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HARTING har-modular takes the German Innovation Award 2021

Published on : Monday 24-05-2021

Modular PCB interface for individual device development starting from batch size 1.

Espelkamp, May 2021 – The HARTING har-modular® PCB system has garnered the German Innovation Award 2021 in the Gold category – the highest distinction the jury bestows in connection with this award. This is the third year in a row that HARTING has won the coveted accolade. After the German Innovation Award 2019 went to the HARTING ix Industrial interface for miniaturised Ethernet solutions and 2020 to the Single Pair Ethernet interface HARTING T1 Industrial, the 2021 award is acknowledging the modular har-modular® PCB system. The solution – which is customer configurable - represents a novelty in device construction and facilitates the planning and implementation of prototypes and series devices for developers.

This year, the German Design Council bestowed the highest category GOLD on the

har-modular® interface – a user-configurable modular solution for PCB connectors. Depending on the requirements and intended use in the device, developers can compile the required contacts online in terms of design, number and arrangement and order them from batch size 1. The interface represents an absolutely ground-breaking innovation in this field, saving valuable time for designers while optimizing the development of industrial devices. With over one trillion possible combinations, the system offers unlimited freedom for modern device developments.

As the market leader in board-to-board connectivity, HARTING has chosen an entirely new approach and designed an absolutely novel solution – an approach which firmly convinced the jury. "To date, manufacturing batch size 1 in industrial quality still represents a major challenge. This problem now seems to be a thing of the past with har-modular®", according to the jury's statement.

Ralf Klein, Managing Director of HARTING Electronics, is particularly pleased with this third award. "The challenges of Industry 4.0 can only be mastered with innovation and new solution approaches. har-modular® is precisely such an innovation, where we, as the market leader in the field of industrial board connectivity, have also taken a step back, thoroughly grasped the problems developers are faced with, and designed an entirely new modular solution approach. I am proud of the team around the har-modular® and would like to thank all the creative minds at HARTING."