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Hanover Messe draws to close with focus on manufacturing solutions

Xinhua, April 28, 2017 Adjust font size:

Hanover Messe, Germany's leading trade fair for industrial technology, ended here on Friday with more solutions for the world's manufacturing transformation.

The five-day show gathered around 225,000 attendees, including 75,000 from abroad, featuring the future pulse of the ongoing industrial transformation, or revolution dubbed Industry 4.0.

Around 500 Industry 4.0 solutions were presented at the fair, a sharp increase from last year's 100 solutions, according to the organizer.

Around 1,300 Chinese exhibitors, including a number of big names like Huawei and Haier took part in this year's event, during which they showcased the latest products, solutions as well as industrial platforms. A number of cooperation agreements were signed between Chinese and foreign companies.

Items on display included intelligent robots, adaptive machines and integrated energy systems.

Jochen Koeckler, member of the managing board of the fair, said that he sensed the "buoyant mood" in the industry.

Thilo Brodtmann, managing director of the German Engineering Federation, said Industry 4.0 is now well past the trial stage, and is generating real benefits in application.

The concept, coined by the German federal government in 2011, is often used to describe the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies, including cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things and cloud computing. Endit