Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated ban on all major German events up to, and including the end of August, the PCIM Europe exhibition and conference 2020 in Nuremberg has been cancelled. A virtual format will offer a digital alternative for knowledge transfer in early July 2020.

The user organization ODVA has announced extensions to the EtherNet/IP specification to make the Industrial Ethernet standard it maintains fit for Industry 4.0 and IIoT.

Honda Motor Europe is expanding its partnership with SNAM (Société Nouvelle d'Affinage des Métaux) for battery recycling. The agreement provides for the Europe-wide collection and recycling of old batteries previously used in Honda hybrid and electric vehicles.

The Ingolstadt University of Technology is investigating how to increase traffic safety in the Save-Road research project. The aim of the project is in particular to predict the severity of traffic accidents using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The cable manufacturer and automotive supplier Leoni received approval for a large federal-state guarantee from the German federal government and the state governments of Bavaria, Lower Saxony and North Rhine - Westphalia for an operating loan of 330 million euros.

The jointly developed 3D design is publicly available so that the ventilator can be produced cost-effectively anywhere in the world.

The embedded industry increasingly relies on hardware-related services. This is reflected in the technology trends for 2020. Advantech, the Taiwan-based industrial PC specialist, is also investing in the change.