- VDMA invites to the event “Innovative Solutionsfor Industry 4.0” at the EMO Hannover 2017

▲ The German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association’s (VDMA) Metrological and Testing Technology and High-Precision Tools invite during EMO Hannover from 19 to 21 September to the event “Innovative Solutions for Industry 4.0” in hall 4, booth D44. (picture source Wenzel)

Industry 4.0 is progressively emergingas the crucial factor in the race for leading-edge technology and market sharesin the future. And time is running out for the German machinery and plantmanufacturers. On one side of the world is the USA, with its exceptional softwarecompetence and not least its digital entrepreneurship when it comes to newbusiness models. On the other side of the globe is China, which with its “Made in China 2025” and “InternetPlus” programmes is channelling substantial resources into digital transformation.So despite the good starting position that German companies have created forthemselves, they would be well advised not to rest on their laurels.

TheGerman Mechanical Engineering Industry Association’s (VDMA) Metrological andTesting Technology and High-Precision Tools will accordingly be spotlighting ideasand products from the Industry 4.0environment. At the VDMA’s stand (Hall 4 / D44), member companies and partnersfrom the research community will from 19 to 21 September be contributing 30 briefpresentations, focusing primarily on high-precision tools, metrological andtesting technology, research, and tool data interchange.

“At the VDMAforum, we shall be aiming to show what solutions our sectors are offering inorder to translate the concept of Industry 4.0 into shop-floor reality,” explainsMarkus Heseding, Executive Director of the two associations. “We already have agood track record with a forum of this kind, and are looking forward to a highattendance.”

Specifically,the “Innovative Solutions for Industry 4.0” event will be informing itsparticipants on issues like intelligent clamping systems and how productionprocesses can be simulated by networking tools and software, tool life-cyclesmonitored, and costs reduced. The presentations there will elucidate how theself-monitoring machine tool support the quality assurance processes involved,or what an automated measuring cell can achieve in a production processfeaturing Industry 4.0. Contributions from the companies concerned offerinsights into highly sophisticated metrological technology and high-precisiontools for challenging tasks. The presentations will cover the advantages ofstandardised tool data for simulations, tool management and presetting, as wellas the research work being performed at the universities.

The followingcompanies and universities will be presented at the VDMA’s event: Cimsource,Diatest, Emuge, Etalon, Fagor Automation, Fraisa, Gühring, Haimer-Microset,Hainbuch, Iscar, Kelch, Mahr, Mimatic, Oberndorfer Präzisions-Werk, OSG,Römheld, Sandvik, Tekon Prüftechnik, pro-micron, Vargus, Fraunhofer Institutefor Production Technology in  Aachen,GFE-Schmalkalden, Bremen University, TU Dortmund, Bayreuth University.

For further information:

Hans-Günter Heil, Metrological and Testing Technology, phone +49 696603-1550, Email hans-guenter.heil@vdma.org; Bernt Ritz, High-precision tools, phone+49 69 6603-1980, Email bernt.ritz@vdma.org