The international know-how of the automation industry and the global leaders of robotics from industry and research are meeting at AUTOMATICA in Munich starting from Tuesday, 22 May 2012. The Trade Fair for Automation and Mechatronics will last until Friday, 25 May 2012 This year it is occupying five trade fair halls on the grounds of the New Munich Trade Fair Centre, one more than the previous event in 2010.
More than 720 exhibitors from 40 countries will show their products and solutions for the manufacturing industry. Thirty percent of the exhibitors come from other countries, most of them from Europe. The five top exhibitor countries in addition to Germany are (ranked in order): Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the USA and France.
The focus of the trade fair is on the complete range of automation solutions. The exhibition focal points are robotics, machine vision as well as assembly and handling technology. The five halls are completely booked, and the key players from the industry are participating. These indicators demonstrate the great significance of AUTOMATICA as the leading European trade fair for automation.
The supporting programme focuses on mega-trends such as energy storage systems, lightweight construction, sustainability and production optimization. On these topics, there are the special exhibitions ‘Battery Manufacturing and Automation Technology’ and ‘Automated Composite Production’ in Hall A2. The visitor forum in Hall B1 is also dealing with the trends of the manufacturing industry and discusses solutions provided by automation technologies for four days.
The ‘Service Robotics Innovation Platform’ in Hall B3 presents state-of-the-art products and prototypes of service robotics for use in industry and everyday personal life. Internationally operating robot manufactures and research institutes are taking part in the special exhibition in cooperation with the Fraunhofer IPA.
Hall B3 also contains the robotics exhibition of top-ranking research institutes such as the German Center for Aerospace (DLR) as well as European institutions such as euRobotics and EUnited with brand new robots and results, which will be demonstrated live.
Next to AUTOMATICA, the trade fair with the world’s largest range of robotics products, the biggest German robotics conference ROBOTIK 2012 will take place in the ICM – International Congress Center Munich on 21 and 22 May.
