February 2024 www.drivesncontrols.com 8 SIEMENS AND SONY ARE joining forces to combine a new Sony head-mounted display with Siemens software to create a technology that will allow designers and engineers to explore design concepts in unlimited immersive workspaces. The development was unveiled at CES – the Consumer Electronics Show – in Las Vegas last month, where Siemens also announced partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others, to propel its vision of the industrial metaverse. Siemens’ NX Immersive Designer will combine its NX software with Sony’s XR headmounted display with 4K OLED microdisplays and controllers, to allow intuitive interaction with 3D objects. The technology, due to be released later this year, will oer immersive design and collaborative product engineering capabilities. Siemens believes it will kickstart content creation for the industrial metaverse. “We envision the industrial metaverse as a virtual world that is nearly indistinguishable from reality, enabling people – along with AI – to collaborate in real time to address realworld challenges,” Siemens’ CEO, Roland Busch, said in a keynote speech at CES. “This will empower customers to accelerate innovation, enhance sustainability and adopt new technologies faster and at scale, leading to a profound transformation of entire industries.” Yoshinori Matsumoto, Sony’s executive deputy president and ocer in charge of technology and incubation, added: “By combining our technologies and Siemens’expertise in engineering, we are excited to enable more immersive engineering that redenes the daily workow of designers and engineers. The highquality, realistic rendering and intuitive interaction will give creators tools to pursue a more immersive creative processes that fuels further innovation in the industrial metaverse.” Also at CES, Siemens and AWS announced they are strengthening their partnership to make it easier to build and scale generative AI (articial intelligence) applications. Siemens is integrating Amazon Bedrock – a service that oers a choice of AI models via a single API – with Siemens’ Mendix low-code platform from its Xcelerator portfolio. The companies say this development will help users to accelerate digitalisation and to tackle labour shortages Speaking at CES, Cedrik Neike, CEO of Siemens Digital Industries said: “Siemens is making the industrial metaverse more accessible so that our customers can use it to solve their real-world problems faster, more sustainably and with greater eciency.” Siemens and Sony unveil immersive engineering technology Combining Sony’s new spatial content creation system with Siemens Xcelerator software will enable immersive engineering Equipmake, the Norfolk-based motors and controls developer, has appointed Dr Nicholas Moelders as chief operating o cer and executive director, supporting the company’s global expansion plans and targeting key electrication markets. For the past seven years, Moelders has held managerial roles at Sensata Technologies, a $3.8bn company with 20,000 employees that develops electrication products and power conversion systems. He succeeds James Bishop, who is stepping down as COO. Darren Reynolds, managing director of RA Rodriguez (UK) for the past two years, has been appointed group managing director of RARUK Holdings (which also includes RARUK Automation and Drive Lines Technologies), following Peter Williamson’s decision to focus on his role as CEO of Automate UK (formerly the PPMA Group of Associations), after 16 years rst as managing director, and later as group managing director. Williamson will initially stay on as a nonexecutive director to support to the board. Ross Lacy has taken on the role of sales director of RARUK Automation. The vacuum automation and handling systems supplier Schmalz UK has appointed Neil Turnbull as its sales director. His key objectives include securing new business and developing the Schmalz brand in the UK. German-headquartered Schmalz set up its UK subsidiary in 2021 and in 2022 moved to new premises in Manchester. EVENTSSouthern Manufacturing & Electronics 2024 6-8 February, 2024 Farnborough The annual regional event is aimed at people involved in design, engineering production and procurement. They can see the latest in production hardware, components, consumables and other technologies. The organisers expect around 800 exhibitors and 9,000 visitors. www.industrysouth.co.uk Hannover Messe 22-26 April, 2024 Hannover, Germany The industrial megashow returns, bringing together exhibitors from digital industries, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and the energy sector. Key topics will include Industry 4.0/Manufacturing-X, digitisation, AI and machine learning. The fair will include a Research and Innovation Summit for the rst time. The partner country is Norway. www.hannovermesse.de/en Talking Industry Live 30 April, 2024 Location: MTC, Coventry, UK Building on the foundations laid at the inaugural event in 2023, TI Live will provide delegates from the manufacturing and engineering sector with an opportunity to learn, grow and connect in a high-end environment. https://talkingindustry.org/ talking-industry-live Drives & Controls 5-6 June, 2024 NEC, Birmingham Now part of Smart Manufacturing & Engineering Week, the Drives & Controls show will run alongside other events including Air-Tech, Fluid Power & Systems, Maintec, Smart Factory Expo and Design & Engineering Expo. It will cover areas including industrial automation, energy e ciency, machine safety, drives, motion controls, power transmission and robotics. www.mandeweek.co.uk/ drives-controls-expo-home Smart Manufacturing & Engineering Week 5-6 June, 2024 NEC, Birmingham The event will include the Maintec, Smart Factory Expo and Design & Engineering Expo shows and will run alongside Drives & Controls, AirTech, Fluid Power & Systems. The organisers say the “Festival of Industrial Innovation” represents the future of manufacturing and engineering in the UK. As well as the exhibitions there will be conferences and summits. www.mandeweek.co.uk n NEWS
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