Abstract: A method and to assembly for managing an automation program for an industrial automation platform, wherein the automation program is transferred to the automation platform and execution of the automation program is controlled, where in a first step, the automation program or a reference to the automation program is transferred from a Kubernetes master a virtual kubelet, in a second step, the transferred or referenced automation program is transferred to the industrial automation platform via a provider interface of the virtual kubelet, and in a third step, the execution of the transferred automation program on the industrial automation platform is controlled, where via the provider interface, control commands are transferred to the industrial automation platform and acknowledgement messages of the industrial automation platform are received and processed or forwarded to a control entity, such that automation programs can be managed, distributed and run using container orchestration systems.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a distributor for refrigerant in components in a thermal management module is provided, distributor has distributor openings for the refrigerant on an upper surface and/or a lower surface that faces away from the upper surface. Greater reliability, reduced installation space, and greater variability in the shape of the distributor are obtained in that the distributor is produced in a casting process, in which channel sections of channels passing through the distributor are obtained with a removable core in a mold. A method for manufacturing a thermal management module that contains such a distributor, as well as a distributor produced in this manner, and a thermal management module is provided.

Abstract: A housing module includes a housing including a housing wall, a first housing chamber and a second housing chamber separated by a partition wall, wherein: the partition wall has a through-opening for an electrical feedthrough for connecting measurement/operating electronics to interface electronics; the feedthrough satisfying requirements of an Ex-d standard; the feedthrough having an electrically insulating carrier body and a plurality of electrically conductive connecting devices for providing the electrical connection, which connecting devices extend through holes in the carrier body; the holes each having a first dimension along a hole axis and each having an inner diameter; the connecting devices each having an outer diameter; the carrier body being inserted into the through-opening from a side of the partition wall facing the first housing chamber, and forming a flame arrestor according to the Ex-d standard.

Abstract: The invention describes a screw fastening for fixedly joining together two components, and has a first component, which at one edge thereof has a rib-shaped joining region, as well as a joining member, which is arranged fixedly at said joining region, a self-tapping screw and a second component. The second component is joined fixedly to the joining member and the first component by way of this screw. The joining member has a hole along the first component on the first side thereof, and has an abutment portion, which is arranged on a second side, remote from the first side, of the first component. The joining member has a slot-like recess at the abutment portion, through which the first component extends. The hole in the joining member protrudes over the first component, such that the screw screwed thereinto is screwed into the first component in a thread formed by said screw.

Abstract: A computing networking system for orchestrating the distribution of workloads in a containerized computing cluster is provided, including: a plurality of cluster nodes, each configured to receive at least one deployment request containing a number of workloads, wherein a deployment request can be issued by a user to any of the cluster nodes of the computing cluster, and wherein a cluster node to which a deployment request is issued by a user is adapted to become a root node of the issued deployment request and is further configured to distribute, based on its available computational resources, the workloads contained in the issued deployment request or parts thereof among one or more other cluster nodes.

Abstract: A stator winding system for a stator of an electric machine is provided. The stator has a number of windings to be positioned on stator teeth of the stator. At least two windings that follow one another in a current flow direction of an electric current and are thus arranged in series are formed from an electric conductor that is continuous in the current flow direction, forming a winding chain.

Abstract: A housing module of a field device includes: a housing including a first housing chamber and a second housing chamber separated by a partition wall; measurement/control electronics disposed in the first housing chamber; interface electronics for connecting lines for supplying energy to the field device arranged in the second housing chamber, wherein the housing includes a first wall region to receive the partition wall, the first wall region separated from the partition wall by a gap having a path length, wherein the ratio of a gap width to the path length is less than 0.02; and a securing device for limiting a range of movement of the partition wall toward the second housing chamber, wherein the housing includes a second wall region with a groove extending parallel to a cross-sectional plane of the partition wall, the securing device including an engagement device to engage in the groove.

Abstract: A method for migration of containers in a container orchestration platform, such as Kubernetes or Docker swarm, between compute nodes of a seamless computing platform present in different computing domains is provided. The state of the compute nodes of the seamless computing platform is continuously monitored. On determining a trigger, a container to be moved from a current compute node to a target compute node of a number of compute nodes is identified. A container information of the container to be moved is generated which includes a container context and the current state of the container. The container information is used by the target node to retrieve the current state of the container to be moved which enables restarting the container on the target compute node.

Abstract: Described is a rotor of an electric motor, having at least one half-shell which includes a hollow-cylindrical, radially inner region, a hollow-cylindrical, radially outer region, and a toroidal region which in the radial direction and in the circumferential direction extends between the radially inner region and the radially outer region. The toroidal region connects the radial regions to one another. The radially inner region is able to be co-rotationally connected to the electric motor. Additionally, the radially inner region, the radially outer region and the toroidal region are integrally embodied. The half-shell is reinforced by a separate component which is fixedly connected to the half-shell and comprises webs which extend between the radially inner region and the radially outer region. Furthermore proposed are a method for producing the rotor and a method for producing the half-shell of the rotor.

Abstract: A method and to assembly for managing an automation program for an industrial automation platform, wherein the automation program is transferred to the automation platform and execution of the automation program is controlled, where in a first step, the automation program or a reference to the automation program is transferred from a Kubernetes master a virtual kubelet, in a second step, the transferred or referenced automation program is transferred to the industrial automation platform via a provider interface of the virtual kubelet, and in a third step, the execution of the transferred automation program on the industrial automation platform is controlled, where via the provider interface, control commands are transferred to the industrial automation platform and acknowledgement messages of the industrial automation platform are received and processed or forwarded to a control entity, such that automation programs can be managed, distributed and run using container orchestration systems.

Abstract: An exhaust gas heat exchanger may include a tube bundle and a housing through which a coolant is flowable. The tube bundle may include a plurality of exhaust gas-conducting tubes held in a first tube base and a second tube base. The housing may enclose the tube bundle and may have face ends delimited by the first tube base and the second tube base. The housing may include a coolant inlet arranged in a region of the second tube base and a coolant outlet arranged in a region of the first tube base such that the coolant flows in counter flow relative to the exhaust gas. A plurality of coolant bypass passages may be arranged between the tube bundle and the housing. At least a subset of the plurality of coolant bypass passages may be at least partly blocked by an inlay structured and arranged to steer a coolant flow.

Abstract: A housing module of a field device includes: a housing including a first housing chamber and a second housing chamber separated by a partition wall; measurement/control electronics disposed in the first housing chamber; interface electronics for connecting lines for supplying energy to the field device arranged in the second housing chamber, wherein the housing includes a first wall region to receive the partition wall, the first wall region separated from the partition wall by a gap having a path length, wherein the ratio of a gap width to the path length is less than 0.02; and a securing device for limiting a range of movement of the partition wall toward the second housing chamber, wherein the housing includes a second wall region with a groove extending parallel to a cross-sectional plane of the partition wall, the securing device including an engagement device to engage in the groove.

Abstract: A housing module includes a housing including a housing wall, a first housing chamber and a second housing chamber separated by a partition wall, wherein: the partition wall has a through-opening for an electrical feedthrough for connecting measurement/operating electronics to interface electronics; the feedthrough satisfying requirements of an Ex-d standard; the feedthrough having an electrically insulating carrier body and a plurality of electrically conductive connecting devices for providing the electrical connection, which connecting devices extend through holes in the carrier body; the holes each having a first dimension along a hole axis and each having an inner diameter; the connecting devices each having an outer diameter; the carrier body being inserted into the through-opening from a side of the partition wall facing the first housing chamber, and forming a flame arrestor according to the Ex-d standard.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical conductor (1), which is designed as a stranded conductor and comprises a bundle of a plurality of electrically conductive individual wires (3), the individual wires (3) being connected to each other by a cured filler (5) to form a superordinate conductor structure and the conductor (1) having at least one internal coolant channel (9), which runs in a longitudinal direction of the conductor (1) and is sealed fluid-tight from the regions (11) of the stranded conductor that lie further outward, the distance (d) between coolant channel (9) and the closest individual wires (3) of the bundle being at most 1 mm. The invention further relates to an electrical coil device (21) having a conductor (1) of this type and to a method for producing a conductor (1) of this type.

Abstract: An exhaust gas heat exchanger may include a tube bundle and a housing through which a coolant is flowable. The tube bundle may include a plurality of exhaust gas-conducting tubes held in a first tube base and a second tube base. The housing may enclose the tube bundle and may have face ends delimited by the first tube base and the second tube base. The housing may include a coolant inlet arranged in a region of the second tube base and a coolant outlet arranged in a region of the first tube base such that the coolant flows in counter flow relative to the exhaust gas. A plurality of coolant bypass passages may be arranged between the tube bundle and the housing. At least a subset of the plurality of coolant bypass passages may be at least partly blocked by an inlay structured and arranged to steer a coolant flow.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an active part for an electrical machine, wherein the active part includes: a plurality of teeth and a plurality of coils, wherein a coil of the plurality of coils is arranged on each of the teeth, wherein each of the coils has a plurality of prefabricated push-on elements arranged adjacent to one another on the tooth and enclose the tooth in parts, and wherein each of the coils has a plurality of prefabricated connecting elements each for electrically connecting two adjacent push-on elements.

Abstract: A method for migration of containers in a container orchestration platform, such as Kubernetes or Docker swarm, between compute nodes of a seamless computing platform present in different computing domains is provided. The state of the compute nodes of the seamless computing platform is continuously monitored. On determining a trigger, a container to be moved from a current compute node to a target compute node of a number of compute nodes is identified. A container information of the container to be moved is generated which includes a container context and the current state of the container. The container information is used by the target node to retrieve the current state of the container to be moved which enables restarting the container on the target compute node.

Abstract: A method for operating a container orchestration system is disclosed, including a scheduling function means, being designed and configured to map industrial applications A decomposed into application components on an infrastructure represented by a plurality of compute nodes connected by a communication network including a plurality of network elements, a network control function means being designed and configured to control a plurality of communication services provided with the communication network, and an interface means being designed and configured to manage interactions between the scheduling function means and the network control function means. The method takes into consideration the properties of the network connecting compute nodes when scheduling distributed applications on them. Characteristics of the coupled network like bandwidth, latency, real-time behavior, availability, or the like are considered explicitly.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for repairing a coating film by applying an adhesion primer comprising a hydroxy-functional (meth)acrylate resin, a hydroxy-functional epoxy resin, a polyisocyanate, and an epoxy-functional organosilane directly to a substrate that is a substrate body with an original coating that has defects, to form an adhesion-promoting film and, applying at least one further layer of coating to the resultant adhesion-promoting film. The invention further relates to the use of the adhesion primer to improve the adherence of a further coating layer to such substrate, preferably to a substrate with a substrate body of glass fiber-reinforced unsaturated polyester resin, of glass fiber-reinforced epoxy resin, or of glass fiber-reinforced vinyl ester resin, wherein the further coating layer preferably is a polyurethane-based coating. The present invention further relates to a substrate coated with a coating film that has been repaired according to such a process.

Abstract: A thin-film sensor for a thermal flowmeter with at least a first substrate layer made of electrically non-conductive material, a second layer made of electrically conductive material and a cover layer to protect the resistance layer against abrasion, wherein the second layer is designed as two sensor elements, wherein at least a first of the two sensor elements is designed to introduce a heat quantity into a medium, and at least a second of the two sensor elements is designed to determine the ambient temperature, and the thin-film sensor has a gap that isolates the two sensor elements from one another.