Automating construction processes
The web-based Digital Engineering Service from Schmalz designs customized gripping solutions for any number of different sheet metal parts digitally and automatically. This allows users to save up to 80 percent of design time and reach their goals effortlessly.
New laser machine series with lower energy consumption
TRUMPF demonstrates at Blechexpo how efficiency and user-friendliness can be enhanced with the new TruLaser Weld 5000 in automated laser welding.
Structures for Change
fem, a research institute for the development and analysis of metallic materials and coatings in Schwäbisch Gmünd, creates a central department for material characterization and component testing.
Portable and handheld 3D laser scanner
The new HandySCAN EVO|Elite from Creaform is ISO 10360 certified and is manufactured in a laboratory certified according to ISO 17025. It offers measurement technology suitable accuracy and high user-friendliness.
Event Tip: Competition 'Excellence in Production' 2025:
For the 22nd time this year, the best tool and mold making companies in the German-speaking region will be honored in the competition 'Excellence in Production'.
Precise, smart, highly productive
Fraunhofer ILT will showcase innovations for the additive manufacturing of robust tungsten components to intelligent sensor parts at Formnext 2025.
VDMA – Situation in Mechanical Engineering in the 3rd Quarter
The mood in mechanical and plant engineering has further deteriorated in the third quarter, and the outlook has noticeably worsened. In addition to the trade conflict, the weakness in key customer sectors is increasingly taking its toll.
Ready around the clock with mobile robotics
KRONE has optimized the supply of its welding robots in truck trailer manufacturing with connected and autonomous mobile robots.
Print tools efficiently and in the highest quality
Additive manufacturing, especially the Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) process, opens up new avenues in toolmaking thanks to great design freedom. The Fraunhofer IWU is exploring this...
TRUMPF showcases TruBend 3000 at Blechexpo
With the new, completely redesigned TruBend 3000, TRUMPF relies on proven technologies from the premium segment














