PREVIEW DRIVES & CONTROLS 2018
EVERYTHING UNDER ONE ROOF: Co-located manufacturing shows return to the NEC
Biennial co-located events – Drives & Controls, Smart Industry Expo, Fluid Power & Systems, Plant & Asset Management, and Air-Tech exhibitions – are once again set to return to Birmingham’s NEC (Halls 8, 9 and 10) on 10 - 12 April 2018, alongside MACH 2018
N
ew to the co-location of DFA events for 2018, is the inaugural Smart
Industry Expo. The new event will give exhibitors the opportunity to communicate directly with senior management across the whole of the UK industrial spectrum, from managing directors, financial directors, and owners to process/control and IT/ automation management, plus many more who are all seeking guidance in order to prepare for this smart engineering transformation. The 2018 co-location will be at least bigger than the 2016 exhibition,
1,000m2
thanks to the addition of the new Smart Industry Expo event. The entrance to the Smart Industry
Expo will be dominated by a double- stand occupied by Schneider Electric, covering around 150m2
– twice the area
that the company had at the previous Drives show in 2016. Another exhibitor transferring to the new event is the sensor-maker ifm electronic, which has also increased its stand space, by 20m2
again bring together key suppliers of state-of-the-art equipment representing the multi-tasking culture of today’s design engineer, covering critical areas such as energy efficiency, machine safety, drives, motion control, robotics and automation plus much more, all under one roof. With the advent of the smart factory, Drives & Controls Exhibition is an essential source of technological and engineering information. More than 100 companies have already signed up to exhibit at the Drives Show, with a further 25 booking stands for the new Smart Industry Expo event, which is dedicated to the factory of the future. First-time exhibitors in the Drives &
Controls Show will include Charter Controls, Wiska, ETA Enclosures, Eldon, EBM Papst, Finder, Elmo Motion, Procentec, Fischer Connectors and Infranor. TEC Motors is returning with a 128m2
stand that is 60 percent larger
than the one it had at the 2016 show. Phoenix Contact is more than quadrupling the size of its stand from 16m2 in 2016 to 72m2
in 2018. Other
returning exhibitors include Beckhoff, B&R, Rittal,Siemens/ HMK, Weidmuller, Danfoss, WEG, Eplan, Beijer, Wago, Mitsubishi, Radwell, IGE-XAO and KEB. Gambica and the European Transmission
.
The Smart Industry Expo has also attracted Festo (which has not appeared at the Drives Show for many years), as well as other well-known names such as Universal Robots, Harting, Panduit, Sigmatek, Senseye, Codra, Exor and Applied Automation. Smart Industry Expo will be one of the
UK’s most comprehensive dedicated events focusing on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and transforming to a smart manufacturing era.
CO-LOCATION OF EVENTS Drives & Controls Exhibition will once
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Distributors Association will again be hosting pavilions where members will be promoting their activities. Following the success of the inaugural robotics demonstration zone at the 2016 show, this feature is returning with working displays of the latest in robot technologies, including collaborative
devices. Elsewhere, visitors will be able to test their driving skills on a Formula 1 simulator on the Megadyne stand. Other co-location of events running
alongside Drives & Controls Exhibition and Smart Industry Expo, include Plant & Asset Management 2018, the UK’s premier event for plant, asset, maintenance and works management engineers and directors, showcasing the very latest in condition monitoring, CMMS, outsourcing/contract maintenance, energy efficiency, boilers/burners/combustion, handling and storage plus much more.
Industry spends huge sums of money
maintaining its plant, machinery and building assets. The combination of a highly focused exhibition with numerous leading companies showcasing their technologies and concurrent seminars provides a ‘one-stop shop’ for all industrial engineering professionals to source solutions to these problems.
FLUID POWER & SYSTEMS 2018 Fluid Power & Systems 2018 is the only event in the UK that is 100 percent focused on a comprehensive range of hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, together with products that facilitate better electro- mechanic system design and application for improved process automation, control, monitoring and analytics. Fully supported by the British Fluid
Power Association (BFPA), Fluid Power & Systems comprises the largest gathering of world-class companies displaying and demonstrating the latest in mechanical and electro-mechanical equipment.
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