Bosch Rexroth is driving digitalization forward and is making products from its industrial hydraulics portfolio available as digital twins.

RS, a global provider of product and service solutions for industrial customers, was also represented at SPS 2023 and demonstrated its end-to-end product offering and its portfolio of value-added solutions.

RS has launched the Better World product range in the DACH region. The products in the range have been optimized with regard to sustainability.

ABB now offers an IE5 ultra-premium motor for potentially explosive atmospheres. It works with 40 percent less energy loss even under the most difficult conditions - for example in potentially explosive atmospheres and has been nominated for the Products of the Year 2024 in the Drive Technology and Automation category.

Kawasaki Robotics has introduced the new CL cobot series. It was created through a partnership with the German start-up Neura Robotics. This marks the Japanese robot pioneer's entry into the cobot market. The CL series has been nominated for the robotics category in the 2024 Product of the Year competition.

It has revolutionized automotive production: In giga- or mega-casting, large structural components in car manufacturing are produced in one piece by die casting - a challenge not only for die casters.

Trumpf presents a fully automatic punch laser machine for networked production. The Trumatic 5000 enables greater productivity and part quality with reduced energy consumption. The production cell is nominated for the metalworking category.

Thanks to a well thought-out modular concept, powerful and robust power boards can be used in a wide range of applications with plug-in control boards.

The increasing use of collaborative robots in industrial production is not only transforming production processes, but also placing new demands on employees.

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At SPS 2023, Ulrich Leidecker, Chief Operating Officer of Phoenix Contact, spoke about the company's economic development.

The new F3300 printer from Stratasys has been nominated in the Product of the Year competition in the Additive Manufacturing category. Thanks to greater precision, extended operating time and twice the performance, it aims to pave the way for more demanding areas of application in manufacturing.

Replique has been nominated for the Additive Manufacturing category in the Product of the Year 2024 competition with an open material database for additive manufacturing. The company is thus making material expertise available to the entire 3D printing community and simplifying the industrial use of additive manufacturing.

Cold Metal Fusion is a 3D printing process in which SLS 3D printers from Sintratec are used to produce metal components. The process has been nominated in the Additive Manufacturing category in the competition for Product of the Year 2024.

The highly mobile robot WATCHER with modular sensor technology from the United Robotics Group is suitable for inspection and maintenance in indoor and outdoor areas. It has been nominated in the competition for Product of the Year 2024 in the Robotics category.

A sustainable cable with a PVC sheath from Lapp has been nominated in the Drive Technology and Automation category in the competition for Product of the Year 2024. The Ölflex Classic FD 810 is the prototype of a cable with a sustainable PVC sheath.

For the Drive Technology and Automation category, a test system from Tenta Vision was created as a team effort: Equipped with Rexroth aluminum profiles, a lightweight robot from Kassow Robots and connecting parts from the PTS Group, the test system opens up a wide range of possible applications.

In the manufacture of agricultural vehicles, great importance is attached to individual configurations and superstructures.

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The flexible ZiMo robot cell enables a safe and cost-effective entry into process automation. The solution for small, medium and varying batch sizes has been nominated in the competition for Product of the Year 2024 in the Robotics category.

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Is a machine still safe after it has been converted, retrofitted or extended? Machine operators must ask themselves this question if they want to use their system for a different purpose or modernize it to bring it up to the latest state of the art.

FKM Additive Manufacturing and AM Solutions are now working together to optimize SLS printing. The aim is to solve the conflicting goals of high quality and cost-effectiveness with various intelligent post-processing solutions, particularly with regard to series production.

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