Markus Ketterer, Head of Department Sales Marketing Communication at Endress+Hauser Germany, explains how digitalization, increased efficiency and decarbonization interact in the industry and which trends and challenges are currently shaping the sector.

Unpredictable fluctuations in demand pose new challenges for fulfillment logistics. Viral trends, political decisions and changing customer behavior are making traditional planning models obsolete.

An assistance system developed at Fraunhofer IPK is used to identify, sort and assess the quality of disused household appliances, thus contributing to recycling and waste avoidance with the help of artificial intelligence.

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How is the market for drive technology developing and what trends are companies observing? As part of our series of short interviews on SPS, we asked Heiko Füller, Head of Market and Analysis at SEW-Eurodrive Germany, to give us an insight into current developments and challenges in the industry.

Faulhaber is expanding the GPT family with two high-performance models that impress with their whisper-quiet operation: the "22GPT LN" and the "32GPT LN".

The demands placed on modern drive and automation technology are increasing rapidly. In a brief interview with Industrial Production, Markus Sandhöfner, Senior Vice President Sales EMEA Central and Managing Director at Lenze, explains how Lenze is shaping this change and which technologies will take center stage at SPS 2025.

Cathrin Kröll, Vice President Global Marketing at Pilz, on the company's focus at SPS 2025.

Franco Polo, Vice President System Sales Germany at Wago, explains in an interview with Industrial Production which technologies the company is currently driving forward - also with regard to the upcoming PLC -, which trends are shaping the industry and which challenges will be particularly relevant in the coming years.

In an interview with Industrial Production, Adrian Matenia, Product Marketing Director Smart Power at ABB Electrification, talks about current trends in industrial power distribution: networked systems, digital solutions, cybersecurity and sustainability.

Jessica Bethune, Vice President Industrial & Process Automation DACH at Schneider Electric, explains in an interview which technologies she will be focusing on at SPS and which trends are shaping the industry.

At SPS 2025, the ISW of the University of Stuttgart will be showing how virtual commissioning and AI-based error compensation make robots more precise. The demonstrator transfers virtual points directly into real robot programs.

Formnext 2025, which took place in Frankfurt am Main from November 18 to 21, showed just how dynamically additive manufacturing is developing. With numerous innovations and pioneering developments, the trade fair not only presented new solutions, but also concrete ways in which companies can optimize their production processes using AM and open up new business areas.

A perfectly planned trade fair visit to SPS 2025: With the interactive hall plan you are perfectly oriented with just one click. The compact trade fair planner is also available daily as a print supplement in the official trade fair newspaper THE OFFICIAL DAILY directly at the SPS in Nuremberg.

Conrad Electronic now generates 80% of its sales with business customers and has successfully developed from a traditional technology retailer into a B2B procurement platform. The company aims to become Europe's leading procurement platform for technical requirements.

Twelve companies, including Dassault Systèmes, are founding the European Sovereign Tech Industry Alliance (ESTIA). The initiative aims to strengthen Europe's technological independence and define requirements for sovereign cloud services. The start is 2026.

At SPS in Nuremberg, over a dozen start-ups and young technology companies will be presenting their own stands in Hall 6 over the three days of the trade fair.

Gravity-loaded axes in robotics applications must be safe. Mayr Antriebstechnik will be demonstrating at SPS how this can be reliably achieved in smart environments.

At SPS 2025, Wago will be presenting the certification of the Compact Controller 100 in accordance with IEC 62443-4-1/-2. This conformity proves compliance with international safety standards and supports the implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

Gigabit Ethernet is becoming increasingly important in mechanical engineering. The scalable infrastructure enables a step-by-step approach in which the backbone is first implemented on Gigabit.

Eplan and Rittal will be demonstrating what is possible in plant engineering with AI using engineering use cases - be it the Eplan Copilot, agent concepts, automated 3D design and more.