WORLD OF INDUSTRIES 02/2018

With ‘Integrated Industry – Connect & Collaborate’ as its lead theme,
Hannover Messe 2018 offers guests from all around the world to experience
completely new types of products and systems that are
made by the increasingly connected and digitally networked industrial
landscape. Visitors will get to witness first-hand the benefits
of integrated industry such as enhanced productivity, increased
flexibility and speed in production, improved quality, exciting new
business models and newer revenue streams. The digital integration
of industry and logistics is gathering pace as traditional boundaries
between industries are now breaking down. This April, Hannover
Messe will team up with CeMAT, the world’s largest trade show for
logistics and supply chain industry to demonstrate the immense
opportunities that Industry 4.0 and Logistics 4.0 offer together.
resources and increase in innovative capabilities, development of
new business models and revenue sources.
Role of Hannover Messe
Today, most manufacturing and industrial companies are still
in that stage where they are implementing Industry 4.0 but in an
ad hoc and isolated manner, often there is also a lack of a bigger
picture, a broader strategy. Without a full understanding of the
changes and opportunities Industry 4.0 brings, companies risk losing
ground. This is where Hannover Messe 2018 comes in. It brings
experts, industry professionals, academicians, manufacturers and
consumers all together at one place, that helps provide a bigger and
complete picture of the changes to come. Over the decades, Hannover
Messe, has become the world’s most influential industrial
trade fair, and has been the pioneer in showcasing the industrial
technologies of the near future. In April, the city of Hannover, will
once again open its doors to the world of industries. The show organized
by Deutsche Messe AG, runs from 23rd - 27th April in Germany.
Over the last few years, the focus of this event has been digital
integration of the entire industrial ecosystem. Leading innovative
companies from all over the world have displayed unique products
and applications in this context, but at this year’s Messe we can witness
the technologies that take Industry 4.0 to the next level.
Trade fair line up
Hannover Messe covers a wide range of themes with its 5 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 - Integrated Automation Motion
and Drives (IAMD), Digital Factory, Energy, Industrial Supply and
Research Technology. The IAMD show is one of the world’s leading
trade fair that attracts more than 2000 exhibitors and 100,000
visitors from around the globe. This trade show hosts a wide variety
of products and technologies related to factory and process automation
such as linear positioning systems, automated assembly &
handling systems, control systems like PLC, Scada, automatic data
capturing and identification systems, embedded systems and industrial
PCs, sensors and actuators, communication network and
field bus systems, measuring and test equipment. The product line
up for electrical and mechanical drive components is also quite
comprehensive, with German as well as international corporations
displaying their products in this segment which include; mechanical
power transmission systems and equipment like belt and chain
drives, couplings and clutch units, various types of braking systems
and accessories for brakes, entire gears units, geared motors and
bearings. Electrical equipment that includes, electric switch gears,
contactors and relays, electric motors, frequency drives, electric
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