15.04.2024
Europe has shackled itself, its citizens and its companies – sometimes unnecessarily. In international competition, it is now important to release the brakes. Only then can the continent realise its full potential. And continue to play at eye-level worldwide.
Real Time Automation: Industrial 5G is currently finding its way into more and more factory buildings. Mobile communications technology can become an important building block for the smart factory – thanks in part to ZVEI's working group 5G-ACIA. Also, a lack of data availability and the absence of open standards are still holding back digitalisation in the field of drives. The joint project “Drive 4.0” aims to change this.
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Fabian Zuleeg heads the European Policy Centre and is a renowned expert on politics in Brussels. In his view, there can only be one answer to the current accumulation of crises, and that is more cooperation in Europe.
Europe has shackled itself, its citizens and its companies – sometimes unnecessarily. In international competition, it is now important to release the brakes. Only then can the continent realise its full potential. And continue to play at eye-level worldwide.
Dr. habil Tassilo Schuster und Lara Schmidt vom Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS sind im Projekt „Reallabor Antrieb 4.0“ für die Leitung des ersten Arbeitspakets verantwortlich (Analyse von Anwendungsszenarien und Erhebung von Anforderungen an eine modulare Serviceplattform im Ökosystem Antrieb 4.0). Mit ampere sprachen sie über die Idee hinter dem Projekt und den aktuellen Stand.
Two power cables already connect Norway with Germany and the Netherlands respectively. From 2030, sustainable hydrogen will also flow through a pipeline to Germany.
As managing partner of Elschukom GmbH in Veilsdorf (Thuringia), Ute Poerschke is increasingly struggling with bureaucracy in Brussels. Nevertheless, she is not an EU sceptic - because as an entrepreneur and citizen, she also sees the opportunities that a united Europe offers her.
Kerstin Jorna heads the European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW). The influence of EU member states on international standardisation is an important concern for her. She would like to see more experts from the member states represented on international committees.
