Industry is under tremendous pressure to change. How is the manufacturing industry progressing toward smart production? How can we move from crisis management to long-term transformation in energy, efficiency and sustainability? How can we speed up the much-needed scaling up of infrastructure? How are companies countering the shortage of skilled workers? Rittal, Eplan, Cideon and German Edge Cloud…

The ROI-EFESO management consultancy has established a benchmark for the industry in the shape of Industry 4.0 Award. Every year, it honours companies that are doing pioneering work for German industry with smart factories. Rittal won the “Industry 4.0 Award 2022” for digitising production at the Haiger plant with German Edge Cloud, its sister company.

German Edge Cloud and Scheer PAS are pooling their strengths. The strategic partnership brings together two owner-managed companies with a reputation as pioneers of digital transformation. Faster digitalisation of production processes is the goal. Companies today need a higher level of flexibility and agility to adapt their production processes to new market demands. They must be able to react…

From the energy crisis to supply chain stress, the industry is under great pressure to change. How is the industry progressing while the transformation to smart production is taking place at the same time? And which contribution is control, switchgear and mechanical engineering making with consistent data from engineering through to plant operation? Rittal, Eplan, Cideon and German Edge Cloud will…

PAC has ranked German Edge Cloud (GEC) as "Best in Class Open Digital Platform for factory-edge-centric industrial IoT" in Europe. In this segment, only GEC and IBM/Red Hat were rated "Best in Class". According to PAC, the unique capabilities of GEC derive from its merging of domain know-how in both manufacturing and IT. For the PAC INNOVATION RADAR "Open Digital Platforms for the Industrial World…

In a smart factory, the use of valid data for optimisation and greater production flexibility are key goals. One common challenge is that Industrial IoT applications must be paired with existing IT systems such as PLM, ERP, MES and Scada to ensure agile digital production management. With this goal in mind, German Edge Cloud has joined its cloud-native industrial applications with “Best of Breed”…

The objectives of industrial transformation are clear: It is all a matter of more transparency, speed, and sustainability in manufacturing and operation. Digitalisation and networking of the industrial and IT ecosystems is here a prerequisite: For machine and plant engineering, automation, and IIoT solutions, IT infrastructures, and smart services. At the Hannover Trade Fair 2022, Rittal, Eplan,…

Ukraine is still firmly in the grip of war several weeks after it started. Millions of people are living in fear and terror, having lost their homes, and with an uncertain future. Helping people wherever possible is the order of the day for the employees and the owner of the Friedhelm Loh Group: Besides numerous relief measures, they have together donated €600,000 for people in the war zone. Last…

Since the start of the year, Plamen Kiradjiev has been Head of the new Solution Architects unit at German Edge Cloud (GEC), a Friedhelm Loh Group company specialising in edge and cloud solutions. The expert on the digitisation of industrial manufacturing processes had previously spent 27 years working for IBM, most recently as Global CTO in the field of Industry 4.0.

German Edge Cloud (GEC) and INTRANAV are combining their expertise for the manufacturing industry. The Friedhelm Loh Group’s specialist for edge and cloud solutions will be working together with INTRANAV, the pioneer in hardware and software for real-time object location for the smart factory. Their vision includes track-and-trace applications for moving objects, products for intelligently…