![Employees and customers receive user-specific data, for example via augmented reality. This allows any substandard work arising from false interpretation and resulting errors to be reduced to a minimum. Photo: Phoenix Contact](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Teaser_eng-720x480.jpg)
Digital yet sustainable – How so?
Digital yet sustainable – How so?
Digital yet sustainable – How so?
Industrial processes can either be digital or sustainable – at least that is the belief of many who have not yet given the issues involved the consideration they deserve. But the VDMA Technology Forum at EMO Hannover will be proving the opposite: applied sensibly and judiciously, digitalisation can ...
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![Wheel carrier ideally designed for additive manufacturing and optimized by Amendate. Photo: Amendate GmbH](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Teaser.eng_-720x480.jpg)
Amendate: smart software at EMO Hannover
Amendate: smart software at EMO Hannover
Amendate: smart software at EMO Hannover
Relieving engineers of tiresome routines and unleashing their creativity: the goal of Amendate GmbH from Paderborn is to take additive manufacturing to the next level. The new company is planning to have its latest piece of software ready for market in time for the EMO Hannover trade fair where it w...
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![GM joined forces with Autodesk to develop the first 3D-printed and functionally optimised seat holder. Photo: GM](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Teaser-1-720x480.jpg)
Lightweight construction is key technology for global sustainability
Lightweight construction is key technology for global sustainability
Lightweight construction is key technology for global sustainability
Intelligent lightweight solutions are increasingly gaining ground in machine tool construction. The main focuses are on new geometries and materials as well as simulation and 3D printing. Exhibitors at EMO Hannover will be showing how products can be designed and manufactured to meet lightweight and...
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![New tram vehicle body concept featuring a hexagonal load-bearing structure based on lightweight construction and an open design with large window surfaces. Photo: Panik Ebner Design](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Teaser_eng-1-720x480.jpg)
Engineering inspired by nature
Engineering inspired by nature
Engineering inspired by nature
Frankfurt am Main, 20. May 2019 – There is an established tradition of young entrepreneurs presenting their new business models at EMO Hannover. CellCore, a company founded by Andreas Krüger and two of his colleagues at the end of 2016, is one of the exhibitors on the joint start-up stand supported ...
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![The Xeidana software, which was developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (IWU) in Chemnitz, provides users with a solution package that can take care of various tasks ranging from data acquisition to automated quality control. Foto: IWU](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Xeidana_IWU-Chemnitz-Teaser_eng-720x480.jpg)
High-quality sensor data is a crucial requirement for Industry 4.0
High-quality sensor data is a crucial requirement for Industry...
High-quality sensor data is a crucial requirement for Industry 4.0
The use of appropriate sensor technology in production is a basic prerequisite for the implementation of Industry 4.0. It collects data on process and machine status as it arises and makes it available for various process-relevant information services and workflows. However, the costs of sensor tech...
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![Astrophysicists Theo Steininger and Maksim Greiner are looking for new applications for artificial intelligence software that has already proven itself in the automotive industry. Photo: Erium](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Erium_KI-Einsatz_en-720x480.jpg)
Metalworking inspired by the stars: Astrophysicists looking to optimise milling
Metalworking inspired by the stars: Astrophysicists looking to optimise...
Metalworking inspired by the stars: Astrophysicists looking to optimise milling
Recently, even astrophysicists have started taking an interest in EMO Hannover. Garching-based Dr. Theo Steininger and Dr. Maksim Greiner, former PhD students at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, have developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) software that makes use of the latest s...
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![The EMO World Tour begins on January 15, 2019. It will lead from Asia via Europe and the Americas once around the world. In total, 39 press conferences are planned in 34 countries.](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/EMO-Flugzeug-848x565en-720x480.jpg)
EMO-Logo in 3D: a unique specimen for the EMO World Tour
EMO-Logo in 3D: a unique specimen for the EMO...
EMO-Logo in 3D: a unique specimen for the EMO World Tour
The EMO Hannover World Tour begins in mid-January 2019. Start is Vietnam. The next stops are Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. This will be followed by 35 further events in 30 countries until June. Representatives of the EMO organiser VDW (Ger-man Machine Tool Builders’ Association) and its cooperat...
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Digital fitness regime for machinists
Digital fitness regime for machinists
Digital fitness regime for machinists
Machinists are getting used to the new terminology. Tool manufacturers and their users are now familiar with digital twins, the cloud and the smart evaluation of Big Data. All this is happening in response to the "Industrial Internet of Things IIoT" – one of the key themes of EMO Hannover 2019.
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![VDW Verein Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken e.V., Frankfurt/Main, 11.und 12. April 2018 © Uwe Nölke, look@team-uwe-noelke.de, +49 6173 321413, alle Rechte vorbehalten. Die Verwendung dieses Bildes ist für redaktionelle Berichterstattung honorarfrei. Veröffentlichung nur mit Quellenangabe: Bild: Uwe Nölke / team-uwe-noelke.de](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dr.-Wilfried-Schäfer-3-720x480.jpg)
EMO Hannover 2019 on the right track
EMO Hannover 2019 on the right track
EMO Hannover 2019 on the right track
By 01 December of this year, 1,780 exhibitors from 41 countries had registered for the upcoming EMO Hannover 2019. Anyone can view the online list of exhibitors at www.emo-hannover.de.
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![ILT am 03.04.2017© Volker LannertOriginalfilename: Unbenannt2_4-2](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FA-01_01_Oberflächenbeschichtungen_PM_Fraunhofer-Preis_EHLA-Verfahren_Bild1-3-720x480.jpg)
Fast and environment-friendly coating
Fast and environment-friendly coating
Fast and environment-friendly coating
The new process for extreme high-speed laser deposition welding (Ehla) is a genuine success story: intensive development in Aachen from 2012, consistent implementation and testing of the system technology in the Netherlands followed by industrial implementation in China. And on 21 September 2018, th...
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