Danish students win European Industrial Ethernet Award

 

Last fall, B&R invited European universities to develop creative solutions and innovative concepts based on POWERLINK for the European Industrial Ethernet Award. 27 teams from eight countries joined the competition. Now, the jury has selected a Danish group of students from Odense University as the winners. With its creative implementation of the board electronics of a Formula Student racing car the team lead by professor Karsten Holm Andersen won 10,000 euros prize money. The X-Cut project of TU Vienna came second and won 5,000 euros for their mechanically extremely stable machine tools. The third place, which is endowed with 2,500 euros, went to the Slovakian TU Bratislava for their solution optimizing filling plants.

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