WIN Eurasia Automation 2015, which ran 19-22 March at the Tüyap Fair Convention and Congress Center in Istanbul, has consolidated its position as Eurasia's most important industrial trade fair. Connecting Otomasyon Eurasia, Electrotech Eurasia, Materials Handling Eurasia and Hydraulic&Pneumatic Eurasia, the event introduced all solutions required in a factory from simple cables to fluid power systems, drive technology to software, robotic arms to unmanned forklifts.
"1581 companies from 21 countries used the event to introduce their future-oriented solutions and generate new business in Turkey as well as Southern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and the former Soviet republics." said Alexander Kühnel, General Manager of Hannover Messe Bileşim Fuarcılık, adding "With wide range product variety, WIN Eurasia Automation confirmed why it is the region's leading innovation platform for visitors who want to choose the best solutions for the developments of the factory of the future."
The pathway to the future: Industry 4.0
A new era is beginning in the industrial world. Named Industry 4.0, this new era is shaped under the light of digital technological developments and puts "smart factories" to the center of the industry. These new developments allow the machinery, computers, drives and control devices in the manufacturing process to communicate with each other as well as to coordinate and optimize themselves almost entirely independent of human intervention. This reduces manufacturing time, cost and energy use whereas increasing production quality.
Considering these advantages, a rapid transformation is happening towards this new industrial era, particularly in the USA, Germany and Japan. The remaining countries need to complete their infrastructure works quickly and adapt to this new era in order not to lose their competitive power. WIN Eurasia Automation offered one of the major contributions to the development of Industry 4.0 in Turkey with the innovative products and solutions displayed by the exhibitors.
In Otomasyon Eurasia fair, visitors had the opportunity to see especially the robotics and robotic arms developed by imitating animal and human movements and equipped with the more compact components. Manufacturing and packaging more products in less time and accomplishing the goal of not damaging the product in the process, as needed in the food industry in particular, is now easier with more flexible and ergonomic robotic arms. The world's fastest packaging robotic arm was displayed in Otomasyon Eurasia.
Another major development was introduced to visitors in Materials Handling Eurasia. Unmanned movement and storage solutions that have high motion flexibility and provide decent performance even in narrow corridors were exhibited in the trade fair. These products can easily find their route with the smart navigation and sensor units in their composition, and can autonomously control their movements to avoid any collision.
The influence of Industry 4.0 was observed in Electrotech Eurasia as well. Various products such as smart and refined safety relays and electronic components that have IP numbers and can communicate with each other, as displayed throughout the trade fair, were observed to be enabling more effective control of manufacturing processes. In the meanwhile, Hydraulic&Pneumatic Eurasia introduced the innovations in fluid power systems such as the products with sealing formula which support the developing automation technologies.
4 trade fairs brought together the high end component, driver, software, robotic and materials handling solutions for integrated manufacturing processes in the new industrial era. Visitors who did not want to fall behind the new era visited the trade fair from various countries of the Eurasian region in order to see these innovations for their factory.
WIN Eurasia Automation 2015 hosted 77,244 visitors during four days. 88% of these visitors were decision makers and came especially from the electric-electronic, automotive, machine and automation sectors. Nearly 90% of visitors expressed their satisfaction with the fairs.
The next WIN Eurasia Automation will take place from 17 to 20 March 2016.
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