The ninth HARTING Apprentice Cup is casting its shadow ahead: 12 companies from the Minden-Lübbecke region will meet at the traditional tournament on 17 January in the Espelkamp round gymnasium. They will be choosing the football champions of the next generation of companies in the district. The final match is traditionally played one day later as part of the FreeWay Cup in the district sports hall in Lübbecke.

The HARTING Technology Group, a technology and market leader in industrial connection technology, is pleased to support the extension of the IEC 63171-7 standard and to define the new connector standard for Single Pair Ethernet. This extension covers a range of connectors based on a uniform SPE data container that forms the basis for the global standardisation and interoperability of Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) systems.

The HARTING Technology Group generated sales just below the one billion euros mark in the past 2023/24 financial year.

Current drives and servomotors in industrial applications are connected to the necessary lifelines by way of several interfaces. Data, signals and power are each connected via plug connections that are specialised for their individual task – which costs space.

Data and power are the foundations of an All Electric Society (AES). In an electrified world, there is no device that can function without the appropriate power supply and communication. This communication between all participants is the key to sustainable energy generation and the necessary efficiency gains. While international Ethernet standards already ensure data communication today, power supply solutions are highly fragmented across the individual sectors of the AES.

There are very few production environments working in DC networks. Does that mean that the advantages of direct current are not being utilised? Quite the opposite: DC drive systems have been on the job in a wide variety of applications for years. Now it's time to operate them with direct current to unleash their fullest potential.