system solutions of the future, the

uel economy is a key aspect to reduce

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treatment system.

FTP IMPERIUM project (IMplementation of Powertrain

Since fuel consumption is directly linked to and influenced

Control for Economic and Clean Real driving EmIssion

by the mission, the traffic and the environment, a

and ConsUMption) was created.

simulation-based validation strategy was developed to

The project´s main objective was to achieve a 20% fuel

better take into account these different scenarios. The

consumption (diesel and urea) and consequently CO2

overall objective is the development of new means of

reduction compared to model-year 2014 vehicle, whilst

predictive and comprehensive powertrain control in an

keeping the vehicle within the legal limits for pollutant

optimal way, exploiting the full potential of the individual

emissions. This demanding challenge was taken up by

systems for each vehicle application and mission.

the IMPERIUM consortium, grouping major European

The newly developed components have been first

players: leading trucks and engine manufacturers,

validated on various platforms such as Hardware in the

including FPT Industrial, systems and services providers,

Loop (HiL), engine testbed and demonstrator trucks,

Universities and Research Centers.

including an IVECO STRALIS powered by FPT Industrial,

The IMPERIUM consortium is responsible for 45%

and then further integrated into this environment for

of the heavy-duty vehicles manufactured in the EU

evaluation of their impact on the complete system.

and can provide a 100% European value chain for the

The IMPERIUM project developed and demonstrated

development of future powertrain control strategies

optimal powertrain control and advanced powertrain

for trucks. The specific approach relied on a three-stage

concepts for heavy-duty vehicles, integration thereof

improvement of the control strategy:

into test beds and demonstration vehicles and proof of

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Direct optimization of main components control

compliance with fuel economy targets (20% improvement

(engine, exhaust after-treatment, transmission, waste

compared to the same vehicle with conventional control

heat recovery, e-drive) to maximize performance.

with consequent CO2 reduction) and Euro VI standards

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Global powertrain energy management to

under real driving conditions. IMPERIUM also developed

coordinate the different energy sources and optimize

a methodology to determine the fuel efficiency of heavy-

their use depending on the current driving situation.

duty vehicles and the compliance with Euro VI under

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Providing a more comprehensive understanding

real driving conditions based on a smart combination

of the mission, so that the different energy sources can

of simulations, measurements and tests. For further

be planned and optimized on a long term.

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Radici

RadiciGroup bets on research and innovation: sets up Radici InNova consortium The new company’s R&D to focus on sustainable solutions by pooling the competencies of all RadiciGroup companies

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adiciGroup has announced the founding of Radici InNova, a non-profit consortium, to carry out the Group’s strategic aims of ensuring business continuity, improving corporate competitiveness and creating value for the community.

The new company’s main object is the development of new research and innovation projects for the chemical, high performance polymers and advanced textile solutions sectors, in accordance with the RadiciGroup sustainability strategy. Indeed, Radici InNova renews and strengthens RadiciGroup’s commitment to a development model that balances economic profitability with environmental sustainability and social equity.

The new company will take advantage of and improve the synergies of the R&D activities that have long been carried on by the RadiciGroup Specialty Chemicals, High Performance Polymers and Advanced Textile Solutions Business Areas.

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“The formation of Radici InNova represents an important milestone for the whole Group on its path towards innovation, which was started many years ago,” Angelo Radici, president of RadiciGroup, said. “In fact, during the years, innovation has been a key element that distinguishes us and enables us to expand into a variety of sectors and supply the market with competitive, cuttingedge products and solutions.

By sharing the know-how and the competencies of the various Group business areas, it will be possible to develop integrated advanced research projects, in accordance with our sustainability strategy and inspired by the principles of environmental protection and

the circular economy, ensuring constant growth and a better future for generations to come.”

By leveraging internal competencies and targeted relationships with third parties, Radici InNova will manage and coordinate all the Group’s strategically essential research activities, with the objective of strengthening the role of innovation as a driver of RadiciGroup development.

Furthermore, the new company will actively foster the continual improvement of products and processes, while optimizing the use of resources and lowering the environmental impact of its activities.

Sumitomo

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag unveils industry-focused sales structure Schwaig, October 7, 2020 – Plastic processing injection moulding machine specialist Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is restructuring its centralised group sales organisation.

By focusing on five Business Image: Together for targeted, industry-specific customer orientation: Henrik Langwald, Armin Distler, Jürgen Schulze, Paolo Zirondoli, Siegfried Köhler, Arnaud Nomblot and Anatol Sattel (left to right)

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he initiative, steered

by Siegfried Köhler, who was appointed Director of Worldwide Corporate Sales at the Schwaig headquarters on 1 October 2019, fully integrates Sumitomo (SHI) Demag’s prevailing and new Business Developments into the overarching global sales management structure.

“Through this realignment, we are creating a fast and direct link between customer requirements and future product development.

This enables us to use the existing industry competence and expertise in a much more targeted and efficient manner for the benefit of our customers,” explains Köhler.

With immediate effect, Anatol Sattel will independently manage Business Development Medical. Newly added to the industry-orientated structure is Business Development Consumer, headed up by Paolo Zirondoli.

Jürgen Schulze will continue to manage Business Development Automation, focusing on the three core areas of Robotics, Components and Systems Technology. This unit will drive forward the integration of a wide range of technologies and support sales in automated solution concepts.

Henrik Langwald and Arnaud Nomblot will continue to manage Automotive and Electronics Business Development and Packaging Business Development respectively.

Additionally, key account managers with specialist industry expertise will continue to contribute their industry knowledge into the individual Business Developments.

On-site field service teams will also be able to draw upon the expertise of the Business Developments.

“We are convinced that the constant sector-focused exchange with customers will significantly increase our quality of consulting. This will enable us to react even faster to market changes and offer our customers a sector-specific service tailored to their needs,” says Armin Distler, Sales Manager for Germany and Austria.

Developments dedicated to the specific industryrelated market challenges, the group has organised its sales structure to further improve efficiencies and advance the company’s industry response.

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Leybold

Leybold shows its innovative portfolio at this year’s „ANALYTICA VIRTUAL“ October 2020 - With its vacuum innovations for laboratory technology, analytics and biotechnology, the manufacturer Leybold is participating in this year’s ANALYTICA from 19 to 23 October. The special feature: This year the ANALYTICA – trade fair will be held purely virtually – as analytica virtual. With this premiere it offers a platform for all exhibitors and visitors who would have refrained from participating due to the present global situation. In order to reach interested parties from all over the world, the exhibition will be accessible Vacuum In around the clock on all five days.

Virtual

Focus

TURBOVAC i/ix

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acuum technology is the core element in many analytical, research and laboratory facilities. Today, ergonomic, oil-free vacuum solutions that save energy and enable optimized data evaluation are in demand. The suitable vacuum components are an essential factor for the efficiency of running processes.

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Product family of dry compressing Roots vacuum pumps ECODRY plus is extended An innovation from Leybold is celebrating its premiere at ANALYTICA: Leybold has extended its product family of dry compressing multi-stage Roots vacuum pumps ECODRY plus for laboratory, research and development as well as analytical applications.

The ECODRY 40 and 65 plus versions are now joined by the new smaller pump sizes ECODRY 25 and 35 plus. With the completion of these ergonomic, lowmaintenance, economical and completely oil-free backing pumps, Leybold is thus closing a gap in its portfolio. “The pump is compact in its design, low-vibration, powerful, easy to operate and quiet,” summarizes Product Manager Alexander Kaiser.

Leybold Measure - Analyze - Optimize TURBOLAB systems can be equipped with THERMOVAC TTR fore-vacuum gauges and PENNINGVAC PTR high vacuum sensors. Connected sensors are recognized and pressure readings are automatically shown on the display.

Measuring Technology

New members of the TURBOVAC i/iX series: sizes 850 i/iX and 950 i/iX The trade fair portfolio of the vacuum specialist Leybold includes product presentations, brochures, videos and lectures - including the TURBOVAC i/iX series, which has been expanded to include the new sizes 850 i/iX and 950 i/iX. The two new turbomolecular pumps are characterized in particular by long, trouble-free operating times and lower operating costs. They are used in research and development applications where a clean and stable high and ultra-high vacuum is required - such as in analysis, thinfilm research or helium recovery.

In vacuum systems with limited installation space and little room for the vacuum pumps, the TURBOVAC i/iX variants offer maximum flexibility and can be mounted in any orientation.

The unique oil-free hybrid bearing of the TURBOVAC i/iX turbopumps and the choice of different drycompressing backing pumps enable hydrocarbon-free operation.

These compact pump systems are delivered fully assembled and ready for operation. They include a turbomolecular pump, a backing pump and an innovative TPU display unit.

The measurement technology associated with vacuum technology is essential for the evaluation of processes from basic research to industrial manufacturing.

Leybold offers suitable measuring instruments, sensors and components for this purpose.

All critical parameters and operating conditions such as faults, warnings, frequency, temperature etc. are automatically recorded in an internal memory based on a standard time interval and can be adjusted by the user directly on site. An integrated web server allows remote control, monitoring and configuration of the TURBOLAB devices from the mobile device or from the computer via browser.

Leybold’s vacuum measurement sensors offer real innovation in numerous applications in the range from 2000 to 10-12 mbar. These instruments offer higher precision, an extended measuring range, improved reproducibility and process stability. They complement the portfolio with new types of interfaces and additional ranges for use in lock chambers.

High-vacuum plug & play pumping stations The devices of the TURBOLAB series are plug-and-play high vacuum pumping systems and offer a wide range of variants: The systems are compact, fully assembled and can be put into operation immediately.

Different configurations cover the special vacuum requirements of the R & D markets and analytical applications.

ECODRY plus

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Teamtechnik

10 Jahre Teamtechnik China: Wachsen in einem dynamischen Markt „Mein erstes Büro bestand aus einem Stuhl und einem kleinen quadratischen Tisch“, erinnert sich Dr. Lingxiang Xu, Geschäftsführer der Teamtechnik China, in seiner Ansprache zum zehnjährigen Jubiläum an die Anfänge des Unternehmens. Mit einem großen Festakt feierten Mitarbeiter, Kunden und Regierungsvertreter die erfolgreiche Entwicklung von Teamtechnik China in den Märkten New Energy, Automotive und inzwischen auch Medizintechnik.

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m September 2010 gründete der Anlagenbauer Teamtechnik eine Tochterfirma in China – einem Markt, in dem Risiken und Chancen eng beieinander liegen – und stellte innerhalb weniger Monate eine Produktionshalle mit Büroetage fertig. Teamtechnik war zu dieser Zeit führend im Markt für Highspeed-Stringeranlagen und belieferte damit weltweit Hersteller von Solarmodulen – auch in China. Nach dem erfolgreichen Einstieg mit seinem Portfolio für die Solarindustrie richtete Teamtechnik sich einige Jahre später neu aus und machte sich einen Namen als Anlagenbauer im chinesischen Automobilmarkt.

Heute ist Teamtechnik in China führend mit End-of-Line- Testsystemen für konventionelle Getriebe, Hybridgetriebe und E-Antriebe für Elektrofahrzeuge: 65 Fachkräfte arbeiten im Werk von Suzhou und Teamtechnik China bietet 80

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Turnkey-Lösungen für Montageund Prüfanlagen. Dabei umfasst das Angebot Planung und Projektentwicklung, Konstruktion und Fertigung, die Installation vor Ort sowie Produktionsunterstützung und Service.

Mitte 2019 weitete Teamtechnik seine Präsenz auf den chinesischen Medizinmarkt aus und wurde bereits Ende 2019 von einem chinesischen Hersteller von Injektionssystemen mit dem Bau einer Montagelinie beauftragt. Dr. Lingxiang Xu blickt optimistisch in die Zukunft des Unternehmens. Für das Jahr 2020 erwartet er einen Umsatz von acht Millionen Euro (64 Millionen RMB). Der soll sich innerhalb der nächsten fünf Jahr verdoppeln auf 16 Millionen Euro (130 Millionen RMB). Die nächsten Schritte der Marktpräsenz sind bereits geplant: „Teamtechnik China hat in zehn Jahren viel erreicht. Unser nächstes Ziel lautet: „Designed in China - Made in China“, erklärt er.

Ineos Syrolution

INEOS STYROLUTION AWARDED PLATINUM RATING BY ECOVADIS FOR ITS ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, has been awarded the highest sustainability rating by EcoVadis. The platinum rating is awarded to the top 1 percent of companies, based on the implementation of the company’s sustainability programme and the company’s sustainability report published last year. The score takes into account four themes evaluated by EcoVadis: environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement.

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coVadis is a global provider of business sustainability ratings, intelligence and performance improvement tools for global supply chains. It is a highly trusted organisation.

Its global team of experts provides supply chains and investors with sustainability scorecards, which give detailed insight into environmental, social and ethical risks across 65,000 companies across 160 countries.

This latest rating places INEOS Styrolution best in class in the category of plastics manufacturers. The company demonstrated an advanced management system for environmental issues, sustainable procurement as well as labour and human rights.

The company scored particularly high in the environment section. This can be attributed to the company’s ongoing investment into establishing a circular economy for styrenics. INEOS Styrolution continues to work together with leading technology

firms along the value chain to explore innovative recycling technologies and new feedstock for the production of polystyrene and other styrenics materials. INEOS Styrolution is committed to reduce plastics going to landfill and recovering and recycling post-consumer plastics waste into high-quality products.

The company aims to shift to a low-carbon economy by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and recently achieved ISO 14001 certification of all its 20 production sites. The recent audit and certification of our bio-attributed materials and supply chain also contributed to the high rating.

“EcoVadis’ platinum rating shows that we are leading the way with our sustainability objectives. This rating is also recognised by our customers and investors as a basis for doing business with them,” comments Steve Harrington, CEO, INEOS Styrolution.

“We are encouraged about this positive recognition and continue our efforts contributing to environmental and societal well-being. In line with the INEOS pledge we want to be a reliable partner for our customers and business partners by delivering solutions that help them to meet their own sustainability targets.”

Platinum rating is the highest rating provided

by EcoVadis recognising INEOS Styrolution as a leader in the industry

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Kennametal

Kennametal Introduces the HPR Solid Carbide Drill Next generation The HPR solid carbide drill for cast iron components is available in diameters from 3.0 to 20.0 mm and lengths up to 8 x D.

highperformance drill for cast iron applications featuring a low-thrust drill point design.

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ennametal has introduced an expansion

of its solid carbide drilling portfolio, the HPR drill for highperformance drilling of cast iron workpieces. Designed for high-speed and high-feed drilling up to 8 x D in any ISO-K material, the HPR drill provides excellent hole straightness even at highest cutting parameters.

Winning features The drill’s patented point thinning, special gashing, and a 143°-point angle provide excellent selfcentering capabilities and reduce thrust, keeping the drill running straight even at the highest feed rates.

In addition, four margin lands deliver maximum stability when drilling cross holes and inclined exits.

A patented corner radius improves tool life significantly and provides excellent hole

Patented corner radius for long tool life and

quality, meeting a hole tolerance range of excellent hole quality, as well as a wide flute IT9 to IT10 while effectively eliminating the cross section for hassle-free chip evacuation. workpiece chipping when exiting the hole.

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Four margin lands provide maximum stability for cross-hole drilling and inclined exits.

Kennametal

One of the key features of the HPR drill: The low-thrust drill point design for maximum hole straightness.

“The drill’s low-thrust point design gives users

The new coating is also resistant against the

the option to apply the drill under less-than-ideal

inclusions and pores commonly encountered in

clamping conditions, or on thin walled applications,

these challenging materials.

or simply when spindle power is the limiting factor,“

Ultra-high polished flutes and wide flute cross

says Frank Martin, Product Manager, Kennametal.

section promote efficient chip evacuation and

Extensive testing has shown that this new drill is a

further reduce heat and resulting thermal shock.

solution provider for those types of challenges, as

The new HPR drill comes with standard coolant

well as for high-volume cast iron production.

through and with a DIN 6535 and 69090-03 MQL (minimum quantity lubrication) interface. With

Outstanding wear resistance

these features the drill excels in either wet or dry machining conditions.

The drill’s proprietary AlTiN/AlTiSiN multilayer

“Whether drilling large quantities of holes or

coating withstands the extreme abrasion and high

overcoming typical challenges in any type of cast

thermal loads encountered when drilling gray cast

iron workpiece, the HPR drill is clearly the solution,”

iron, ductile iron, CGI, ADI, and GGG.

says Martin.

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3D Experience

SEARCHING FOR CLUES ABOUT THE 3D EXPERIENCE

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recently attended 3DEXPERIENCE World (3DXW for short) 2020 (formerly Solidworks World) in Nashville, TN. I think it was either my 19th or 20th trip to this CAD rodeo. It was an especially noteworthy event this year due to its rebranding and I was really curious to see how it would be presented

by Dassault Systemes, on the one hand, and received by attendees/customers on the other.

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The overall format of the conference and general sessions has evolved over the past few years, but that’s to be expected as everything in the design software world has evolved.

More than anything, I came to Nashville looking for what the 3DEXPERIENCE with regard to Solidworks was all about at a rebranded event that had been an exclusively Solidworks event for a long time, and one that never disappointed.

When asked about this year’s attendance at 3DXW, Solidworks declined to provide a number, but based on previous years, there were noticeably fewer attendees this year. Overall the attendees were at not quite as rabid (in a good way) as in years past, and relatively subdued, but nonetheless, cautiously optimistic about the future.

3D Experience

It seems as though by an increasing number of companies (including Dassault) have forsaken technologies, products and apps in favor of platforms that tend to further muddle the picture of exactly how they’re structured, what they do, what they cost, and unique benefits that couldn’t be provided by previous bits and pieces.

What is the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform?

Simply put, the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform (which has been around for a few years) provides access to Solidworks’ portfolio that works together with the platform. It serves as a hub that can be tailored to meet specific product development needs. Teams create dashboards and communities, aggregate and share data, review and iterate designs.

With the platform, Dassault Systemes makes the technologies and capabilities accessible in the same environment, whether on premise or in the cloud. For example, if you’re a SOLIDWORKS desktop user, you can push updates of your models to the platform instead of switching to product data management software and other messaging tools to ensure your changes don’t get lost. If you’re concerned about the resources needed to set up and maintain onpremise software and infrastructure, you would probably want to choose the cloud.

The platform portfolio includes:

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• Parametric Modeling for creating 3D conceptual and detailed designs and editing them in Solidworks • Subdivision (Sub-D) Modeling for designing 3D organic shapes and editing them in Solidworks • Data and Product Lifecycle Management for managing product designs and documents without leaving Solidworks; performing lifecycle operations; navigating product structures; and managing tasks and projects • Advanced Simulation for assessing structural integrity with Finite Element Analysisbased simulation technology directly accessed from Solidworks Simulation.

So whatever your specific role (and roles are key to making this all work) or workflow needs, the platform theoretically provides the tools and the environment you need to create and manage a product throughout its lifecycle, and that isn’t confined to modeling and manufacturing, but also ensuring regulatory compliance or managing how you engage with customers. In the end, 3D Experience is intended to be more than design and engineering; it’s being positioned as more of a business platform.

3DEXPERIENCE Works is the product portfolio that combines Solidworks with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. With 3DEXPERIENCE Works, teams have capabilities for design (SolidWorks), simulation (SIMULIAWORKS), manufacturing (DELMIAWORKS) and product data and lifecycle management (ENOVIAWORKS).

3DEXPERIENCE Works combines social collaboration with design, simulation and manufacturing ERP capabilities in a single digital environment.

Dassault Systèmes initially created 3DEXPERIENCE Works following its acquisition of IQMS, whose manufacturing ERP portfolio of software applications for mid-market manufacturers was rebranded as DELMIAWORKS. DELMIAWORKS ERP is a data management technology for manufacturing companies.

Engineering, finance, sales, purchasing, logistics, and manufacturing teams all work within DELMIAWORKS ERP. The new offers – Standard, Professional and Premium – feature Solidworks standard, professional and premium applications that are installed from, licensed from, and updated in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, with data stored in it.

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3D Experience

You can add an additional body in the same environment or convert it to a component, add another one in and mate them together.

Design Guidance helps by suggesting where to place material based on loads and fixtures rather than having to rely on experience or guesswork.

You can use the capability for new designs or optimizing existing ones.

With this connection, Solidworks customers use the same desktop applications for design and engineering while benefiting from the digital platform: improved collaboration, embedded data management, automatic software updates, and access to the latest project data.

The scalable Solidworks offers also include 3D Creator and 3D Sculptor – new design applications that run in a browser and let users extend and improve what they can do with Solidworks by selecting from dozens of other powerful 3DEXPERIENCE Works applications and use only the ones they need for their tasks. This is where things get a bit muddled with regard to cost, something that won’t be announced until sometime this summer. During the conference, Solidworks’ CEO, Gian Pallo Bassi said repeatedly, “Use just what you need and pay for what you use.” Again, details on exactly what this means will be coming later this year.

Whatever Happened to xDesign and xShape?

At last year’s conference, xDesign and xShape were bandied as the way to the future, but seemed to drop off of the radar soon thereafter.

During this year’s 3DXW attendees were assured that the xDesign app is very much alive and well. It is, in fact, part of 3D Creator, a role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Roles are collections of apps specific to a function.

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While 3D Creator contains only the xDesign app, the company envisions that it will include multiple apps that will provide new capabilities to help design in the cloud.

I wanted to know what 3D Creator is and how it relates to xDesign. Has DS abandoned xDesign, have they simply changed its name, or have we introduced yet another solution and if so, how are the two solutions different? And beyond this, what is going on with the design portfolio on the 3D Experience platform?

Another unique set of capabilities in 3D Creator is the way features are interchangeable. For example, if you start with an Extrude but later you realize that a Revolve or a Sweep may have given you better edit-ability, you can simply change it. This makes parametric modeling easier while enabling much greater flexibility when it comes to editing, particularly when making major changes.

For example, you have a part that requires a groove for an O-ring.

Maybe it makes the most sense to sketch the profile of the O-ring and revolve it around a reference.

xDesign as the key app in the 3D Creator role features a few key capabilities that make it the logical evolution from and extension to Solidworks.

Then, the design changes and you now need a rectangular rubber seal, rather than the standard O-ring. 3D Creator lets you change a Revolve to a Sweep or an Extrude.

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Since 3D Creator runs in a browser on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, you can leverage the many capabilities available on the platform, such as data management, simulation, project management, product lifecycle management, etc. You can share data, develop ideas and collect feedback through dashboards and communities, as well as use the design data in other parts on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform or in Solidworks.

3D Creator (xDesign) is a browserbased 3D modeler for creating, reviewing, and evaluating 3D models through parametric modeling capabilities. Built on the cloud-based Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform, 3D Creator complements Solidworks with flexible design workflows and interchange of design data.

There is no need to define parts, multi-body parts or assemblies – you can create all of these. This is because 3D Creator provides a single modeling environment, meaning you can start a sketch, extrude it and it becomes a body.

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3D Creator capabilities include: • Model parametric solids and surfaces to convey conceptual design and detailed parts and assemblies with Solidworks xDesign included within 3D Creator.

3D Experience • Eliminate the need to plan your assembly structure up front.

Make model changes at any time in a single modeling environment for parts and assemblies.

• Optimize and evolve existing designs with a generative design approach.

• Understand structural requirements such as support loads and constraints before creating geometry through an easy exploration of optimal material with Design Guidance.

• Iterate and change design intent without the rework associated with typical parametric modeling tools.

• Eliminate the need to plan your assembly structure up front. Make model changes at any time in a single modeling environment for parts and assemblies.

3D Sculptor 3D Sculptor (xShape) is a browserbased 3D subdivision modeler that enables industrial designers, engineers and artists to create stylized ergonomically or organically shaped models faster and more easily than traditional parametric tools.

Built on the cloud-based Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform, 3D Sculptor complements the parametric workflows of Solidworks

with subdivision modeling interchange of design data.

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3D Sculptor capabilities include: • Push-pull interaction for creating complex surfaces quickly using intuitive push-pull interaction • Sketch Guides that use images and sketches as a guide to create 3D surface geometry.

• Surfaces to NURBS conversion automatically converts subdivision surfaces to NURBS (Non-uniform rotational b-spline) geometry when finished.

• Modeling environments for switching between conceptual modeling and detailed modeling environments and eliminate the need for rework.

• Flexible development cycle for making changes to the product shape at any point in the development cycle without the need to re-model. Changes propagate to parts, assemblies, drawings, mold tooling and CAM data.

As an example, 3D Sculptor is a browser-based 3D subdivision modeling solution, complements Solidworks and enables industrial designers and engineers to create organically shaped models faster than with traditional parametric tools. 3D Creator can model parametric solids and surfaces on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to convey conceptual design and detailed parts and assemblies. Built on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, both 3D Sculptor and 3D Creator connect with Solidworks and each other.

So, after the big event, exactly what is the 3DEXPERIENCE? I, along with several of my peers, are still searching for clues. However, I am hopeful that these clues will reveal themselves more clearly and completely over the course of the next several months.

Jeff Rowe

Jeffrey Rowe has more than 40 years of experience in all aspects of industrial design, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing. On the publishing side, he has written well over 1,000 articles for CAD, CAM, CAE, and other technical publications, as well as consulting in many capacities in the design community.

As editor of MCADCafe, Jeff brings extensive hands-on experience with many design and production software products, and bases his commentary on these products and services as a true end user, and not baseless marketing hype. He can be reached at 719.221.1867 or jrowe@ cairowest.com.

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JDA intends to accelerate the introduction of circularity

AMSTY, INEOS STYROLUTION AND TRINSEO SIGN JOINT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT (JDA) TO ADVANCE THE CIRCULARITY OF POLYSTYRENE

To accelerate driving the circular economy for styrenics forward, three of the world’s leading polystyrene producers, AmSty, INEOS Styrolution most recyclable and Trinseo signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to jointly explore recycling options for polystyrene. polymers, for one of the

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JDA targets advancements in all technical aspects to enable scaled investment in advanced commercial recycling solutions

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mSty, INEOS Styrolution and Trinseo are committed to a circular economy for polystyrene.

This JDA represents the first global combined effort to explore advanced recycling technologies, optimize them for commercial use and call for all contributors along the value chain to make circularity of polystyrene a reality.

The three companies are aiming at an economy where postconsumer polystyrene waste does not end up in landfills but is recognized as a valuable resource for the development of new materials for future use.

Polystyrene is a unique polymer suitable for multiple advanced recycling solutions like depolymerization. Its properties make it ideal for a circular economy – even

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enabling food contact compliancy of the recycled material, often considered the holy grail of polymer recycling.

All three companies have done their own independent research and have invested in various projects to further the commercialization of advanced recycling capacity.

This new joint effort allows all participants to share best practices and optimize recycling technologies for large-scale commercial use.

Dr. Randy Pogue, President and Chief Executive Officer, AmSty: “I am thrilled to see the industry coming together globally to work on a common goal to realize true circularity for styrenics. This is a true win-win for all participants in this joint effort and finally for our customers, for consumers and for society.”

Alexander Glück, President EMEA, INEOS Styrolution, adds: “Polystyrene has all it takes to make it a star in a circular economy. Enhanced recycling technologies even offer recycled polystyrene at food contact quality. Which other polymer can do that?”

“This marks another milestone in our industry’s commitment towards a circular economy where we can continue to enjoy all the benefits of Polystyrene whilst solving the environmental challenges at the same time.

I am looking forward to see other members of the value chain joining us to make our vision become a reality in the very near future,” summarizes Nicolas Joly Vice President Plastics & Feedstocks, Trinseo.

FTP

FPT INDUSTRIAL IS THE FIRST OFFROAD ENGINE MANUFACTURER TO GET STAGE V CERTIFICATION IN SOUTH KOREA

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ncreasing its market share, especially in highly competitive environments such as South Korea, has always been a priority for FPT Industrial. One of the keys to that success has been its ability to stay ahead of the curve, by providing the most technologicallyadvanced solutions for the market.

The latest testament to this winning formula sees the Korean Ministry of Environment (KMOE) issue its first ever South Korean Stage V Emissions Certificate for off-road machines equipped with FPT Industrial engines. This certification signals that such products can now be directly commercialized for the South Korean market.

This result is even more significant considering that the new emissions regulation implementation dates are respectively December 1, 2020 for Construction Equipment and July 1, 2021 for Agricultural Equipment. As such, FPT Industrial offers South Korean customers the opportunity to be more

productive and sustainable than ever, well in advance of these regulations coming into effect. Currently, the Certification includes the FPT Industrial NEF6 engine for Cash Crop Medium HD Tractors, Cash Crop Medium Long Wheel Base Tractors and Wheel Loaders.

Further Certifications are in progress.

When issuing the Stage V certification, the KMOE also took the specific values and achievements of the HIeSCR2 patented technology into consideration: the second generation of FPT Industrial’s exclusive aftertreatment system.

This technology integrates a Particulate Filtration System on an SCR module, which does not require vehicle modifications from the Stage IV solution. HIeSCR2 ensures compliance with the Stage V emission regulations and offers many customer benefits.

Thanks to its integration, HI-eSCR2 does not compromise the visibility nor maneuverability of the vehicle and maintains the compactness of the engine.

The after-treatment system ensures high productivity, a simple installation, high durability, maximized uptime, environmental sustainability and reduced operating costs.

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Innovative Polymers Solutions In A Fast Evolving Market Two webinars (14th and 28th October) hosted by UL Prospector to present RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers latest innovations

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adici Group High Performance Polymers - a global company active in the development and production of polymers for engineering use - will present its latest innovations in two separate webinar sessions, hosted by UL’s Prospector platform.

During the first session (14th October) RadiciGroup experts will focus on innovative solutions for e-mobility and on high temperature polyamides and advanced structural component design.

The webinar scheduled on October 28th will present RadiciGroup Sustainability approach, with an overview on polyamide grades containing postindustrial recycled raw materials.

Moreover, particular attention will be paid to future trends and challenges in the electric and electronic markets.

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Click here for more info and for registration: Webinar 14 October 9.00 a.m. EDT (3.00 p.m. CEST) Innovative polymers solutions in a fast evolving market – Part one https://knowledge.ulprospector. com/10931/pe-webinar-innovativepolymers-solutions-in-a-fast-evolvingmarket-part-one/ Webinar 28 October 9.00 a.m. EDT (2.00 p.m. CET) Innovative polymers solutions in a fast evolving market – Part two https://knowledge.ulprospector. com/10992/pe-webinar-innovativepolymers-solutions-in-a-fast-evolvingmarket-part-two/

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Cisco teams up with Schneider Electric on smart building management

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chneider Electric and Cisco have joined forces on connecting building management systems to Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

The two companies said they have developed, tested and validated designs to bridge operational technology and IT building management systems for smart buildings.

With the advent of IoT, smart buildings are increasingly digitized for greater efficiency.

The solution from Schneider Electric and Cisco enables multiple Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Building IP architecture topologies to integrate with existing building layouts using Cisco industrial Ethernet switches to connect to Schneider’s SmartX IP Controllers.

The combined solution meets system availability requirements upon deployment, saving customers time and resources, according to Schneider and Cisco. It also can enforce consistent identity-based security polices on network infrastructure, and segment, identify and mediate cyberattacks as they occur.

The solution uses high-speed IP networks to manage realtime system operations, and it can scale from small to large deployments while managing the data that is collected from the IoT sensors.

It also enables technicians without a lot of IP experience to commission Ethernet fieldbuss switches prior to installation with plug and play, zero-touch configuration tools.

RELATED: Cisco snatches up network monitoring company ThousandEyes Large college campuses are among the organizations that are starting to implement IPenabled building management systems for better performance and improved security.

Cisco and Schneider cited a deployment at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana as one example.

“Cisco is excited to partner with Schneider Electric, delivering comprehensive IPenabled Building Management System solutions to enable the seamless migration of the University of Notre Dame’s infrastructure to a converged architecture,” said Mike Austin, senior director, Cisco Global Partner Organization, in a statement. “By combining Cisco’s IT innovation with Schneider Electric’s OT innovation, we are uniquely positioned to deploy this solution in a highly scalable and secure manner.”

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LONGRUN, A SUSTAINABLE PROJECT FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY HEAVY-DUTY TRUCKS AND COACHES F

PT Industrial further confirms its commitment to sustainability and research into alternative propulsion solutions for the on-road segment, taking part in LONGRUN, a European Union Horizon 2020 innovation programme. The LONGRUN acronym stands for the development of efficient and environmentally friendly LONG-distance poweRtrain for heavy dUty trucks aNd coaches.

LONGRUN brings together 30 partners, Including FPT Industrial’s sister brand IVECO, from 13 countries across Europe, who are joining forces to accelerate the path towards a smarter and more sustainable future.

The ambitious goal of the LONGRUN initiative is the reduction of real driving emissions and fuel consumption in the long-haul transport sector, supporting decision making with most recent and validated results, as well as making recommendations for future policies.

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Within the project, a further achievement will be the simulation supporting the design and development of efficient powertrains, including hybrids for both trucks and coaches. The partners will develop eight demonstration units (three engines, one hybrid driveline, two coaches and three trucks) so as to accelerate the transition from fossil-based fuels to alternative and renewable alternatives. The LONGRUN project will contribute to lowering the environmental impact of heavy-duty vehicles by developing different engines, drivelines and demonstrator vehicles with 10% energy saving and 10% CO2 saving, 30% lower exhaust emissions (NOx, CO and others), and 50% peak thermal efficiency.

With the proposed initiatives, a leading position in hybrid powertrain technology and internal combustion engines operating on renewable fuels in Europe will be guaranteed, underlining how a multipower approach is necessary to achieve these sustainable targets.

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RadiciGroup closes the year 2019 with positive results: Sales EUR 1,092 million and EBITDA EUR 165 million

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irst quarter 2020 results hold up, but the rest of the year will feel the consequences of pandemic-induced uncertainty and difficulties. Nevertheless, the Group remains cautiously optimistic about long-term prospects, while boosting innovation, sustainability and care for the environment and communities.

RadiciGroup – an Italian multinational with 3,100 employees in 16 countries, engaged in the chemicals, engineering polymers, fibres and nonwovens businesses – closed financial year 2019 with consolidated sales revenue of EUR 1,092 million and EBITDA of EUR 165 million.

The results obtained were in line with the budgeted figures and were attained through the strategy of focusing on those Group businesses that were strategic, synergistic and of interest in the medium term. The goal of the Group’s approach was to improve its competitive position and achieve an overall balance among the geographical areas where it operates in order to reduce dependency on single markets and increase cash flow to finance new initiatives in its strategic businesses.

Crucial to maintaining the Group’s competitiveness and development in 2019 was the decision to continue allocating sizeable investments

– totalling over EUR 45 million – to the constant technological upgrading of plant and equipment, as well as to business sustainability. In particular, EUR 7.6 million was earmarked for implementing Best Available Techniques, enhancing energy efficiency, emission abatement and R&D activities aimed at adding to low environmental impact processes and products. The investments made in 2019 to further RadiciGroup growth brought the total amount allocated during the 20152019 five-year period to EUR 216 million.

On the acquisitions front, in the first few days of 2020, the purchase of Radici Plastics France SA shares was completed, thus giving RadiciGroup a majority interest in the French company engaged in the sale of engineering polymers.

The Group also acquired Zeta Polimeri Srl, an Italian company specializing in the recovery of synthetic fibres and thermoplastic.

“We are pleased with how the Group closed the year 2019,” said Angelo Radici, president of RadiciGroup.

“The figures confirm out market competitiveness. Our attention will now be focused on the evolution of the global scenario and the inevitable impact of the COVID-19 health crisis, which has plagued the whole world since the beginning the year. Despite the fact that our figures held up during the first quarter of 2020, for the second and following quarters we expect a general downturn, although, as of today, it is impossible to forecast with any certainty what the actual effects of the pandemic on the world economy will be. However, we are confident and believe that our Group has put into place all the strategies needed to handle the emergency situation, thanks to our solid equity and financial position, geographical diversification and efficient production organization, in addition to our great research and development efforts.”

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New Digital Events and Services: Messe Düsseldorf departs into a Hybrid Trade Fair Autumn Glasstec VIRTUAL and drupa preview to Set the Scene for 2021 “Hybrid Trade Fair” Format to be Strengthened

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esse Düsseldorf clearly steps up its digital offensive: under the buzzword “Hybrid Trade Fair” it extends and optimises its digital service portfolio, establishes new virtual events – thereby reinforcing the hybrid character of its leading international trade fairs. Hybrid trade fairs are a mixture of the physical event on site and digital content.

This move consolidates the pole position of Düsseldorf’s leading global trade fairs as central communication and information platforms for their respective industries – both during the trade fair opening hours and throughout the entire year. Along these lines the leading international trade fairs glasstec and drupa will serve up new virtual events in October that will get their communities in the mood for the industry get-togethers in 2021 in Düsseldorf. Other Düsseldorf No. 1 events as well as guest events are also set to massively extend their digital ranges.

Wolfram N. Diener, CEO of Messe Düsseldorf, regards hybrid exhibition formats as complements for physical trade fairs in the future: “Business needs digital formats just as much as live contacts and experiences on site. Our leading international trade fairs

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offer both. These have already long taken place 365 days a year and have developed into the first point of contact for their respective industries.” Exhibitors present themselves and their products on the online portals of the Düsseldorf trade fairs and use the Matchmaking function to get in touch with their customers. “We are constantly developing these offerings with a view to making our customers’ content even more attractive and user-friendly – and making our leading international trade fairs what they are: the pivotal hubs of the sector – at all times and on all channels,” stresses Diener.

New Digital Formats for drupa and glasstec drupa – the no.1 for printing technologies, and glasstec, the world’s biggest trade fair for the glass industry, will be the first of Düsseldorf’s leading trade fairs to launch two new digital events: drupa preview and glasstec VIRTUAL. The new digital formats comprising the three segments Conference Area, Exhibition Space and Networking Plaza will considerably enhance the time in the build-up to the events in 2021 and enable industry players to network, introduce

themselves and provide information in the run-up. At the Exhibition Space exhibitors can post product information and videos. Furthermore, they can offer web sessions in the Conference Area where participants will have the possibility to interact with the speakers. On the occasion of glasstec VIRTUAL from 20 to 22 October this area will feature interactive expert lecture and panel discussions on the current market situation and themes trending globally. From late October at its Conference Area drupa preview will offer new teaser videos at regular intervals.

These will feature high-calibre international speakers highlighting themes to be addressed at the drupa forums 2021 as well as brief interviews with industry experts. At the Networking Plaza industry players will find participants of interest to them via the new Matchmaking Tool, that they can establish contact with and meet and exchange with in virtual rooms.

Dr. Christian Plenge, Executive Director Digital Strategy and Communication, emphasises the benefit especially during these times: “Live contacts are taking place under new conditions in the age of Coronavirus, they become more exclusive and are attached to a higher perceived value. At the same time, online formats for communication, presentation and distribution gain in importance.

Our trade fairs have long been hybrid events and formed part of the digital transformation, which constitutes a strategic pillar for Messe Düsseldorf. The current situation now proves an engine additionally driving our digital portfolio.” The other leading international Düsseldorf trade fairs will also extend their digital ranges and services further – just like the forthcoming MEDICA in November.

One Industry, One Portal The portals of Düsseldorf’s leading international trade fairs currently feature not only information on exhibitors’ contact persons, news and the events held at stands but also some 34,000 company profiles as well as over 105,000 product descriptions with text and images.

The digital portfolio of Messe Düsseldorf also includes the drupa blog, the MEDICA Magazin of the medical

Glasstec device technology trade fair of the same name, TIGHTLY PACKED, the e-magazine of the packaging trade fair interpack, and EuroShop 365 of the Retail Technology trade fair EuroShop, to name but four. Wolfram N. Diener stresses: “The linking of sector-specific content with exhibitor-specific information is what’s so special about our Portals. They mirror the entire world markets of their respective industries.”

Guest Organisers also bet on Hybrid Formats To guest organisers who use Düsseldorf exhibition centre for their trade fairs, hybrid exhibitions are also of major importance. For example, 14 to 18 September 2020 will see Germany’s first major virtual trade fair held for vehicle fleet decision makers: flotte.digital. The “Flotte!

Der Branchentreff” event scheduled for March 2020 was one of the first events that had to be postponed on account of Coronavirus. With flotte digital, conceived as a “hop on hop off” format, the organiser – Flotte Medien GmbH from Bonn – now offers people in charge of fleet management a virtual trade fair this year plus a comprehensive technical programme – comprising expert meetings, roundtables, workshops, webinars and live lectures. All this will be offered this year even before the next “Flotte! Der Branchentreff” goes ahead as usual at the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre from 24 to 25 March 2021.

Düsseldorf Congress: Service Portfolio for Virtual and Hybrid Conferences Beyond this, Düsseldorf Congress, the subsidiary specialising in congresses, meetings and events, has launched services for organising virtual and hybrid conferences, annual meetings and customer events as well as webcasts. To this end it offers the spacious and flexible premises of CCD Congress Center Düsseldorf as a broadcasting studio – equipped with professional image, sound and event technology. CEO Diener: “We are constantly adding to our services – both digital and physical. Our customers’ needs are centrestage.”

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Kassow Robots launches the 7-axis lightweight cobot KR1018 for The industrials tasks with Copenhagenbased payloads of up to 18 manufacturer kilogrammes now offers a line of five 7-axis lightweight robots – highly flexible cobots that weigh only up to 38 kilogrammes,

Copenhagen / Kastrup, 24 September 2020 ● The Danish company Kassow Robots has expanded its product portfolio with the addition of the KR1018, a new, particularly strong model that can handle payloads of up to 18 kilogrammes. The cobot itself weighs just 34 kilogrammes, a feature that enables it to meet a fundamental requirement for flexible automation solutions, especially in narrow spaces. The special target group for the company’s fifth 7-axis cobot is industrial companies in the metalworking industry and other areas like the food-production sector that want to take the heavy lifting off the hands of their employees and have these individuals take over more demanding tasks.

can handle payloads of up to 18 kilogrammes and offer a reach of up to 1800mm.

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Picture 1: Five 7-axis cobots in a row: These lightweight robots developed and made by Kassow Robots (from right): KR810 (850 mm reach/ 10 kg payload), the new KR1018 (1000mm / 18 kg), KR1205 (1200 mm / 5 kg) KR1410 (1400 mm / 10 kg), KR1805 (1800 mm / 5 kg).

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irst introduced to the market in 2018, Kassow Robots’ product family now comprises five 7-axis cobots that handle payloads of up to 18 kilogrammes and offer a reach of up to 1.8 metres – and all that with a speed of up to 225 degrees per second and weighing only up to 38 kilogrammes: KR810 (850 mm reach/ 10 kg payload), the new KR1018 (1000mm / 18 kg), KR1205 (1200 mm / 5 kg) KR1410

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(1400 mm / 10 kg), KR1805 (1800 mm / 5 kg).

Each of the five cobots can be used in virtually endless industrial applications involving human-robot collaboration – thanks in part to the 7th axis that can reach around a corner.

“Compact, very strong – but lightweight! This was the goal that Kristian Kassow had in mind when he designed his cobots for flexible jobs

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Picture 2 + 3 + 4: The lightweight robot KR1018 was introduced in September 2020 – with its strong payload of up to 18 kg, a reach of 1000 mm, speed of 225 degree / second and of course the 7th axis. at industrial companies, and he brought this design to life with the help of his team,” says Dieter Pletscher, the Head of Sales at Kassow Robots. “Kristian sketched out the five models in the business plan and all are now being sold in the market. All five models offer a unique combination of strength and speed. They are also easy to operate and programme.”

The KR1018, a cobot that can handle payloads of up to 18 kilogrammes and comes with 7 axes, can perform such tasks as the loading and unloading of heavy parts for the metalworking industry or tasks as heavy lifting in the food-production sector. Such a change will make the lives of employees easier. Once in operation, the KR1018 provides employees with more opportunities and flexibility, allowing them to be assigned to jobs that require less physical effort.

Small and medium-sized enterprises will profit tremendously by introducing or expanding lightweight robot solutions in their operations.

“Everybody has gotten to know the intuitive and userfriendly technology of tablet computers in their private lives,” Pletscher says. “This is why small and mediumsized enterprises that have had nothing to do with robotics in the past will be able to easily enter the world of programming our cobots.”

Pletscher also stressed one other point: In his selection of integrator partners, he makes sure that they speak the same language as potential customers do. “Our integrator partners are also small and medium-sized enterprises, and they can put themselves into the shoes of end customers when it comes to industry automation.

The integrators are the main contact who can answer customer questions and help to integrate our cobots into existing automation solutions.”

Picture 4: Kristian Kassow, Founder and CEO at the Danish cobot producer Kassow Robots.

Picture 5: Dieter Pletscher, the Head of Sales at the Danish cobot producer Kassow Robots.

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Manufacturers are increasingly deploying Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies to enable smart, connected operations. This digitalization trend has major implications for risk management in industrial operations and the impact it has on safety, security, and productivity.

Over the past decade, industrial organizations have used operational risk management (ORM) to manage safety and environmental hazards in production operations, with the goal of safeguarding people, assets, and the environment. Effective ORM processes have proven useful in preventing adverse events and the negative impact they have on opera-tional and financial performance.

Safety systems are an essential element of effective ORM, to protect em-ployee and process safety during operations and maintenance.

With the trend towards Digital Transformation in manufacturing, concerns over cyber security, IIoT-enabled integrated safety controllers, and industrial networks with IIoT gateways have given industrial companies a whole new set of risk factors to consider.

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Traditionally the safety systems debate has centered on balancing the trade-offs of creating a single point of failure versus reduced complexity and improved performance.

Now, in an IIoT world, new approaches to safety and risk management are available.

A significant development in this regard is the concept of offering a single integrated safety and pro-cess control solution using common controllers, input/output (I/ O), and networks.

This research investigates how IIoT technologies are transforming man-ufacturing operations, and how this impacts productivity and safety on the plant floor and enterprise-wide. We’ll present frameworks for using ORM to balance the decisions for incorporating IIoT technology and safety functionality into the process control system, while still maintain-ing the risk levels mandated by good design practice.

Research Demographics Most of the data and insights presented in this report are drawn from primary research conducted by LNS Research on the topic of safety and risk management best practices and their relationship to enterprise business performance.

We gathered data via an online survey in quarter three of 2017, from 300 respondents across a variety of geographic re-gions and company sizes.

Respondents reflected in the data presented are mainly operations, environment, health and safety (EHS), and engi-neering managers and professionals in industrial manufacturing organizations.

The industry segmentation is diversified across discrete, process, and hybrid manufacturing, including the food and beverage, mining, and metals sectors.

We selectively supplemented the data from this survey with data from the ongoing LNS Research IIoT survey, which has a similar industrial demographic profile.

The IIoT Enables Smart Connected Operations The Digital Transformation trend sweeping across global industry goes by many names: Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and the Fourth In-dustrial Revolution, among others.

Regardless of what it’s called, Digital Transformation is here to stay, and it’s disrupting industries, enabling new business models, and creating competitive advantage for organiza-tions that embrace it.

IIoT technologies Fun-damental changes in business models (e.g., service provider versus manufacturer) and work processes (e.g., autonomous production) can quickly change the portfolio of operational risks an organization has tra-ditionally managed — namely safety, health and environmental risks that can harm people, assets, and the environment.

The essential enabler of this phenomenon is the IIoT — the use of cyber-physical systems to connect people, machines, and data in new ways. Several critical technology innovations underpin the IIoT, including sen-sor-equipped smart devices, Cloud computing, mobile apps, and Big Data analytics.

Smart connected operations leverage the IIoT to capture and gather large volumes of diverse data types on a breadth and scale not previ-ously possible. The application of advanced analytics to this data provides new actionable insights and increased predictive/autonomous control of operations to optimize performance.

Does Digital Transformation and IIoT have a real impact on industrial organizations? Although many businesses are at an early stage in the adoption of IIoT technologies, that’s changing rapidly. Our survey data show a consistent trend of companies moving from investigating the impact of IIoT to a clear recognition of potential business value, and acting to realize that value.

The Double-Edge Sword of IIoT: Opportunity and Risk Industrial companies are picking up the pace of IIoT technology adop-tion to take advantage of the opportunity to optimize operations and boost financial performance. The first wave of investment has been aimed at improving vital areas such as asset reliability, operational efficiency, product quality, and safety and environmental performance.

The IIoT is enabling new information and data architectures. Two-thirds of manufacturers already deploying IIoT technology are using it to break down the traditional hierarchical approach to manufacturing systems.

Technologies such as IIoT gateways, Edge analytics, and Cloud computing are increasingly enhancing and displacing traditional systems.

The proliferation of IIoT-enabled devices and networks of connected as-sets represents downside risk as well as upside potential. As is often the case, the introduction of technology innovations creates new risks.

IIoT also exposes companies to newto-the-world risks which are less understood and more difficult to manage using traditional ORM processes. Many of these novel risks are driven by the IT/operational technology (IT/OT) convergence trend; two formerly independent do-mains of information technology and operational technology are coming closer together.

IT/OT convergence creates the need for — and enables — a more integrated approach to safety and risk management, especially to manage new types of risk such as industrial cyber security. This approach should certainly consider direct cyber-attacks via internet-connected devices, and vectors such as removable media devices and email spear phishing.

Cyber attackers commonly use these to deliver malware and they potentially threaten industrial systems.

In this dynamic environment, a strategic approach to operational architecture that incorporates IT and OT becomes more critical to provide a framework of process, data, application technology standards.

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IIoT technologies Disconnected ORM Processes Prevalent Many widely-adopted industry standards call for a systematic risk man-agement process in industrial operations. Examples include IEC 61508 (functional safety), IEC 61511 (safety instrumented systems), ISO 27005 (information security risk management), OHSAS 18001 (occupational health and safety) and ISO 31000 (risk management). These standards reflect best practices at various levels of operational architecture rang-ing in granularity from process control systems to equipment and assets, to business systems, to enterprise governance and planning systems.

These standards share a common requirement for closed-loop risk man-agement across the lifecycle of the relevant scope of risk, whether it be safety systems, process safety, worker health and safety, cyber security, operational continuity, and so forth. However, only 28% of industrial organizations use a lifecycle risk management approach.

This lack of adoption means that fragmented approaches to risk management are common, contributing to unnecessary exposure. When companies do conduct risk assessments, it often involves crossfunc-tional collaboration between domains such as safety and security, and operations and maintenance.

So, there is a good basis for a more unified approach that addresses both traditional operational risks as well as new threats such as industrial cyber security. In context, IIoT technologies are both part of the problem by creating new risks, as well as part of the solution by enabling better lifecycle risk management processes.

Room for Improvement in Safety Process Capabilities System safety is essential to effective ORM, especially in asset-intensive and high-risk industries such chemicals, oil and gas, mining, mill prod-ucts, and many others. These types of industry sectors rely heavily on operational technology including process control and safety systems to ensure safe, smooth-running operations.

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The survey data show that adoption of safety system process best prac-tices is similar to overall risk management.

Industrial organizations generally do a good job on the fundamentals of managing safety sys-tems, with a majority regularly maintaining, updating and documenting safety systems. A significant percentage (33%) design safety systems to standards.

However, only 27% use a lifecycle approach to safety system management that includes risk assessment.

Safety system management processes often exist in silos.

Companies can benefit by moving towards a lifecycle approach that incorporates risk assessment as part of a holis-tic ORM process.

Untapped Potential of IIoT Technology to Mitigate Risk and Improve Performance Two-thirds of respondents report that their safety systems are designed to mitigate risk and improve performance, or that they have plans to do so soon, and nearly half say this capability is already in place today. These numbers indicate that companies clearly recognize that safety and productivity are not mutually exclusive, and have the potential to syner-gistically improve operational performance.

A relatively low portion of respondents (11%) indicate their organization is using IIoT technologies to holistically manage operations and safety performance, including engineering and maintenance. Considering that doing so is an ambitious undertaking, this strikes us a positive indi-cation of an aspirational posture.

Notably, 20% of companies say they will start using IIoT this way in the next 12 months; this is a relatively high figure compared to the current adoption rate. Evidently, companies recognize the potential of ad-vanced technology to simultaneously improve safety and productivity, and are embracing IIoT technology to get there faster.

An Integrated Approach to ORM for an IIoT World The LNS Research ORM model is a closed loop process for systematic risk management consistent with

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best practices in the ISO 31000 risk management standard. Many companies have implemented such a pro-cess (with varying degrees of success), usually to manage risks associated with basic safety and environmental hazards.

As mentioned previously, the IT/ OT convergence trend enabled by IIoT technology is changing the historical relationship between enterprise business systems and plant/process control systems. On the one hand, the implementation of smart connected assets and operations has greatly expanded the scope of information security risks to be managed, mainly in the form of industrial cyber security threats.

On the other hand, IIoT can provide vastly greater volumes and variety of data and advanced analytics capabilities to leverage for predictive risk manage-ment and autonomous operations.

Industrial organizations should consider adopting a more integrated framework for managing risk. At the high level, all risk categories including strategic enterprise risk, should be managed with a systematic risk management process a la ISO 31000.

Within that framework are traditional operational risks related to people, process and system safety, and environmental management.

Although these risk categories are governed by different standards, and typically by different business do-mains, they share a common requirement for lifecycle risk management. Companies may find many commonalities in organization, process, and technology that they can leverage for a more unified, costeffective ap-proach.

For the same reason, it’s advisable to consider including industrial cyber security risks within the scope of operational risk management pro-cesses. Doing so will also facilitate the innovative use of IIoT technology to improve safety and operational performance together with connected ORM. For example, best practices as dictated by industry design stand-ards require that process control and safety functions remain independent to avoid failure of one to compromise the other.

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Historically, this has been accomplished by a programmable controller to control non-safety plant functions, and a separate system to control safety functions.

Now, IIoT-enabled common safety controllers provide a single, integrated safety and process control solution while still main-taining the risk levels mandated

by good design practice. Such systems are designed with industrial cyber security risk in mind and can reduce cost, risk and time to value.

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IIoT technologies Evidence of Value: Safety and Operational Performance A long-held view in many industrial organizations is that safety comes at the expense of profitability. This perspective asserts that procedures and processes required for safety compliance reduce productivity and increase costs. Fortunately, as companies have evolved towards an Op-erational Excellence approach to continuous improvement, there has been a shift away from this trade-off mentality.

The survey data strongly support the notion that adoption of safety and risk management best practices lead to better operational performance across safety, reliability, and efficiency dimensions: • 7% higher overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) with a lifecycle approach to risk management • 50% lower incident rates when safety systems designed to both mitigate risk and improve performance • 25% lower incident rates when IIoT technology used to ho-listically manage safety and operational performance

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Recommendations Industrial organizations are increasingly deploying Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies to enable smart, connected operations.

This has major implications for managing operational risks related to safety, cyber security, and productivity in a digital world.

Effective ORM pro-cesses have the potential to drive improvement in terms of safety performance and operational performance measures including quality, reliability, and efficiency. Operations, EHS, cyber security, IT and risk business leaders should develop a strategy to seize the performance op-portunities while mitigating risk: 1. RECONSIDER THE SCOPE OF OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT (ORM). It may make sense to expand the categories of risk covered by ORM processes. Identify commonalities and potential synergies across people, process, and technology capabilities to drive more costeffective risk management.

2. ZERO IN ON INDUSTRIAL CYBER SECURITY RISK. Adopting innovative digital technologies creates new risks to manage. Many organizations haven’t adequately assessed the cyber security threats to take appropriate action.

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It’s likely that current information secu-rity risk measures are inadequate to deal with the risks resulting from IIoT technologies.

Given the potential impact of an indus-trial cyber security breach on safety and operational integrity, it could make sense to address this new breed of risk within your ORM framework.

3.EMBRACE INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY TO REDUCE COMPLEXITY ANDINCREASE EFFICIENCY. While IIoT technologies tend to complicatethe IT/OT landscape, they can also be used to simplify and opti-mize operational performance. IIoT-enabled devices have thepotential to reduce cost, risk, and time to value.

4.DON’T FORGET ABOUT PEOPLE. Improving safety and operationalperformance is a team sport that requires crossfunctional col-laboration across multiple domains including operations,engineering, maintenance, EHS, and other disciplines. Viewingtechnology as a solution without adequate regard for stake-holder buy-in, process improvement, and a strong business casecould derail a project before it evens gets started.

Air France

Dear valued customer...

Anne Rigail,

Air France

CEO

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ur activity has fallen by 70% and the signs of recovery are still limited.

In July and August, travel was concentrated mainly in France and Europe, and I can assure you that our Air France flight crews were delighted to see you on board.

Since the beginning of this crisis, I know that the patience of many of you has been put to the test concerning requests for refunds and credit vouchers.

We have increased the number of our sales staff in charge of refunds tenfold, with 700 people dedicated solely to this task. We have processed over 2 millions requests and refunded 1.1 billion euros.

We have not yet been able to deal with all the requests made, but rest assured that our teams are doing their utmost to respond as soon as possible.

I am fully aware that this crisis has changed our habits, and that the instability of the situation may lead you to have reservations about travelling.

To ensure you are fully protected and to enable you to manage your bookings in complete confidence, our sales policy has changed, in line with your expectations: if you have to cancel your trip for any reason, you can request a refundable credit voucher or change your booking at no extra cost.

To check the conditions and requirements linked to your trip, go to airfrance.

traveldoc.aero website, where constantly updated information is provided to help you prepare for your trip.

We operate flights close to 170 destinations worldwide to and from Paris-Charles de Gaulle or Paris-Orly, with our “Air France Protect� commitment to meet the strictest health & hygiene requirements throughout your trip.

All our teams here at Air France remain committed to providing you with optimum service and look forward to seeing you on your next trip.

With my regards...

very

best

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Boom and Bust: 50 Big Tech Revealed in The Pandemic [Visualization]

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he COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge influence on the economies of many countries, so much so that the current financial score of many brands now wears a new look, significantly different from what it was in the last fiscal year. The stock market seems to be running on pins and needles, with trades and businesses no longer in full swing as they used to be.

While some brands hit a new low during this period, others have been at the tailwind of the robust stock market, hitting astronomical figures in profits. To determine how well or not businesses have adjusted to the whims and caprices of the coronavirus pandemic, we have organized a study based on some industrial and retail giants.

This case study, based on fifty (50) large companies that maintained a market capitalization of over USD $10 billion before the pandemic highlights what areas of the economy were most hit, and which of these industries managed to stay afloat regardless.

It also discusses whether the current state of the economy is only temporary or whether brands should prepare for a new normal.

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of the coronavirus pandemic on January 30, 2020, when the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Covid-19 as a global health emergency.

The Rise and Fall of Global Business Empires A temporary phase? Yes? No? Whatever the case, it is difficult to ignore the fact that the modifications major commercial players are making on their business models are going to affect the world economy significantly.

Worthy of note is that most of the companies that have prospered during the pandemic have American and Chinese roots. Coincidentally, many big players in the US are also bearing the brunt of the pandemic, recording meager profits; and some of them, even losses.

In what is turning out to be a dismal year for many, certain technological giants have somehow flourished, plausibly due to the types of services and products they provide.

Even with governments imposing lockdown measures and ordering citizens to stay indoors, companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, PayPal, T-Mobile, and Alibaba have still managed to pull through the pandemic with ease, registering significant growth in the process, with the potential to maintain their high capitalization values even past the crisis.

According to the study, Zoom Video Communications Inc has enjoyed the largest increase in market capitalization, more than twice that of Tesla in second place.

Interestingly, this number is still on the rise.

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However, it remains to be seen if this trend will continue or there is a potential dip in market capitalization percentage lurking around for Zoom. Eric Yuan, the CEO and founder of Zoom, has been touted as one of the best business leaders during the pandemic. Tesla INC also received a major boost in market capitalization. A major contribution to the sudden spike was an announcement about a stock split made on August 11, 2020. Since doubling the number of shares doesn’t necessarily translate to an increase in earnings, the evolution for the next period is uncertain.

NVIDIA Corporation, Pinduoduo INC, Shopify, Meituan Dianping, and DocuSign Inc, as well as the United Parcel Service, all had a decent increase in market capitalization, and are likely to keep that score steady for a longer-term compared to others on the list. Online shopping and deliveries became essential during the lockdown, but it remains to be seen whether people will choose to do a significant part of their shopping this way in the postpandemic period, or simply hurry back to brick-andmortar stores as soon as the situation allows.

Another category of companies are those without any significant rise in market capitalization, but with the potential to maintain steady numbers or grow steadily considering their well-established market presence and strong consumer base. Among them are Tencent, Netflix, Adobe Inc, Thermo Fisher, Target, Costco Wholesale Corporation, Lululemon, Qualcomm, RingCentral Inc. As for businesses like Abbvie INC and Danaher, the public response would become a huge factor in whether the rising trajectory will continue or dip in the near future. At this point, it is hard to tell which would be the case.

Taking a look at percentage drops, it’s not so difficult to spot Occidental Petroleum Corporation with the biggest slump in market capitalization, a whopping 74% drop.

The oil-producing giant is struggling to move forward, after repeatedly slashing its budget to avoid accumulating massive debts it could potentially incur due to the oil price crisis.

The Boeing Company is not left out either, placed only a few points shy off Occidental Petroleum Corporation.

Between the efforts to bring back the Boeing 737 Max and the headache in solving the manufacturing issues of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner against a gloomy backdrop in the whole airliner industry this year, it’s hard to say what 2021 will bring for this aerospace and defense giant.

Exxon Mobil Corporation is also on the other end of the spectrum, showing a significant drop in market capitalization by USD. In retrospect, it’s not the company’s first severe hit, and the fact that it’s managed to bounce back indicates its resilience to possibly rebound once the current climate starts to clear away.

Numerous industrial and retail giants suffered huge drops of around 30-50% in market capitalization during the coronavirus crisis.

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Pandemic Big corporations like EOG Resources, Wells Fargo & Co, Royal Dutch Shell (in the Netherlands), B.P. p.l.c. (in the U.K.), United Airlines Holdings Inc, American Airlines Group, Delta Air Lines, Kinder Morgan have declined by between 40 and 50%.

Others like Citigroup, Wynn Resorts, Equity Residential, Host Hotels & Resorts, Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Marriott International, Inc., Chevron Corporation, and MGM Resorts all saw a dip in their market capitalization by about 30 and 40 percent.

How A Shift in Consumer Habits Plunged Some Brands Into The Doldrums The coronavirus pandemic was not only a health crisis but a black swan event that exposed the vulnerabilities of many companies and industries. Most of these companies were unable to cope with the shift in consumer habits, and not even clutch decisions by their management could save their faces. In one clean sweep, these industries lost a large fraction of their customers because they were unable to cater to the new needs of their customers.

This shift in consumer habits no doubt dealt a huge blow to some industries while ordering some others to the forefront of things. The response of these businesses to the change in consumer habits is what separates those that flourished in this period from those who were hit hard by the crisis.

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The tables below are a pictorial representation of how the response to a change in consumer habits split these fifty successful commercial giants into two halves. One half represents those who adjusted their markets to accommodate the new demands and are hence ahead of the curve while the other highlights brands who couldn’t get a favorable market share because of the change in demand.

From the tables, we can deduce that: • Companies in the consumer cyclical and tech industries saw the most increase in market capitalization.

• Most of the companies in the oil and gas industry saw a sharp drop in their market capitalization • Occidental Petroleum Corporation was the biggest loser (74%) in danger of collapsing at this rate.

Connecting with the change in consumer habits The coronavirus crisis made a lot of companies reevaluate their business models. As the tables show, those who couldn’t connect with this change in consumer habits are those on the red side of the spectrum while the greener half of the table houses either companies that this shift in demand favored or those that diversified to accommodate the needs of the consumers.

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Were some companies naturally favored by this shift in demand?

Companies that failed to accommodate these changes in consumer habits

Yes, Some companies were naturally favored by this shift in consumer habits. Prime examples are Netflix and PayPal. Since these brands are internet-based, movement restrictions and border closures couldn’t affect their revenue or market capitalization negatively.

Some companies in the oil and gas industry as well as the traveling sector could hardly survive the crisis because of the kinds of products they produce. They also couldn’t modify their modus operandi to accommodate systems that can help bolster their revenue.

Since most workflows were restricted to online communications, companies that promoted online classes and video communications were bound to do well. Zoom, in particular, took the opportunity by the scruff of its neck and established itself as the best video communications software to be used for collaboration by work teams. This was also the case for RingCentral. Their online meeting tool helped fill the blanks for work teams who worked remotely. For many was a more practical medium for transmitting urgent messages to other members of a project team. The market capitalization of software companies like DocuSign and Adobe was also on the rise for the same reasons as RingCentral and Zoom. Using these platforms, members of a work team can collaborate better, sign documents online, and fax these documents to other signatories. There were also significant jumps in market capitalization for medical suppliers, drug manufacturers, and research companies, boosted by funds from governments who are going all out in search of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Revenues in the oil and gas industry were downed by a significant change owing to a reduction in production and the current oil price crisis. Oil companies like Occidental Petroleum Corporation were the biggest victims. The oil giant is now wallowing so deep in the mud that they can potentially crash soon. Traveling and accommodation services also suffered a huge hit. Airlines like The Boeing Company and American Airlines Group and hotel owners like Marriott International, Inc., were not spared either because of the sudden drop in demand.

Could diversification have helped these companies?

There are a few companies like Amazon that could have been held back by border restrictions but had diversified into other niches, making it easy to score a higher market capitalization value even in the face of the crisis.

The e-commerce titan had earlier delved into hardware, payments, media, and data storage, and was, therefore, in the right conditions to flourish even when COVID-19 came knocking.

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Pandemic Amazon Prime video did pretty fine, rivaling Netflix for sales. The commerce sector of the brand didn’t do badly either as the company focused on shipping essentials and groceries. This however came at a cost. The e-commerce giant championed by Jeff Bezos added 175,000 new employees to its existing workforce to handle demand in the period.

The Biggest Growths In Value During The Coronavirus Crisis For a few major companies, the current context has proven extremely beneficial, and they registered a significant profit. Here are the Top 5 Highest Expansions in Market Capitalization in 2020:

not just companies that benefit from these services.

Individuals also need to store information and sign documents online safely. Founded in 2003, DocuSign is one of the companies that may maintain steady growth in the following period. Pinduoduo INC is no doubt one of the world’s biggest commercial brands. Their market capitalization during the Covid-19 crisis is well justified given their area, experience, and customer loyalty. The e-commerce platform not only offers competitive prices but also has a group buys policy, making their prices hard to beat. Like David Liu, the vice president of strategy said in an interview, ‘e-commerce actually played a big part in supporting and stabilizing’ people’s lives. Meituan Dianping is another major shopping platform in China, focusing on locally found products and services. They have been on the market since 2010, and are on the mission to become the untouchables in service delivery just like Amazon is with products. Customers who use their apps and websites, depending on the services they need get deals and vouchers. Number five on our list, Meituan Dianping, is also doing quite well, meeting and surpassing their financial projections.

Post-Pandemic Previsions – How Will the Market Change?

Of all the fast-growing companies during the COVID pandemic, Zoom Video Communications Inc made the most impressive progress. Offering a video communication platform, it provided exactly what people needed during this troubled period: a medium for face-to-face communication and organizing meetings for people from different locations in a single video meeting.

Founded in 2011 by Eric S. Yuan with the headquarters at San Jose, CA, the company found the path to success by focusing on the cloud architecture and using a highly efficient marketing strategy focused on what the market demanded. All of these paired with strong and efficient customer support helped Zoom top the chart. Tesla is another winner - in terms of market capitalization during the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, theirs is a peculiar situation as earlier highlighted. The decision to approve a five-for-one split in the soaring stock this year contributed to the sudden rise in market cap. Still, Tesla will go into the record books as the auto manufacturer with the highest market value, despite being well behind its competitors when it comes to sales figures. DocuSign Inc is in third place with an increase in market cap of 169%. In this case, the rise is justified since the company offers services that have become crucial for the business world during the pandemic. Electronically signing documents and handling business deals online is the new trend, but it’s 108

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Making projections and developing programs and models to help the economy bounce back is no doubt going to be a tall order for governments and companies worldwide. It is still difficult to see which way the market will go when the crisis is over. As far as authorities are concerned, the main lesson learned is that there is a need to strengthen the sectors that were exposed as frail by the coronavirus pandemic. As for the 50 major players that we included in this study, it is still difficult to predict what their situation on the market will be in the post-pandemic world. We would probably see some of the companies now recording huge profits start a slowly descending curve once things begin to settle down.

Some spikes in market caps we have seen are impossible to maintain, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there will be a sudden drop in those figures as well. Some of these giants are building up new loyal clientele during this challenging time, and are likely to maintain a good position on the market in the future.

As far as the industrial and commercial giants are concerned, their future may be determined by the strength and resources they have to help them scale through the crisis unscathed. For the most part, the big drops in market capitalization are related to the sudden decrease in market demand. If that be the case, these companies are likely to bounce back once the lockdown restrictions are lifted. But for those that are currently facing severe drops, it’s already a matter of survival. The Covid-19 pandemic has surely created a shift in the way customers see certain services. People and companies have discovered that many operations can be conducted online, and they may want to restructure their activity even after things come back to normal. The progression into a new normal may reflect on the economy and we are poised to see a corresponding adjustment in market capitalizations.

Seco

Global Renewable Energy Provider Chooses Seco/Deals Service Offer From Seco/ Warwıck One of the leading global power, aviation and renewable energy providers has selected SECO/WARWICK Group’s SECO/DEALS offer for a vacuum furnace hot zone replacement.

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wo champions together again

The champion of heat treatment solutions - SECO/WARWICK and one of the leading global renewable energy providers are going to work together again. Both companies have continued their cooperation since the decade of the 90’s, successfully partnering to supply high vacuum furnaces with soldering and aging processes equipped with metal and graphite chambers. Recently, the SECO/WARWICK Group delivered a custom-size vacuum furnace to the Client’s facility. This year, the company’s service team replaced the hot zone of a horizontal vacuum furnace.

The replacement was designed with the use of the newest, most technologically advanced materials in the industry that will, in turn, prolong the manufacturer’s guarantee for the furnace Special deals with SECO/WARWICK SECO/DEAL$ by SECO/WARWICK is considered to be the hottest sales service offer currently available in the heat treatment market. The SECO/DEALS program, in this case, consisted of the replacement and modernization of a hot zone in a 20+ year old furnace to be installed in the Client’s facility in Hungary, Europe.

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Leybold

New vacuum pump ECODRY 25 and 35 plus – compact, ergonomic, energy-efficient Leybold strengthens the trend towards

Cologne, October 2020 – Leybold expands its ECODRY plus product family of dry multi-stage Roots vacuum pumps for laboratory, research and development and analytical applications. The current ECODRY 40 and 65 plus models are now joined by the new, smaller pump sizes ECODRY 25 and 35 plus. Leybold thus completes its range of quiet, low-maintenance and economical fore-vacuum pumps and fills the gap between SCROLLVAC 18 plus and ECODRY 40 plus.

smart solutions in research and laboratory applications

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rgonomic advantages

A characteristic of ECODRY plus, which is particularly important in research facilities and in analytical laboratories, is its low noise level.

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“Customers have already appreciated the existing models for this ergonomic advantage.

The new ECODRY 25 and 35 plus also have a particularly compact design,” says product manager

Alexander Kaiser, naming another important feature.

Thanks to technical optimizations, the vacuum pumps are smaller and more energy-efficient than competitive products.

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“As a result, we achieve very high pumping speeds with relatively little footprint, which means that a chamber can be evacuated more quickly and a lower ultimate pressure is achieved,” summarizes Kaiser.

Pleasant background noise Above all, the new ECODRY 25 and 35 plus are particularly quiet, with a noise level of 52 dB(A). “A normal conversation is at a noise level of about 55 dB(A),” says Alexander Kaiser. So it’s easy to stay close to the pump and have a normal conversation with the pump noise just fading into the background,” Kaiser explains.

Clean operation A further advantage of the new ECODRY 25 and 35 plus: it emits neither oil vapor, nor particles. This is particularly important in research institutes and laboratories where a clean working environment is essential.

The oil-free multi-stage Roots pumps ECODRY 25 and 35 plus also have a maintenance interval of five years, during which time they run without any servicing.

No oil to check and change so users can devote themselves fully to their research and laboratory work.

Pressure gauge optimizes energy consumption

Manager Kaiser. With the help of the gauge, the pump determines the pressure: If this is low enough, the pump can reduce its speed and becomes even quieter and more energyefficient.

What’s more, the ECODRY plus is emitting less heat, which means the air conditioning system has less work to do.

Various interfaces for the smart laboratory

While the ECODRY 40 and 65 plus are still available in the two voltage variants 200-240 Volt for Europe and Asia and 120 Volt for North America, there is only one variant required for each of the new ECODRY 25 and 35 plus worldwide. Equipped with an integrated pump controller, they are suitable for all voltage ranges.

Customers also have the option of connecting a pressure gauge directly to the vacuum pump.

“This integration is interesting because it allows the pump performance to be adapted again specifically to the respective requirement,” explains Product

This means that ECODRY plus does not simply run through, but achieves exactly the required performance level. In addition, the ECODRY has connections for easy integration of the pump into external control systems and for reading all data from other systems. With its various interfaces such as USB and RS485 as well as the new intuitive LEYASSIST software, the new ECODRY 25 and 35 plus is thus ideally equipped for all sustainable, future-proof industrial 4.0 applications.

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Continental Has Launched Qualification Offensive for Employees in Hamburg • Continental Institute of Technology and Transformation (CITT) trains unskilled and semiskilled employees in Hamburg-Harburg to the Chamber of Commerce (IHK) vocational qualification level and prepares for the challenges of the transformation process• In addition to vocational qualifications, training with qualifications will also be offered in the future in subject fields such as Industry 4.0, digitalization, plastics technology, additive manufacturing or 3D printing technologies, and new drive concepts

At the Hamburg-Harburg location, Continental employees are trained in topics such as Industry 4.0, digitization, plastics technology or new drive concepts.

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process toward Industry 4.0.

The Continental Institute of Technology and Transformation (CITT) offers unskilled and semi-skilled employees training in stages leading to the nationally

recognized vocational qualification of process technician for plastics and rubber technology.

To deliver this training, CITT as Continental’s inhouse training body has

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At the end of the step-by-step qualification is the nationally recognized vocational qualification of process technician for plastics and rubber technology. established a number of training hubs nationwide. One of the first hubs is located at the company’s site in Hamburg-Harburg.

This professional development provision to enable unskilled and semi-skilled employees to gain a vocational qualification rounds off the site’s package of employee training and professional development.

It supplements measures for integrating long-term unemployed people and providing a foundation vocational placement for young people. Overall, in doing so, Continental’s Hamburg site is making a targeted contribution toward addressing the structural change in the industry, supporting its employees in mastering digitalization and helping provide tomorrow’s skilled employees.

Qualification for the workplace of

the future In the CITT’s professional development program, the Hamburg employees will gain the skills and know-how that they will require for more complex activities requiring a higher level of professional qualification, i.e. work that will gradually replace unskilled or physically demanding activities as digitalization and automation increase. “As a result, the colleagues will also extend the range of operations they can perform at the site and improve their prospects in the labor market,” declares Tobias Heilmann, who heads up HR at the Hamburg site.

The qualification is divided into a number of modules, each lasting four to six months.

The modular structure offers a high degree of flexibility to take account of individual needs and family circumstances. This provision makes it possible to gain the vocational qualification as a process technician in 24 months – instead of the classic three-year term of an apprenticeship.

The training takes place during working hours at the full basic salary and is supported by the Federal Employment Agency under Germany’s Skills Development Opportunities Act. Each module concludes with an exam that is moderated in cooperation with the Hanover Chamber o Commerce. In 2020, more than 500 participants from Continental across Germany will attend such CITT training.

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The first 17 employees have already completed the foundation module in Hamburg with good to very good results, and the group moved on to the second module in August. “That is a remarkable achievement. After all, most of them left school many years ago,” declares HR manager Heilmann. The syllabus for the opening module in Hamburg starts with fundamentals: machining, production processes, machine technology and testing. Each participant is provided with an iPad to smooth the digital learning path.

As instructors, CITT is using plant employees who not only completed their apprenticeship at Continental in Hamburg, but also gained their advanced “master” qualification there. As qualified “insiders”, they enjoy the trust of the participants and, in addition to broad-based expertise, they also have many years of practical experience. In September, a second group also began the CITT qualification program.

The feedback from the participants

is thoroughly positive, and there is growing interest. “To ensure that more colleagues can take advantage of the qualification program and have sufficient space for practical work, we are in the process of setting up a second training workshop,” adds Heilmann.

In this package of support, professional development and qualification, the Hamburg site is proactively positioning itself in respect not only of the working world of tomorrow, but also of the increasing requirements of its customers. “By gaining this qualification, the employees will be able to be used more flexibly at the site. They will consequently be in a position to switch between areas at the site, depending on the order situation, and will therefore foster networking between different units in the company. That will enable people to further broaden their horizons,” summarizes Heilmann.

development for apprentices and older people In addition to the CITT qualification measure, other target groups are also being provided for at Continental’s Hamburg site. “In our vocational training preparation for industrial/technical professions we are also targeting former junior high school students up to the age of 25 who have not found a nonsponsored apprenticeship by the start of the apprenticeship year in September. The young people are supported during a ninemonth industrial placement and assessed for their suitability for an apprenticeship in the plant,” explains Heilmann. “Furthermore, the new Participation Opportunities Act offers us the possibility to support older employees and long-term unemployed persons and integrate them for the long term.” The two measures contribute to these people’s personal development, reduce the workload of qualified employees and promote diversity in the company.

Vocational coaching and personal

The qualification program is very popular and a second training workshop is already being set up at the site.

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INEOS STYROLUTION RECEIVES FUNDING FROM FLEMISH AGENCY OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO RESEARCH PLASTICS RECYCLING • • •

the global leader in styrenics, announced

Research addresses dissolution recycling technology

today it will be

Project focusses on removing additives from polymer matrices

contributing

Project increases INEOS Styrolution’s expertise in recycling technologies for styrenics polystyrene and advanced recycling technologies, primarily depolymerisation of polystyrene.

The “Remove2Reclaim” project gives us the opportunity to get a complete picture by exploring additional recycling technologies such as dissolution. In parallel, we are optimising our mechanical recycling efforts and concentrate on commercialising recycled polystyrene via depolymerisation.”

“Remove2Reclaim” yrenics are amongst the different polymer matrices and The most recyclable polymers. to reuse both titanium dioxide project is funded by the INEOS Styrolution has a and polymer in new products. Flemish Agency of Innovation proven record of investing into Targeted polymers in the and Entrepreneurship (Vlaams basic research on advanced project include polystyrene, Agentschap voor Innovatie en recycling technologies. This HIPS (high impact polystyrene) Ondernemen – VLAIO) and ABS (acrylonitrile organised under the umbrella of includes completing the and first lab-scale production butadiene styrene). For INEOS the Flemish spearhead cluster of virgin polystyrene from Styrolution, this dissolution Catalisti. Research partners complements the include Ghent University, depolymerised material and route mechanical and KU Leuven (Katholieke driving the commercialisation existing recycling Universiteit Leuven) as well of enhanced recycling depolymerisation of polystyrene forward. projects, rounding up the as VITO (Flemish Institute for Developing expertise on understanding of the broad Technological Research in Mol) recycling via dissolution range of recycling technologies and Centexbel (Kortrijk-Gent).

INEOS Styrolution becomes contributes to an in-depth available for styrenics. understanding of the material’s Michiel Verswyvel, Global one of five industry partners R&D at INEOS Styrolution, signed up in this project. properties.

The “Remove2Reclaim” project comments: “We are committed aims at developing innovative to a circular economy for solvent-based extraction styrenics. Our main thrust routes to remove additives, is mechanical recycling of such as titanium dioxide, from materials such as ABS and

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INEOS Styrolution,

to the research project “Remove2Reclaim – Recycling of plastics and titanium dioxide via advanced dissolution and separation techniques for plastic additive removal”.

Working together with leading European research institutes in the project will allow the company to build up expertise related to recycling via dissolution.

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ABB enhances portfolio of high-speed industrial robots with Codian acquisition beverage industry are not designed for touching food, Codian Robotics’ portfolio includes a hygienic design that allows safe, open food processing.

Strategic buy builds on industryleading food and beverage, pharmaceutical and logistics portfolio

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BB has acquired Codian Robotics B.V., a leading provider of delta robots, which are used primarily for high-precision pick and place applications. Codian Robotics’ offering includes a hygienic design line, ideal for hygiene-sensitive industries including food and beverage and pharmaceuticals. With the transaction, ABB is accelerating its engagement in the growing field of delta robots.

Codian Robotics is located in Ede, Netherlands and employs 20 people globally.

The company will continue to serve its customers directly.

The acquisition was signed and closed on October 1, 2020 and both parties agreed not to disclose any details regarding the purchase price.

“Our acquisition underscores our focus on breakthrough technology, helping our customers to fully realize the

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potential of automation and increase their flexibility in a rapidly changing business landscape,” said Sami Atiya, President of ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation. “Codian Robotics’ technologies and industry expertise are the perfect addition to our suite of food and beverage, pharmaceutical, service robotics and logistics solutions, while also supporting ABB’s machinecentric robotics offering.”

“Over the years, we have developed an extensive product portfolio. ABB’s impressive global presence and industry expertise will help us make our portfolio available globally. I am looking forward to working together to write the next chapter of our success story,” said Freek Hartman, Founder of Codian Robotics.

While today the majority of robots in the food and

“There is a strong need for pick and place robots that ensure high hygienic standards, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our food and beverage, pharmaceutical and logistics customers are particularly interested in the potential of automation, enabling supply chains to continue to function, while protecting employee welfare,” added Atiya.

In the future, ABB will be able to provide its customers with a broader range of delta robots and integrated solutions from a single source, contributing to ABB’s machine-centric robotics strategy which integrates machine automation and robot control into a single platform.

Hans Wimmer, President of ABB’s Machine Automation division and Managing Director of B&R, said: “With Codian Robotics we are acquiring one of the world’s most successful suppliers of delta robots with an extraordinary track record in the machine builders’ sector.

In the future, we will be able to offer our customers fully integrated solutions – globally and for all industries.”

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Abb Strengthens Research İnto Smart Materials With New R&D Facility In cooperation with Cracow University of Technology, the new ABB laboratory signals another step in ABB Electrification’s ‘Mission

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he Center for Functional Materials and to Zero’ Advanced Manufacturing provides access to the strategy and latest technologies and delivers systemic research commitment and development into sustainable electrification materials. The facility has to driving been developed as part of a total $3m investment progress and co-financed from EU grant funding, which sustainability. aims to strengthen ABB Electrification’s businessled collaboration with universities and next generation engineers as well as research into technology automation and material engineering.

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Amina Hamidi, CTO for ABB Electrification said: “This new facility is a demonstration of our commitment to make a positive contribution into sustainable R&D looking into smart materials and polymer technology.

Seasoned and next generation engineers will explore how to integrate electronics and sensors into our Electrification products as we prepare our customers for the next big step in the digital transformation and progress towards autonomous systems and buildings.”

Lecturers and students from Cracow University Technology, and ABB Electrification’s Smart Materials Research team, will use the ‘collab’ space to actively participate in internships and conduct joint scientific research, as well as learn the practical side of using smart materials technology in industry and buildings.

“Smart materials is one of the most important research topics in all material laboratories.

Progress in this domain will largely influence the development of key industries.

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The cooperation between ABB and Cracow University of Technology fits perfectly into the current needs and R&D trends,” said the Rector of Cracow University of Technology, Professor Andrzej Białkiewicz Divided into four core R&D sections, it is one of the first facilities at ABB, and in Poland, to introduce induction heating assisted multi-component injection molding cells for functional composites and structures, prototyping and sensor integration. The site will also be used for validation of multiphysics simulations and digital twin modelling which enables products to be reviewed and tested rigorously reducing development costs and timescales, while also enabling products to get to market quickly.

Amina Hamidi continues: “As part of our Mission to Zero strategy we are focused on delivering technically advanced products that enable us to collectively transform and shape the future of industry, cities and energy.

We are excited about the potential that this laboratory can deliver as we blend our pioneering technologies with next generation thinking to increase quality, build resilience

into materials, future proof skillsets, and empower industry to discover growth through electrification and product sustainability.”

World Media Group (WMG) Haber Servisi

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Groundbreaking Ceremony Of FCS New Factory In Hangzhou Bay New Dist

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the

Group “New

held Plant

Groundbreaking Ceremony” in Hangzhou Bay New District, on Sep 19, 2020. This is FCS Group’s 5th

production

base

worldwide for injection molding machines after the Indian plant. The plant has a total investment of USD 40 million and occupies a total area of about 66690 m2. The new plant is expected to greatly 120

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enhance the R&D and

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Finally, with the music, sound of firecrackers, and enthusiastic applause on the spot, the guests raised the golden shovels and laid the foundation stone for the FCS Group’s new plant project, symbolizing the construction of the project in Hangzhou Bay New District.

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Photo:The guests cut the ribbon for the groundbreaking ceremony.

1974 in Tainan, Taiwan. It is currently

plastic

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enterprises in China’s injection

world, selling machines to more

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molding machine industry for

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FCS new factory has a total investment of USD 40 million. The factory is located in Hangzhou Bay New District, Ningbo, with Yuhai East Road in the south, Qiyuan Road in the west, Cizhou Road in the north, and the planned land boundary in the east, covering an area of 66,690 square meters, with a total construction area of 97,792 square meters. It is planned to be a production base with an annual output of 2,000 special injection machines. It will mainly produce large two-platen injection

molding

machines

with a clamping force of more than 500 tons, large two-color injection

molding

machines,

and large horizontal opposite injection molding machines. The annual output value is estimated to be RMB 600 million, and the annual tax is about RMB 30 million. This construction will start in September 2020, and is expected to complete the main body in March 2022, and will be officially put into production in January 2023.

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Smart Factory

Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Valuable Ingredients Plastic waste is a problem. Worldwide. The reason: Plastic is used most often in the construction of some complex product, e.g., cars, refrigerators, shoes, or smart phones. Material analysis, separation, and recycling represent one solution. This is where project “Digital Lifecycle Record for the Circular Economy” – ReCircE for short – can help. The aim is to develop a comprehensive recycling method using artificial intelligence. One element in the project is the digital product pass. The pass is designed to provide transparency along the entire chain of reusable materials in highly developed products to facilitate separation and plastic recycling.

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he devil is in the detail

Sorting technology for the recycling of plastics in the form of packaging, films, or bags is already available using nearinfrared spectrometry. Such systems can detect the most common polymers and then sort them automatically. “However, it doesn’t work for the plastics built into complex products that have a great diversity of materials, some of which may also contain harmful substances,” said project leader, Dr. Christiane Plociennik, from DFKI’s Innovative Factory Systems research department. That is one reason why manufacturers, for quality or cost considerations, leave recycled products on the shelves and choose instead to work with new plastic granulates.

In theory, the molecular chains of plastics can be used up to 20 times.

But, the recycling process must be improved significantly if this is to happen. “The concept behind our digital product pass combines the potential of machine learning with the sensor-based sorting methods,” said Plociennik. “This is where ReCircE comes in.” The project is part of DFKI’s AI for the Environment and Sustainability (DFKI4planet) Competence Center funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU) under the “Beacons of AI

for the Environment, Climate, Nature, and Resources” program.

Theory and practice in one network Participants in the ReCircE project include: DFKI, TU Darmstadt, Fraunhofer IWKS, the GreenDelta company, and Papier-Mettler in Rhineland-Palatinate. Fraunhofer IWKS (research facility for materials recycling and resource strategies) has a sorting plant that can use infrared technologies and 3-D object structures to analyze the composition of waste. “Now, AI is entering the picture through this project: We aim to use sensor data and machine learning methods to train the plant,” said Plociennik. AI can recognize the individual molecule chains and process the molten plastic so that in the future, it breaks down into its respective fractions. The aim is to produce four or five pure types whose quality is comparable with primary plastics. The PapierMettler company has agreed to put the new process to the test in practice. Initially, the proportion of recovered recyclable plastics in bags and simple films is to be increased from the current 80 percent to almost 100 percent.

The recycled granulate is planned for later use in high-quality industrial films.

Digital product pass Until now, facilities like PapierMettler had insufficient information about which ingredients went into a certain product and, in case of doubt, separated it out. In 2013, 57% of the plastics were incinerated (energy recovery). “This is where the planned digital product passport can help,” said Plociennik. “All participants will be informed about each station in the material cycle – about the materials, the processing, and the disposal.” The knowledge gained from the ReCircE research project will benefit industry via the SmartFactory KL. There, the circle of partners plans to further develop the technology and implement it in the Production Level 4 vision of tomorrow.

“Resource efficiency is important to companies, but also to our vision for the production of tomorrow,” said Prof. Martin Ruskowski, head of DFKI’s Innovative Factory Systems department and Chairman of the Executive Board of SmartFactory-KL. “A digital product pass hopefully has the potential to enable all materials to be recycled in the future.” But this also requires the cooperation of many companies worldwide.

“Of course, there is still a long way to go,” said Plociennik. “But every long journey begins with the first step!”

• Project ReCircE helps conserve resources

• BMU funding for recycling project

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EMAG takes over Scherer Feinbau, expanding its product range and customer base Especially for rough industrial processes Leybold introduces the uncomplicated, dry rough vacuum CLAWVAC pump. Besides food processing, packaging and environmental technology applications, it is suitable for drying and sterilization processes. The pump, which is offered in three pumping speed classes, is specially designed for continuous operation at every working pressures.

Additionally the special pump design avoids that oil comes into contact with pumped gases, what allows higher Oxygen applications. At the same moment, Leybold also offers with the CLAWVAC System series a new multiple pump system. These systems are based on CLAWVAC and offer a redundant plug-andplay solution.

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ncomplicated handling

The daily use of CLAWVAC is uncomplicated: Thanks to the self-supporting construction, the vacuum generator is easily accessible. What allows to directly clean the pump onsite. The simple handling of the robust pump can also be attributed to its operating principle: A pair of claw rotors rotating in the pump stator completely free of contact and wear. CLAWVAC also distinguishes itself from standard claw pumps on the market by the choice of materials.

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Rotors made of stainless steel and a corrosionresistant coated vacuum chamber, it proves its worth even under harsh process conditions. This makes an important contribution to reliable operation.

Disassembly in a few minutes

The modular pump design allows a quickly dismantling, opening and cleaning of the pump essentials as the pumping chamber and the silencer.

For a mechanic these steps can be done in a few minutes and the frequency is purely depending on the hardness of the process.

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Except the 20 000 hr oil & lipseal replacement, no further regular maintenance is required and additionally it is independent of the application. “Thanks to this pump characteristic, we have reduced the amount of servicing required and improved the environmental balance,” explains Niels Gorrebeeck, Product Manager Rough Vacuum, Leybold, Cologne.

Minimal downtimes The CLAWVAC design allows the user to disassemble and clean the claws quickly and easily as the rotors can be removed without having to readjust the synchronization.

This primarily relieves customers with rough & dirty processes, whose pumps previously needed a synchronization at the manufacturer side. The CLAWVAC set-up is based on a quick component replacement, which has to ensure a minimal downtime and low service costs.

Wide range of applications On the basis of CLAWVAC, Leybold also has a new multiple pump system in its program, a powerful plug-and-play solution.

Especially for packaging plants, pneumatic conveying lines or clamping devices of CNC machines the multi claw pumps are a reliable solution. This also applies to plastics processing machines, drying processes and central vacuum supplies.

Low energy consumption, low CO2 output

Depending on the required flow rate, the systems contain two to four CLAWVAC pumps in one housing. “The robust, long-life pumps operate in an intelligent controlled dry and air-cooled solution” summarizes Niels Gorrebeeck. “On top of that, CLAWVAC System only delivers the required vacuum.” One pump is speed-controlled, that allows the exact adjustment of the generated vacuum. The intelligent control activates or disactivate the other fixed speed pumps based on the vacuum need.

This speed control reduces the necessary energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

A constant & redundant vacuum supply “During the design we strongly focused on the customer needs as a high redundancy level, minimal maintenance needs and stable vacuum supple even in harsh environments” explains Niels Gorrebeeck. The earlier mentioned constant vacuum level guarantees the customer product quality in all conditions, the same intelligent control

equalizes the running hours of the fix speed pumps. The control principle is even as such developed that your CLAWVAC System keeps on running, even with half of it pumps active.

CLAWVAC Systems clearly meets all its targets.

Housing reduces noise and heat With this multiple pump system, Leybold brings all necessary components under one acoustic enclosure and offers at the same way a compact, intelligent system solution. The robust housing protects the pumps, reduces noise and heat and combines all the technology necessary for operation in one box.

Choose with CLAWVAC System for an innovative and effective vacuum solution, which has a positive effect on your overall performance. Leybold offers these space-saving systems with pumping speeds between 604 and 1144 m3/h. As with the individual claw pumps, the system also allows a ultimate pressure up to 140 mbar absolute.

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Plug and play milestones in mechanical and plant engineering • Publication of OPC UA for Machinery and OPC UA for Machine Tools • Umati community testing functionality of both specifications in umati demonstrator

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“ fter many years of OPC UA standardisation work, the publication of OPC UA for Machinery brings us an important step closer to our goal of creating a ‘global production language’,” says Hartmut Rauen, Deputy Executive Director of the VDMA. This specification, listed as VDMA standard sheet 40001-1 and also issued by the OPC Foundation, is the first to be developed on a joint and cross-sector basis by working groups from different technologies and industries. Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, Executive Director of the VDW, adds: “Simultaneously, the VDW has also published the OPC UA Specification for Machine Tools. This is the first mechanical engineering specification ever to fully integrate the Specification for Machinery and thus impressively offers the benefits of this joint project to machine manufacturers and customers alike.”

The OPC UA Specification for Machinery - Part 1 contains basic modules for the machine interface which are crucial for the entire machine and plant engineering sector. These basic modules can be used individually as required, with each of them representing one or more use cases.

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Part 1 contains machine identification as a use case, including information on the manufacturer, serial number and type designation. Andreas Faath, VDMA Project Manager for OPC UA interoperability and II4IP (Interoperable Interfaces for Intelligent Production; Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy BMWi project), explains the benefits: “Customers typically have different types of equipment in their production department, such as robots, injection moulding machines, machine tools, packaging machines etc.

That’s why it’s important for information such as machine identification or status to be represented and issued in the same way by all machines.”

The whole thing began with the comparison of a number of specifications that had already been published and were now being processed. This allowed Part 1 to be completed relatively quickly.

On 25 September 2020 it became available for download, free of charge, from https://opcua. vdma.org/catalog-detail/-/catalog/3803.

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs promoting VDMA as a focal point for OPC-UA standard development The OPC UA Specification for Machinery represents the first step towards achieving overall harmonisation of the numerous established activities in the field of mechanical and plant engineering. Around 35 working groups are working on this in the VDMA alone. “This bottomup approach is essential due to the high degree of specialisation to be found in our sub-sectors,” Faath explains. “But this makes it all the more important to coordinate and harmonise the work in order to identify any synergies at an early stage.”

The importance of these harmonisation activities was recognised by the BMWi and is supported within the framework of the II4IP project.

This promotes the development and dissemination of crossindustry OPC UA standards. There are also plans for extensive knowledge transfer to increase interoperability within production. The project results thus form a central component of Industry 4.0, both at the national and international level.

“By means of OPC UA as the global production language, we in the VDMA, together with our members and other interested parties from all over the world, are raising interoperable communication in production to the next level,” emphasises Faath.

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demonstrations, and that we can now also make it available to our partners for development and testing,” explains Dr. Alexander Broos, VDW project manager for umati.

Products based on OPC UA for Machine Tools now possible The first version of the OPC UA for Machine Tools was simultaneously released on 25 September this year under number 40501-1 (download from https://opcua.vdma.org/ catalog-detail/-/catalog/3914).

“It represents a major milestone for the machine tool industry.

The release meant that we met the deadline which we set ourselves at EMO Hannover 2019. As a result, our members can now launch products with communication based on OPC UA as an open interface,” says Wilfried Schäfer. It also means that the machine tools at the core of industrial production now have their own OPC UA standard https://opcua.vdma.org/catalogdetail/-/catalog/3914 . Above all, this provides standardised information for status monitoring, such as operating status, machined workpieces, tools used, and information for calculating KPIs. The VDW-led working group was also involved in shaping the OPC UA for Machinery.

“It made obvious sense to synchronise publication of the two specifications,” explains Götz Görisch, head of the VDW working group. Based on the modular concept that distinguishes OPC UA as a communication standard, OPC UA for Machine Tools is the first specification that fully references the OPC UA for Machinery guidelines for the purpose of machine identification.

“This will do away with any need to abuse our specification in the near future in order to integrate this further development.

We can then concentrate fully on expanding the functional scope of the specification,” says Görisch, explaining the procedure.

Functionality proved by umati demonstrator However, publication of the above two standards was only the first step. Their functionality has also been extensively tested and proven by being integrated into real machines. This is made possible using the umati demonstrator. umati (universal machine technology interface) serves as a user community for the dissemination and establishment of OPC UA standards up to and including genuine plug and play deployment in mechanical and plant engineering. The initiative has been jointly supported by the VDMA and VDW since April 2020. A special environment has been created for trade fair demonstrations with the intention of communicating and highlighting the added value offered by open data interfaces to users. This consists of the umati data hub as an infrastructure for connecting machines, and a front-end or dashboard, the umati app.

The OPC UA for Machine Tools was thoroughly tested in two “plug-fests” before being released. “This proved that the umati infrastructure offers added value beyond simple trade fair

Experience OPC UA and umati – Work continuing at rapid pace “These milestones do not, however, mean that we can now sit back and relax,” agree Hartmut Rauen and Wilfried Schäfer.

There are still many aspects which need to be standardised and refined in order to establish OPC UA as the global production language and umati as a community for its application.

It is important to keep a close eye on the far-reaching interoperability requirements throughout production if we wish to see advances in harmonisation. “From the expert discussions already held we know just how disparate company and customer interests can be, even within the same industry,” says Faath, explaining the importance of a planned VDMA study, the results of which will be used to fine-tune both the VDMA strategy and the work in the working groups.

The general public will be invited to take part in the study from 1 November at www.opcua.vdma.org.

On 10 November 2020, the VDMA will launch a brand new immersive avatar-based online event format for OPC UA Companion Specifications, including their development, content and usage scenarios.

Experts will use a number of slots to present the OPC UA standards for mechanical engineering and various sub-sectors.

It will also be possible to discuss any remaining questions and there will be ample opportunity for networking. https://opcua. vdma.org/en/viewer/-/v2article/render/51438024 There are also plans for a web-based umati event in November.

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New 3D Metrology Partners: API and MeetConsult in the Netherlands Today, Automated Precision Europe GmbH (API) announced a new partnership with MeetConsult B.V., offering closer customer proximity in the Netherlands and better solutions for 3D metrology tasks. Both companies are

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ran “As an API partner, we offer our customers the ability to perform industrial measurements faster and more accurately than before,” says Eelco Visser of MeetConsult B.V.. “Together with MeetConsult, API can now supply Dutch customers with innovative mobile 3D metrology, on-site measurement services, Laser Tracker calibration, and our attractive rental program, using more than

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30 years of expertise in international markets and development,” adds Jens Pursche, Sales Manager of API. “Together, we will be able to reach interested parties in the Netherlands better than ever for optimal support of customer tasks through on-site visits or online demos from the API’s Virtual Showroom.”

For on-site or online demo appointments and further information, please contact: info@ meetconsult.nl or info.eu@apimetrology.com.

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*Company’s commitment and actions to sustainability recognised by Chemical Week *Journey of continuous improvement since establishment of sustainability programme in 2014

INEOS STYROLUTION NOMINATED AS FINALIST IN CHEMICAL WEEK SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS 2020 INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, announced today that it has been chosen by Chemical Week as a finalist in the magazine’s sustainability awards 2020 under the category “best sustainability programme”.

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NEOS Styrolution was nominated as a finalist

To address the increasing global challenges,

based on its annual sustainability report,

the focus of the programme expanded

which provides a comprehensive review of

to developing circular solutions. This has

the company’s environmental, social and

significantly accelerated the company’s efforts

governance (ESG) performance over the

to develop post-consumer recycled products.

past year, and outlines the company’s strong

Here the company has made significant

commitment and actions to transition to a

steps forward with the introduction of INEOS

circular and low-carbon economy.

Styrolution ECO, its family of sustainable products. This includes Terluran® ECO, the

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company’s first ABS grades comprising post-

for its sustainability programme that has

consumer recycled material1, and Styrolux®

evolved significantly since it was established

ECO and Styroflex® ECO made using renewable

in 2014. Initially, the company concentrated

feedstock. The company also achieved a

its efforts on optimising its portfolio and

breakthrough in 2019 by producing virgin

provide high quality, safe and durable styrenics

polystyrene at lab-scale from previously

products to customers.

depolymerised material2 and is now focusing

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on producing this recycled polystyrene at commercial

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scale.

INEOS Styrolution has also been awarded a platinum rating by EcoVadis due to its advanced sustainability performance, ranking it in the top 1% of plastics manufacturers worldwide. Petra Inghelbrecht, Global Sustainability Manager at INEOS Styrolution, comments: “Our programme has a strong focus on innovation for circularity and value chain collaboration. Our aim is to further shift towards low-carbon, circular polymers by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. We are very proud for being recognised for our efforts.”

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Automation and Handling are the focus of the METAV Web Sessions at the beginning of November Automation and handling are in-creasingly gaining in significance as mega trends in industrial manufactur-ing. The problem of skilled workers is becoming ever more serious, espe-cially in these difficult times when many companies are under pressure from high costs. At the same time, there are enormously high demands on the quality of products, meaning that businesses are now well advised to consider automation. “

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Systems, Gressel, Halter CNC Au-tomation, e know from a recent VDMA

HandlingTech Automations-Systeme, Industrie

survey that almost one in four machine

Partner, Isra Vi-sion, Müller Maschinentechnik

manufacturers (23 per cent) will have to adjust

and Zeltwanger Automation. They all spe-

capacity levels,” says Dr Wilfried Schäfer,

cialise in this particular field and are looking

Executive Director of the METAV organiser

to inspire their customers with their solutions

VDW

Builders’

and offers. Jörg Franz, Head of Project

Association) in Frankfurt am Main. When

Planning at the spe-cial-purpose machine

business picks up again, many companies will

builder Industrie-Partner GmbH in Coswig,

then find it difficult to process orders quickly

Ger-many, will be presenting the company’s

enough and at the required quality level. In

newly developed robot automa-tion kit, for

such times, having a consistent automation

example. “It enables robot-supported sorting,

strategy can be essential for survival. Against

assembly, clean-ing and measuring of parts

this background, the question of automation

weighing up to 5 kg using standardised,

could soon become even more pressing.

indi-vidually combinable function modules.

(German

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Tool

It is aimed at producers of serial products

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Ten companies will be presenting their

in all sectors, from mechanical engineering

solutions as part of the Automation and

and battery cell pro-duction to automotive

Handling Theme Days in the third edition of

and aerospace.” Also taking part is Halter

the METAV Web Sessions on 3 and 4 November

CNC Au-tomation based in Hoevelaken in

2020. These include Allmatic-Jakob clamping

the Netherlands: Area Sales Manager Oliver

sys-tems, Erowa System Technologien/Certa

Löffler will be showcasing a software tool

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that allows customers to calculate the payback time of

METAV

their investment on the basis of their own particular parameters. “We use the app when advising our customers about our machine loading systems. The resulting calculation provides on-the-spot answers to any questions concerning the expected returns following an acquisition,� he explains.

The Automation and Handling Theme Days are aimed at users from the entire industry. Each presentation lasts 30 minutes and is followed by a 15-minute chat session in which participants can ask questions and discuss issues.

In addition, it is also possible to arrange a video chat with the speaker to discuss specific questions in a one-on-one conversation away from the general audience.

On request, METAV Web Session participants can obtain a certificate of participation as documentation of their further training. There has been strong uptake of this attractive and valuable service feature.

For further information please contact Stephanie Simon, VDW Trade Fairs Project Officer, Tel. +49 69 756081-53, s.simon@vdw.de. The full programme and registration details can be found at www.metav-websessions.de.

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Chemondis

Brenntag and CheMondis announce cooperation in digital sales and marketing for Chemicals Brenntag (ISIN DE000A1DAHH0), the global market leader in chemical and ingredients distribution, and CheMondis (www.chemondis.com), the leading B2B online marketplace for chemicals in Europe, announce a first cooperation. Brenntag and CheMondis plan to jointly accelerate digital sales and marketing for the chemical industry. Both companies recognize the increasing importance of online sales channels for the chemical industry and agreed to collaborate in this field.

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CDO at Brenntag, added. “Our collaboration he collaboration will start with making

with CheMondis will provide our current and

Brenntag’s leading portfolio for Paints &

potential customers an even broader choice.”

Coatings and Adhesives & Sealants gradually

“At CheMondis we are excited to welcome the

available for online purchase on CheMondis

world’s leading distributor Brenntag as a new

in the German market.

partner. It is a strong sign that online sales are

“Over the last two years Brenntag has steadily

becoming an increasingly important strategic

built our Brenntag Connect ecommerce

component in the chemical industry,” said

platform. The platform is now live in most

Sebastian Brenner, Managing Director of

of our mature markets. We see a strong

CheMondis. “Customers in our industry are

upward trend in online business and with this

demanding an online buying experience and

complementary cooperation we extend our

CheMondis provides for that need.”

digital channels further,” Maarten Stramrood,

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EUROBLECH

EUROBLECH DIGITAL INNOVATION SUMMIT 2020 Euroblech Digital Innovation Summit 2020 ended last week: Successful launch of innovative meeting platform for the international sheet metal working industry Digital Event provided plenty of webinar content, networking and insights into latest technologies

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he first EuroBLECH Digital Innovation Summit, which took place online from 27 – 30 October 2020, provided the first meeting platform this year for the international sheet metal working community. More than 5,500 registered participants from 91 countries have used the opportunity to log on to the platform during the four virtual event days to network, watch webinar content live and on demand, view product demonstrations and visit virtual stands of exhibitors. This new event format proved successful in current times, as many participants from all over the world joined to discover innovations, trends and current solutions in the sheet metal working industry.

“This year has been everything but normal due to the Covid-19 pandemic. And while we were unable to hold EuroBLECH in Hanover, our focus was to provide a meeting place for the sheet metal working community at this crucial time to generate business and keep the industry connected. We thank all participants for joining us at the first digital event for the sheet metal working industry. In times like these we have to be innovative, venture into new areas and adapt to new circumstances.

And this is exactly what our objective was by launching the EuroBLECH Digital Innovation Summit. At present, keeping the industry connected and providing a platform for networking and knowledge exchange is fundamental, as a complementary format to the live show”, says Evelyn Warwick, Event 136

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Director of EuroBLECH, on behalf of the organisers Mack-Brooks Exhibitions.

The EuroBLECH Digital Innovation Summit provided a much anticipated trade and networking event for the global sheet metal working community, which has been impacted by the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. The event was an online trading, networking and webinar event for professionals from the entire sheet metal working technology chain. Visitors could virtually meet relevant exhibitors in pre-booked meetings and drop-in meetings, watch informative product presentations and follow webinars on current industry trends, followed by live Q&A Sessions. Similar to a live event there were several options for visitors to get in touch with exhibitors: drop their business card at virtual stands, pre-book meetings with exhibitors or instantly contact exhibitors as they browsed the virtual stands.

“The feedback we have received from participants was very positive – many pointed out they did not expect a digital event to deliver such a great value to the industry. Our platform already offered a lot of functionalities to our participants, but we will obviously look at further improvements using the valuable feedback we have received at this event”, continues Evelyn Warwick. “As we are approaching the new year and further lockdowns are on the horizon, we are certain that the industry will need a meeting place like EuroBLECH DIGITAL to stay connected and generate business”, concludes Evelyn Warwick. The EuroBLECH Digital Innovation

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EUROBLECH Summit demonstrated that even virtual exhibition stands, online meetings and video chats provide new sales opportunities and the possibility for exhibitors to generate business leads. The content presented on the platform was streamed for almost 700 hours in total during the event.

Presentation Theatre and Product Showcases provided visitors with insights into latest technologies and machines Participants took advantage of the opportunity to get an overview of latest innovations, presented in the Virtual Presentation Theatre by selected EuroBLECH exhibitors. Each exhibitor presentation put a clear focus on product innovations and technologies, followed by live Q&A sessions, which many participants used to ask their questions. Companies which presented their latest developments were Bystronic Laser, Lantek, Lumentum, Mazak, Prima Power, Salvagnini and TRUMPF Group.

The presentations can still be viewed on demand via the EuroBLECH Digital Platform for another week. In addition, Virtual Stands of the exhibitors contained hundreds of Product Showcases to allow visitors to explore new products and services in more detail.

EuroBLECH goes DIGITAL: The Webinar Programme A daily programme of webinars by industry experts provided an opportunity for participants to gain useful insights into the latest market developments as well as technical expertise concerning new industry applications and solutions. Key players from the industry as well as associations provided exclusive insights into latest technologies and case studies on subjects such as Digitalisation, Forming and Separation Technology, Automation and Process Optimisation. The lively Q&A sessions at the end of each webinar session demonstrated that there indeed is a need for the industry to discuss current challenges and opportunities. All sessions are available to view on demand via the platform for another week. Many participants pointed out the good quality of the webinar sessions and how this tool might be a great way to overcome current restrictions and stay in touch with customers and suppliers.

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and interested audience. This event made an important contribution to mastering the current challenges.“ - Dr.-Ing. Jobst Bickendorf, General Manager, AUTOCAM GmbH “In these difficult Corona times, but surely also in the future, the EuroBLECH Digital Innovation Summit provides us as supplier of machine tools with a new platform to present our innovations and to get in touch with our customers.”

- Daniela Schwarz, Global Product Portfolio Manager, Bystronic Laser AG “Your team is quite professional, and the whole online seminar was organised in an impeccable way. “ - Simon Hu, Director of International Business Department, Han’s Laser “Many thanks for the very good preparation of the virtual event. Everything worked smoothly. For me, it was a great experience with this format, which belongs to the most successful ones I have attended in the past months during the pandemic.”

- Plamen Kiradjiev, Global CTO Industry 4.0, IBM Services “Although we had little preparation time, the MackBrooks/ EuroBLECH Team helped us outstandingly.

WBM enjoyed the webinar and is eager to learn to really improve this tool for future business development.”

- Hermen Bos, Managing Director, WBM Staalservice “The webinar was a great opportunity to connect with potential customers and present current technology trends. I especially appreciated the live video Q&A session.”

- Martin Klewenhagen, Technical Sales Support TruLaser, TRUMPF Group Further information on EuroBLECH can be found at www. euroblech.com mation please contact Stephanie Simon, VDW Trade Fairs Project Officer, Tel. +49 69 756081-53, s.simon@vdw.de.

The full programme and registration details can be found at www.metav-websessions.de.

ABB

ABB BUILDS ON E-MOBILITY BUSINESS ABB builds on e-mobility business: VW Commercial Vehicles deploys 800 industrial robots to manufacture new electric vehicles Delivery of 800 high-performance ABB industrial robots will support Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in its transition to e-mobility them adjust to trends and changing customer requirements,” said Sami Atiya, President of ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation. “The dramatic expansion of the EV-segment requires new and innovative manufacturing solutions.

With our deep experience in this sector we are helping our automotive customers master this important and strategic transition towards more sustainable transportation.”

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BB has received an order for 800 industrial robots from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles to support production of a new generation of electric vehicles at its plant in Hanover, Germany.

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is modernizing its Hanover factory and is installing state-of-the-art facilities to build the all-electric ID. Buzz van, which will begin production in 2022. ABB’s robots will be installed in the body shop to undertake a range of body construction tasks.

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In addition to robots and application-specific equipment, ABB offers the automotive industry standardized manufacturing cells and the design, planning and implementation of complete production lines. Via the ABB Ability™ platform, customers also have the opportunity to benefit from various digital services including process optimization, robot fleet management and predictive maintenance.

This year, ABB has launched a number of new innovative technologies that support automotive manufacturers in increasing productivity and improving their environmental performance, such as its PixelPaint solution for customized automotive painting. PixelPaint uses an inkjet head to eliminate overspray, ensuring two-tone paint and individual designs are applied in one pass, without masking and de-masking. This reduces cycle times by around 50 percent and improves sustainability, with 100 per cent of the paint applied to the bodywork. For more information about PixelPaint please click here.

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ABB makes manufacturing more sustainable by recycling and remanu-facturing thousands of old robots •

ABB remanufactures robots, controllers and manipulators, refurbishing them to give them a second life

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Remanufactured robots help customers unlock new functionalities and advanced services while reducing maintenance costs and maximizing re-turn on investment

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Sourcing unused and discontinued robots for remanufacturing ensures older robots avoid being scrapped when their lifetime could be extended

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s sustainability continues to grow in importance globally, ABB is committed to help create more environ-mentally friendly manufacturing facilities across the world. Remanufacturing enables existing robot users to sell inactive or legacy robots to ABB with an attractive buy back service, rather than scrapping them or leaving them unused in a corner of the factory.

Over the last 25 years, thousands of robots have been refurbished and upgraded by ABB’s remanufactured robot teams, to give them a second life. As well as previously owned robots, peripheral equipment such as controllers and manipulators are refurbished to “like-new” conditions at one of ABB’s Global Remanufacture & Workshop Repair Centers.

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certified remanufactured robot, every second-hand unit undergoes rigorous checks, including a detailed inspection and a minimum 16-hour functioning test. Each remanufactured robot comes with a two-year warranty and buyers of refurbished equipment enjoy the same level of support from local service teams, including installation and training, as they would with the purchase of a new ABB robot.

“Unlike third-party refurbishes who only fix faulty parts, we completely remanufacture our robots using original ABB design plans, specifications and dimensional data. This guarantees that the robots offer the same levels of quality, performance, durability and safety as a new ABB robot,” said Jan Borsky, Sales Manager of ABB’s Global Remanufacture & Workshop Repair Centers.

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“We have one of the largest inventories of preowned and reconditioned robots across the world, with 400 robots of various types in stock for sale, and currently the demand for second life robots is so high that we have more than one robot leaving our Ostrava facility every working day.”

Each remanufactured robot can also be upgraded to the latest controller, which unlocks new functionalities such as ABB Ability Connected services or the latest version of RobotStudio®, ABB’s simulation and offline programming software. Upgrades can also unlock the potential of collaborative robotics, with ABB’s SafeMove software providing businesses with the opportunity to enable robots to work alongside operators without the need for extensive guarding, which helps to cut both the cost of an installation and the overall footprint, ideal for locations where space is at a premium.

“Customers across the world are benefiting from giving old robots a new lease of life. Updating their robots with the latest technologies has helped boost flexibility and productivity, and by extending the lifetime of their robots, has helped maximize their return on investment,” added Jan Borsky. “We’ve also helped existing robot customers who wanted to add additional robots to their existing production line but found that the specific model they needed had been discontinued. We sourced and installed a remanufactured model, so the business could continue to benefit from long-term efficiencies in maintenance, spare parts and staff training.”

ABB’s network of global remanufacturing facilities includes centers in Ostrava in the Czech Republic, Auburn Hills in Michigan and Shanghai in China, as well as local remanufacturing service centers in Brazil, Mexico, Germany and Vietnam.

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UK Government Invests £73.5 Million In Green Car Technology

The money will be split between 10 projects, with the government hoping it will

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he government will invest more than safeguard £73 million in green automotive technology, junior business minister jobs.

Nadhim Zahawi has confirmed. The funding will be split between 10 eco-friendly projects,

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including Jaguar Land Rover’s hydrogen fuel cell development scheme and BMW Motorsport’s plan to develop more costefficient batteries.

Other projects included in the funding include schemes to produce recyclable batteries, advanced electrical systems and ultralightweight components.

A project to create manufacturing processes for crash-resistant and lightweight battery enclosures will also receive funding, along with research into an energy recovery system designed to improve the efficiency of internal

combustion engines.

According to the Department for Transport (DfT), the £73.5 million investment will “help drive the automotive industry further away from its reliance on fossil fuel technologies”, as well as safeguarding more than 14,000 jobs in the research and manufacturing sectors.

The department also hopes the money will enable more low-emission cars, commercial vehicles and components to be built in the UK. The announcement came hot on the heels of a plea from the automotive industry body, the Society

Green Car of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), asking for government help to restart the sector after Covid-19.

According to the organisation, one in six automotive jobs is at risk as the coronavirus crisis rumbles on, and 34 percent of staff are still on furlough.

and create jobs in “greener industries”.

Zahawi, parliamentary undersecretary of state at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, said the government’s cash injection would support “thousands” of jobs in the automotive sector.

“Not only will this funding ensure automotive companies can play their part in keeping us on the path to net zero emissions by 2050, it will also support thousands of jobs and be a welcome step towards the industry’s economic recovery.”

Meanwhile Rachel Maclean, the MP for Redditch, in Worcestershire and parliamentary under-secretary of state at the DfT, said the investment would also bring the UK closer to its 2050 emissions target.

“As we look to kickstart our green transport recovery, new technologies and cleaner fuels are going to play an even greater role in achieving our The DfT wants the sector’s “Whether it’s researching aim of a greener and more recovery to be a green one, future battery design or prosperous economy,” she and said the switch to more creating a lightweight version said. “From recyclable batteries environmentally friendly forms of the Ford Transit, companies to state-of-the-art motors, not of transport will be “vital” in in every part of the United only will this funding create helping the UK meet its target Kingdom are leading the thousands of jobs, it will also of net zero carbon emissions world in advanced automotive bring us one step closer to by 2050. At the same time, the technology,” said Zahawi. achieving our net zero target department says the move will within 30 years.” also help to grow the economy

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ABB launches compact high-power charger ideal for urban needs

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An extension of the bestselling Terra range, the new 180kW Terra 184

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ccording to the UN, cities are responsible for more than 60 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions 1 and by 2050 are expected to be home to more than two thirds of the world’s population2.

It is, therefore, vital that these rapidly expanding urban hubs take proactive steps to reduce their carbon emissions and e-mobility is a key factor in achieving this.

But for e-mobility to be viable in high density cities, where time is short and space is at a premium, solutions must be developed which address these challenges.

ABB’s latest evolution in charging technology does just that. The Terra 184 charger, the latest member of ABB’s best-selling Terra family of chargers, is fast, compact, robust and provides the ability to charge up to three vehicles simultaneously3, maximizing convenience for drivers and revenue for the charging operator.

With a charging power of 180kW, the Terra 184 can be used by vehicles of all sizes, be it latest

or future generation private cars, buses or trucks. But unlike other high-power chargers, it comes with a footprint of less than 0.5m2, the same as the current Terra 54 model. Indeed, its innovative design means there is no need for separately installed power cabinets, offering the perfect fast and compact solution for cities with limited space.

“Over the last decade, ABB has laid the foundation for the future of sustainable transportation.

With our latest extension to the Terra range, we have delivered against the demands of today and tomorrow, both in terms of the needs of urban areas and of the electric vehicles which frequent their roads,” said Frank Muehlon, Head of ABB’s global business for E-mobility Infrastructure Solutions.

The Terra 184 supports all the charging standards on the market, including CCS, CHAdeMO and AC, and caters to the needs of all batteries up to 920V. It is highly customizable with features including customized credit card payment terminal, screen and cables, which have

also been designed at 8 meters for maximum charging convenience.

For added flexibility, operators of other Terra models such as the Terra 94 or 124, can in the future chose to upgrade their charging solution to the Terra 184 with the addition of extra power modules.

The Terra 184 will be available direct from ABB and via selected ABB distributors in Europe from July, North America from August and the rest of the world by the fourth quarter of this year. It offers a safe, smart and sustainable charging solution which supports ABB Electrification’s Mission to Zero, a vision for a zero-emission reality for all.

ABB has unrivalled expertise in developing sustainable transport solutions. Since entering the EVcharging market a decade ago, ABB has sold more than 14,000 ABB DC fast chargers across more than 80 countries. ABB recently received the Global E-mobility Leader 2019 award for its role in supporting the international adoption of sustainable transport solutions.

is the most compact high-power charger with the highest power density on the market

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Radilon® Mixloy, A New Range Of Pa Blends

Innovative solutions for automotive, consumer goods and E&E

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o maximize polymer performance in final products by mixing polymers with different properties was the goal of RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers. The result is its new specialty range of products with the brand name Radilon® Mixloy.

The matrix material for these new innovative products is polyamide, the flagship product of RadiciGroup, the only industrial group in Europe

to realize customer-tailored formulations and develop innovative projects.

Specifically, Radilon® Mixloy products are made by blending polymers readily available on the market today through a compatibilization technology developed by the Group, which makes naturally immiscible raw materials miscible.

“At the moment, development is focused on certain types of alloys,” pointed out Nicolangelo Peduto,

with individual polymers.

One of our objectives is to be able to meet the demand coming from market niches.

Furthermore, thanks to our upstream vertically integrated polyamide production, we have at our disposal a number of different types of polymers that give us design freedom in formulating the new Radilon® Mixloys.”

The base materials for the Radilon® Mixloy product offering developed so far are

today capable of controlling its entire production process, from polymer chemicals to engineering polymers, including end-of-life recycling.

Totally vertically integrated production allows the Group

Research and Development manager of RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers, “but, in the future, we plan to add other products, with the goal of achieving properties that are simply not attainable

PA 6, PA 6.6 and long-chain PAs, some of which are made from bio-source materials, thus increasing the added value of the products.

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FPT INDUSTRIAL POWERS THE “SUSTAINABLE TRUCK OF THE YEAR 2021” T

his 6-cylinder engine ensures the IVECO S-WAY NP 460 a maximum power of 338 kW/460 Hp at 1,900 rpm and torque of 2,000 Nm at 1,100 rpm and diesel-like performance. The engine design not only provides reliability and a longer product lifecycle, but it’s also the only natural gas engine with 1,600km autonomy and the new reference in consumption with 4.12 km per kg of gas.

Natural Gas (NG) is currently the most viable and low-cost sustainable solution, with FPT Industrial leading this segment with more than 55,000

engines sold worldwide.

The Brand’s NG engines significantly reduce CO2 emissions whether with the compressed or the liquefied form of Natural Gas. They can also run on biomethane, bringing emissions down to almost zero.

Cursor 13 NG uses stoichiometric combustion and multipoint sequential injection, ensuring best-inclass fuel consumption and lower noise than Diesel. It can run on 100% CNG, LNG or biomethane and delivers fuel cost savings vs. Diesel of up to 30-35%. To comply with emissions standards Euro VI Step D, this model

relies on a simple three-way catalyst, without Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR).

The Cursor 13 NG is the best alternative with low climate impact for long haul operations since it has been developed to meet high demands on performance and low operating costs without compromises durability.

The Sustainable Truck of the Year award, now in its fifth edition, was created by Italian specialized magazine Vado e Torno. The winners are selected by a jury panel of professional journalists based on the Sustainability Index introduced by Vado e Torno.

Cursor 13 Natural Gas technical specifications for IVECO S-Way NP 460

FPT Industrial powers the “Sustainable Truck of the Year 2021” in the Tractor category, the IVECO S-WAY NP 460 in LNG version. The winning truck is equipped with the latest generation of FPT

Injection system [bar]

MPI Stoichiometric

Air handling

WG

Industrial’s

Valves per cylinder (number)

4

Cursor 13

Displacement (dm3)

12,9

Bore per stroke (mm)

135 x 150

Max power [hp]

460 @ 1900

Max torque [nm]

2000 @ 1100

Dry weight [kg]

1.240

Durability (be10) [km]

1.000.000

Oil drain interval [km]

90.000

Dimensions [mm] - l / w / h

1.610 / 1.027 / 1.178

vehicles on

ATS

3 way Cat.

the market.

Natural Gas: the most powerful, 100% natural gas engine for commercial

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Ineos

INEOS STYROLUTION’S STYLIGHT®:

* INEOS Styrolution’s carbon composite convinces with acoustic properties *StyLight® thermoplastic composite chosen by Dr. Kurt Müller for latest generation of loudspeaker cone INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, announced today that its StyLight® composite has been selected

by Dr. Kurt Müller GmbH & Co. KG for the company’s latest loudspeaker cone assembly.

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r. Kurt Müller GmbH & Co. KG (DKM) is a leading international supplier for acoustic parts with over 70 years of experience. DKM’s core business is the development, production and commercialisation of loudspeaker components. The company continuously searches for new materials to optimise the sound of loudspeakers. DKM selected INEOS Styrolution’s composite StyLight as the material

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for new acoustic membranes for cones, domes and dust-caps in automotive as well as in high-end speakers.

industries including electronics, sports/ leisure industry – and now for the first time into home entertainment.

The StyLight® Aesthetic S C245 carbon sheet is based on a modified SAN matrix ensuring an aesthetic surface and extremely high mechanical performances.

The composite is a material of choice for demanding automotive interior and exterior applications.

It also made inroads into other

Matthias Ringpfeil, Technical Director at Dr. Kurt Müller, comments: “When we explored the new StyLight material, it initially convinced with its look.

However, when we analysed its acoustic properties, we were even more convinced that we had found the material of choice for our new

the AESTHETIC COMPOSITE SOUNDS GREAT!

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6” carbon cone assembly. This has been confirmed by our long term loud speaker customers and we received immediately the first commercial orders.”

Andreas Kolf, Business Development Manager Composites at INEOS Styrolution, adds: “It is very rewarding to see that our innovative material is selected by an equally innovative company.

The collaboration with Dr. Kurt Müller resulted in a promising new solution and even helped us to learn more about the potential of our StyLight material. We are looking forward to a long term cooperation with DKM to further develop StyLight for innovative high performance acoustic membranes.”

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New Atalanta jersey: RadiciGroup is the Heart Sponsor

A three-year partnership between the Group and the Nerazzurri club

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ergamo, 4 September 2020 – Coming soon is the new Atalanta jersey for the 20202021 season. RadiciGroup has confirmed its logo is on the Nerazzurri uniform, as the Bergamo team’s Heart Sponsor for the next three years.

“We are closely tied to our local communities and to Atalanta,” declared Maurizio Radici, vice president di RadiciGroup, a multinational engaged in the chemicals, engineering polymers and advanced technical solutions sectors, with over three thousand employees around the world who are fans of the team called “The Dea”. “During these years, our Group has demonstrated in the field that they could reach unexpected goals by working with loyalty, determination and perseverance. A three-year

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renewal of our partnership with the Nerazzurri club is based on strongly shared values and great care for our territory, which drives us to keep performing better and better, so as to become appreciated on a global level.”

Noteworthy is the decision to place the Group’s logo over the heart on the first jersey of the Championship and the Coppa Italia: “We feel as if we are truly the heart sponsor of Atalanta,” Mr. Radici continued. “We are two important organizations in the Province of Bergamo that have tried to team up to strengthen the common values we believe in. Four years ago, this bond led us to support the team in its Europa League adventure. We are thus especially proud to continue to stand together with Atalanta, the team of the city

of Bergamo and its province, where our Group was founded over 75 years ago and which is still the heart of our worldwide presence today.”

“Our relationship with RadiciGroup is really more than a partnership,” Luca Percassi, managing director of Atalanta B.C., said. “The values that distinguish our collaboration are not only important, but, above all, the result of our mutual desire to form a team and best represent Bergamo and all of its Province. In these past few seasons, Atalanta has made many incredible goals, growing and acquiring valuable experience. These successes have also been achieved thanks to RadiciGroup, which believed, and continues to believe, in the Atalanta team.

And that is something we can only be proud of.”

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Walter

New dimensions in deephole drilling Walter is expanding its range of Xtreme Evo drills up to 30 × D

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ith the X·treme Evo

solid carbide drills from the DC160 Advance range of drills, Walter is forging a link to the “next generation of drilling”.

By

introducing

lengths

of 16 to 30 × D, the tool manufacturer its expanding its range to now include deephole drilling. As the successor to the Alpha 4XD drills which have been established on the market for a long time now, the DC160 Advance, like its predecessor, makes deep-hole drilling possible in a single operation without pecking

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and

therefore

boasts the advantages of XD Technology.

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The coating and geometry

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Electric Drives with Extreme Torque Density T

his summary records the results of the IGF project no.

19578 N „Electric Drives with Extreme Torque Density“, government-funded by the AiF as part of the program for the promotion of industrial corporate research (IGF) of the federal ministry of economy and energy due to a resolution of the German Bundestag.

The project focus was to design, to manufacture and to test a prototype electrical machine using a simple but effective direct liquid cooling of the conductors of the stator winding in a permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) in order to achieve a significantly higher torque density than state-of-the-art motors. Moreover, design rules for such machines should be identified, as the high current density that is permissible due to the direct liquid cooling doesn’t allow designing the machine according to the conventional rules, e. g. for split ratio, slot dimensions, PM geometry, etc.

The basis of the prototype motor were “High Torque”motors of industrial partners, which defined the geometrical constraints. The focus of the project was the increase of torque density without a major loss in efficiency and with a simple configuration of the cooling system. In question was, whether an increase in current density is only suitable within a certain range and whether or not it is possible to reach or exceed the torque 156

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density of hydraulic motors with. A systematic variation of the geometric as well as the electrical parameters lead to the final electric and magnetic design of the prototype. In addition, the design process yielded extensive insights about how to dimension permanent magnet synchronous machines with very high current density and direct liquid cooling.

The following four fundamental rules of design were found: Small tooth-tips or completely open slots are beneficial.

High magnets that are buried deep into the rotor are necessary to prevent partial demagnetization during operation.

Sufficient space between the stator bore and the first conductor in each slot prevents excessive loss in the conductor due to current displacement.

A high “split-ratio”, the ratio of inner to outer stator diameter, is beneficial for a high torque density

In addition to these fundamental rules of design, a computationally efficient analytical method for the calculation of geometric key parameters and the torque of a highly saturated PMSM was developed which requires just a few input parameters.

It was shown by comparison with the results of parametric optimization studies based on FEM that the analytical method leads to first estimates for the geometry which are quite close to the results of the parametric optimization studies. Hence, many variations can be calculated very fast with the new analytical method.

The active part of the actually designed prototype is shown in Figure 1. The machine has an outer stator diameter of 282.5 mm, an axial length of 42mm and it generates a torque of 318 Nm at a current density of 60 .

Figure 1: 3D-model of the prototype design

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Figure 2: Raw casted coil made of copper

Due to the direct liquid cooling of each conductor of the concentrated stator winding, this high current density is permissible at continuous operation without exceeding the winding’s temperature limit of 155 °C. The manufactured prototype uses the design guidelines.

Furthermore, it confirms the results of the calculations and is a good basis for future developments and enhancements for companies. The prototype machine achieves more than five times the torque density as the basic state-of-the-art “hightorque”-motor.

The implemented casted coils, which enable the direct liquid cooling, can be seen in Figures 2 to 4. The high current density as well as the – compared to standard motors – higher eddy current losses and thus higher operating temperatures of the PM lead to choosing samariumcobalt magnets. Those magnets possess a high remanence flux density as well as a high resilience against partial demagnetizations at high temperatures.

In addition to the design rules discussed above, the following noteworthy effects occurred and are to be considered when designing a PMSM for high torque density and thus high current density or operating it: Teeth and yoke of the stator have to be made bigger than usual in order to conduct the additional magnetic flux, even though wide teeth and thus narrower slots lead to an increased leakage flux.

A big ration of bore diameter to stator outer diameter leads to increased torque, decreased losses and reduced leakage flux.

Usually, tooth-tips “collect” rotor flux; in machines with high current density, tooth-tips increase leakage flux and should be avoided.

The additional loss due to eddy currents in the comparatively large conductor cross section have to be taken into account. Tooth-tips increase this loss. The difference between the d-axis inductance and the q-axis inductance can change from negative to positive with increasing current density.

The cross coupling between d-axis and q-axis is no longer negligible.

During operation at high current density, the mutual inductance can reach values of over 10 % of the inductances of d-axis and q-axis.

The magnets have to be protected against partial demagnetizations not only in case of a sudden short-circuit, but even during “normal” operation with high current density.

The achieved increase in torque density and the first comparison to hydraulic systems show that a substitution of hydraulic motors is possible in the future. Moreover, the developed methods and insights of this project are not limited to electric machines for the substitution of hydraulic motors, but can be used for other fields of application like aviation or large direct drives as well.

Hence new application areas for electrical machines can be unlocked.

In addition, the simple but in comparison to conventional cooling methods more effective direct liquid cooling can lead to lower operating temperatures for many highly utilized electric machines and hence to increased efficiency of the drive system.

Figure 3: Coated coil

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EuroBLECH 2020 postponed: 26th International Sheet Metal Working Technology Exhibition will take place from 9 – 12 March 2021 in Hanover, Germany

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ack Brooks Exhibitions has today announced the postponement of EuroBLECH, which was scheduled to take place at the Hanover Exhibition Grounds in Germany from 27 to 30 October 2020.

The new dates for the next EuroBLECH, 26th International Sheet Metal Working Technology Exhibition, are 9 -12 March 2021. This decision was taken after extensive conversations with all exhibitors and partners over recent weeks and months who have expressed their preference not to hold the show in October, in light of the ongoing Covid19 crisis. Uncertainties around travel restrictions in order to maintain the truly international character of the EuroBLECH event were also a concern to many participants.

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Speaking about the announcement, Nicola Hamann, Managing Director of Mack Brooks Exhibitions said: “The past months have been challenging, in particular for the sheet metal working industry and its related industry sectors.

We have seen a decrease in orders of capital goods and many companies are telling us about their challenges in dealing with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Although we have recently received authority approval for our Safety and Security concept to hold EuroBLECH in October this year, we have decided to postpone EuroBLECH to Spring 2021”.

As part of a recent series of industry surveys, the participants of EuroBLECH indicated their requirement to network and conduct business in order to pave the way for the recovery of the industry following the Covid-19 pandemic.

EuroBLECH will therefore offer a virtual hub for the global sheet metal working industry in October: “Following feedback from our exhibitors and visitors indicating the need to participate in an event, even if not in a physical form, we will organise a Digital Innovation Summit taking place from 27 to 30 October, our planned event slot.

This Digital Innovation Summit will provide our exhibitors with a platform to demonstrate their latest machines and solutions and arrange virtual meetings with international visitors. We believe it is our duty to assist the industry through these extraordinary times by offering a market place this year as a platform for innovations and a starting point for the recovery of the industry�, continued Nicola Hamann.

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The EuroBLECH Team will communicate closely with customers and partners over the coming weeks and months and thank their exhibitors, partners, suppliers and visitors for their support during this challenging time. Further information on the Digital Innovation Summit containing details on the Online Presentation Theatre for exhibitors, video on demand options and matchmaking facilities, will be available shortly.

Every two years, the world’s largest sheet metal working technology exhibition attracts top industry professionals from all over the world. The show targets specialists at all management levels in small and mediumsized companies as well as large enterprises from all key industry sectors. Featuring an enormous amount of live machine demonstrations, EuroBLECH is renowned with international sheet metal working professionals as the most important event to find smart solutions and the right machines, equipment and materials for their companies.

A total of 56,307 international trade visitors attended the previous show.

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