In a six-part series, SCOPE will be accompanying the Sage introduction at KW Automotive virtually live over the next few months.
Solutions for the automation industry
Dassault Systèmes has announced a partnership with Pepperl+Fuchs. The aim of the collaboration is to jointly tackle the challenges facing the automation industry in the coming years and to develop innovative solutions.
At the Hannover Messe, Artiminds Robotics presented a robot-based automation solution for the sensor-assisted assembly of flexible cables and wires in connector housings.
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The teaching materials provider Fischertechnik presented a modular factory simulation at the Hannover Messe: the Agile Production Simulation. The model simulates agile production processes in a very small space and illustrates digital and haptic processes in a state-of-the-art factory of the future.
4,000 exhibiting companies, 130,000 visitors from 150 countries, 300 start-ups and over 300 economic policy delegations from all over the world: Hannover Messe has shown that it combines the best of technological innovation, business trade fair and economic policy agenda-setting. This makes it the "driving force behind the incipient upswing" in Germany and Europe, and not just for Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck.
A power failure in the cold store is a nightmare for refrigerated logistics companies that have to guarantee the freshness of many customers' goods. This happened to a frozen food specialist in NRW. Suddenly the power went out, but the logistics specialist acted immediately and called Bredenoord for help.
In the year of the company's 75th anniversary, Wittenstein's trade fair appearance was themed "Shaping the world of cybertronic motion".
Intelligent brakes and clutches
Mayr Antriebstechnik shows how intelligent, talking brakes and clutches can be cleverly used for process monitoring.
mbo Osswald aims to set new standards in the world of fastening technology with its new sleeve configurator. This tool was developed to design individual components for different industries precisely and in line with requirements.
After years of strong growth, 2023 was a year of consolidation for Festo. Turnover was just below the previous year's level (-4.3% to around 3.65 billion euros). The company continued to invest heavily in research and development and the expansion of regional market supply.
On the first two days of the trade fair, visitors were particularly interested in the topic of artificial intelligence. Many traveled to Hanover with the desire to find out how this much-discussed topic can be used for their own industrial production.
