Thank you Mark Benishek

AEF secretary Mark Benishek retired end of last year and was succeeded by Anita Sennett representing the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)...

AEF changed organisation structure with the start of 2021

As announced during the virtual AEF General Assembly in October 2020 by Peter Hieronymus, a dedicated team of seasoned AEF members was tasked with...

Plugfest 2021 planning underway, Stuttgart, Germany

AEF announces plans are underway for the next Plugfest in Stuttgart, Germany. The dates are set for September 20 to 24, 2021. We are excited at the...

FederUnacoma Round Table: ISOBUS Interoperability

FederUnacoma, the Italian Association of Ag. Machine Manufacturers, has always taken an active role in supporting the AEF through the years. Although...

High Speed ISOBUS (HSI) Demonstration at AGRITECHNICA 2021 – Support Needed!

Exactly 20 years ago at Agritechnica 2001 the first ISOBUS systems were demonstrated with the Universal Terminal application (even though the first...

AEF and ISOBUS articles created for N.A. digital forum

During 2020 the AEF Communications and Marketing North American Sub Group worked on a group of sponsored articles that ran on the Precision Farming...

ISOBUS Conformance Testing for Resale Value and Compatibility

With so many different manufacturers creating a wide scope of agricultural products available on the market today, this is a fairly common problem for...

An Essential Resource: the AEF ISOBUS Database

Whether you are a salesperson or service tech, the ISOBUS Database will become an essential part of your toolbox. It provides important ISOBUS...

Eight of the Most Compatible ISOBUS Functionalities for Precision Farming

In a market offering so many different tractors and implements, how can you make the right choice? Now more than ever, when considering the precision...

Plugfests, ISOBUS and Project Teams: the AEF Tackles Tough Ag Industry Issues

Every day, farm tractors and implements are connected together and the electrical connectors are engaged.

Plugfest: An Event for Friends and Competitors

How do you get a group of ag software engineers excited? Most engineers have similar traits. They want to provide new and better designs, and the best...

Introducing TIM — a Farmer’s New Best Friend

Tractor Implement Management, or what we call “TIM,” is a cross-product and cross-manufacturer ISOBUS solution where the implement controls certain...

The Three Things You Need to Know About M2M

M2M, also known as “Machine-to-Machine Communication,” is exactly what it sounds like. It stands for two machines “communicating” together.

What Exactly is Under the ISOBUS Hood?

So, what is under the ISOBUS Hood:

• The full benefits of ISOBUS can only be realized when products are compatible, i.e. they work together

• The AEF was...

New Security Team Lead: Bradley Nielsen

AEF is very happy to present the new Security Team Lead: Bradley Nielsen from CNH Industrial, based in Burr Ridge, Illinois, agreed to take over the...

New Deputy for Wireless Infield Communication team: Tobias Nothdurft

AEF is happy to present the new WIC Deputy Team Lead: Tobias Nothdurft from AGCO, based in Marktoberdorf, Germany, agreed to take over the tasks from...

New AEF Member: Materna

Materna is a full service provider in the premium segment successfully implementing IT projects for the industry sector, business customers and the...

New AEF Member: Junkkari Oy

Junkkari Oy is a family owned company located in Finland, established over 60 years ago and is part of the MSK Group Oy.

AEF and AgGateway align to deliver digital solutions for Agriculture

AgGateway and the Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on initiatives to...

AEF General Assembly

The first ever virtual AEF General Assembly took place on Thursday the 15th of October. The AEF Chairperson, Peter van der Vlugt opened the meeting...

Thank you Marcello Mongiardo

As mentioned above, during this year’s Chair Group (CG) election meeting resulted in a change of the Vice-Chairperson. Marcello Mongiardo as the...

Core Membership changes and additions

Core Membership changes


At the last AEF General Assembly held October 15, 2020, leadership addressed a change request to the Core membership. The...

May we present…

… our new AEF office team member Stefanie Schemmink.

AEF Tech Talks

In 2020 the AEF started scheduling a new educational series called Tech Talks on a monthly basis. AEF Tech Talks are short condensed introductions to...

EIMA Digital preview

On November the 11th and 12th the AEF had the honour of presenting two sessions during the EIMA Digital Preview (EDP). The EDP was a purely online...

Service Council review

On 28th of October 2020 the third AEF Service Council took place in Warendorf, Germany. The event – aimed at dealer service and sales staff as well as...

Project Universal Terminal (UT 3) ramps up in 2020

Project activities for the UT 3 ISOBUS functionality conformance test have received much interest for the past few years. In January 2020 a face to...

Open position for Security Team Leader

A new lead is sought for the AEF Security Expert Team. This is a diverse team made up of security professionals from both OEMs and security...

AEF ISOBUS Database – Improvements

The latest version of the AEF ISOBUS Database was released in the middle of summer and included the highly anticipated changes to the Product Upload...

ATLAS - High Level Architecture

Τhe overall goal of the Horizon 2020 project “ATLAS” is the development of an open digital Network through which information and services become...

Attention all users of the AEF ISOBUS Conformance Test!

The current AEF Conformance Test environment was developed based on a now outdated version of National Instruments TestStand. (To be precise we are...

WIC presentation at ASABE Annual International Meeting (AIM)

Once again, the AEF were presenting at the 2020 ASABE Annual International Meeting (AIM). The event took place from the 13th to the 15th of July and,...

AEF at AGROSALON

The AGROSALON took place from the 6th to the 9th of October in Moscow and thanks to the grateful assistance of the Agriculture Engineering team at...

AEF to present at EIMA Digital Preview

The Covid-19 emergency has defined a new economic and social geography with global restrictions. The international trade shows worldwide have been...

ATLAS - What are the use cases?

Smart agricultural machines, sensors and data processing services have assisted farmers by providing an abundance of information that help optimize...

Self-Certification provides next phase of conformance testing

As highlighted in the AEF ISOBUS Database Improvements Press Release issued before Agritechnica last year, Self-Certification is here! But what...

Introduction to the new team - PT13 Security

Last year in October a new AEF team was formed, composed of security experts from several AEF member companies. Norbert Schlingmann, General Manager...

Update on High Speed ISOBUS

Following on from the very successful High Speed ISOBUS presentation given at the Landtechnik conference in November last year, this edition of the...

AEF Plugfests in 2020

After our disappointment at having to cancel the AEF Spring Plugfest in Lincoln due to on-going concern over the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and...

Sjaak Bontje – Loss of a team member

Sjaak Bontje 1956 – 2020

New guideline for Extended Farm Management Information Systems Data Interface (EFDI) available

This EFDI guideline provides an extensible communication system concept and defines rules for adding new functionalities to cover specific use cases...

Machine and Sensor Manufacturers: Technical Requirements Surveys for Data-Driven Agriculture

The European Commission is funding the development of an open digital platform for interoperability between agricultural machinery, sensors and data...

First TIM products are present in the AEF ISOBUS Database

Since AEF’s development of the Tractor Implement Management (TIM) was launched in December 2019, the first products supporting the TIM functionality...

AEF TIM Award ceremony

Tractor Implement Management (TIM) receives two awards in February: ASABE AE50 Award and AEM Davidson Prize in the US.

AEF Core Membership changes

As well as the recently announced AEF membership changes involving Kubota Corporation and Kverneland Group, the start of 2020 has ushered in one more...

agROBO food - AEF with CEMA participation

In parallel to ATLAS, AEF is a partner in a second EU funded project named agROBOfood.

ISOBUS Seminar at REI

The ISOBUS event held in Reggio Emilia (Italy) on December 13th 2019 titled “Agriculture looks to the future” was a great success.

AEF, AETC and ISOBUS; A Great Combination

Last month on February 10-12 the AEF was a sponsor of the Agricultural Equipment Technology Conference (AETC) 2020. This annual event is hosted every...

New PT05 Lead Jasper Jeninga


As of December 1, 2019, the AEF has a new project team leader for the ISOBUS Automation Group: Jasper Jeninga, Team Leader at CLAAS based in Bad...

New PT04 Deputy Ronny Preußer

The AEF is happy to introduce Ronny Preußer as new deputy team lead for project team Service & Diagnostics.

Hara Spathi started as Project Manager for ATLAS

Since February, 12, 2020 Hara Spathi has joined the AEF as project manager for the ATLAS program. ATLAS focuses on the standardization of data...

AEF received ASABE AE50 award for Tractor-Implement-Management

Mark Benishek AEF Secretary, General Manager Norbert Schlingmann and Chairman Peter van der Vlugt received the AE50 award during the ASABE...

Kubota Corporation to take over AEF core membership from Kverneland Group

After 11 years of Kverneland Group’s direct engagement as AEF founding - and core member, the mother company Kubota Corporation has taken over the AEF...

Engineering First TIM products certified

After the successful release and roll out of the AEF TIM conformance test some days ago to certification test laboratories, we are happy to announce...

AEF Booth at Agritechnica

Agritechnica 2019 took place from the 10th to the 16th of November at the Hannover Messe and once again the AEF was present with a booth in Hall 15....

AEF Speeches at VDI conference 2019

The AEF was well represented with three different presentations at the 77th Landtechnik AgEng Conference which took place on Friday the 8th and...

AE50 award for TIM

The AEF is pleased to be a recipient of an AE50 award of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) for 2020 for the...

ATLAS focuses on the standardization 
of interfaces in knowledge-based farming

In the "Agricultural Interoperability and Analysis System (ATLAS)" project leading manufacturers of agricultural technology are working together with...

Further development of the AEF ISOBUS Database

Which implement can be operated with the tractor’s ISOBUS terminal? Which functionalities are supported by the combination of vehicles? Can the farmer...

AEF at ACPA

From the 14th to the 17th of October the Asian-Australasian Conference on Precision Agriculture took place at the Punjab Agricultural University in...

Russian Federation is interested in ISOBUS technology

Last October 2019, Norbert Schlingmann, AEF General Manager, was invited to speak at a conference in Moscow entitled “Universal control and monitoring...

TPPL – Twisted Pair Physical Layer

In January 2019, the 3rd revision of ISO 11783 – Part 2: Physical Layer has been published. As you may know this part of the ISO standard details the...

The guiding hand behind TIM - Hans Jürgen Nissen

As with all projects, at some point they come to completion. This is true with the project, Tractor Implement Management (TIM), which was released...

New record for AEF Plugfest

From the 17th to the 19th of September the AEF European Plugfest took place in Antibes, France at the very new Juan-les-Pins Conference Centre. With...

AEF Conference Day: Partnering with others in Digital Landscape

In addition to the Plugfest event, project team meetings and the AEF General Assembly, the AEF Conference event took place in the afternoon of...

Opportunity in Digital Farming – Lead for EU subsidized project team

The AEF is looking for a project team lead to help with an EU subsidized design project. The benefits of digital farming are increasing day by day and...

AEF at InfoAg 2019

Once again the AEF was present at Union Station in St Louis, Missouri participating in the 2019 edition of InfoAg. As with previous years the AEF...

AEF Conformance Test Pricing Increase

Starting in January 2020 the annual fee that manufacturers pay to access the AEF ISOBUS Conformance Test will increase to 24.300 Euro for the...

TIM – future-proof communication between tractor and implement

TIM (Tractor Implement Management) is a cross-product and cross-manufacturer ISOBUS solution where the implement controls certain tractor functions...

AEF Steering Committee and Team Leaders meet at SDF

During the last week of June, in one of the hottest weeks of the summer, the Steering Committee, Team Leaders and associated deputies converged on...

Second AEF Service Council in October

The first AEF Service Council took place in Warendorf at the end of December 2018. Due to the positive outcome, the participants expressed the wish to...

New AEF Member: Proemion GmbH

We are a technology company that builds connectivity solutions for machines. We provide the infrastructure to connect mobile machines with the cloud...

New AEF Member: Parker Hannifin Mfg Finland Oy

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than 100 years the company has engineered the success of...

Offer of Employment: Lead of EU subsidized project team (male or female)

He or she will probably have one of the most challenging jobs in the agricultural machinery world today defining a standard for Cloud-To-Cloud...

AEF Events at the Plugfest

In conjunction with the Plugfest, you will have the option of seeing the Plugfest activities in action or particpate in a number of conference &...

VDI workshop on ISOBUS and TIM

Under the title „ISOBUS Automation using TIM“ an international VDI workshop took place in the Berlin Mercure Hotel MOA on 28 June 2019. The AEF was...

AEF activity at the ASABE Annual International Meeting

AEF Sponsored and exhibited at the 2019 Annual International Meetings of the ASABE in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on July 7 – 10, 2019. The focus of...

Thanks to Martijn Holten

Martijn Holten left Kverneland Mechatronics and in addition the position as deputy for AEF PT4 Service & Diagnostics in June. Since the beginning he...

Thanks to Harald Dietel

Since the launch meeting in Frankfurt am Main on 16 March 2011, Harald Dietel has significantly supported the project team High Voltage (PT7) as team...

Mark von Bibra: new project manager at the AEF

Since 24 June 2019, Mark von Bibra has joined AEF as project manager. The Australian studied in Melbourne and Singapore and worked for the last six...

Website and AEF web-based training in French

To coincide with the AEF Fall Plugfest in France in September, the AEF website and the three modules of the AEF web-based training will be available...

Become a sponsor for AEF Fall Plugfest now

The AEF Fall Plugfest 2019 will take place from 16 to 20 September in Antibes, France. Be there when a knowledgeable audience meets to test and...

Register now for the AEF Fall Plugfest

The preparations for the next AEF Plugfest which will take place from 17 to 20 September in Antibes (France) are already in full swing.

New project team: Medium Voltage

On 26 September 2018, experts from several AEF member companies met to launch the new Medium Voltage (PT12) project team. After defining the project...

Dealer registration and AEF ticket system

The dealer registration is also new. In future, dealers will be able to register and log into the AEF ISOBUS database themselves. This enables them to...

AEF Compatibility Check

The AEF ISOBUS database allows users to learn about ISOBUS functionalities supported by both the single product and several selected products.

Further development of the AEF ISOBUS database

From September 2019, manufacturers will be able themselves to carry out a Conformance Test by taking into account defined AEF Rules in order to ensure...

New AEF Member: Panasonic Industry Europe

Panasonic Industry Europe GmbH is part of the global Panasonic Group and provides industrial products and services in Europe.

Special training modules for AEF members

What is ISOBUS? How does the AEF ISOBUS Database work? What are the advantages of the AEF ISOBUS CheckTool? These and other questions are answered by...

New Twisted Pair Connection for ISOBUS

The AEF Engineering & Implementation team has been investigating the use of Twisted Pair Physical Layer (TPPL) for use on ISOBUS systems.

OEM information Sub Suppliers Certification

Suppliers often provide their ECUs to multiple manufacturers. These ECUs are equipped with a standard software which are able to support different...

New AEF Member: Orion Tecnologia e Sistemas Agrícolas Ltda

Orion Tecnologia e Sistemas Agrícolas Ltda is an innovative Brazilian company that designs and manufactures special spraying implements for installing...

New AEF Member: J.ASSY Agricultural

J.Assy Agricultural specializes in technology solutions for agribusiness. They are one of Brazil’s largest investors in R & D in this industry.

Review: SIMA 2019 in Paris

From February 24th thru the 28th the 78th edition of SIMA took place at the Parc des Expositions in Paris Nord Villepinte. This year there were...

Review: AXEMA Technical conference

On Saturday February 23rd the third AXEMA Technical conference took place at the Parc des Expositions. The surrounding exhibition halls were busy with...

Review: AEF at AETC

The AEF presented at the “Agricultural Equipment Technology Conference” (AETC) from February 11 to 13, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky, with a program...

Become a sponsor for AEF Spring Plugfest now

The preparations for the AEF Plugfest in spring, which will take place from 7 to 9 May in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, are already in full swing.

Review: AEF Service Council in Warendorf

On 19th of December 2018 the first AEF Service Council took place in Warendorf. The event – aimed at service staff and product management of...

In the video: Carsten Hühne about the AEF Ticket System

What does the AEF Ticket System do? How does it work? What role does it play in the context of diagnostic options in the AEF ISOBUS Database, keyword...

Announcement: AEF at the SIMA 2019

SIMA 2019 will take place at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre from the 24th to the 28th of February. This will be the 78th edition of the...

TIM: Benefits and aims

TIM (tractor implement management system or device steers tractor) is an ISOBUS-based solution for a barrier-free and cross-vendor data exchange in...

Service Council on the subject of the AEF ticket system and database diagnostic use

The AEF ticket system is an essential component of the AEF ISOBUS database. With this ticket system, information about compatibility problems between...

New AEF Member: HELUKABEL

Established in Germany in 1978, HELUKABEL® is one of the world’s leading cable manufacturers and suppliers. In addition to our production sites in...

New AEF ISOBUS Database login page

The AEF is very excited to annouce the release of the new AEF ISOBUS Database login page.

New AEF Member: Dacom

Dacom provides growers and the agribusiness sector with data-driven advisory services throughout the world. Using intelligent analyses, all available...

Review: EIMA in Italy

From the 7th to the 11th of November the EIMA International show took place in Bologna, Italy. More than 315,000 visitors attended this year, coming...

AEF General Manager presentation at AgGateway annual meeting

AEF General Manager, Norbert Schlingmann, was a keynote speaker at the AgGateway Annual meeting in Austin Texas, USA on Nov 13th. His presentation...

Road safety pilot for agricultural equipment successful tested

AEF developed together with ETSI’s committee on Machine-to-Machine Communications a pilot to distribute a warning message to passing vehicles within a...

Thank you Jaap van Bergeijk

Jaap van Bergeijk will leave his AEF team leader position to the end of the year. Since the beginning of the AEF, he has been in charge of the...

New Project Team Medium Voltage

On 26th of September the first meeting took place for the latest AEF Project Team, PT12 Medium Voltage. It has been formed based on a project proposal...

Review: TIM Plugfest in Bologna

The eighth TIM Plugfest took place at the Savoia Regency Hotel in Bologna on the 19th and 20th of September. It was the first time that a TIM specific...

Review: AEF celebrated its 10 Year Anniversary

On September 19th the AEF celebrated its 10 Year Anniversary with a full day of events in Bologna, Italy. This was in addition to the AEF Fall...

Review: AEF Fall Plugfest in Bologna

From the 18th to the 20th of September the Fall Plugfest took place at the Savoia Regency Hotel in Bologna, Italy.

AEF Plugfest to include the next edition of the TIM Plugfest and 10th Anniversary Celebration

The 8th TIM plugfest will be held on 19th and 20th of September during the European edition of the AEF Plugfest, at the Savoia Hotel Regency, Bologna,...

AEF joined AgGateway membership

Both organisations are interested in develop better products to the farmer. In order to provide functionalities on equipment we need to have a better...

New AEF Member: Multiva

Multiva is a brand for high quality agricultural machines, produced by Dometal Oy. Company is located in Loimaa, Finland. Our product range consists...

New AEF Member: Geoprospectors

Geoprospectors is a leading supplier of soil sensors for precision agriculture, subsurface engineering and airborne exploration.The solutions use a...

New AEF ISOBUS Functionality ISB

The functionality ISB, or ISOBUS Shortcut button refers to a physical button (or key or switch) in the tractor cab which, when pressed, will...

Review: Spring plugfest in Lincoln, Nebraska

From May the 15th to the 17th the Spring Plugfest took place in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Embassy Suites together with the NTTL test lab hosted another...

2008 to 2018: AEF celebrates 10th anniversary

On 28 October 2008 seven international manufacturers of agricultural machinery and two associations founded the Agricultural Industry Electronics...

Register now: Plugfest in Lincoln

From 14 to 18 May 2018 the Plugfest will take place in Lincoln Nebraska. Registration is now possible.

Review: Commodity Classic

The Commodity Classic Ag show in North America was located this year in Anaheim, California from 27th February - 1st March.

AEF will join the AEM booth during the Commodity Classic show, February 27 – March 1 in Anaheim, California USA

Commodity Classic is America's top agricultural convention and trade show, managed by farmers, for farmers. The trade show connects cutting-edge...

New employee at the AEF

Since mid-October 2017 Marco Brück supports the AEF team.

Thanks to Kaie Fuhrhop

The advertising agency Fuhrhop & Partner has supported AEF’s activities since their foundation.

Two AEF Database licensing models for members starting in 2018

AEF member companies are committed to a multi-vendor compatibility of ISOBUS products.

Manufacturers address Ag Electronics Challenges at AEF "Plugfest"

A record 154 electronic developers came together to test and develop ag electronics at the Ag Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF) Fall Plugfest...

Agritechnica 2017:
 Exhibition success

A total of 450,000 visitors, with over 100,000 from abroad, attended the world’s largest trade fair for agricultural machinery in Hanover and learned...

AEF at Agritechnica in Mid-November

Again the AEF will be present at Agritechnica in Hannover, Germany running from November 12th through 18th.

New AEF Website online

After considerable work the new AEF website is now online at www.aef-online.org.

Web Based Training for dealers and service technicians available

Training departments of companies can now order the three Web Based Training modules.

NA C&M group going strong

AEF had another successful presence at InfoAg this year thanks to a shared booth with AgGateway.

AEF Conformance Test for TC-GEO available

Since June the AEF Conformance Test supports testing of the TC-GEO functionality, in addition to the other Task Controller functionalities of TC-BAS...

AEF Conformance Test for FMIS Beta version

AEF Conformance Test now also contans a beta release test for Farm Management Information Systems.

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AEF to offer free entries to ISOBUS database

Effective January 1st 2018 the Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF) introduces a completely revised scheme of database license fees for...

AEF Spring Plugfest and Conference Day in Lincoln, NE, well attended

The 16th AEF Plugfest took place from May 8 – 11, with a total of more than 130 attendees, hosted by the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory (NTTL), one...

AEF to supply web-based ISOBUS training for member’s staff

By end of September, a number of new web-based ISOBUS training (WBT) modules created by AEF will be available – Just in time for Agritechnica in...

AEF now on LinkedIn

More so in the USA than in many other parts of the world,  companies and associations are presenting themselves using LinkedIn. Therefore the North...

ISOBUS Shortcut Button (ISB) now released

After having finished the specifications the ISB functionality is now integrated into the AEF Conformance Test and  tested at Plugfests. The ...