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At the recent Hanover Fair in Germany, ARC Advisory Group analysts were encouraged by the strong presence and clear messaging of companies actively driving the convergence of IT and OT. Industrie 4.0 and IIoT have moved beyond the hype phase and are being adopted with various degrees of success by industry suppliers. More importantly, end users are implementing digitization strategies and looking to suppliers, machine builders, and integrators for modern, competitive solutions.
The Fair in Numbers
Hanover Fair 2017 featured 6,845 exhibitors and attracted over 225,000 visitors, up from 217,000 in 2015 (the last comparable year that included Motion, Drives & Automation). A third of the visitors came from outside Germany, a new record. Moreover, the show recorded significantly in-creased attendance from China and partner country, Poland. The largest number of foreign visitors (9,000) came from China; followed by the Netherlands (6,200), India (5,300), and Poland (5,000, a new partner country record). Three thousand visitors came from the US, last year's partner country.
Plans for Hanover Fair 2018
Hannover Messe AG, the show’s organizer, announced that starting in 2018, the annual Industrial Automation show and the biennial Motion, Drive & Automation (MDA) show will merge. The resulting annual show will be called Integrated Automation, Motion & Drives (IAMD) to reflect the entire spectrum of industrial automation, power transmission and fluid power.
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Keywords: Hanover Fair, IT & OT, Digitization, IIoT, Industrie 4.0, ARC Advisory Group.