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![Carl Martin Welcker, EMO General Commissioner, (r) and Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, CEO of the EMO event organizer VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), looking back on a successful EMO Hannover 2019.](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/teaser-1-720x480.jpg)
EMO Hannover 2019 provides clarity in uncertain times Trade fair builds on successful previous event
EMO Hannover 2019 provides clarity in uncertain times Trade...
EMO Hannover 2019 provides clarity in uncertain times Trade fair builds on successful previous...
EMO Hannover 2019 closed its doors today following a six-day run. From 16 to 21 September, round about 117,000 production specialists from 150 countries convened at the world’s leading tradeshow for the metalworking industry. “This EMO Hannover 2019 built on the success of our boom year in 2017,” re...
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![Grouppicture: Andrea Janssen](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/W30My3Sg-720x480.jpeg)
AI continuing to gain ground: Awards presented to winners of the “Founder Competition – Digital Innovation” at EMO 2019 in Hanover, Germany
AI continuing to gain ground: Awards presented to winners...
AI continuing to gain ground: Awards presented to winners of the “Founder Competition –...
– Improving energy management through artificial intelligence, using a smartphone for virtual sewing patterns, or saving human lives with a digitalised process chain: these are just some of the unique ideas with which start-ups were able to convince the jury of the "Founder Competition – Digital Inn...
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![EMO Hannover 2019 - Weltleitmesse der Metallbearbeitung: Eröffnungsrundgang der EMO Hannover mit dem Bundesminister für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Andreas Scheuer. UMATI Halle 9, E24](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Teaser-umati-720x480.jpg)
Global machine tool community paving the way for Industry 4.0
Global machine tool community paving the way for Industry...
Global machine tool community paving the way for Industry 4.0
70 companies from ten countries have connected 110 machines and 28 value-added services at EMO Hannover 2019 via the umati standard interface. "umati is opening up a new chapter in production," says Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Prokop, Chairman of the VDW (Verein Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenhersteller – German M...
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![EMO Hannover (16. bis 21. September 2019) - Worlds premier fair of metalworking](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Teaser-eröffnung-eng-720x480.jpg)
EMO Hannover 2019 boosting investment levels with array of new technologies
EMO Hannover 2019 boosting investment levels with array of...
EMO Hannover 2019 boosting investment levels with array of new technologies
Andreas Scheuer, Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, together with Lower Saxony's First Minister Stephan Weil, Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom Adel Al-Saleh, Cecimo President Dr. Roland Feichtl and EMO General Commissioner Carl Martin Welcker, is opening t...
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![Polyurethane timing belt destroyed by influence of cooling lubricant Photo: VDW](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KSS-format-720x480.jpg)
Are plastics less resistant to new types of cooling lubricant?
Are plastics less resistant to new types of cooling...
Are plastics less resistant to new types of cooling lubricant?
Since the EU Reach chemicals regulation (EC 1907/2006) came into force, a whole series of environmentally harmful biocides has disappeared from cooling lubricants. This is good news, but it is now gradually becoming apparent that, while containing fewer biocides, the new emulsions are seemingly less...
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![New technologies open up opportunities for new business fields](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Forum-New-Technologies_EMO2019_Quelle-Deutsche-Messe-AGformat.-720x480.jpg)
New technologies kindling future business
New technologies kindling future business
New technologies kindling future business
EMO Hannover 2019 to devote separate forum to future technologies. The term "Industrial Internet of Things" (IIoT) covers a whole range of new technologies that open up innovative production possibilities. This will provide the basis for new areas of business. The importance of IIoT should not be un...
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