Production

The hot phase of trade fair preparations for this year's EMO in Hanover has begun. On July 5 and 6, the EMO organizer VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association) invited visitors to the big preview in Frankfurt am Main. 31 exhibitors at the EMO Hannover, which will take place from September 18 to 23, will allow a look behind the scenes of their trade fair innovations a good ten weeks before the major event.

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The Kuka Innovation Award 2023 was all about simple operation and maximum flexibility of robots. For the first time, the robotics competition was based on the new Kuka robot operating system and associated ecosystem iiQKA.

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Since 1 July 2023, Dr. Dirk Kristes, previously Managing Director Operations and member of the central Group Management Board, has been Chief Operating Officer (COO) and responsible for the areas of customer and production logistics, purchasing and prefabrication.

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Fanuc Germany is still programmed for growth: The "Offensive 2022/2023" led to an increased business result. Turnover in the past financial year amounted to 236 million euros. Compared to the previous year, this is an increase of 22 percent. This means that the record year 2018 has almost been reached again.

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The competition for the products of the year enters the next round. In fall and winter, readers of INDUSTRIAL Production will once again be able to cast their votes. But before the portal for reader voting opens, the application phase starts on July 1, 2023. Projects can be presented until October 31, 2023.

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Augmented and virtual reality differ in the degree of virtualization, but can now work with one and the same software - and in multi-user applications. Gabriele Zocchi, Technical Product Owner at Holo-Light, explains how it works.

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In an interview with Andreas Mühlbauer, Roland Scharl from Baumüller explains how drive technology and monitoring products contribute to greater sustainability in the industry.

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automatica impressively demonstrates how digital transformation is turning production facilities into "smart factories" at an ever faster pace. Intelligent embedded vision cameras are an important building block. Instead of acting purely as image suppliers, they generate results independently and can even directly trigger subsequent processes in networked systems with suitable interfaces.

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Mahr from Göttingen was represented at the Automatica and Laser World of Photonics trade fairs in Munich from June 27 to 30, 2023. The focus was on automation solutions for classic and optical production metrology as well as ball guides.

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Ten years ago, Acatech issued a final declaration with clear implementation recommendations for Industry 4.0. At this year's Hannover Messe, Barbara Frei, Executive Vice President for Industrial Automation at Schneider Electric, took a reflective look back at the past decade.

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