Maintaining competitiveness is more urgent than ever. Particularly in times of a weakening economy, industrial users are looking for practical automation solutions in order to be able to fulfill their respective production tasks efficiently, economically and sustainably. In cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg Mechatronics Network, trade fair organizer P. E. Schall has shown where the journey in industrial manufacturing processes is heading: digitalization requires networking, holistic engineering and cooperative project implementation.

At Motek 2019, the AoI presented 34 practical use cases of networked Industry 4.0 solutions and concrete answers to current questions about intelligent production and process chains in connection with digital applications.

Thomas Bonschab, Managing Director TiNC International, noted in 2019: "The Arena of Integration is the best example of how German technology companies are world leaders, especially when they network and act together." Dr. Kurt Schmalz, Managing Partner of J. Schmalz, stated: "With the new concept, trade fair organizer Schall is offering visitors the opportunity to obtain compact information on a wide variety of aspects of digitalization."

Network uses complementary expertise
Participating companies in the AoI underline their globally significant status by demonstrating that they are networked and work together with automation partners to develop practical solutions for everyday industrial use for customers and users. Through this cooperation, the AoI participants benefit both customers and each other, as concrete and directly marketable results are produced. The networking platform helps to overcome the multifaceted challenges involved in the digitalization of business processes.

Arena of Communication: Communicating via networking
Smart Solutions for Production and Assembly - this is once again the core of Motek in the new year. Here, trade visitors will find practical topics and their networking as well as realistic process sequences that are not presented anywhere else in this holistic form. The Motek/Bondexpo trade fair duo is traditionally a user-oriented "working trade fair" and therefore deepens the AoI concept - also in terms of communication. With the Arena of Communication (AoC), speakers and interested parties already had an ideal communication platform for exchanging ideas and transferring know-how in 2019. In 2020, the AoC will become the central information, communication and business platform with content on the Motek/Bondexpo trade fair duo, the AoI, use cases, statements and interviews. The next Motek/Bondexpo industry event will take place from October 5 to 8, 2020. as