March 2020

46 n SHOW PREVIEW March 2020 www.drivesncontrols.com Manufacturing extravaganza returns to NEC in April T he biennial Drives & Controls Exhibition will return to the Birmingham NEC next month, alongside the co-located Smart Industry Expo, Fluid Power & Systems, Plant & Asset Management, Air-Tech and Mach exhibitions. The 2020 Drives & Controls event will bring together more than 100 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, motion control, robotics and automation plus much more. New for 2020 is the significant announcement that the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) will be hosting a 100m 2 pavilion within the Drives & Controls Show and the adjoining Smart Industry Expo, where it will be joined by some of its members. The MTC was established in 2010 as an independent research and technology organisation with the objective of bridging the gap between academia and industry. Its role has widened to cover not only R&D but also training, advancedmanufacturing management and factory design and it now has more than 700 employees. The MTC has helped hundreds of companies across a wide spectrum of industries, andmore than 100 of themhave become members of the MTC. Its presence at Drives & Controls and Smart Industry Expo events highlights the importance that the MTC attributes to these sectors. As well as exhibiting in Drives & Controls, the MTC is the primary sponsor for the complete cluster of shows. Other primary sponsors of the exhibitions include SMC, Elmo, EBM Papst, Stober, Harting, Rittal/Eplan, B&R Automation, Mitsubishi Electric, Eaton, Binder, Nidec and Bosch Rexroth. Exhibitors making their first appearances Next month, the Drives & Controls show and the cluster of related exhibitions – including Smart Industry Expo, Fluid Power & Systems, Plant & Asset Management, Air-Tech and Mach – return to the Birmingham NEC to create the UK’s biggest industrial trade show event of the year. COMPRESSEDAIR • VACUUM • GENERATORS 2020 EXHIBITION AIR-TECH TheExhibition forHydraulics& Pneumatics Industries FLUID POWER & SYSTEMS 2020 20

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