KINEXON Blog

In this section, managing directors and employees of KINEXON Industries and KINEXON Sports report on new product developments, evaluate trends, provide insights into KINEXON’s everyday life and share information on digital transformation in production, logistics, professional sports and live media.

Sports

Setting New Standards in Women’s Sports Tech

In the second-ever episode of our Sports Tech Talk, we look back at one of the topics we enjoyed most in 2022: women’s football. Here we remember not only a great Euro in the summer, but also numerous advances in tech. Jana Hubel (Sports Scientist at KINEXON) and Sven Gruel (Women’s Co-Coach at 1. FC Union Berlin) give an overview and provide an in-depth discussion of the question: How can data help women’s sport evolve for the better?

For New Standards in Women's Football
Sports

Everything You Need to Know About Ball Tracking

Sports performance software is now benefiting referees. Football analytics are helping match officials make more accurate and consistent decisions. And the sports data it provides allows coaches to analyze the beautiful game with unprecedented detail and gives fans insights never seen before. 

Football analytics are captured by sports performance software used for player tracking, but now it's helping referees. Sensor-based ball tracking by KINEXON is benefiting officials by helping them make more accurate and consistent decisions.
Industry

Assembly Show Wrap Up

What a week it was at the 2022 Assembly Show! Our team spent the three-day event conversing with potential clients, as well as enjoying some amazing local food and drinks with the manufacturing community at the KINEXON Breakfast Morning Mingle. Read on to learn more from our VP of Sales IoT, Tinos Kountroubis, about his experience at the show.

Sports

SportsPro Insider Series: Emerging Tech, Data & Media

Sports entities are continuing to look to data to drive success, both on and off the field. From player recruitment, through in-game analysis, and fan interaction to business performance. This edition by SportsPro, in conjunction with KINEXON, offers discussion and insight in all areas affecting leading sports franchises, and how it is becoming increasingly important to turn to data to gain an advantage over competitors.

SportsPro Insider Series: Emerging Tech, Data & Media
Industry

How KINEXON OS Supports Automotive Assembly

This is part three of a three-part series exploring the potential of Location-Based Process Automation for the automotive industry, based on an Assembly Magazine interview conducted with KINEXON. In the final part of the series, we outline how KINEXON OS supports automotive production and assembly. 

KINEXON Industries Carbody With Woman With Laptop
Industry

Experience Tool Control and More at the Assembly Show!

The 10th annual Assembly Show is returning to Chicago in a month’s time, and were thrilled to be a Silver Sponsor of this year’s event! Thousands of attendees and exhibitors are coming together to showcase the latest and greatest in technology, equipment and products.

Industry

Key takeaways from IMTS 2022

IMTS 2022 — what a show for the future of manufacturing! The KINEXON team had an incredible time introducing our real-time location technology solutions to many of the over 95,000 attendees and exhibitors in Chicago at the biggest manufacturing trade show in the Western Hemisphere. Here are the 3 key themes we took away from IMTS.

Customer talking with KINEXON employees
Sports

Load Management: A Look Behind the Scenes at the Bundesliga Club With the Fewest Injuries

In the Bundesliga, 1. FC Union Berlin recently became the surprising leader. Union also impressed with another statistic recently: no team had fewer injury-related absences. Is that part of the secret of success?

Sports

European League of Football and KINEXON Launch Partnership

In cooperation with the European League of Football, KINEXON’s LPS system will be used for live player tracking in American Football at the upcoming Championship Game in Klagenfurt. The European League of Football also aims to further enhance the fan experience with live stats at the highest level.

ELF KINEXON Partnership Announcement American Football
Industry

Why you need RTLS solutions on your assembly lines

Precision, quality, and speed are key factors for fast-paced manufacturing industries. In the automotive industry alone, a production stop of just a minute can cost tens of thousands of dollars, and automated tool control is a powerful solution to address challenges in automotive assembly. This is the second part of a three-part series exploring the potential of automated tool control for the automotive industry, based on an interview Assembly Magazine conducted with KINEXON. In the second part of the series, we outline why RTLS solutions are the clear choice for the automotive industry. Enjoy the read and stay tuned throughout the series for valuable insights on all things tool control.

Sports

Official Match Balls With Integrated Tracking Sensor - What Do They Deliver That No Other Technology Can?

To take a very close look at every action on the pitch, field or court in professional sports, data collection nowadays relies on countless technologies. In the midst of all these, there are new players: official match balls with an integrated tracking sensors for live tracking. FIFA has tested this technology extensively. The result: Balls with tracking sensors offer exclusive added value.

Official game balls with tracking-sensor webinar KINEXON and FIFA
Sports

Understanding Women-Specific Requirements in Professional Sports

Regardless of your sex, athletes deserve the same treatment; but in this case, equality means to differentiate in the ways athletes need to be trained to perform at their best.

We closed our season-kickoff webinar series with a topic that’s particularly important to us right now — namely, what specific requirements do women have? 

KINEXON Webinar adressing women-specific requirements in professional sports