Industrial automation has long ceased to be a “nice-to-have” but has turned into a “must-have”: Skills shortage, increasing production volumes, and complex processes make autonomous systems indispensable.

Biocomputing marks the start to an all-new era of information processing. Instead of silicon chips DNA, proteins, or even living cells assume the role of computing units and storage media.

Humanoid robots are becoming more powerful, nimble, and agile. Electric motors instead of the previous hydraulic units increasingly operate in their arms and legs. That’s a clearly discernible trend in other industrial applications as well.

Perfectly shaped steel spheres as rolling elements in bearings exhibit variances only in the micrometer range: a manufacturing technology feat whose invention dates back 140 years in 2023.

With every additional level of automation, robots assume more of a key role in industrial settings. Like other industries, automotive manufacturers rely on automatic helpers in the transformation process more than ever before.

Fully automatic and highly efficient: That’s how warehouses have become critical hubs of resilient supply chains.

Farming feeds the world – and requires increasingly better and, above all, more efficient machines to do so.

8,000 times faster than 5G: From 2030 on, the 6G network is supposed to push open the gates to a new communications universe.

Downtimes are poison for business. The best strategy to prevent this is a smart early warning system. It’s called condition monitoring.

Cobots, the smaller siblings of gross-motor industrial robots, are making a name for themselves. The specialists at Schaeffler have found a way to make them perform faster and with greater precision.

More than a hundred years ago, the moving assembly line changed the manufacturing process: an awesome success story – and one that could soon be ending.

Schaeffler’s success story is closely linked to its own production landscapes. Without the equipment from its in-house mechanical engineering department, Schaeffler’s plants would stop operating.