Held at the Stuttgart Messe from September 18-22 more than 1,500 exhibitors will present their developments and innovations in the 120,000m² exhibition space to an anticipated 90,000 international visitors.
“With the new 15,000m² Paul Horn Hall, the special AMB show ‘Digital Way’ and the related congress, we have created ideal conditions to make AMB 2018 even larger and better,” says Ulrich Kromer von Baerle, CEO of Messe Stuttgart.
The additional available space has resulted in a restructuring of the show: machine tools will be located in halls 1 and 3. Halls 4 and 6 will focus on lathes and automatic lathes and hall 5 will feature grinding machines, tool grinding machines and everything related.
Hall 8 will present innovations in sawing and cutting-off, grinding machines, surface technology, marking systems, hardening and heating machines, lubrication and cooling, and safety and environmental engineering.
Hall 7, hall 9 and the new Paul Horn Hall (hall 10) will round off the exhibition programme with milling machines, metal-removal process machine tools, measuring systems and quality assurance, as well as flexible production cells/systems, machining centres, gearcutting machines and drilling machines. Suppliers of control and drive systems, CAD/CAM/CAE and production software will be found in hall 2 at the eastern entrance to the trade fair grounds.
‘Digital Way’ and the associated two-day congress will demonstrate ways in which industry can increase the potential of digitalisation by means of the latest information technology.
Gunnar Mey, director, industry at Messe Stuttgart, explains: “Companies want to know how Industry 4.0 and digitalisation can be implemented in production. What providers have already successfully carried out projects? What applications or models are available and are relevant to the respective company? We will bring together solution-orientated answers during the ‘Digital Way’ show at AMB 2018.”
The show comes at a time when sales markets in Europe are booming. Economic experts are predicting that gross domestic product in Germany and the Eurozone will rise by 2.2% and 2.3% respectively in 2018.
AMB 2018 is backed by the VDMA Precision Tools Association, the VDMA Software and Digitalisation Association, and the German Machine Tool Builders' Association (VDW).
AMB 2018 www.messe-stuttgart.de/amb/en
