Front End I News IDTechEx Show! Berlin grows by 27 per cent
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DTechEx has announced that Europe’s largest event on emerging technologies, the IDTechEx Show! held in Berlin on 27- 28 April, grew by 27 per cent compared to last year’s event. This year’s exhibition and conference featured attendees from 57 countries with 171 exhibitors and 2,300 attendees. The event covered a number of interrelated emerging technologies, including printed electronics, wearable technology, IoT, advanced materials, energy storage and electric vehicles. The IDTechEx Show! hosts multiple tracks within the conference and has a shared exhibition to bring all of these supply chains together in one place, allowing companies across the value chain to meet each other and explore their opportunities.
Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx, said, “It has been fantastic to see so much enthusiasm in these sectors, with more solutions being demonstrated and great interest and wide attendance from end
users around the world. The feedback has been tremendous, with the event clearly facilitating great business discussions and partnerships.” BotFactory, who released news of their new multi-layer printed circuit at the event said, “The IDTechEx shows are the most important shows in our events calendar. We always find a great crowd of people interested in printed electronics and open to discussion on new ways to build PCBs. Did we mention that we have always found key partners in every show?” “It has an interesting formula that brings together many high level people from different leading edge technologies. The exhibition for us was beyond our expectations with a lot of high level interest worldwide”, said Altreonic NV, exhibitor. Over 220 speakers, including LG
Display, NASA, Toyota, Google, Sony, Hewlett Packard, JC Decaux and
Ravensburger presented at the conference on their business objectives and technology breakthroughs. At the exhibition, adopters, OEMs and
technology providers announced products and showed off their solutions.
www.IDTechEx.com/Europe
Successful ExCeL debut for Infrarail and CITE 2016 W
ith unprecedented levels of rail investment and the rise of national infrastructure up the
political agenda, there was an upbeat mood at the Infrarail 2016 exhibition of railway infrastructure products and services and at CITE 2016, covering the civil infrastructure sector, which successfully took place at ExCeL London from 12 to 14 April.
The total number of attendees at the combined event was 6,596 – virtually the same as the figure for the two shows in 2014, when Earls Court was the host venue. They comprised 5,293 visiting managers, engineers and industry professionals and 1,303 exhibitors’ personnel. Visitors came from 51 countries, underlining strong international interest in both Infrarail and CITE – and in the markets they serve.
Exhibitors totalled 242 overall, including those in the CITE hub, with 13 countries represented. The number of companies present was again similar to that for 2014 but the amount of exhibition space taken rose by around 12 per cent to 3,370m². Exhibiting firms displayed a vast range of innovations and
state-of-the-art technologies aimed at optimising the safety, reliability and cost- effectiveness of rail and civil infrastructure projects and operations. In responses received by the show organisers to a questionnaire seeking views on Infrarail from companies that exhibited, all stated that they achieved their objectives at the show and had received positive business enquiries. There was a similar high level of positive feedback from CITE exhibitors.
This was the eleventh successful Infrarail and the second time that CITE has been integrated with it. It was also the first time the event had been held at ExCeL London. Exhibition manager Kirsten Whitehouse said, “In terms of both visitor numbers and exhibitor support, this year’s combined event fully met our expectations. Any initial concerns about the move to ExCeL London turned into warm approval for the venue. There was also welcome positive feedback from exhibitors and visitors confirming that CITE was a very important part of the overall event.”
www.infrarail.com
Technological disruption to revive the manufacturing sector for fourth Industrial Revolution
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he 2016 Annual Manufacturing Report, published by Hennik Research, reveals that British
manufacturers are predominantly optimistic about the future of the industry. The fourth Industrial Revolution, commonly known as Industry 4.0, is transforming the manufacturing and construction landscape through technologies like automation, sensors and 3D printing that produce higher efficiency, reduced costs and faster
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speed to market. In this environment, companies must decide to either adopt these innovations or face the prospect of being left behind. According to Nitin Rakesh, CEO and
president of leading digital modernisation firm, Syntel, “The digital age has disrupted many different aspects of manufacturing, from research and development, to marketing and sales. Businesses cannot afford to put
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production on hold in order to modernise, but must transform their manufacturing processes in order to thrive in an increasingly competitive environment.” According to the report, 83 per cent of companies have implemented some form of automation in their production process over the past five years. The few companies which did not automate their technology systems cited financial considerations as an inhibitor, with 54 per
cent fearing that ROI will be too slow to materialise, while 31 per cent were unable to accommodate the investment in their budget, and were concerned about ongoing costs. The report revealed several key factors which prompted manufacturers to invest in automation. 78 per cent were driven by increased efficiency, 60 per cent by cycle time and 58 per cent by quality. Factory managers are deploying new supply- network management tools, which support them in planning operations and deliveries by gaining a better understanding of the flow of raw materials and products.
www.syntelinc.com www.cieonline.co.uk
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