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Open data communication revolutionizing measurement technology
Open data communication revolutionizing measurement technology
Open data communication revolutionizing measurement technology

Measurement technology plays a key role in Industry 4.0. Its digital transformation stands and falls with the OPC UA GMS (geometric measuring systems) interface, with which a working group of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) is clearing the way for manufacturer-neutral communication in measu...
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Startups@EMO Hannover – 60 young companies from twelve countries will show their competences
Startups@EMO Hannover – 60 young companies from twelve countries...
Startups@EMO Hannover – 60 young companies from twelve countries will show their competences

EMO Hannover 2023 from September 18 to 23 will once again feature a large Startup Area on Stand E34 in Hall 9, presented jointly by the EMO organizer VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association) and the VDMA Startup Machine. "Startups bring a breath of fresh air to well-established industrial sec...
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Euro zone accounting for significant proportion of machine tool orders at present
Euro zone accounting for significant proportion of machine tool...
Euro zone accounting for significant proportion of machine tool orders at present

Orders received by the German machine tool industry in the second quarter of 2023 were 3 per cent down in nominal terms on the same period last year. Orders from Germany declined by 11 percent whereas those from abroad rose by 1 per cent. The level of orders fell by 7 percent overall in the first ha...
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India is booming – EMO Hannover 2023 to highlight promising business opportunities
India is booming – EMO Hannover 2023 to highlight...
India is booming – EMO Hannover 2023 to highlight promising business opportunities

India is now the most populous country on Earth with more than 1.4 billion inhabitants. It is also the largest democracy and has the fifth largest economy. And the economy is growing fast. The British economic research institute Oxford Economics is forecasting growth rates of around 7 percent per ye...
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“There’s much more to climate-neutral production than just offsetting.” – Let’s Talk Science shows technical solutions
“There’s much more to climate-neutral production than just offsetting.”...
“There’s much more to climate-neutral production than just offsetting.” – Let’s Talk Science shows...

Following all the excitement surrounding the Building Energy Act, the ambitious climate targets almost seem to have been forgotten. It is not merely a matter of making individual adjustments, rather of putting the economy and society as a whole on a climate neutral footing. Industrial processes, whi...
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