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Harting at Hannover Messe Preview 2021 Connectivity for Future Technologies

Published on : Monday 08-02-2021

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February 2021 – The HARTING Technology group presentation at the Hannover Messe Preview 2021 was made by Detlef Sieverdingbeck, General Manager Corporate Communication & Branding (CCB), and Dr-Ing Kurt D Bettenhausen, Board Member for New Technologies and Development at Harting.  The focus this year is on ‘Connectivity for Future Technologies’ with high-speed data transmission as the key feature. As one of the world's leading providers of industrial connection technology for the three lifelines of Data, Signal and Power, Harting is focused on the three global social megatrends of demographic change, (de)globalisation and sustainability. These topics and closely related challenges lead to technological megatrends such as modularisation, autonomy, and digital twin technology. At the heart of these technological trends, the company sees fundamental requirements for the connectivity of the future as a necessary and unifying element. Specifically, these are key topics such as electromobility, DC power supply in industry and new ecosystems such as Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) in the field of industrial communications. “At Harting, we are bringing these three topics together under the term Connectivity+,” said Dr-Ing Bettenhausen.

Ethernet has become the most important communication standard in industrial automation. With rising transmission rates, space-saving infrastructure, and new physical layers such as Single Pair Ethernet, IP-based networks are now also conquering the last remaining field-level areas.

The energy storage market has evolved extremely quickly over the last few years. Global discussions about the environmental footprint have given overall developments an additional boost. Sustainable use of renewable energies can only be achieved through energy storage systems, as they enable time-delayed, demand-oriented use of the power produced by renewable energy. Connectors speed up the assembly and operation of energy storage systems based on battery modules. Besides, Harting also showcase system concepts for the major trends in the railway industry over.