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First expo and conference to focus on car body manufacturing By: Clinton Wright
The world’ s first expo and congress to focus on car body manufacturing – the AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING EXPO and Automotive Engineering Congress( AEE) – will be held from the June 4 to 6, 2013 in Nuremberg, Germany.
“ With few exceptions, car body manufacturing is the in-house expertise of the OEMs,” said Dr. Klaus Koglin, spokesman for the OEM Advisory Board of the AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING EXPO, Director Technology Development at AUDI AG until the end of October 2012 and now adviser to the Q7 Start-Up Management Team in Bratislava.
“ The automotive manufacturers have a very large amount of design and manufacturing know-how in this field and the fastest access to innovations in
Dr. Klaus Koglin, spokesman for the OEM Advisory Board of the AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING EXPO, Director Technology Development at
AUDI AG until the end of October 2012 and now adviser to the Q7 Start-Up
Management Team in Bratislava.
process, material and joining technology. The body is the heaviest part of the car and is determined not least by safety, comfort and emotionality. Car body manufacturing is thus a key element of automotive production,” he says.
The automotive exhibition and congress will present the entire spectrum of products and services for the process chain of car body manufacturing, painting and assembly. The exhibitors include many of the industry’ s key players: Arnold & Shinjo, Böllhoff, EDAG Production Solutions, Schotte Automotive, Sika, ThyssenKrupp, TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik. It will be held every two years in the exhibition centre at Nuremberg. The exhibition and congress are supported by the Automotive Circle International, the marketleading communication platform for the international automotive and system supplier industry. The complete portfolio is organized by the specialist publisher Vincentz Network based in Hanover. NürnbergMesse is responsible for the organization on the ground.
According to Automotive Circle International, car manufacturers have expressed keen interest in the AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING EXPO. High-ranking decision-makers from internationally operating original equipment manufacturers( OEMs) are members of the exhibition committee and cooperate closely with the organizers to tailor the exhibition concept to the exact needs of the industry. All the car manufacturers involved agree that the exhibition comes at exactly the right time. The industry faces challenges in lightweight construction, process optimization and the use of intelligent materials.“ Car body engineering is increasingly concerned with identifying technology and material innovations as quickly as possible and developing their suitability for series production. And this is exactly where the AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING EXPO offers an ideal platform,” says Franziska Moennig, Director of the Presidium of the Automotive Circle International in the Vincentz Network.
The event is expected to attract 60 exhibitors and 2,500 trade visitors. Running parallel, the Automotive Engineering Congress will take place from June 4 to 5, 2013. It will focuses on finding answers to the urgent challenges of the industry: cost effectiveness, flexibility, lightweight construction and sustainability within the“ painted car body” processes have been defined by the OEM exhibition committee as the key topics at the congress.
The AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING EXPO is targeted at the following segments – automotive components, automotive production facilities and system components, hardware and software for design and development, materials and semi-finished goods, forming and shaping technology, joining technology, surface technology, quality assurance technology, testing and measurement technology and engineering services.
A highlight will be the“ Avenue of Innovations,” where the industry’ s pioneering innovations are displayed. All exhibitors can apply to take part in this event.
Automotive Industries( AI) asked Moennig why a new show like the AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING EXHIBITION was needed.
Moennig: The idea is intriguing: AEE is going to be the only exhibition in the world aiming to cover one of the automotive
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