This year, Bettina Schall, Managing Director of trade fair organizer P.E. Schall, will once again be hosting the traditional trade fair duo of Motek and Bondexpo in Stuttgart from 7 to 10 October. The focus of both trade fairs is on the practical applicability and feasibility of solutions for industrial production.

Parallel to Motek, Bondexpo showcases solutions for joining and connecting components and assemblies in pre-assembly and final assembly. Under the motto "Smart Solutions for Production and Assembly", around 1,000 exhibitors from the field of production and assembly automation will be showcasing their latest developments at Motek. Among other things, the growing requirements of end-to-end automated production and assembly will be addressed and suitable solutions presented. The trade fair will be accompanied by a supporting program consisting of special shows, forums and congresses.

Arena of Integration

The "Arena of Integration" theme park, or AoI for short, shows how digitalization and integration can succeed. The central theme here is connectivity. Here, visitors will experience how comprehensive system, process and component integration is already a usable reality in everyday industrial life. As a trade fair highlight, the AoI, which is organized by trade fair organizer Schall together with around 30 participants and cooperation partner Landesnetzwerk Mechatronik Baden-Württemberg, will provide trade visitors with concrete answers to questions about intelligent production and process chains in connection with digital applications. In 2019, it will be the prelude to a recurring special show that will present industrially practicable and implementable solutions to trade visitors and users.

Well-known automation technology companies, including Pilz, Phoenix Contact and Balluff, will be represented at the special exhibition area. Together, the companies have developed project ideas and will be demonstrating industrial manufacturing processes in conjunction with digital applications. For example, they will show what processes need to look like in the context of advancing digitalization in order to be efficient and economically viable at the same time. The networking of companies can also be seen on both the technological and entrepreneurial side: Competitors can also be development partners.

Congress "Modern Assembly"

For the second time, the specialist congress for assembly technology and assembly organization "Modern Assembly" will provide know-how and contacts on the topics of "digitalization" and "human-machine interaction". Organized by WEKA Businessmedien's specialist medium handling, the congress will take place on 8 and 9 October parallel to Motek in the Congress Centre at Messe Stuttgart.

As already mentioned, the congress is dedicated to digitalization and human-machine interaction. In theory, the topic of digitalization has already been thought through and everyone knows in principle how the digital transformation should proceed. However, experience has shown that in practice it is perhaps not so simple after all.