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News Release from: UCIMU
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 January 2007
Italian show focuses on automation,
mechatronics
The Association of Italian machine tool, robot and automation Manufacturers has announced its second BIMEC mechatronics and automation show for November 2007.
The second edition of BIMEC, the biennial trade show for mechatronics and automation is scheduled to take place in Milan, from 14 to 17 November 2007 Promoted by UCIMU-Sistemi per Produrre, the Association of Italian machine tool, robot and automation Manufacturers, the second edition of BIMEC will have a new layout: from container show, it will become a super-specialized exhibition, focused on the most interesting and productive sectors of nowadays
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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These are extremely lively and productive sectors, as it is testified by the trend figures, starting from the robot manufacturing field.
Indeed, the analysis of the data elaborated by the Studies Department of UCIMU-Sistemi per Produrre, points out that the production of the Italian robotic industry from 1990 up to today has practically doubled, reaching EUR 440 million, according to the provisional balance data of 2006.
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On the other hand, the interest of the Italian manufacturing industry for high-automation products, is proved by the consumption results, which, in 2006, have trebled versus 1990, attaining the value of EUR 505 million.
With 350 enterprises (with average age lower than 15 years), 9.000 employees and a turnover that, according to the estimates of AIDA, Italian Assembly Association, in 2005, achieved EUR 7,150 million (Italian production and distribution of foreign products by Italian branches), the assembly sector in Italy, (which includes systems, industrial components and vision) results to be very lively, as confirmed also by the forecasts for 2007.
As well as the above mentioned fields, the vision sector, - referring to the elaborate process starting with the acquisition of an image by a sensor, with subsequent data transfer and interpretation and finally generating a result - is rapidly expanding in our country.
Sponsored by AIDA, Italian Assembly Association, IMVG, Italian Machine Vision Group, and SIRI, Italian Robotics and Automation Association, BIMEC takes place at the fairground of fieramilanocity.
The modern and functional Pavilions 1 and 2 in the Portello area will be at the exhibitors' disposal.
(The available surface is 15,000m2).
Open to the participation of manufacturers and distributors of lines and machines for assembling, of industrial robots, of vision, control and measuring systems, of software and hardware for systems and products development (PLM), of logistics, of plant engineering, of safety devices and of subcontracting, BIMEC is addressed to the large public of the manufacturing industry.
Indeed, the solutions presented are applicable to almost all industrial sectors: from the automotive to the manufacturing of metal working machines and systems, from electrotechnics-electronics to the fields of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, medicals, food and packaging, chemistry and plastic materials, optics, to the production of interior decoration and furnishing components, from transport to telecommunications, to sensors manufacturing.
Alfredo Mariotti, attorney of EFIM-Ente Fiere Italiane Macchine, organizer of the event, commented: "The new formula of BIMEC, the biennial exhibition for mechatronics and automation, is consistent with the results achieved by the 2005 edition, in which visitors showed great interest for the offer of solutions functional to the optimization of production processes." Mariotti concluded: "In this connection, BIMEC intends to be a response to the requirements of sectors, such as assembling, handling, robotics and industrial vision, which had not yet had, till now, a real reference trade show in Italy" Gianluigi Viscardi, president of AIDA, stated: "The Italian Assembly Association is convinced that BIMEC will be a complete and exhaustive exhibition of the sector production, just like the foreign trade shows specialized in the same reference field." Viscardi concluded: "On the other hand, I am sure that BIMEC will further boost the relaunching of the Italian assembly industry, which is beginning to grow again since several months." According to Ignazio Piacentini, coordinator of IMVG: "An exhibition like BIMEC, also dedicated to industrial vision, may offer a unique occasion to the manufacturers of the sector.
In fact, they have the opportunity to show the large public of the manufacturing industry the excellence of their own production, which is spreading more and more, even in sectors not so often explored, first among all that of mechanical automation.".
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