On 02.11.2017 Sarah Willmann from ifak visited the Chinese institute ITEI (Instrumentation Technology & Economy Institute). The aim of the meeting was to exchange information about current standardization activities and future cooperation.

ifak will be exhibiting at the PNO's joint booth in Hall 2, Stand 539 the new tool 'Plant Explorer', which is used for the topology detection of industrial topologies networks and observing or setting information of PROFINET devices.

On 30th October 2017 Prof ZHU Zefei, president of Hangzhou Dianzi University (HDU), and the Head of Institute of ifak, Prof Ulrich Jumar, met and agreed on a long-term cooperation. At a dignified ceremony, which introduced Mr Jumar as an Professor of HDU, the partner substantiated their plans for cooperation in research & development, particularly in the field of automatization technology. 

In the second week of november, Dr Schütze of ifak is attending a project meeting with ifak's cooperation partner in Israel. In this workshop with Prof. Friedler of Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and his research group, this scientists are discussing the results achieved so far in the CLUWAL project, which is funded by German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the State of Israel. In this bilateral research cooperation,simulation-based methods for the assessment of urban water system are developed.These will allow municipalities and water authorities a prudent management of their water systems, by assessing various technological options according to social, ecological and economic criteria of sustainability. Of particular importance in this project are rainwater and stormwater harvesting, as a means of saving precious water resources.

This year’s meeting of the Joint Committee on Urban Drainage of IWA (International Water Association) and IAHR (International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research), held just bevor the 14th  Internatioal Conference on Urban Drainage, was characterised by many elections and strategic decisioons. As in the years before, the meeting of this highest urban drainage comittee worldwide, convening 12 scientits and practitioners from all over the world, was led by its Chair, Dr Manfred Schütze of ifak Magdedeburg.

From 10th to 15th September, the 14th International Conference on Urban Drainage has been held. This event, convened only once every three years, was hosted this time in Central Europe again – after Brazil in 2011 and Malaysia 2014. With more than 700 participants, including scientists, consulting engineers and representatives of water authorities and companies, this event was particularly well attended. Dr Schütze of ifak,  Chair of the Joint Committee on Urban Drainage, which is the committee resonsible for this event, inaugurated this event on Monday,11 September.

At the „Digital Innovation Forum 2017“ (https://dif2017.org/) in Amsterdam the European research project AVANTI received the award „Award of Excellence for Innovation“. The picture shows Dr. Thomas Bär from partner DAIMLER and ITEA Vice-chairman Philippe Letellier at the award presentation. In addition have got task leader Dr. Matthias Riedl from ifak and other task leaders their awards from the European cluster ITEA.

ifak presents resent research results about Virtual Commissioning, continuous tool chains or Automated Test at Digital Innovation Forum in Amsterdam at 10./11. of May 2017.

ifak presents solutions around PROFIBUS, PROFINET and test offerings at the Hanover Fair. We are at the PI booth in hall 9, booth D68. At 27th of April, 12:00 pm presents Prof. Christian Diedrich news about "Interaktionsmodell für Industrie 4.0 Komponenten" at "Forum Industrie 4.0 meets the Industrial Internet" in hall 8, booth D19.