Axel Lorenz

Controller in the cloud – future or reality? | #HM22 Special

Virtual PLC – What is it? What are the use cases that end customers see? What are the potentials compared to conventional controls? Podcast episode 67 discusses what virtual PLCs are and why this technology building block can be valuable to manufacturing operations. The views and possible use cases come from Saint-Gobain Glass. Saint-Gobain Glass is one of the most important European glass manufacturers and the global market leader for coated glass. In this podcast trio, Siemens shows how the market is preparing for this with which business models and products. To that end, the panel talks about performance evaluation of a virtual PLC. In addition to technological challenges such as latencies and security, the dependencies are also highlighted here. Science and business often speak a different language – also on this topic? In the following, it becomes clear how the cooperation between industry and science takes place and which research questions move the Fraunhofer IPT, representing science, in this regard. Madeleine Mickeleit’s guests in this special episode of Hannover Messe 2022: Dr.-Ing. Markus Obdenbusch (Head of Production Float Herzogenrath / Head of Industrie 4.0 GLASS Industry Germany, Saint Gobain Glass) Axel Lorenz (Vice President Control, Siemens) Pierre Emanuel Kehl (Group Leader Digital Infrastructures, Fraunhofer IPT)