EMO Hannover 2019 - World's Leading Metalworking Trade Show
by Shrutee K/DNS
India. – The 22nd EMO will be opening its doors from 16 to 21 September
2019 in Hanover. Once again, the world's leading trade fair for metalworking is
being held in Germany, the world's third largest machine tool market. "All
major manufacturers of production technology will be presenting their products
and services in Hanover at the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of
industrial production. Nobody can afford to miss it," says Dr. Wilfried
Schäfer, Executive Director of the EMO organiser VDW (German Machine Tool
Builders’ Association) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
More than 1.780 exhibitors from 41
countries had applied by the registration deadline of 1 December 2018. The
companies include market leaders in all technology areas such as DMG Mori, FFG,
Mazak, Siemens, Grob, Doosan, Fanuc, Okuma, Makino, Index, GF Machining
Solutions, Chiron, Trumpf, SLM, Stratasys, Paul Horn, Iscar, Sandvik, Kuka and
many, many more. New companies are joining them every day.From India there were already 31 companies registered.
Among others those are Bharat Fritz Werner, Forbes & Company, Jyoti CNC
Automation e.g.
EMO Hannover is indeed the only truly international
platform for metalworking. In contrast to all other trade fairs which describe
themselves as international on the basis of their exhibitors, EMO Hannover also
attracts trade visitors from all over the world. In 2017, just under half of
the roughly 130,000 visitors travelled to Hanover from outside Germany, with
around 160 countries represented. The proportion rose to 64 per cent for the
exhibitors.
"EMO Hannover is the undisputed innovation platform
for metalworking machines, solutions and services," emphasises Dr. Schäfer. In 2017, 72 per cent of the exhibitors said they brought
innovations to Hanover that they had developed especially for EMO. This
wouldn't happen at any other fair, according to Schäfer.
EMO Hannover showcasing smart technologies for the
intelligent factory
EMO Hannover is addressing one of the biggest challenges
facing the industry with its Smart
technologies driving tomorrow's production! theme.
"What is decisive for intelligent factories is the comprehensive
networking of people, plants and business processes along the entire value
chain," explains Wilfried Schäfer from the VDW. Networking in industry is
gaining momentum much faster because greater processor power is now available
which makes the processing of large amounts of data possible in the first
place. According to estimates by the international market research institute
International Data Corporation, 30 billion private and industrial endpoints
could be networked worldwide by 2020.
Smart technologies are the key to greater productivity,
better quality and more flexibility. These are the classic goals for new and
further developments in production technology. Digitalisation and intelligent
factory networking also facilitate new functions such as process monitoring or
predictive maintenance, which go one step further with self-learning machines
based on smart data and data analysis. These create the basis for new business
models like the platform economy, allowing customers and providers to reach the
next level of efficiency. The top priority of almost every EMO exhibitor is to
offer creative new solutions. New Industry 4.0 concepts are emerging in all
areas: for machines, components, controls, measuring systems and material flows.
"We are convinced that EMO Hannover 2019 will be a hotspot for new
offerings and solutions for the smart factory," says Schäfer.
IoT in Production – A key focus of EMO Hannover 2019
IoT will be bundled in various constellations at EMO
Hannover in order to highlight all facets of Industry 4.0:
Dedicated exhibition area for IoT in production This section is reserved for individual exhibitors in the field of
control technology, software and automation technology. Established control
manufacturers such as Beckhoff, Bosch, Fanuc, Heidenhain and Siemens, but also
engineering consortiums such as Adamos and Axoom, presented their IT platforms
at EMO Hannover in 2017. "We know that this exhibition area also offers a
highly attractive environment for IT providers such as IBM, HP, GE, SAP,
Microsoft Oracle, Telekom and others if they want to boost their business with
manufacturers of production technology," says Schäfer. EMO Hannover
provides an ideal platform for this because all decision-makers from the entire
production technology value chain are there – and interested in everything from
product development to production, quality management and logistics.
"Production planners today not only invest in machines, they also want to
see integrated solutions, and no other trade fair offers this in such a
concentrated form as EMO Hannover," sums up Dr. Schäfer.
Special show: Industry
4.0 area - smart solutions for your business Innovative
companies and renowned research institutes present intelligent solutions aimed at
boosting their customers' business success in the Industry
4.0 area. These include intelligent components for
process monitoring or operator support, solutions that ensure smooth data flow
with maximum data security, and much more. The special show will also feature
representatives from the field of research who will be presenting the current
state of scientific development. In addition, the specialist forum will offer
participants the opportunity to discuss existing products as well as future
visions with a broad specialist audience. The VDW is developing the special
show together with the Konradin Media Group.National
stands National stands will also be featured in
this area. The VDW is currently in talks with China, France, Japan, Switzerland
and Taiwan. They all have their own national Industry 4.0 or IoT initiatives
and are cordially invited to present them at EMO Hannover 2019.
Industry 4.0 Trend Forum
In addition, the VDW has joined forces with the Software association of the
VDMA (German Engineering Federation), the umbrella organisation for mechanical
and plant engineering, the second-largest customer sector for machine tools.
Together they are organising a high-calibre forum on the latest Industry 4.0
and machine learning trends, including presentations and panel discussions
which will run throughout the EMO. The future of work will constitute a further
focus.
umati – a common language for Industry 4.0 The interface standard for machine tools based on OPC UA, with all
its functionalities, will finally be presented at EMO Hannover 2019. This
provides neutral and open connection of machines to higher-level IT systems. It
is a prerequisite for the success of Industry 4.0. Only then can data from
different machine manufacturers with different control systems be transferred
to ERP and MES systems or into the cloud. There they are further processed or
evaluated and thus form the basis of new services and functions.
This connectivity is the key to all the added value and
business models that the economy hopes Industry 4.0 will yield. Small and
medium-sized companies in particular are counting on being able to connect
their machines effectively in order to participate in the new IoT developments.
This will help them concentrate on their core competences in their daily
business.
This is why the VDW together with eight well-known
German machine tool manufacturers and all major control suppliers launched the umati interface more than
a year ago. umati stands for universal machine
tool interface. To date, more than 20 use cases
have been defined: these include at-a-glance overview of production, program
progress and machine status, handling of a production order, creation of error
statistics, and operating status in a time stream. They are described by over 100 relevant parameters, e.g.
"Machine running yes/no". A joint working group was set up for OPC UA
at the end of 2018. The international machine tool community is now able to
participate in revising and disseminating the standard.
The goal is to present a complete implementation of the
specification at EMO Hannover 2019 – to the extent that it is available by then
– together with a larger number of partners. "The VDW is assuming that the
first products will also be offered in which preconfigured OPC UA servers are
integrated directly into the respective control units based on the
specification, explains Wilfried Schäfer.
EMO Hannover presenting topics on the future of
industrial production
EMO Hannover 2019 will be addressing all the
production-related challenges, from machine technology and IT solutions through
to the changing world of work. It will be highlighting how much more
productive, efficient and flexible the next generations of machines will be.
With many supporting events, it will show how networked production is
increasingly spreading to all areas. Order processing, production preparation
and planning, manufacturing and logistics will all change. New functions and
services are being created. And the people working in industry need to be given
the skills to perform these tasks. "EMO Hannover 2019 has plenty to offer
on all these topics. The EMO organisers will be complementing the exhibitors'
offerings with a wide range of supporting events and special shows. EMO will
once again be a Mecca for international production technology and point the way
for development in the coming years," concludes Dr. Schäfer of the VDW.
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