SHOW PREVIEW DRIVES & CONTROLS Manufacturing extravaganza set to return to NEC
Co-located events Drives & Controls, Smart Industry Expo, Fluid Power & Systems, Plant & Asset Management and Air-Tech return to the NEC, Birmingham from 10-12 April 2018
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. 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
Distributors Association will be hosting pavilions where members will be promoting their activities. The robotics demonstration zone is
returning with working displays of the latest in robot technologies, including collaborative devices. Other co-located events running
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rives & Controls, Smart Industry Expo, Fluid Power & Systems, Plant
& Asset Management, and Air-Tech Exhibitions are once again set to return to Bimingham’s NEC from 10-12 April 2018, alongside MACH 2018. New 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 who are seeking guidance in order to prepare for the 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
.
The Smart Industry Expo has also attracted Festo 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.
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CO-LOCATION OF EVENTS Drives & Controls Exhibition will 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
alongside Drives & Controls Exhibition and Smart Industry Expo includes 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. Fluid Power & Systems 2018 is the only event in the UK that is 100 per cent focused on a 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. In addition, Air-Tech 2018 is set to
highlight current key themes related to the very latest in air compressor and related technology from companies from around the globe.
SEMINAR PROGRAMME The Knowledge Hub, sponsored by Gardner Denver, will feature a free comprehensive programme of seminars and panel discussions, with speakers offering expert insight and practical advice on important and topical issues. As part of the ongoing global transformation to the smart manufacturing era, The Knowledge Hub’s theme for 2018 is Smart Factory - Concept to Reality, the journey to a smart future.
Drives & Controls
www.drives-expo.com
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