Fisher finds a drone on possible covert mission
LONELY EXPLORER: The underwater drone, believed to be a Chinese-made Sea Wing, could have been mapping possible routes for navy submarines, an analyst said
By Helen Davidson / The Guardian, TAIPEI
An Indonesian fisher has found what experts said is likely a Chinese submarine drone in waters on a strategic maritime route from the South China Sea to Australia.
According to Indonesian media reports, the uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) was found on Sunday last week near Selayar Island in South Sulawesi. Six days later it was handed to police and transferred to the Indonesian military.
Common standards to lift tech ties with Germany By MA SI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-12-29 08:57 Share CLOSE Clas Neumann, senior vice-president of SAP and head of Global SAP Labs Network. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
More efforts are needed to find common technical standards for Industry 4.0, so as to further the cooperation between China and Germany on leveraging cutting-edge technologies to upgrade manufacturing, a renowned German expert said.
Industry 4.0 is roughly defined as the transformation of industrial manufacturing and production systems by introducing new technologies.
Clas Neumann, senior vice-president of German software and cloud service giant SAP, said: We need standards for data transmission, and for data between machines and software. Only with common technical standards, we can easily apply innovations from Germany to China and the other way around.
More efforts are needed to find common technical standards for Industry 4.0, so as to further the cooperation between China and Germany on leveraging cutting-edge technologies to upgrade manufacturing, a renowned German expert said.