DRIVES & CONTROLS 2020 SHOW PREVIEW
DRIVES & CONTROLS 2020
DRIVES & CONTROLS EXHIBITION 2020
Manufacturing extravaganza set to return to NEC in April 2020
The biennial co-located events; Drives &
Controls, Smart Industry Expo, Fluid Power
& Systems, Plant & Asset Management, and
Air-Tech Exhibitions – are once again set to
return to Birmingham’s NEC between the
21st -23rdth April 2020, alongside MACH
2020.
Drives & Controls Exhibition 2020 will
once again bring together key suppliers
of state-of-the-art equipment representing
the multi-tasking culture of today’s design
engineer, covering critical areas such as
energy efficiency, machine safety, drives,
motion control, robotics and automation
plus much more, all under one roof. With
the advent of the smart factory, Drives &
Controls Exhibition 2020 is an essential
source of technological and engineering
information and is fully supported by
GAMBICA and EPTDA.
Returning exhibitors include Beckhoff,
B&R, Rittal, Weidmuller, Mitsubishi Electric,
Radwell, Bosch Rexroth, Elmo Motion
Control, Binder, Carlo Gavazzi, Eaton
Electric, Finder, Harting, Hepco, HMS
Industrial, Leuze Electronic, Control
Techniques/ Nidec Industrial Automation,
Omron, Pilz Automation Technology,
Renold, plus many more returnees.
GAMBICA and the European Transmission
Distributors Association will again be
hosting pavilions where members will be
promoting their activities.
To complement Drives & Controls
Exhibition is the now firmly established
Smart Industry Expo, where visitors will
have the ideal opportunity to learn about
digitalisation and how to prepare and
implement a strategy in this smart era as
well as being able to discuss a wide range
of issues from components to Predictive
Maintenance 4.0, Logistics 4.0, and smart
grid technologies amongst others. Other
areas covered include: components for
IT-based automation solutions that will
bring fundamental change to all in-factory
processes, IT security, as well as smart
technologies that manage and coordinate
power, gas and heat networks so that
capacity can be balanced and optimally
deployed across the entire energy system
– integrated energy, plus much more.
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New for 2020 is the significant
announcement that the Manufacturing
Technologies Centre (MTC) has confirmed
a 100m2 pavilion within Drives & Controls
and Smart Industry Expo where it will be
joined by its members.
Running alongside Drives & Controls
Exhibition and Smart Industry Expo, will
also be Air-Tech 2020, which is set to
highlight current key themes related to the
very latest in air compressor and related
technology from companies from around
the globe. The event is supported by the
British Compressed Air Society (BCAS), and
is the UK’s only dedicated event for the
compressed air and generators market.
Vanda Jones, the British Compressed Air
Society’s executive director, commented on
its presence at the key industry event: “As
the UK’s only dedicated exhibition for the
compressed air, generators and vacuum
market, Air-Tech is an ideal chance for
visitors to keep up to date with all the latest
developments in our industry. For BCAS,
it is an ideal opportunity to engage with
manufacturers, distributors and end users
alike, and for us to provide impartial advice
about legislation, standards and technical
issues Events like Air-Tech are more
vital than ever over the next two years
because it brings our industry together to
understand issues that affect us all.”
Visitors to Air-Tech will be able to see a
wide range of equipment and solutions,
including the following:
• Accumulators, actuators, air delivery
systems and air motors.
• Compressors, cooler tools and cylinders.
• Vacuum systems and generators.
• Displays & meters.
• Filters, fittings, heat exchangers and
hoses.
• Instruments, lubricators, manifolds and
mobile compressors.
• Pumps, regulators, sensors, software and
valves.
The co-location will also include Plant
& Asset Management 2020, the UK’s
premier event for plant, asset, maintenance
and works management engineers and
directors.
Industry spends huge sums of money
maintaining its plant, machinery and
building assets and, because of constantly
increasing business and financial
pressures, there is an on-going need to
achieve the maximum performance from
those assets.