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The Schmersal Group announces that it is restructuring its service division and establishing Tec.nicum - Solutions & Services GmbH. The company is thus significantly expanding its safety service offering.
Federal Minister of Economics Dr. Robert Habeck visited the Turck Group at the Hannover Messe 2024 to find out how the automation specialist contributes to sustainability in the industry.
Igus is presenting the new business figures and presenting 2024 new products at the Hannover Messe 247 and would like to advance the goal of “Zero Lubrication” with the Igus Go app.
IFM Electronic was able to increase sales again in the 2023 financial year. The preliminary consolidated financial statements show a new sales record with sales of over 1,4 billion euros and growth of 3%.
Jumo has designed further training courses with a view to the currently exciting topics being discussed in individual sectors and offers corresponding seminars as part of the Jumo Campus.
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As a networked industrial ecosystem, the exhibitors demonstrate how climate neutrality can be achieved through the use of electrification, digitalization and automation under the guiding theme of Energizing a sustainable Industry.
Control 2024, the important international trade fair for quality assurance, will take place from April 23rd to 26th in Stuttgart. The trade fair places a particular focus on automation and digitalization.
The SPS – Smart Production Solutions from November 14th to 16.11th. 2023 will see significant growth in the trade fair compared to the previous year and is on the way to pre-Corona levels.
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Regensburg and Sulzbach are working together with industry partners on a novel analysis method in the "Virosens" project to make the efficacy testing of vaccines more efficient and cost-effective. The method combines electrochemical sensors and biotechnology and for the first time enables a fully automated analysis of the infection status of test cells.
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT are currently working with Nano Analytics and Innome on a new solution for the measurement of antiviral neutralizing antibodies. The test cells are based on multi-electrode arrays, which allow fully automated detection of their infection status using electrochemical measurement techniques. This eliminates the complex dyeing reactions of conventional tests, which saves time and money.
The cells are also continuously monitored over a longer period of time. In the previously used dyeing tests, they are analyzed only at a certain time. This gives the researchers additional information about the time course of the cell reaction, which was previously inaccessible. The consortium has set itself the goal of researching a corresponding complete system including the measuring device, the associated analysis software and the electrode arrays necessary for cell observation, and to convert them into laboratory setups that pave the way for later market introduction. The project Virosens is innovatively funded by the BMBF in the SME promotion directive.