PAC, the market analysis and consulting company, has classed German Edge Cloud (GEC) as a hidden champion in Germany and Europe. PAC evaluated 67 relevant platform providers for the PAC INNOVATION RADAR in the “Open Digital Platforms for the Industrial World in Europe 2021” segment. German Edge Cloud – along with IBM/Red Hat and SUSE Rancher – made up the “Top 3” on the expertise scale in the…

The Foundation Board of the Rittal Foundation has bid farewell to its chairman Friedemann Hensgen after 30 years of service to the company. His successor is Rainer Reissner as Managing Director, who has many years of experience in theological as well as welfare and social work. With him, the Rittal Foundation is repositioning itself as the organ of the Friedhelm Loh Group’s social commitment and…

The images are unforgettable: a few weeks ago, torrential rain in parts of Germany led to major flooding, causing almost unimaginable destruction. The owner and employees of the Friedhelm Loh Group were united in wanting to help. They rapidly collected a total of 930,000 euros – more than ever before in the company’s long history of donations. The money will be made available quickly and…

He is driven by curiosity about new things: He is Honorary President of the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association (ZVEI), Honorary Professor of the State of Hesse, and has an Honorary Doctorate from the Technical University of Chemnitz. He is in demand on the European political stage when it comes to digitalisation issues and is driving trends and innovations in the…

German Edge Cloud (GEC), which specialises in edge and cloud systems, is cooperating with Schuler, a machine and plant building company. In this context, Schuler is offering a track-and-trace solution for press plants within the Digital Suite, based on technology from German Edge Cloud. The Schuler Digital Suite with the “track-and-trace application powered by GEC” is being used, among other…

German Edge Cloud (GEC), which specialises in edge and cloud systems, relies on Red Hat for its “ONCITE powered by IBM” solution. The Premise Edge runs on Red Hat’s “OpenShift.” It gives manufacturing companies the flexibility to run their applications for implementing Industry 4.0 scenarios on the currently industry-leading Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Enterprise platform.

Rittal, Eplan and German Edge Cloud present their latest solutions for industrial transformation at this year’s Hanover Trade Fair (12 to 16 April). Online, via 20 live streamings and expert presentations, visitors will learn about what is now feasible in terms of digitisation. The companies will be using the slogan “Simplified. Done.” in order to show how industrial engineering and manufacturing…

German Edge Cloud, specialising in edge and cloud computing systems, has joined the Catena-X Automo-tive Network (Catena-X). The network’s mission is to implement standards for the flow of data and infor-mation across the entire automotive-industry value chain. The move was announced within the scope of a special event on digital transformation in the automo-tive sector held on 2 March by BMWi,…

As part of the event „Durch Kooperation an die Spitze. Die Automobilbranche gestaltet den digitalen Wandel“ (“Through cooperation to the top. The automotive industry is shaping the digital transformation”) hosted by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) the founders of the Automotive Alliance are sharing a progress…

At its Haiger plant, Rittal consistently manufactures keeping with Industry 4.0 standards. The world’s leading system provider for enclosure technology, power distribution, climate control, IT infrastructure, software and service has one of the latest digitally integrated enclosure manufacturing systems. Solutions from Rittal’s sister company German Edge Cloud are also used in the smart factory. A…