EMO Hannover is not only the most important meeting point for all “The players in the metalworking sector, both manufacturers and users. It’s traditionally also an innovation forum and a trend-setter,” says Christoph Miller, Trade Fair Director at the EMO’s organiser, the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, speaking at the EMO’s press conferences in South Africa on 2/3 March 2017. And he adds: is why it addresses the important issues in the world of metalworking, “This and drives them forward.” A wide and varied supporting programme will in 2017 once again be addressing both technical and commercial issues. Special show on Industry 4.0 The megatrend of networking is the major focus at the EMO Hannover 2017, not least in a special show called the 4.0 Area”, organised by the German “Industry Konradin Media Group. The Industry 4.0 Area sees itself as a platform for mutual professional feedback between experts within the international community, and builds bridges between the academic world and the people on the shop floor. University and Fraunhofer institutes specialising in production technology will be presenting the status of their researches, while representatives of the industrial sector will be showing solutions for how to implement these in practice. The programme includes both initiatives of the German states and international activities, such as the German Industry 4.0 Platform, the Industrial Internet Consortium from the USA, the Alliance Industrie du from France, Made in China 2025, the Industrial-Value-Chain-Initiative from Japan and others. The initiatives are currently putting together their work programmes, and are looking for cooperation partners. The German Industry 4.0 Platform, for instance, has already got together with the Americans, the French, the Chinese and the Japanese. The special show is rounded off by a lecture forum, in which eminent academics can present their latest findings and firms can showcase their corporate capabilities. Increasing presence of additive processes in production operations
“The EMO Hannover is not only the most important meeting point for all players in the metalworking sector, both manufacturers and users. It’s traditionally also an innovation forum and a trend-setter,” says Christoph Miller, Trade Fair Director at the EMO’s organiser, the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, speaking at the EMO’s press conferences in South Africa on 2/3 March 2017. And he adds: “This is why it addresses the important issues in the world of metalworking, and drives them forward.” A wide and varied supporting programme will in 2017 once again be addressing both technical and commercial issues. Special show on Industry 4.0 The megatrend of networking is the major focus at the EMO Hannover 2017, not least in a special show called the “Industry 4.0 Area”, organised by the German Konradin Media Group. The Industry 4.0 Area sees itself as a platform for mutual professional feedback between experts within the international community, and builds bridges between the academic world and the people on the shop floor. University and Fraunhofer institutes specialising in production technology will be presenting the status of their researches, while representatives of the industrial sector will be showing solutions for how to implement these in practice. The programme includes both initiatives of the German states and international activities, such as the German Industry 4.0 Platform, the Industrial Internet Consortium from the USA, the Alliance Industrie du from France, Made in China 2025, the Industrial-Value-Chain-Initiative from Japan and others. The initiatives are currently putting together their work programmes, and are looking for cooperation partners. The German Industry 4.0 Platform, for instance, has already got together with the Americans, the French, the Chinese and the Japanese. The special show is rounded off by a lecture forum, in which eminent academics can present their latest findings and firms can showcase their corporate capabilities. Increasing presence of additive processes in production operations