Connecting the All Electric Society
Welcome on the way to a sustainable future: Discover with us the big picture of an electrified, digital world - for a climate-neutral future.
On the way to a sustainable electrified future
Social and technological change
In a world in which social and technological developments are increasingly going hand in hand, we are facing crucial challenges: Decarbonisation, sustainability and demographic change. These come up against technological megatrends such as artificial intelligence, digital twins and electric automation.
In the face of these challenges, a common goal is essential. All industries must work together to create a sustainable world. Since 1996, HARTING has been pursuing a vision that is more relevant today than ever: ‘We want to shape the future with technologies for people.’
Integration of the sectors
This vision contributes to a larger picture of the future: the All Electric Society. It represents a world that is both highly electrified and digitalised and meets the criteria of climate neutrality. To achieve this, close co-operation between the relevant sectors is required.
HARTING has designed a vision of these integrated sectors that unites energy, agriculture, infrastructure, mobility and industry.
All in all, the All Electric Society makes me optimistic because with our Connectivity we can actively shape the future with vigour and passion.
The way to open technologies
In order to bring the sectors closer together, we need to pursue the transition from individual, sector-based solutions to open technologies and standards even more consistently. The connecting elements between the sectors will be energy - in this case electricity - and data flows.
Already established technology standards such as Ethernet IEEE 802.3, the digital twin standard IDTA, ODCA for direct current technology and OPC UA for standardised data exchange are key levers for integrating the sectors.
International standards are an important orientation for our products, but they do not make individual requirements superfluous. For example, environmental conditions, such as use under water, remain a characteristic differentiator in our product development.
Energy everywhere, connected, on demand: the opportunities of the All Electric Society
Download our tec.news issue ‘Electrifies me!’ here and read how we interpret the All Electric Society and use it as an opportunity for us to strengthen the ‘power and data’ lifelines between the sectors even more with our connectors.
Opportunities for innovative companies
The All Electric Society offers innovative companies the opportunity to expand their portfolio. For HARTING, this means that industrial connection technology will become even more of a lifeline between sectors. Our vision is thus undergoing a further evolution: Connecting the All Electric Society!
In the All Electric Society, various sectors play a central role in ensuring a CO2-neutral energy supply. At HARTING, we focus on the following sectors of our society: energy, industry, mobility, infrastructure and agriculture.
Each of these sectors is crucial to creating a sustainable and electrified world.
Sector coupling is at the heart of the All Electric Society. It makes it possible to optimise the use of energy generated exclusively from renewable sources - from generation to conversion and storage through to consumption
Sectors
Energy
In a world where renewable energies are at the centre of attention, our connectors and cabling solutions provide the connectivity of the future to generate, transmit, convert and store energy.
Connectivity plays a key role in both the sectors as well as in sector coupling by enabling the intelligent networking of the lifelines of power and data. Thanks to outstanding physical properties, our connectors and cabling solutions are energy-efficient when it comes to power. They support digitalisation and automation by networking with the latest transmission technologies for data.
Agriculture
With our technology, we support the agricultural industry in its transition to intelligent electrical systems that enable more environmentally friendly farming with reliable yields. Our connectivity solutions provide the backbone for autonomous agricultural machinery and smart farming applications that enable precise data collection and analysis. The networking of smart systems optimises the use of water, fertilisers and pesticides in agriculture and helps to reduce energy consumption.
Infrastructure
Our robust and intelligent connectivity solutions enable the development of a modern infrastructure, which is essential for the AES. They form the lifelines for the integration of smart building technologies, which enable precise control and optimisation of energy consumption in buildings. The infrastructure is inextricably linked with the energy sector – and with connectivity as well. What applies to energy also applies equally to infrastructure. Connectors should be used universally and in a resource-efficient manner. We support this universal application through our commitment to international standardisation, and we conserve resources by producing durable and robust connectors with high energy efficiency.
Mobility
The mobility of the future is electric. We are helping to make this vision a reality with high-performance components for rail vehicles and in the field of e-mobility with electric vehicles. As a direct supplier to leading automotive manufacturers, we offer customised solutions for all relevant markets, thereby supporting the global transformation of the transport sector. Here, too, the sectors are closely linked and our commitment to mobility is also reflected in infrastructure. After all, a high-performance charging infrastructure will make e-mobility a success factor in an all-electric society.
For the rolling stock industry, we develop highly robust connectivity solutions that ensure reliable energy transmission and the increasingly important data connections in rail vehicles under extreme environmental conditions.
Industry
Our industrial connectors are an important element of automation networks in industrial production. Energy-efficient connectors and cabling play a key role in resource-saving manufacturing methods.
Our connectivity solutions enable the flexible networking of production plants. In industrial production processes, there is a wide range of devices with power connections – our connectors ensure that these can be networked in a scalable way, from simple actuators to large drives. And for data, which is usually transferred via Ethernet today, we also offer a backbone for these lifelines with our robust draw wire connectors and cabling solutions. Likewise, our connectivity plays a key role in the implementation of digital twins, because in the future, all automation components will be seamlessly integrated into production processes via data interfaces.