Ibarmia aims to get a hold in the market with their presentation at this year's EMO. The company will showcase their machining centres at the trade fair.

Renishaw will be showcasing its smart technologies and intelligent process control solutions across three booths on the showfloor at EMO Hannover.

It was in the Japanese city of Nagoya that Eichii Okuma founded his company in 1898. Unlike their modern counterparts, the early Okuma machines were not built to meet the requirements of the aviation or automotive industries. Instead, the first Okuma products were machines for making udon noodles.

CNC machine tool manufacturer Okuma, represented in Deutschland by Hommel, welcomed visitors at the Technical Centre South in Langenau, Germany and at the Technical Centre East in Parndorf, Austria.

United States/Germany – In his paper “Man-Computer Symbiosis”, L.C.R. Licklider advocated in 1960 the construction of computers capable of working symbiotically with humans.

The fax and telephone era in the steel and metal trading business is coming to an end. The winners will be the traders who have been quick and purposeful in the digitisation of their processes. The development will lead to fully automatic steel supply via the Internet of Things – with or without steel traders.

Switzerland - Imagine a future in which even the most complex and demanding industries enjoy intelligent, high-performance, resource efficient and fully predictive manufacturing. That is the vision and the ultimate destination of Industry 4.0, a movement gathering force around the world today.

Germany – Audi’s toolmaking operation already includes intelligent tools with which the Ingolstadt-based automaker can translate ultra-stringent design requirements into a dependable process. Michael Breme, head of Audi Toolmaking, explains what it takes to be successful in tomorrow's manufacturing world.

Germany is immersed in what some are calling the fourth industrial revolution – dubbed Industry 4.0 – and machine builders, automation vendors and industrial end-users are adding to the concept.

What does Smart Factory mean? Smart Factory is the vision of a production environment in which production facilities and logistics systems are organised without human intervention. Read on now and find out more about the structure of the intelligent factory through application examples from the automotive industry!