Control in Stuttgart is an international trade fair for quality assurance. A strict thematic focus is guaranteed and provides an up-to-date world offer of usable technologies, processes, products and system solutions for industrial quality assurance. On 09-12.05.2023 the 35th Control will take place.
While in 2000 electronic documentation as an aid from the Internet was still the facilitator par excellence for a changeover from element-oriented to process-oriented quality management, in 2014 the focus was on MES software (Manufacturing Execution System). With it, all data relevant to the manufacturing process could already be collected and used as a basis for even more efficient planning of future production planning and production optimization processes in real time. Today, nothing works without AI. Especially in the product group software for computer-aided quality assurance, the advantages of task sharing for man & machine are presented at Control. For example, the formerly purely manual visual inspection is now supported by AI and gains significantly in efficiency.
Hannover Messe has its origins in the founding of Deutsche Messe- und Ausstellungs-A. G. and the then “Export-Messe 1947 Hannover”. Some 736,000 visitors from 53 countries came to Hannover on 21 days of the fair. Export contracts totaling almost 32 million US dollars were concluded. The Hannover Messe has borne its present name since 1961. Gradually, many trade fairs evolved from the industrial fair. In 1970, for example, CeBIT was established as the center for office and information technology in the wake of the rapidly growing office economy. The Hannover Messe has become an important barometer for the development of the electrical and mechanical engineering industries and has always appealed to a broad industrial audience.
In 2001, it was agreed that the modern world of communications was increasingly finding its way into industry. Thus, networking and data communication, which were primarily used in production, were expected to define automation technology in the future. In 2013, Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things became part of the product portfolio as the mega trends of industrialization and Digitalization.
This year’s Hannover Messe reported around 2500 exhibitors and 75,000 visitors due to the absence of Chinese participants. With the slogan “Shaping the digital transformation – together to paperless production” macio as Cloudflight Company was also among this year’s exhibitors.
In addition to the classics Industry 4.0 and IT security, AI & Machine Learning and Hydrogen & Fuel Cells were among the top topics at this year’s Hannover Messe. With this focus, it is to remain the world’s most important industrial trade fair and interface to politics.
At embedded world, everything revolves around embedded systems, whether security of electronic systems, distributed intelligence, the Internet of Things or e-mobility and energy efficiency. The exhibition has been held annually in Nuremberg since 2003 and presents two multi-day trade congresses in parallel. This year’s or 20th embedded world counted around 18,000 international embedded experts from 76 countries, as well as about 3900 online participants.
As one of the most important trade fairs, the Cloudflight company macio also presented itself under the motto “HMIs that simply work” and showed visitors that, starting from embedded human machine interfaces, an entire HMI ecosystem opens up for their products.
In terms of mobility, the International Motor Show, which takes place every two years, is probably the largest and best-known trade fair. Since 1991, passenger cars and commercial vehicles have been exhibited separately. The beginnings of the IAA date back to 1897, when the design of motorcars still largely resembled horse-drawn carriages. As early as 1899, an electric car of the Egger-Lohner Mylord/Coupé model from Vienna won the gold medal at the International Motor Car Exhibition in Berlin and the first honorary prize at the “International Competition of Electric Automobiles,” which was held at the same time.” While the IAA for Commercial Vehicles increasingly developed into a trade show covering the entire value chain, the IAA for Passenger Cars became a show run for world premieres, accompanied by trade show parties and artistic performances.
Since 2015, the IAA New Mobility World has been held in parallel, a B2B platform where current topics relating to Digitalization and new forms of mobility are presented and discussed. Companies that do not belong to the classic automotive sector take part as well.
With the IAA Mobility came not only a new name in 2021, but also a new location and a new concept in which the focus of the trade show was less on performance and more on the environmental goals of the individual automobile manufacturers.
it-sa or “Home of IT Security” is an annual IT security trade show in Nuremberg, which has been accompanied by a congress on information security since 2012. The trade fair brings together decision-makers, experts and IT security managers from all sectors of the economy in person. But it-sa 365 also brings the trade public together online between the exhibition dates under the motto “Solutions – Networking – Knowledge”. The range of products and services at the IT security trade fair includes solutions for preventing hacker attacks, hardware failures, insider crime, but also for awareness, data and hardware security, Internet and network security, testing and certification, as well as storage solutions, access and access control, and much more. Presentations, workshops, discussion panels and expert talks on IT security topics at it-sa 365 can be accessed as recordings by registered users at any time after the live events.
New appearances, products and technologies relating to the fire department and aid organizations can be found every five years at the Interschutz trade fair in Hanover. The first Interschutz took place in Hanover in 1980, although previous events date back to 1901. While trade fair visitors in the 1980s were amazed by “firefighting from the air using remote-controlled missiles,” in the 1990s, one of the topics discussed was the loss of motivation resulting from over-bureaucratization, with which the German and European emergency response services have to contend.
A very relevant topic at this year’s Interschutz was once again forest fires. Whereas these were traditionally monitored by watchtowers or air squadrons, today satellite data is used that can provide an automatic and highly accurate localization of these fires by means of AI.
In general, professionals today have high hopes for digitization and for AI to provide important decision-making support in the assessment of emergency calls and resource management. Fire trucks from the world’s largest manufacturer Rosenbauer International AG are also becoming increasingly innovative, but also technically more complex. Equipped with 150-200 sensors, they can collect data on maintenance status and operational safety. Thanks to the on-demand architecture of the new Times Series database, developed in collaboration with Cloudflight, they can be queried in seconds.
After a four-year break from Corona, the world’s leading trade fair for lighting and building technology Light + Building Autumn Edition will be held this year in Frankfurt am Main from October 2 to 6, 2022. The focus will be on intelligent and networked solutions, forward-looking technologies and current design trends. Tickets also include access to the Digital Extension. In addition to highly qualified trade visitors, more than 1,300 exhibitors from 46 countries are expected to attend the Restart. The first Light and Building dates back to 2000, when it was still a world lighting show. In the meantime, the trade fair takes place every two years and offers a modern spectrum – from LED technology and charging management for electromobility to intelligent electricity use with smart metering and smart grids.
Space Tech Expo gathered the expertise of more than 300 national and international companies for this year’s trade show and conference on space, showcasing their products and innovations in space technology and cutting-edge technology related to the space industry. The leading themes were the commercial use of space travel and how to reduce the cost of travel to space. Space Tech Expo has been around since 2015 and has been held in Bremen every two years since then.
