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MOTEK 2009 Sharpens the Competitive Edge!
Investment decisions regarding production and assembly streamlining cannot be delayed. The 28th MOTEK is pointing the way in this respect with comprehensive information and presentations covering the latest equipment which promises the quickest possible success.
There’s absolutely no alternative for achieving, and continuing to maintain, a sharp competitive edge! The way to future capabilities for manufacturing companies will not be paved tomorrow or next week, but rather right now. And in an age of globalised production, no one can escape the facts that the competition is getting tougher every day and new challenges are cropping up continuously. These factors can only be countered with an appropriate, pragmatically determined degree of automation, for which reason the number of robots and handling systems will grow dramatically in the areas of production automation, assembly, distribution, order picking and packaging.
The Robots are Coming – and They Need a Periphery!
But this illuminates only one side of the coin, because robots are not ready for action until they’re furnished with grippers, machine vision, image processing, handling and material flow peripherals. For this reason, the MOTEK international trade fair for handling and assembly technology which will take place at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre from the 21st through the 24th of September, 2009, will concentrate on all fields of endeavour which are relevant for rationalisation through automation, and not just on robotics. An isolated examination makes no sense at all, as opposed to a complete representation of process and system solutions!
MOTEK – Components, Subsystems, Complete Solutions
According to the IFR Statistical Department, 18 million robots will be in use all over the world by the year 2011, compared with roughly 7 million in 2008 including 6 million industrial and 1 million so-called service robots. As a logical consequence, demand for gripping, handling and material flow peripherals is also increasing proportionately, for which reason MOTEK is still on the right track with its internationally unique portfolio. Manufacturers and suppliers from around the globe are obviously pursuing this philosophy as well, because well over 750 exhibitors have already made firm booking for the 28th MOTEK, and will occupy more than 538,000 square feet of overall exhibition floor space.
Industry Relevant Information
According to Rainer Bachert, longstanding MOTEK project manager, the leading trade fair for handling and assembly technology will occupy pavilions 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 this year, i.e. an entire row of the two-part exhibition centre in Stuttgart. The event will include focal points such as the new theme parks for “Mechatronics” and “Microsystems Technology”, which will above be accompanied by various research facilities, universities and networks, for example the Mechatronics Competence Network BW e.V. But also thanks to “Training/Science”, the well known MOTEK technical seminars, the exhibitor forum, the congress entitled “Looking to the Future” and last but not least support provided by the Stuttgart Economic Region, MOTEK is very well equipped to meet the great demands of exhibitors and expert visitors from the industrial and newly industrialised nations, even in the difficult year of 2009.
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