Overview: Interviews
“Production is already underway with the MTP”
25/06/2024
If you want to produce modularly today, there is no getting around the Module Type Package (MTP) in the process industry. Nevertheless, many people claim that the rollout of the technology has so far fallen short of expectations. Find out why this is a fallacy, what the future of modularization looks like and what the MTP and Ethernet APL have in common in an interview with atp magazin.
"Energy efficiency is a must!"
25/06/2024
On the road to a climate-neutral and electrified future, energy efficiency still receives too little attention, as Dr. Jan-Henning Fabian, Head of the ABB Research Center in Ladenburg, and Mike Umiker, Managing Director Energy Efficiency Movement at ABB, make clear in an interview.
“We take a critical view of the concept of an industrial electricity price”
28/05/2024
Dr. Laura Dorfer, Managing Director of the VDMA Valves Association, and Axel Weidner, Chairman of the VDMA Valves Association, talk in an interview about the current challenges facing the German industrial valves sector.
"It won't work without fittings and sealing technology"
29/04/2024
Mona Neubaur, Minister for Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, is optimistic in an exclusive interview that the current economic crisis will be overcome quickly.
"APL heralds the change in technology!"
05/03/2024
Ethernet APL is currently on everyone's lips when it comes to digitalisation in the field. However, just as often we hear questions about the availability and organisational introduction of this new technology. Are suitable devices already available on the market or when can we expect them? What is the concrete added value that speaks in favour of using Ethernet-APL?
"We are putting obstacles in our own way"
05/02/2024
Tobias Weimann, Member of the Management Board at Goetze KG Armaturen and Chairman of the VDMA Industrial Valves Economic Committee, on a possible PFAS ban
"Without dams, many watercourse would have dried up this year"
06/12/2023
In an exclusive interview with "Industriearmaturen & Dichtungstechnik", Prof. Dr. Dirk Carstensen talks about the enormous importance of dams.
"No competitive disadvantage due to PFAS restrictions"
07/11/2023
Steffi Lemke, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection of the Federal Republic of Germany, is in favour of a PFAS ban. The Green politician hopes that companies will be innovative and that PFAS alternatives will be found as quickly as possible.
"Not a shortage of skilled labour, but a general shortage of workers"
06/12/2023
Patrick Hofacker, Managing Director of Müller Quadax GmbH, talks in a brief interview with "Industriearmaturen & Dichtungstechnik" about the challenges posed by the shortage of skilled labour in his company.
“Security must always be user-driven”
09/11/2024
Not so long ago, a faulty update caused system failures and billions in damage worldwide. The CrowdStrike incident once again highlighted the enormous importance of security. But what is the security level of the process industry and how can it safely cope with the impending wave of regulation?