Motek shows solutions for Smart Factory

The factory should become a smart factory - but how? At Motek 2019, trade visitors will see that users already have usable and therefore future-proof solutions at their disposal.
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The factory should become a smart factory - but how? At Motek 2019, trade visitors will see that users already have usable and therefore future-proof solutions at their disposal.

Interroll has launched a DC platform onto the market. With the range of coordinated roller drives, controllers and power supply units, various conveyor solutions can be implemented - from plug-and-play standard applications to systems with Industry 4.0 functionality.
Motek 2019 in the starting blocks

The 38th Motek - International Trade Fair for Production and Assembly Automation - will take place in Stuttgart from October 7 to 10, 2019. A welcome must-attend event for all designers, users and production managers looking for practical solutions for industrial manufacturing and assembly.

The 38th Motek will take place in Stuttgart from October 7 to 10, 2019. Trade fair organizer Schall is expecting around 1,000 exhibitors to present their innovations and solutions in the field of production and assembly automation.

The Ray10 and Ray26 reflex array sensors from Sick can detect leading edges just a few millimeters high and therefore reliably detect flat and position-tolerant objects.

Nexen presents a product family of zero-backlash spring-applied brakes (ZSE, Zero-Backlash Spring Engaged Brake). The pneumatically released brakes of the ZSE series are suitable for use at high speeds and torques.

Underfloor drive for flow production
In the newly equipped production hall at Walter Maschinenbau's Czech site in Kuřim, CNC tool grinding machines weighing several tons are produced in flow production. The entire production process takes place on a ground-level assembly line.

With the OTU, Avancon has developed a module that makes it possible to build diverters, diverters, crossings, transfers, corner diverters, X-double crossings and even sorters for complex and large conveyor systems.

The Transnorm Group, a manufacturer of conveyor systems, is being sold to Honywell for 425 million euros. This was announced by the previous owner IK Investments Partners. The approval of the antitrust authorities is still pending.

With the development of the Kunststoff-Düsseldorfer-Palette (KDP), Walther Faltsysteme completes one of the largest logistics orders in its 40-year history.