world of industries 3/2017 (EN)

Hannover Messe 2017 to emphasize
on the benefits of Industry 4.0
WORLD OF INDUSTRIES
Over the last few decades, Hannover Messe, the
world’s largest industrial trade fair, has been a place
for demonstrating leading industrial technologies and
innovations. In a lot of ways this event showcases the
direction in which the industrial world is heading.
On April 24 th , the gates for the world’s largest industrial trade fair,
‘Hannover Messe’, will be open for everyone. The show organized
by Deutsche Messe AG, runs from 24 th - 28 th April in Germany’s
northern city of Hannover. Over the last few years, the focus of
this event has been digitalization of the entire industrial ecosystem.
Many innovative companies have displayed various applications
in this context, but at this year’s Messe we can see the technologies
needed for the successful digitalization of industries are fully
developed and ready to be implemented. Small or large, all sorts of
companies have a multitude of high end technologies like Industry
4.0, integrated energy networks, machine learning, predictive
maintenance and collaborative robots (cobots), to choose from.
Decision makers, at all levels often find themselves in a spot, where
it becomes difficult for them to predict what value these modern
technologies can add to their organization. This is where Hannover
Messe 2017 comes in. The challenge now is to make these decision
makers and industry professionals understand the direct and long
term benefits that digitalization offers to their organization.
Speaking at an event, Deutsche Messe’s Managing Board member
Jochen Köckler said that “Challenging people to ‘think outside
the box,’ highlighting the various ways in which digitalization can
add value, and opening up new markets - that’s what this year’s
Hannover Messe is all about, with its lead theme of Integrated Industry
- Creating Value. The show will have around 6,500 exhibitors
and will feature Poland as its official Partner Country .”
Trade Fair Line Up
Hannover Messe covers a wide range of themes with its 7 international
leading trade fairs, at the same time and under one roof. The
topics and exhibits covered at Hannover represent the most fundamental
industry sectors like - Industrial Automation, Motion Drive
and Automation, Digital Factory, Energy, Compressed Air and
Vaccum Technology, Industrial Supply and Research Technology.
The Industrial Automation show is one of the world’s leading trade
fair for factory and process automation and Robotics. At the Motion
Drive and Automation show, manufacturers of power transmission
and fluid power technologies feature prominently in Hannover.
It is one of the most important trade fair for the manufacturing
sector, attracting more than 1200 exhibitors and 80,000 visitors
from around the globe. The strength of the show’s international
reach can be seen from the fact that it draws about two thirds of its
exhibitors from abroad. The Digital Factory is a unique trade fair for
industrial IT solutions and integrated processes. The exhibitors at
Digital Factory present a full array of solutions for tomorrow’s smart
factories – for example, production planning and control software,
data exchange concepts, virtual product development systems and
tools for predictive analysis.
Cobots, Artificial intelligence, these are exciting topics in the
manufacturing industry. But neither the factory of today nor
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