AUTOMATICA has recorded a registration record. Exhibitors have already booked more space today for the trade fair in Munich on June 21 to 24, 2016 than at the previous event. In five exhibition halls, more than 800 companies are going to display their solutions for the optimization of production processes and professional service robotics and will show that the era of smart robotics and automation has begun.
In fact, business in the industry could hardly be better these days. Patrick Schwarzkopf, CEO of VDMA Robotics + Automation, stated it precisely: “The German robotics and automation industry had sales of 11.4 billion euros in 2014. This new record represents an increase of nine per cent over the previous year. We expect a sales increase of five per cent in the current year. Against these positive signals, the industry is pushing developments ahead such as man-machine collaboration, mobile robotics and Industry 4.0.”
For AUTOMATICA this means revolution instead of evolution in terms of technology and exhibits. Robotics, industrial machine vision, integrated assembly solutions and professional service robotics are among the drivers of technological development.
Innovation has once again picked up speed over the past two years, as Wilfried Eberhardt, Chief Marketing Officer at KUKA AG, emphasized: “Specific topics such as Industry 4.0, safe human-robot collaboration and new applications of robots are in demand. The users want not only to see and hear the benefits, but also to use them in actual practice, quickly too. As a leading company in robotics and automation, we are working at full speed at KUKA to fulfill these wishes. Consequently, we can already promise today that we will show pioneering and unique technology solutions at AUTOMATICA 2016. These are solutions that enable significant productivity gains and show automation possibilities where they were previously only possible with great difficulties.”