The upcoming HANNOVER MESSE 2013 will be staged under the banner of "Integrated Industry." The lead theme signals the fair's key focus on the growing integration of all areas of industry. "Machines, industrial equipment, work pieces and system components will soon be capable of exchanging data in real-time. This will significantly boost efficiency, safety and resource sustainability in production and logistics," said Dr. Jochen Köckler, a member of the Deutsche Messe Board of Management. "The experts have dubbed this technological development the fourth industrial revolution, coming, as it does, after the steam engine, mass production and automation."
"Integrated Industry" not only could be defined in terms of technical and electronic integration, but also in terms of the challenge faced by all areas of industry as they seek to cooperate across corporate and sector boundaries. Integration would shorten communication channels and make collaboration more efficient.
The goal of rapidly integrating all systems necessitates a fundamental restructuring of production processes. In the future, intelligent materials will tell machines how they want to be processed and formed. Parts and assemblies will have autonomous digital product memories that will facilitate continuous documentation throughout their entire lifecycles. Components will initiate their own maintenance and repair requests. And intelligent components in complex equipment will independently report faults to monitoring systems, thereby instantly triggering the remedial measures necessary to prevent further damage and initiate repair work.
The Industrial Automation tradeshow will put the spotlight on integrated automation processes with themes like Embedded Systems and Smart Production. The message here is that intelligent production systems and processes and the realization and coordination of networked, geographically distributed production sites are vital to making “Integrated Industry” a living reality.
The lead theme will also be manifested in many aspects of the MDA, including the Condition Monitoring Systems displays. Industrial automation and power transmission and control technologies are steadily converging as the industrial world goes digital. This trend is reflected in the fact that more and more suppliers of power transmission, linear motion and industrial gear systems are offering turnkey automation solutions.
The Energy show provides an integrated perspective on current energy-sector issues and challenges. The Wind tradeshow with its array of displays and exhibits showing how integrated wind turbine maintenance and control systems can help master the challenges of Germany’s energy system transformation. Translating the highly promising electric mobility technologies on show at MobiliTec into mainstream reality requires several disparate sectors of industry to work together and forge new alliances.
The enormous potential of "Integrated Industry" is also abundantly clear at the Digital Factory show, where the spotlight is on process integration and interdisciplinary product development. The show likewise has a strong focus on systems engineering for more effective coordination of different disciplines within the engineering sector.
Many of the exhibitors at the Industrial Supply show are subcontractors who are directly integrated into their customers’ production and planning processes. Production chains that span multiple providers rely for their success and effectiveness on integrated subcontracting solutions and services. The subcontracting sector is “Integrated Industry” at its best.
The SurfaceTechnology show is where exhibitors present integrated surface systems and the latest innovations in a range of fields, including nanotechnology. In keeping with the “Integrated Industry” theme, the show explores ways in which industrial companies can use surface technology to enhance the energy and resource-efficiency of their plants and processes.
The ComVac show outlines ways of making production processes more energy efficient. Compressed air technology is one of the few technologies that is used by almost every industrial sector. Failure to integrate it properly into industrial production at the process design stage can therefore have far-reaching consequences in terms of lost efficiencies.
The exhibitors at IndustrialGreenTec will highlight ways of integrating environmental management systems into existing business models, identifying opportunities for developing new, eco-friendly products and streamlining complex systems and processes. At IndustrialGreenTec, “Integrated Industry” is all about being greener and smarter than the competition.
Of course, “Integrated Industry” begins with R&D – with early-stage interaction between science and business. The Research & Technology show is the epitome of R&D: a force for integration that brings people and innovative ideas together. It is where scientists, developers, engineers and managers learn about the latest innovations, make new contacts and form interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral networks.
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