Katja Dürrfeld.

The technology and automotive group has appointed Katja Dürrfeld as its new Chief Financial Officer. CEO Nikolai Setzer stated: " We have a close and consistently constructive working relationship." At the same time, the mandate of Chief Human Resources and Sustainability Officer Ariane Reinhart has been extended.

 Operations Center (Chicago)

The letter from the new US Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, to the 5G operators is polite but clear: there are difficulties with the 5G network, which operates in the GHz range and could interfere with weaker positioning signals in the vicinity of airports. 5G was supposed to launch on January 5th.

Photo: Protec

Bosch's building technology division plans to acquire the British security and fire alarm technology specialists Protec Fire and Security Group. With approximately 1,100 employees and €142 million in revenue, the group is one of the largest system integrators in this sector .

Back in 2011, DLR researchers had the idea of ​​merging technology from Mars and lunar rovers into new e-mobility solutions for terrestrial road traffic. The result was a vehicle that, at first glance, looks like the legendary BMW . A clever re-import – and an experimental platform par excellence.

Ideal for outdoor use. Possibly also for situations where "chaotic storage" has been taken too literally: A new rover for exploration tours on Mars and the Moon can even drive upside down and survives falls from a height of 1.5 meters . A test field has now been put into operation in Bavaria.

Those who love their flagship – push it: After Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope is set to become the next superlative among scientific observation stations in space . Yesterday, the colossus to French Guiana for refueling – with utmost care and ultimately with manual assistance.

Hartmut Spliethoff. Photos: TUM

Switzerland is participating in a future-oriented laboratory with researchers from 13 countries, who, with the Technical University of Munich as the central hub, are tasked with designing a sustainable hydrogen economy across Europe. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is contributing €5 million over three years. The hydrogen is intended to be "green".

The lander: Still room for a pallet? Photo: CNSA

In the past, the "superpowers" invested heavily in eavesdropping on each other. Today, at least in the case of the Chinese Mars rover "Zhurong," it seems they are helping each other transmit data from driverless systems maneuvering on distant planets. Back on Earth, then "as usual."

Technology supplier Bosch is pleased to be equipping the new Chinese mega-airport Chengdu Tianfu with only 1,000 cameras instead of 4,000. The reason is not data privacy concerns, but rather the architecture: the ceilings of the generously designed terminals were too high for conventional solutions.

Jim-Heng Lee

The managing director of the security and access systems manufacturer Dormakaba is moving to the CEO position of a large international corporation. Her successor , a member of the executive board and COO of the Asia-Pacific region will take over on January 1, 2022.

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The exercise focused not primarily on logistics, but rather on providing direct assistance on the ground. Around 80 members of the Swiss rescue chain, along with eight search dogs, were recently assessed and reclassified by an international evaluation team in the Geneva area.

Order intake in the Swiss metalworking industry increased significantly by 30 percent in the first months of the year. However, the association points out that these figures refer to the previous year's figures, in which sales had, as is well known, plummeted.

The German Federal Network Agency, which sees itself as an "independent transport control authority" for electricity, gas, telecommunications, postal services, and more , has temporarily suspended the certification process for the Russian gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. The agency stated that the pipeline's operation must be organized according to German (not Swiss) law.

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Researchers Fraunhofer IML have set up a "Picking Lab" as part of a "Logistics and IT" performance center, where the different variants can be tested.

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Logistics provider DHL is launching a solar power grid at eight locations, which is expected to produce over 14 GWh of electricity per year – enough for 16,000 households (in the United Arab Emirates). This will be complemented by eight charging stations for electric vehicles, with the aim of electrifying 60% of its global fleet within nine years.