The Bullwhip Effect: What Is It and What Causes It?

Let’s start with a question. What is the connection between a bullwhip and a supply chain? It sounds...

Industry 4.0 and Lean Management – How to Manage the Chaos

Value chains are becoming increasingly complex and networked. This is not only due to globalisation, but also to...

Information Security in Mechanical and Plant Engineering

Information security in data exchange and integration along the entire value chain in mechanical and plant engineering presents...

What is Digital Twin Energy Management and Why is it Important?

Disruptive technologies have taken the world by storm, and businesses have responded by undertaking digital transformation journeys in...

Industrial Internet of Things in the 5G Era: Transforming Manufacturing Communications and Real-Time Operations

The convergence of fifth-generation wireless technology with Industrial Internet of Things represents a paradigm shift that fundamentally redefines...

The Bullwhip Effect: Solutions to Tame the Chaos

The bullwhip effect describes a phenomenon in supply chain management. It illustrates how fluctuations in orders increase in...

OPC UA as standard for IIoT applications

OPC UA – a standard for the exchange of industrial process data with increasing importance. The SEEBURGER Business...

What is IIoT and Industry 4.0?

In the (industrial) Internet of Things (I)IoT, production processes, supply chains, business processes, services and product life cycles...

Using Real Time Data in Smart Manufacturing

We are currently in the fourth industrial revolution, which is characterised by widespread digitalisation and connecting all manner...

Why Integration Platforms are the Central Hub for Smart Services

Smart Services are becoming more and more important throughout the entire product life cycle of mechanical engineering. As...

Artificial Intelligence and the SEEBURGER BIS

Artificial intelligence is playing an ever greater part in our everyday lives. Intelligent systems are behind ever more...

Digitalization in the Manufacturing Industry

Manufacturing companies are faced with the challenge of digital change within their value chain. They continuously need to...

Assembly Control with the Manufacturing Integration Bus

How can robots and other automated components of a plant be efficiently controlled in a heterogeneous IT environment...

Data integration for collaborative assembly

Customers expect increasingly individualized products in very small quantities. In Industry 4.0, this goes all the way to...

B2B E-Commerce Part 4 – Intelligent Systems Integration in E-Commerce

The first part of our blog series on systems integration for e-commerce was an e-commerce 101. The second...

Showing the invisible: Using Fischertechnik Models to Make the Integration of Industrial Processes Visible

In contrast to the majority of applications, software used in data integration often doesn’t have a nice, intuitive...

e-works Industry 4.0 visit to SEEBURGER

The Chinese delegation from e-works visited Bretten on 1.4.2019. As part of their Industry 4.0 company visits, a...

Digital Value Chains are Transforming B2B-Integration – From EDI to IDS?

Digital transformation is changing the entire value chain. Data is increasingly becoming a commodity. As data-driven business models...

Procurement 4.0 – Purchasers as Innovation Scouts

Did you know that procurement processes have a particularly important role in a company’s digital transformation to an...

Predictive Maintenance – Part 1: Predictive Maintenance 101 – What Is It and Where Is It Used?

Sooner or later, components in constant use start to wear out. You need to repair or replace them...

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