EMO Hannover 2019
Machine tools in the focus of progress
More than 2,200 exhibitors showcased their innovations for industrial manufacturing at EMO Hannover 2019. EMO Commissioner General Carl Martin Welcker sees major challenges and opportunities in the transformation process of the automotive industry.
Despite all progress, the focus is always on industrial production and therefore the machine tool. The requirements are lower energy and material consumption, greater process efficiency and higher product quality. "The machine tool industry actually makes a very important contribution to this, because efficiency and avoiding waste are practically its business model," says Welcker. Sustainability is also a focus in the construction of machine tools themselves. Energy- and resource-efficient production, long service life, attractive overhaulability, updateability of control systems, second and third life - they are therefore a good example of how a circular economy can be implemented.
After eight years of boom for the machine tool industry, global demand for capital goods has calmed down since the fourth quarter of 2018. In Germany, incoming orders also fell by more than a fifth in the first six months of 2019. This is one of the reasons why the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association) has revised its production forecast for Germany to minus 2 percent.
However, EMO is an early indicator of the technologies that will be invested in in the future. Among other things, new offerings through digitalization and the introduction of artificial intelligence as well as new products through the widespread use of generative processes are opening up new dimensions in terms of increasing efficiency and quality.
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