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Innovation of the German SME sector
Germany is innovative - but possibly not innovative enough to keep pace with an ever faster changing world. This is the opinion of Prof. Wilhelm Bauer. The head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO is calling on German companies to make greater efforts to innovate and to be more open and willing to collaborate.
read more...Industrial trade fairs in China
Deutsche Messe and the Donghao Lansheng Group are expanding their strategic partnership and are launching two new industrial trade fairs in China.
read more...Thilo Brodtmann on the European elections
Europe has voted. Voter turnout was the highest since before the fall of the Berlin Wall. A commentary by Thilo Brodtmann, Managing Director of the VDMA.
read more...On May 6, 100 years ago, engineer Carl Cloos founded a company for the production of acetylene generators. Today, the company is one of the global technology leaders in welding and robot technology.
read more...Editorial: Robotics in production
R2-D2, C-3PO and Marvin - who doesn't know them, the intelligent robots from the "Star Wars" series and from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"? And who wouldn't want them at their side every day as intelligent helpers?
read more...After around two years of construction, Yaskawa opened its new robot production facility and a new European robotics development center at its site in Kočevje/Slovenia. The investment volume is around 25 million euros.
read more...People in Europe have a more negative attitude towards robots today than they did five years ago. This is the result of a new study by the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg and the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
read more...The VDE warns of a loss of Germany's pioneering role. VDE Managing Director Hinz calls the self-assessment of companies and universities in Germany with regard to AI and Industry 4.0 "a fundamental misjudgement".
read more...Changes in the management of Yaskawa Europe: Bruno Schnekenburger, previously COO of the company, succeeds Manfred Stern as CEO.
read more...The Hannover Messe was held for the first time in 1947, at that time still under the name "Export Fair 1947 Hannover". It was initiated as a counterweight to the Leipzig Trade Fair. The aim was to establish Hannover as an international trade fair location.
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