
Deutsche Messe announces Hermes Award 2024
The world's most important industry award will be presented by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, on April 21 during the opening ceremony of the Hannover Messe.
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The world's most important industry award will be presented by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, on April 21 during the opening ceremony of the Hannover Messe.

B&R Industrie-Elektronik GmbH has relocated its German headquarters from Bad Homburg to Friedberg in Hesse, where ABB's Robotics Division in Germany is based.

After three days, the 32nd SPS ended today in Nuremberg with a significant increase in visitor numbers. The event was somewhat overshadowed by the rail strike on November 15 and 16.

Siemens is launching its first self-developed private infrastructure for the 5G mobile communications standard. The solution enables industrial companies to set up their own local 5G networks that provide the best possible support for automation applications.

The company, which operates in the heating, air conditioning and pharmaceutical technology sectors, uses the systems to automate its entire material flow, including the dispatch of spare parts, thus ensuring the best possible supply for production.
Vetter Pharma-Fertigung has put its new automated material warehouse for pharmaceutical packaging materials into operation. The intralogistics specialist Still was entrusted with the analysis, consulting and planning of the logistics processes through to the implementation of the warehouse project. The automation significantly increases storage capacity, safety and flexibility in the internal logistics processes.
When it comes to warehouse automation, the focus is usually on large systems and companies. However, materialfluss spoke to Philipp Brünsing, authorized signatory and Head of Project Sales Central Europe for Products & Equipment at SSI Schaefer, about why it can also make sense for small and medium-sized companies to automate their intralogistics.

The spin-off Formic Transportsysteme from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a semi-automated transport system for exchanging production equipment that works like a swarm.
For SKF Lubrication Systems, system integrator Element Logic has implemented an AutoStore system for synchronized production supply and for fast processing of customer orders and delivery orders to other SKF plants.
Fronius, technology specialist for battery charging technology, welding systems and solar energy, sets a milestone in automated pallet transportation. In a partnership development project with Knapp, the first Open Shuttle Fork goes into operation at the Fronius site in Sattledt.