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DIGITALIZATION

Warehouses fill up on their own. Seals report their level of wear. Intruders enter homes through toasters. Digitalization is taking visions and transforming them into reality, with the results often surpassing the powers of the imagination. What is impossible today will be a feature of everyday life tomorrow. This is where abstract bits and bytes become concrete. With stunning examples, our articles demonstrate how networking and artificial intelligence are changing industry and society.

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Technology

Artificial Intelligence and Research and Development

Correlation, not causality: How AI is changing our understanding of research and development.

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Welcome to the AI Era

ChatGPT opened the door to artificial intelligence for the general public. What does the advent of AI mean for society and industry?

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Digitalization

“We benefit from working with AI”

CTO Dr. Matthias Sckuhr on improved processes, efficiency and the opportunities in material development due to artificial intelligence.

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Dossier Future Files

ESSENTIAL launched a loose sequence of short stories, each of which is set in its own fictional future. Some of them have recurring characters and settings, and some stand on their own. The goal is to play with very different visions as creatively as possible and bring the reader along on a thought experiment:

What form could our future take – and what would it mean to us?

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Our Interviews and Video Stories

Robotics

Freudenberg offers comprehensive sealing solutions for all types of robots, in all conditions, facing all challenges. Excellent seal effectiveness prevents leaks and the resulting machine breakdowns – reliably and lastingly. Costly downtime is eliminated. Service and repair expenses are also noticeably reduced.

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Sustainability

At Freudenberg Sealing Technologies, we want to do our part in preventing climate change, and we have set ambitious goals in this area. We want to be a climate-neutral company by 2045. Learn more!

Our Structure

We are part of a family of diverse, industrial companies and collaborate with partners throughout the world. Our regional focus ideally positions us to meet the local industrial challenges of today and tomorrow.