The culture of innovation at Endress+Hauser goes far beyond research and development.
Beginnings are always hard – and so it is with the circular economy. Michael Sinz, director of strategic business, explains how it can become a reality for the process industry and how Endress+Hauser is making headway with its implementation.
It’s time to rethink our linear economic model: the consequences of all that taking, making and wasting are getting harder and harder to ignore. But as yet we seem to lack that initial impetus, that spark, needed to set the circular economy in motion.
How much oil is in the storage tank? In international trade, only calibrated measuring devices can deliver an acceptable answer. Calibration can be done laboriously on site or directly at the factory, as Endress+Hauser does. And this is all thanks to a unique calibration rig.
Procurement offers great leverage towards achieving climate neutrality. That’s because with high production volumes – of instrument housings, for example – even small material savings can make a difference.
Cyberattacks targeting industrial plants can have grave consequences. And yet, many security concepts are either too complicated or too vulnerable. Cryptography experts at Endress+Hauser have developed the CPace standard, which uses simple passwords to provide a level of protection approaching that of certificate-based systems.
Together with Germany’s largest wastewater treatment operator, Endress+Hauser is developing a process for direct, on-site detection of the novel coronavirus in wastewater, thus offering a better way to monitor local infection activity.
For years, Endress+Hauser has been accelerating the pace of digitalization. This is now helping customers ranscend borders and simplify their daily activities. Here are three examples.
From a distance it looks like a tree, but on closer inspection it turns out to be an innovative small-scale power plant: a wind tree that delivers sustainable electricity at Endress+Hauser in Gerlingen, Germany.
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