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sensorEDGE FIELD: Nominee of the "Industrie 4.0 Innovation Award" 2023

Hattersheim. 19. Sep. 2023 – sensorEDGE FIELD is among the TOP 10 of this year's "Industrie 4.0 Innovation Award" by VDE Verlag GmbH.

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Open Modbus/TCP protocol stack now available for netRAPID 90

Hattersheim, 10. Aug. 2023 – Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH now also offers a protocol stack for Open Modbus/TCP for its ultra-compact chip carrier netRAPID 90. The specialist for industrial communication technologies is thus making its already flexible multiprotocol embedded module even more versatile.

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Best of Industry: We are nominees!

Hattersheim, 17. Jul. 2023 – Hilscher's netX 90 is nominated for the Best of Industry award of the Vogel Communications Group. The smallest multiprotocol-capable network controller is the communication solution for compact drives. It offers flexible industrial communication and simultaneous connection to the PROFIDrive AC1 and AC4 drive profiles as well as CiA402 - all in one SoC!

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Sotronik is Hilscher’s official qualified embedded software integration partner

Hattersheim, 26. Jun. 2023 – Sotronik GmbH is an official qualified embedded software integration partner of Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH. Thus, users of the netX technology in Switzerland will be able to rely on an official partner to solve the automation challenges they’re facing.

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netFIELD Compact X8M is now officially a Microsoft Azure certified device

Hattersheim, 22. Jun. 2023 – The Edge Gateway netFIELD Compact X8M of the Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH is now listed in the official Azure certified device catalog. Microsoft thus certifies the successful connectivity between the runtime Azure IoT Edge and the cloud connector Azure IoT Hub.

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Managed Industrial IoT: Hilscher further develops its holistic netFIELD portfolio

Hattersheim, 31. May 2023 – Hilscher is constantly working on optimizing and expanding its managed industrial IoT product portfolio under the brand of netFIELD. The release of netFIELD OS 2.4, Hilscher's runtime environment for edge devices, is another building block for this.

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netX 90 and netRAPID 90 are CC-Link IE Field Basic certified

Hattersheim, 16. May 2023 – Hilscher's smallest network controller netX 90 and the corresponding netRAPID 90 chip carrier are CC-Link IE Field Basic certified. This supports customers especially when entering asian automation markets with Hilscher's multiprotocol technology netX.

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Hilscher is a member of the Single Pair Ethernet System Alliance

Hattersheim, 08. May 2023 – Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH is a member of the Single Pair Ethernet System Alliance (SPESA). The common goal is to establish Single Pair Ethernet as an international standard for all areas where Ethernet connections are replaced or newly established.

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Systemtechnik LEBER and Hilscher take their successful cooperation to a new level

Hattersheim, 27. Apr. 2023 – STL Systemtechnik LEBER GmbH, a provider of development services in the field of embedded and mechatronics systems, and Hilscher are looking to further deepen their cooperation established in 2017. This results in a even better coordination between STL's and Hilscher's engineers as well as a faster pace of development projects for customers.

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cifX M223090AE: CANopen certified

Hattersheim, 12. Apr. 2023 – The cifX M223090AE PC card in M.2 format offers certified CANopen communication for PC-based automation. This helps manufacturers to prove CANopen compliance of their products to the customers. Read more in the CANopen newsletter of the CiA.

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Adding IoT value through passive PROFINET network data tapping

Hattersheim, 30. Mar. 2023 – Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH is expanding its IoT portfolio with the containerized application netFIELD App PROFINET Tap. The application acts as a software gateway, taps process data from a PROFINET network independently of the PLC and converts it into the MQTT protocol.

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Adding IoT value through passive EtherCAT network data tapping

Hattersheim, 30. Mar. 2023 – Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH is expanding its IoT portfolio with the containerized application netFIELD App EtherCAT Tap. The application acts as a software gateway, taps process data from a EtherCAT network independently of the PLC and converts it into the MQTT protocol.

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Embedded Office becomes a partner of Hilscher

Hattersheim, 23. Mar. 2023 – Embedded Office and Hilscher have entered into a strategic partnership. This means that companies that rely on the established netX technology have a competent integration partner with specific application expertise at their disposal.

Hilscher's netRAPID 90 as Companion Solution reaches series production status

Hattersheim, 15. Mar. 2023 – With the netRAPID 90, Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH expands its chip carrier portfolio for industrial communication of highly integrated field devices. The netX-90-based module acts as a device interface and supports all common fieldbus, Industrial Ethernet and IIoT protocols in one design.

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Promwad and Hilscher form a joint partnership

Hattersheim, 07. Feb. 2023 – Promwad, an expert in hardware design and embedded software development, and Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH are entering into a joint partnership. Promwad's increased focus on industrial automation with its Industrial Automation & Robotics engineering unit is a perfect fit for Hilscher as the netX multiprotocol SoC from the Hattersheim-based company can be used in numerous projects

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infoteam Software Group and Hilscher form integration partnership

Hattersheim, 31. Jan. 2023 – The infoteam Software Group, headquartered in Bubenreuth, Germany, is the new integration partner of Hilscher. Both companies had already announced the cooperation at the Smart Production Solutions trade fair in Nuremberg at the end of 2022.

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Oliver Paffenholz becomes Hilscher’s new CFO

Hattersheim, 14. Nov. 2022 – The management team at Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH has been reinforced with the addition of Oliver Paffenholz as Hilscher’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

The new Hilscher at SPS 2022: New brand unveiled
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Hattersheim, 08. Nov. 2022 – Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH, specialist for industrial communication solutions, launches its new brand strategy at SPS 2022 in Nuremberg and presents itself in a completely new corporate design.

Siemens SIMATIC IPCs are now multiprotocol capable thanks to cifX PC cards from Hilscher

Hattersheim, 04. Nov. 2022 – Siemens, one of the world's leading technology groups, and Hilscher, a specialist in industrial communication solutions, have joined forces. Equipped with Hilscher's cifX PC cards, the German technology group now offers its customers the ability to connect their SIMATIC IPCs to all industrial communication networks.

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dieEntwickler Elektronik GmbH now embedded integration partner of Hilscher

Hattersheim, 13. Oct. 2022 – dieEntwickler Elektronik GmbH (dEE), an industrial hardware and software development service provider from Bad Zell in Austria with expertise in industrial communication and programming of microcontrollers, is now Hilscher's official embedded integration partner. The two companies already have a history of cooperation on numerous development projects based on Hilscher's netX chip technology.

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Helmholz Benelux and Hilscher form strategic partnership for Benelux region

Hattersheim, 14. Sept. 2022 – Helmholz Benelux, one of the leading Dutch experts in PROFIBUS and PROFINET networks, and Hilscher, a specialist in industrial communication solutions, have joined forces in a strategic partnership. The new strategic partnership will benefit customers in the automation segment in the Benelux countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) by streamlining their automation projects.

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Hilscher underlines IIoT strategy – Thomas Rauch becomes new CTO

Hattersheim, 17. Aug. 2022 – Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH is strengthening its technical expertise on the management team by welcoming Thomas Rauch as the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

 

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Blog: Accelerate your digitization projects with netFIELD

How are digitization projects in the field of Industrial IoT successfully implemented? With the netFIELD operating system and the netFIELD.io cloud platform, individual sensor-to-cloud solutions can be developed. Learn more in our blog!

Blog: Semiconductor Manufacturing and its Machines
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The current chip crisis presents the semiconductor industry with one of its biggest challenges of recent decades.

Blog: comX 51CA-RE\R – It’s now the turn of the Semiconductor Industry

The semiconductor industry relies on state-of-the-art technology when planning new production facilities. Thanks to the comX 51CA-RE\R machine builders are now finally able to fully concentrate on the development of their applications when designing their tools for the semiconductor industry.

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Blog: comX – Flexible Communication Module for Automation

The comX communication module was developed to equip automation devices with a network interface. Here, all communication tasks are executed autarchically on the module - independent of the target platform processor.

Blog: Hilscher Embedded Modules: Market Leader for more than a Quarter of a Century

The use of an embedded module has always been a sensible alternative to the traditional and complex Design-In process of a chip. For more than 25 years, Hilscher has been a leader in factory automation with embedded modules for industrial communication and that with a consistent concept.

Blog: Global chip crisis – Hilscher supports the setup of new semiconductor factories

The future prospects for the semiconductor industry are quite positive, with a projected growth of around 9% in 2022. However, the industry is repeatedly faced with supply bottlenecks due to the effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, amongst other factors. By developing a new comX communication module, especially suited for the semiconductor industry, Hilscher is supporting to cope with the current situation.

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Blog: Single-pair Ethernet – Market Potential and Hilscher’s approach

Part 4 of our blog series about Single-Pair-Ethernet: A lot of work is still ahead of the industry to get open questions resolved in terms of system adoptions, standard integration and leveraging benefits in relevant use cases. How do the future prospects of SPE look like?

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Blog: Single-pair Ethernet – System adoptions in different scenarios

Part 3 of our blog series about SPE: Factory automation networks are already largely based on Ethernet standards today. However, the adoption of Ethernet in the process automation field is still in progress. How does SPE affect these two industrial areas?

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Blog: Single-pair Ethernet – Deployment and characteristics

Part 2 of our blog series about SPE: While the idea to enable IP based networks down to the sensor level is obviously beneficial, the question is, how SPE is able to deploy in the focused devices and installations.

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Blog: Single-pair Ethernet – Enhanced cloud access to sensors and peripherals

Part 1 of our blog series about SPE: Single-pair Ethernet, as a new initiative to enable IP based networks to each sensor, adds value through thinner cabling, small footprint plugs and connectors and less space requirements. For that reason, it is suitable to replace numerous existing fieldbuses in the sensor and peripheral area by integrating sensors directly to IT- and Cloudsystems.

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IAS Shanghai 2023

Hilscher at the Industrial Automation Show (IAS) 2023. Explore the latest market trends and take a look at all kinds of innovative products, technologies and solutions for industrial development. More than 500 exhibitors on about 60,000 sqm are waiting for you!

When

19-23. Sep. 2023

Where

National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC)

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Electronics & Applications 2023

Electronics & Applications is the trade fair for industrial electronics in the Benelux. At this trade fair, you can meet the entire chain, from components to production and from design services to design. E&A is the meeting point for engineers, designers, developers and non-tech engineers who are looking for solutions.

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When

26-28. Sep. 2023

Where

Jaarbeursplein 6
3521 AL UTRECHT
Booth: 7B118

all about automation: Chemnitz

Come visit us at the all about autmation in Chemnitz – The exhibition for industrial automation in central Germany. Experience systems, components, software and engineering for industrial automation and industrial communication in the age of Industry 4.0 and network with users from the region at all about automation.

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When:

27-28. Sep. 2023

Where:

Messe Chemnitz
Messeplatz 1
09116 Chemnitz

Booth: 1-243

 

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IO-Link Forum Austria 2023

Explore interoperable IO-Link solutions from leading sensor, actuator and control component manufacturers at the IO-Link Forum 2023 in Austria. Come and visit us, we will be happy to advise you on your specific IO-Link applications! (Only available in German)

When

3. Oct. 2023

09:00-17:00 (CEST)

Where

forumKloster
Rathausplatz 5
8200 Gleisdorf

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IO-Link Day: dal campo al cloud

The event IO-Link Day: dal campo al cloud aims to enhance the potential of the IO-Link protocol for the digitization of industry. It will present you with market-leading use cases and solutions, as well as expert opinions on future developments of this standard.

When:

5. Oct. 2023

Where:

Cosmo Hotel Palace
VIA F. DE SANCTIS, 5
20092 CINISELLO BALSAMO MILANO
ITALY

EtherCAT Technology Days: France

Please mark your calendar for the EtherCAT Technology Days France in 2023, taking place Tuesday, October 17, in Lyon and Wednesday, October 18, in Nantes this time!

When:

17. Oct. 2023

Where:

Lyon, France, NH Hotel Lyon Airport

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18. Oct. 2023

Where:

Nantes, France, Oceania Nantes Aeroport

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Smart Prodcution Solutions / SPS 2023

The highlight event of the automation industry. With its unique concept, the SPS covers the entire spectrum of smart and digital automation – from simple sensors to intelligent solutions, from what is feasible today to the vision of a fully digitalized industrial world.

When:

14-16. Nov. 2023

Where:

NürnbergMesse
Karl-Schönleben-Str
Messeplatz 1
90471 Nürnberg

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Account Manager B/C customer segment Southern Germany

As the market leader in industrial communications, we offer our customers the best solution. We’re constantly growing and we want to continue do so well into the future. To help us achieve our mission, we need support on the ground from sales professionals like you.

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Account Manager B/C customer segment Northern Germany

As the market leader in industrial communications, we offer our customers the best solution. We’re constantly growing and we want to continue do so well into the future. To help us achieve our mission, we need support on the ground from sales professionals like you.

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Human Resources Administrator

As part of the human resources team, it’s our job to make sure that our colleagues are able to concentrate on solidifying and expanding our position in the market, while also providing a pleasant working environment. Apply now!

Marketing Manager: Focus Social Media & Video/Photo

Translating complex technical topics into clear messages and visions to our customers all around the globe is your cup of tea? Perfect,we are looking for a Marketing Manager with Focus Social Media & Video/Foto. Apply now!

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Product Manager Chip

Are you looking for a job with a lot of responsibility and interfaces? Have you already gained some experience with semiconductors / microelectronics? Then, apply now!

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Software Developer for Embedded Systems and Development Tools

Are you on the lookout for a company at the forefront of technology and innovation, that will stretch and promote you in the long term? Would you like a position where you can give your technical skills free rein? Then, apply now!

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Combined work and study model in information technology and IT security: bachelor’s degree in KITS

You will learn how to develop secure IT applications during the combined work and study course. You will regularly attend the IT faculty of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences during the semester and apply your newly acquired knowledge immediately at our company during lecture-free periods.

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Combined work and study programme in information technology: bachelor’s degree in KoSI

On the combined work and study programme, you will gather encompassing knowledge about topics from (business) informatics. Attend the information technology faculty of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences during the semester and apply your newly acquired knowledge immediately at our company during lecture-free periods.

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Combined work and study in electronics and information technology: bachelor’s or master’s degree in KoSE

On the combined work and study programme in electronics and information technology, you will learn about topics from electronics, network and control technology. You will attend the electronics faculty at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences during the semester and apply your newly acquired knowledge immediately at our company during lecture-free periods.

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IT specialist for systems integration (Apprenticeship)

Lay the foundation for a future successful career for yourself with an apprenticeship at our company. During your apprenticeship as an IT specialist for applications development, you will receive a comprehensive insight into the IT department of an industrial company and you will learn how to implement customer-specific information and communications solutions.

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Industrial clerk (Apprenticeship)

Lay the foundation for a future successful career for yourself with an apprenticeship at our company. The apprenticeship as an industrial clerk will provide you with a comprehensive insight into the various commercial and technical production departments within an industrial company.

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Electronics technicians for devices and systems (Apprenticeship)

Lay the foundation for a future successful career for yourself with an apprenticeship at Hilscher.

The technical apprenticeship as an electronics technician for devices and systems will provide you with a comprehensive insight into the production area of an industrial company.

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