Machine tools become ready for IIoT applications
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Machine tools become ready for IIoT applications
17.12.2020Author: Sariana Kunze
The machine tool industry is suffering from the economic situation. Digital networking offers the greatest leverage in the future. With connectors, machine tools can be made fit for IIoT applications. Related Companies (Source: Cybus)
Milling, turning, grinding, nibbling, punching these are the tasks performed by machine tools, which are at the core of every industrial production process. Because of this central role, machine tool manufacturing is particularly affected by digitalisation. This view is also held by the German Machine Tool Builders Association (VDW), for which digitisation in the narrower sense already began in the 1960s with the introduction of CNC control. Furthermore, the association advocates un
Metav reloaded becomes Metav digital
Event Update Metav reloaded becomes Metav digital
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“If anything good has come out of this difficult time, it is the stimulation of creativity,” stated Dr Wilfried Schäfer, Executive Director of the VDW, (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association) at the Metav 2020 reloaded Preview on 10 December 2020. The press conference was originally intended to pave the way for the Metav 2020 reloaded fair next March. But the trade fair has now been completely reinvented as “Metav digital”. It will be held from 23 to 26 March 2021.
“Out of concern for our exhibitors, who need certainty for their planning, and bearing in mind the health of all those involved, we made the decision last week to cancel Metav 2020 reloaded as a face-to-face get-together and to replace