The digital networking of the production is for years a topic at the Hanover fair. This year is to see how important the mobile data transmission.
A few people, self-propelled machines – a Vision for the company Bosch
Robot full the wildest tasks, your human colleagues to wear Virtual Reality goggles and worry by data glove, the 3D printer spits out the correct part of the “just-in-time” – all the skin in Hanover no more from the stool. At least not the visitors to the industrial fair, the world’s largest of its kind.
For years, the images with which exhibitors present at the fair repeat. But the Essential is invisible to the eye. While the halls look so like 2014, is the technology up to date.
“Integrated Industry – Industrial Intelligence” is the Motto of the fair this year. There is so much to artificial intelligence and complex systems, the waiting yourself, or at least know if something is wrong.
Intelligently and quickly
“In the past five or six years, we have worked to be the world’s leading trade fair for ‘industry 4.0’, i.e. for the digital networking of a factory,” says Jochen Köckler, member of the Board chief of the organizer, Deutsche Messe AG. “Now it is shown here that the cross-linking with the new mobile radio standard 5G gets a real boost.”
What that means is demonstrated by several manufacturers in the 5G Arena. Here is a working 5G test field was built in the machine with 100 times the previous speed to communicate with each other. The looks on the first glance not as spectacular – you can see robots, things to do and transport cars around to self-controlled. And yet a quality jump: More Sensors, more data exchange, but no cable. This not only reduces the cost but also makes the machines more flexible.
When man and machine work together, both should be friendly
With or against China?
In Germany, the auction of the 5G frequencies, at the same time, quarreled over the question of how Chinese companies such as Huawei to be involved in the construction of the necessary infrastructure.
Exhibition-in-chief Köckler hopes that the German policy delayed the development of 5G. “The politicians really need to see to it that you create the right framework to use this technology,” said Köckler to the DW. “For China, since most of our exhibitors come relies entirely on this technology. The measure yourself properly.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in her opening speech against a Huawei ban. “I’m against the fact that we excluded, by Definition, someone,” she said on Sunday morning, without mentioning China or the network supplier Huawei in particular. “It is important the Standards that must be adhered to.”
To earn money, but how?
More than in the past, new digital business models this year, the focus of the exhibitors ‘ responses to the question of how you can earn with all the networking and money.
“The digitisation of business models is a decade project. And the Hannover Messe is the heart rate monitor where we are on this path,” says Thilo Brodtmann, managing Director of the Association of German machine and plant builders. The German companies would be well-placed two-thirds of the way behind and are now in the position to your customers with new products and processes. “We are on the verge of the threshold, to make money.”
Around 60 percent of the exhibitors in Hannover come from abroad
Industry – or IT fair?
Digital business models, the evaluation of large amounts of data (Big Data), services on the Cloud – the boundaries are definitely blurred between the subjects of the industrial fair and the Cebit trade fair, which had been set up in the past year.
The Failure of the Cebit in Hannover, but for the industry trade fair not a reason for concern, says Klaus Mittelbach, the Association chief of the German electrical industry (ZVEI). “The crucial difference for the Cebit is the world market leader in the industry, from Germany. You have here the seat of their companies, are often medium-sized. And that also shows on which issues we focus here.”
The Rest of the world doesn’t seem to bother it, quite the contrary. Exhibition-in-chief Köckler will be happy about 6500 exhibitors, more than 1500 from China. “Around 60 per cent of the companies come from abroad, which is our highest level to date.”
The host country this year is Sweden, which is advertising in Hannover in order to have the highest share of green electricity in the European Union – and at the same time the cheapest industrial electricity in North and West Europe. Reason enough for Amazon to build in Sweden, three large data center for its cloud services.