Industry News

October 2015

Philip Harting (left) succeeded his father Dietmar Harting as Chairman of the Board on 1 October 2015. The two Presidents and General Partners are managing the HARTING Technology Group together with Margrit Harting, Senior Vice President and Partner, and Maresa Harting-Hertz (right), Senior Vice President Finance and Purchasing as well as President and General Partner, in the second and third generation.

Philip Harting succeeds his father as Chairman of the Board of HARTING Technology Group

After almost 50 years in the management of the HARTING Technology Group, Dietmar Harting (Dr.-Ing. E.h.) handed over the position of Chairman of the Board to his son Philip Harting on 1 October 2015. Dietmar Harting nevertheless remains a member of the company group’s Board as personally liable partner and wi

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10/29/2015

Infineon launches "Industry 4.0" in Austria

Industry 4.0 live – the future of connected production – is already being practiced at Infineon. Infineon Technologies Austria has opened a new building complex in Villach for production, research and development. The expansion will be driven forward through 2017 by investments and research expenditure totaling Eu

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10/29/2015

The Competence Center Berlin will primarily be a hub for hard- and software engineers designing and programming applications

Wuerth Elektronik eiSos opens Competence Center Berlin

Wuerth Elektronik eiSos opened its new Competence Center Berlin on 23 October 2015, marking a further milestone of the company’s expansion strategy. The Competence Center Berlin will primarily be a hub for hardware and software engineers designing and programming applications for new components, and supporting cu

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10/27/2015

Three novel inventions provide building blocks for the burgeoning IoT market

Mr. Greg Waite, CEO of InventionShare, announced today that InventionShare will be actively promoting three of its game changing inventions as key Internet of Things (IoT) building blocks. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software, se

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10/27/2015

Dr. Martin Keller

Dr. Martin Keller named Director of National Renewable Energy Laboratory

The Alliance for Sustainable Energy (Alliance) announced the appointment of Dr. Martin Keller as director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and president of the Alliance which manages the laboratory for the Department of Energy. Keller will officially join NREL in this role on November 30, 2015. Ke

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10/21/2015

ThingWorx, Analog Devices collaborate to offer Cloud environment for IoT apps

ThingWorx, a PTC business and a leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, announced it is working with semiconductor developer Analog Devices to offer customers an integrated sensor to cloud environment using the ThingWorx IoT Platform. Smart, connected products and devices can generate thousands

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10/20/2015

Daimler, Audi, BMW, and GM score highest in Navigant research assessment of autonomous-vehicle OEMS

A Leaderboard Report from Navigant Research examines the strategy and execution of 18 original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including company profiles and rankings, to provide industry participants with an objective assessment of these companies’ relative strengths and weaknesses in the developing autonomous ve

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10/15/2015

Konstantinos Laskaris, chief motor designer at Tesla.

Electric motor future aligns with coil-winding technology development

Coil winding breakthroughs will help make electric cars cheaper to build, more efficient to operate, and even better for the environment, says Konstantinos Laskaris, chief motor designer at Tesla. As the market for plug-in electric cars expands globally – even as gasoline prices remain low – increasing vehicle ef

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10/15/2015

Energy Harvesting USA 2015 agenda launched

A leading event on energy harvesting technologies and their application, Energy Harvesting & Storage USA, to be held in Santa Clara on November 18-19 features presentations from companies covering both high power and low power energy harvesting solutions in addition to the applications of these technologies. Speakers discuss a

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10/08/2015

China compulsory certification improves product safety

CCC certification, also called 3C certification, is an acronym for "China Compulsory Certification". It came into force on May 1, 2002. The main feature of CCC certification is a unified catalogue published by the Chinese government, using national standards, technical regulations and implementation pr

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10/05/2015

American Indian Science and Engineering Society gets NSF grant to to increase engineering diversification

The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) along with other minority professional engineering society partners was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to increase the diversification of the engineering professorate. To realize this goal, AISES will engage Native American early-career fa

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10/05/2015

NREL fills leadership role at Wind Technology Center

Dr. Daniel Laird will join the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory on Oct. 12 as director of the National Wind Technology Center (NWTC), the country's premier wind energy technology research facility. Laird, who earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Madison-Wis

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10/05/2015

Saft’s Tadiran batteries to power BrightSource’s innovative solar field technology

Tadiran Batteries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Saft Group and a leader in the development of lithium batteries for industrial use, has been awarded a contract by Oakland USA based BrightSource Energy Inc., a leading US concentrating solar power technology (CSP) company. Under this contract Tadiran will pr

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10/05/2015