The digital order and data platform Nextrade has succeeded in reaching an impressive milestone – well ahead of schedule: The B2B marketplace has now been activated for retailers and has gone live with over 60 suppliers and 120,000 products. In early 2020 it will be rolled out throughout Europe.

The Airbus A380 is the largest commercial aircraft in series production. When the wide-bodied aircraft lands safely, its control software has set countless components in motion at the correct times over 500 kilometers of cable. The basics for the automatic analysis of such time-critical software systems, such as those found in cars, trains and industrial plants, come from computer scientists at Saarland University. For their pioneering work, which was published in 2001, they were honored yesterday evening in New York at the International Conference on Embedded Software.

There’s no success in business without a degree of risk, but particularly the data security risks facing today’s businesses are unprecedented: As organisations embrace digitalisation to stay competitive, their potential exposure to ever-more sophisticated cyber security threats increases. Held throughout October, European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) is an annual awareness campaign from the European Union (EU) to promote a better understanding of these challenges. During ECSM, Konica Minolta will be holding events in France and Germany that will help businesses learn how to assess and manage and successfully combat cyber threats.

Konica Minolta has announced the first partner to join the Konica Minolta “Alliance Program”, signing a memorandum of understanding with Deutsche Telekom to jointly develop and market innovative technology solutions.

Trade fair builds on successful previous event
EMO Hannover 2019 closed its doors following a six-day run. From 16 to 21 September, round about 117,000 production specialists from 150 countries convened at the world's leading tradeshow for the metal-working industry. "This EMO Hannover 2019 built on the success of our boom year in 2017," reported EMO General Commissioner Carl Martin Welcker.

Representatives of German cities show great interest in the new Kern 24/7 identification terminal

DEVONtechnologies releases version 2.7.2 of its iOS document and information manager DEVONthink To Go with sync and performance enhancements and bug fixes. The update brings back the sync status sheet, updates the PDF support, and makes handling of indexed items consistent to DEVONthink 3 on the Mac. It also comes with important bug fixes and first adjustments for iOS 13. The update is free and recommended for all users.

AIM, the trusted worldwide industry association for the automatic identification industry, providing unbiased information, educational resources and standards for nearly half a century, has announced EU regulatory expert Jan Hoffmann, LL.M. as the first keynote speaker for AIM Summit 2019, being held October 28 in Darmstadt, Germany.

Joining the Smart Industrial Centre project in Malaysia
Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) has been promoting workflow reforms for production facilities under its digital manufacturing initiatives towards the goal of establishing production systems that are independent of people, place, country and fluctuations. As part of its efforts to achieve this goal globally, Konica Minolta has introduced digital manufacturing solutions in its production base in Malaysia, and is now ready to join the Smart Industrial Centre (SIC) project to achieve open innovation in production activities in cooperation with its suppliers.

Striving together to accelerate administrative reforms and enhance civil services under a partnership agreement

From high street retailers to online shops and multichannel providers – everyone in the retail sector has to deal with the challenges of the fast-changing consumer goods market. To be successful, retailers need to find innovative ways to build connections between the real and virtual worlds. Conzoom Solutions offers stimulating ideas and suggestions for presenting your business more effectively – and answers urgent questions affecting the retail sector.

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