Industry and smart manufacturing are making the show(s) this autumn

Save the dates! 16-21 September – EMO in Hanover; 7-10 October – MOTEK in Stuttgart; and 26-28 November – SPS in Nuremberg. The arrival of these three mega events in autumn 2019 ensures Germany will once again become the center of the industrial world.

These world-class events are set to gather engineers and decision-makers from almost all industrial sectors. Looking for (and harvesting) new solutions that can improve their sustainability as much as their ROIs – solutions for better serving their customers and better driving their facilities and factories – visitors will arrive from all over the world.

EMO – 16-21 September 2019, Hanover
"Smart technologies driving tomorrow's production!"

Boosted by the energy of the VDW (Verein Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken - German Machine Tool Builders' Association), EMO will once again provide a platform for sharing innovative solutions, industrial applications and future technologies in the field of metalworking. Everything from cut-to-length machines to cylinder saws, and much more besides, will be in the spotlight.

The exhibition is aimed at visitors from all around the world, from the entire metalworking and processing sector, including automotive and parts supply, mechanical engineering, plant engineering, electronics, aerospace, and not forgetting various associated fields such as testing, new materials development, mechanical components, tooling, medical technologies, and many others. Machine builders and users looking for new ideas and materials, as well as production engineers seeking out new manufacturing and integration solutions, will find plenty of answers.

Motek – 07-10 October 2019, Stuttgart

The international trade fair for automation in production and assembly

Digitalized components, modules, subsystems, complete machines, assemblies and networked technologies – all these are central to the 38th edition of Motek. In parallel, joining and fastening components, and modules in preassembly and final assembly, will be showcased at the 13th Bondexpo, the international trade fair for bonding technologies.

At the show ground, Schall trade fair together with approximately 30 participants and the Mechatronics Network of Baden-Württemberg, will organize the “Arena of Integration” (AoI). Visitors will benefit from expert answers to questions regarding intelligent production and process sequences, along with digital applications. The 2019 edition will be a prelude to a recurring event focused on industrially feasible and viable solutions: Automation Intelligence to Go!

SPS – 26-28 November 2019, Nuremberg

The event for “Smart Production Solutions”

Keeping it simple and short, everyone refers to the event as “SPS”, right? To mark the 30th anniversary of the show, the SPS Exhibitor Advisory Board together with Mesago Messe Frankfurt, the organizer, are officially changing the name from “SPS IPC Drives” to “SPS”. From now on, the abbreviation stands for “Smart Production Solutions”.

The event is long-established as a central source for the migration of manufacturing and process industries towards Industry 4.0. In recent years, automation has been facilitating technologies such as the cloud, big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital twinning. In tandem, other such functions from the world of IT are also enriching automation technology in noticeable ways. After all, increasing numbers of automation engineers “adapt and adopt” IT technologies in line with their industrial constraints.

At the inception of SPS IPC Drives 30 years ago, using hardware-centric acronyms and names made sense. “SPS”, for example, is the abbreviation of “speicherprogrammierbare Steuerung”, the German words for “programmable logic controllers”. Likewise, “IPC” is short for “Industrial PC”, and “Drives” are obviously the actuating components of automation.

OK, that was 30 years ago. Since then, software-based function blocks distributed across a wide variety of components, together with networking and communication improvements, have led the changes. As a result, now is precisely the right time to start preparing for the future.

Enjoy the ride(s)!

Steed WEBZELL

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