
"100 Places for Industry 4.0" competition
"Pilz Smart Factory" receives award
The "Pilz Smart Factory" was honored as the winner of the "100 Places for Industry 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg" competition.

"100 Places for Industry 4.0" competition
The "Pilz Smart Factory" was honored as the winner of the "100 Places for Industry 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg" competition.
The Intec and Z trade fairs have established themselves as a platform for production technology in metalworking and the supplier industry.

LMT Fette is presenting the Evoline tangential rolling head at Intec. This increases process reliability while simplifying tool handling. The intelligent sensor technology also makes it suitable for the smart factory.
When the Leipzig trade fair opens its doors from February 5 to 8, 2019, the Intec and Z trade fair association will be inviting visitors to the first important international industry get-together of the year for production technology in the metalworking and supplier industry in Europe.

As of January 1, 2019, eps' affiliation with the Afag Group will also be clearly visible to the outside world.

Program for hybrid manufacturing processes
With its standard range of milling cutters for hybrid additive manufacturing, Franken Expert enables milling in the process of additive construction of a component geometry.

In the first three quarters, incoming orders in the machine tool industry in the USA rose by 27% to EUR 3.4 billion, according to the US Machine Tool Association. In September alone, orders shot up by 50 percent.

Stratasys has opened its first authorized training center in the DACH region. It is operated by Stratasys Platinum Partner alphacam at its headquarters in Schorndorf.
Mechanical engineering companies in Germany successfully weathered the trade policy storms in 2018 and even increased their workforces despite many uncertainties.

The Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V. has awarded the automation specialist IEF-Werner the "Innovative through Research" seal.

Coordination of innovation projects
The Schmersal Group has appointed Axel Schneider as the new Head of the Technology Division. In this position, he is responsible for the global coordination and harmonization of development capacities and innovation projects.
The automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler predicts that around 30 percent of all newly registered cars will be powered purely by electricity in 2030 and 40 percent by a hybrid drive.

KVT-Fastening is the exclusive distributor of Haeger press-fit machines in Germany. A total of five different models are available.

OPC UA over TSN will become the uniform communication standard in the Industrial IoT. The standardization and further development of OPC UA for the field level will take place under the umbrella of the OPC Foundation. This fulfills a long-standing wish of the market: There is a manufacturer-independent and interface-free solution for communication in industry.

Hurco has simplified programming on its five-axis machines. The machine tool manufacturer has made its machines compatible for Solid Model import.

The declared aim of the cooperation between Deutsche Lichtmiete and the Nichia Corporation is to jointly create more growth in the LED industrial lighting market. The Japanese company has now secured shares in Deutsche Lichtmiete.