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Armin Wittman, exhibition director said: “Automatica is certainly a show- case for the latest in Automation tech- nology. There were many interesting new innovations at this year’s fair. Our biggest challenge for the future is in attracting visitors from vertical mar- kets that use automation and robots. I’m sure we will achieve this aim and the fair will be even bigger in 2014.”
Service robotics: new exhibition focal point starting from 2014 Norbert Bargmann, deputy chief execu- tive officer of Messe München International, announced: “Automatica is going to be one of the top trade fairs in the world in the area of service robotics starting from 2014. We are going to expand this area together with our partners.”
The fact that the trade fair was already well positioned in this respect could be seen by the great number of visitors at the booths of research insti- tutes such as the German Center for Aerospace, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation as well as the European platforms such as euRobotics and EUnited. Dr Michael Wenzel, managing director of Reis Group Holding and CEO of VDMA Robotics + Automation, said: “I have seen the clear commitment of association members to Munich and Automatica. There is a clear decision for Automatica 2014 to put service robotics more strongly in the limelight. I am very pleased that there has been a closing of ranks in the industry – espe- cially in robotics – for this strategic fur- ther development. There are already commercially successful applications in professional service robotics.”
ABB Robotics displayed its latest innovation where robots can work more closely with their human work colleagues
Praise from the political sphere Robert Madelin, director general for the Information Society of the European Commission, opened the trade fair visibly impressed as EU rep- resentative: “Automatica has quickly established itself as one of the leading international trade fairs in robotics and automation. This is my first time here, and I am hugely impressed by what I am seeing from the hundreds of exhibitors, the majority of whom are from Europe.”
Coming to India from 2013 Bargmann and Brodtmann emphasised the increasing importance of the automation platform for Europe and used the positive end of the trade fair to announce a new event. “The Automatica format has been missing abroad until now, and consequently we are going to hold an automation trade fair in India in the future. The new ‘India Automation Technology Fair’ (IATF) is going to be held at the Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC) for the first time from 1 to 3 February 2013. Our goal is to make it the leading trade fair of the automation industry in India.”
Knowledge transfer
The supporting programme also con- tributed to the success of the trade fair. The focus was on trends such as energy storage systems, electric mobility, light- weight construction, sustainability and production optimisation. Two special exhibitions on the topics of battery manufacturing and lightweight con- struction were new. With them, Automatica dealt with topics of the
Kuka had a large booth at the fair as usual and made a big impact with plenty of bright lights, food and entertainment
Dr. Bernhard Heitzer, undersecretary in the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) and keynote speaker, said: “Robotics and automation have become indispensable in our modern industrial society. Automatica has become the showcase for modern robotics and automation technologies in the meantime. It has become the largest of its kind in the world. Exhibitors prove their innovative force impressively here.”
future, which entail business opportu- nities for the automation industry. In four-day user forums, speakers dealt with pressing topics based on the expe- rience of the manufacturing industry. In addition, there were numerous meet- ings of experts on industrial machine vision and robotics as well as on market opportunities in Russia and India.
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