As always, trade fair organizer P.E. Schall has designed Motek - Trade Fair for Production and Assembly Automation to be application- and practice-oriented and is now flanking the industry event for the 13th time with Bondexpo - Trade Fair for Bonding Technology. At Motek, designers and users will find basic systems, details and components as well as cross-sector solutions, networked and interlinked systems including software and industrial communication.

Manufacturing process mapped end-to-end
Trade visitors can work their way through the topic of production and assembly automation successively from material receipt through all process steps including quality assurance, labeling, packaging, order picking and intralogistics - or focus directly on a specific topic. The topic structure, which is geared towards everyday production, is designed to ensure quick orientation and short distances. Visitors will find assembly systems, handling technology, robots, joining and screwdriving technology, material flow and conveyor systems, measuring and testing technology as well as drives, control systems, sensors and software.

However, no product or system stands alone any more - trade visitors are interested in the manufacturing process as an overall system as part of the ongoing, end-to-end digitalization of automation. They are looking for turnkey system solutions for modern production and can find answers at Motek to all current questions that concern them on the way to the smart factory.

Digitalization and virtualization
Networking, big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things have long since arrived in many industrial manufacturing companies; many trade visitors will have unanswered questions about these topics, to which they will find practicable answers at Motek. Topics such as software for plant planning, digital twins, virtual reality, data security and digital services will be given a platform by many exhibitors and as part of special shows and specialist forums.

Seven months before the industry event, Motek project manager Rainer Bachert from trade fair company Schall has his hands full with registrations and stand planning. The trade fair team is expecting around 1,000 exhibitors on 63,000 square meters of hall space. as