Ausgabe zur EMO 2019

19 cyber attacks interfaces, so-called APIs, is also a matter of course for us. In ad- dition, we offer many other se- curity measures, including a PKI (public key infrastructure)-based individual machine and user certificate structure, password rules, the irreversible storage of access data with up-to-date hash procedures and multi-factor au- thentication," continues Juliane Schneider. Clouds and corporate clouds have a role to play Another major point with regard to data handling is the location of the data storage. Three in ten companies (29 per cent) use a cloud solution that is outsourced to a certified data centre – either to achieve possible cost savings, to relieve the strain on their own IT staff or to obtain greater se- curity. Another ten per cent plan to do so and 28 per cent are dis- cussing this as an option. This is shown by the Digital Office Index 2018 – a representative survey of 1,106 Bitkom companies with 20 or more employees. Accord- ing to the Index, fewer than three in ten companies (28 per cent) state that cloud hosting is of no concern to them. A comparison of the different industries reveals that the mechanical engineer- ing and plant construction sector is the frontrunner in this field. According to Bitkom, almost half of all companies in this industry (46 per cent) are already using external cloud service providers. For Balluff, too, the public cloud is the first choice. "Its high avail- ability is attractive because its platforms are replicated in inde- pendent, geographically distrib- uted data centres. Other advan- tages include its easy scalability, its high level of security, its use of state-of-the-art technologies and encryption, and its service continuity. These guarantee that the solutions will work even in the event of negative scenarios," emphasises IIoT Strategy Manag- er Echteler. From experience we know that it is not possible for a company's own IT staff also to run a cloud. This is a task for suitably qualified specialists. Symmedia, on the other hand, offers its customers hybrid so- lutions. "This gives our custom- ers flexibility combined with outstanding security. And this in turn gives them full data sov- ereignty," says Junior Product Manager Juliane Schneider. They can decide for themselves which data they want to store centrally, for example in a cloud, and which is only to be stored locally. "We have found that our customers are open to central solutions, but always want to be able to store specific data locally, depending on how sensitive it is." Examples of data protection and security concepts at the EMO At the EMO Hannover, Symme- dia will be showcasing a digital factory to demonstrate its soft- ware's capabilities and show its practical applications in daily production. There will be live demonstrations, for example, of condition monitoring, alarm sce- narios and remote services. Visi- tors will also be able to find out about predictive maintenance, data protection and security con- cepts, and pick up information on the use of Symmedia software across systems made by dif-fer- ent manufacturers. Balluff will be presenting produc- tivity enhancement solutions in the metalworking field. These in- clude innovative concepts for in- telligent manufacturing systems. Chief among these are a retrofit tool management system and so- lutions for continuous machine tool process monitoring. Author: Annedore Bose-Munde, specialist journalist from Erfurt  Text: Verein Deutscher Werkzeug- maschinenfabriken e.V. (VDW) Frankfurt am Main Corneliusstraße 4 D-60325 Frankfurt ➞ Continue from at Page 16