April/May 2019

42 HYDRAULICS & PNEUMATICS April/May 2019 www.hpmag.co.uk HANNOVER MESSE REVIEW product innovations for factory and process automation at its main booth in Hall 15. A further stand with products from Festo was seen at Siemens in Hall 9 in the Mindsphere Lounge. Here Festo presented the field of energy monitoring via dashboards. At Microsoft in Hall 7 and at the OPC Foundation in Hall 9, the topic of ‘Motion controllers with OPC UA communication servers’ was on display. Festo was also represented with a computer workstation at the booth of Eplan in Hall 6. Visitors could also visit the shared booths of Profibus & Profinet International (PI) in Hall 9 and ‘Plattform Industrie 4.0’ in Hall 8. At the shared stand of the technology initiative SmartFactory e.V. (Hall 8), Festo AG & Co. KG and Festo Didactic SE participated in the non-proprietary demonstrator for Industry 4.0 and showing the use of Smartenance, the first IoT-capable maintenance management tool. Additionally, attendees could visit Eichenberger Gewinde AG (a company of the Festo Group) in Hall 16. Parker Hannifin Parker Hannifin presented a number of new technology developments for system solutions, components and services to support and drive sustainable and competitive industrial production at this year’s Hannover Messe. Visitors to Parker’s booth found a wide range of solutions for applications in hydraulics, pneumatics, electromechanical, filtration, fluid and gas handling. To highlight Parker Hannifin’s partnership with distributors, six Parker Hannifin distributors from Germany joined Parker on the IAMD booth as sub-exhibitors. Gustav Schmidt, Kaindl Technischer Industriebedarf, Kohler, Otto Glas, Philipp and Delta-Fluid Industrietechnik each showcased their respective technology and system solution capabilities. In support of greater productivity in diverse industrial applications, machines and processes, Parker with these six distributors presented its valves, pumps, filters, gaskets, hoses, controllers, motors, drives and controls, plus other related components and accessories. The company’s optimised, durable and resource-saving solutions can be combined to offer customers tailor made system solutions from a single source. Sauer Compressors At ComVac during Hannover Messe, Sauer Compressors celebrated the premiere of a design study of the new Orkan high- pressure series. Sauer also presented the new oil-free compressor HAUG.Sirius NanoLoc. The highlight of the Sauer Compressors booth was the design study of the brand new Orkan series. It tops up the Breeze series and includes compressors with final pressures of up to 500 barg. Additionally, the series offers booster solutions with inlet pressures of up to 16 barg as well as gas-tight designs for handling gases such as helium, natural gas and hydrogen. Schaeffler Depending on the gearbox configuration and the associated requirements in terms of rigidity and load carrying capacity, bearings with different dimensions must then be implemented in a single bearing position, which requires a wide variety of housings, housing covers, gears and shafts. The objective of Schaeffler’s new concept is to allow bearings of different designs but with identical dimensions to be implemented in one (i.e. the same) bearing position for various gearbox configurations. These ‘interchangeable gearbox bearing solutions’ will be available based on dimension series 18 for high precision servo planetary gearboxes. For example, FAG deep groove ball bearings from series 618, INA angular contact ball bearings from series 718, and INA SGL angular contact roller bearings, allow the bearing support’s load carrying capacity, speed range and rigidity to be adjusted while retaining the same design envelope. Of the three variants, the INA SGL angular contact roller bearings offer the highest level of rigidity, which allows extremely rigid bearings and drives with very high positional accuracy to be achieved. Siemens Siemens placed smart solutions for the industry-specific implementation of Industrie 4.0 at the heart of its Hannover Messe 2019 presentation under the banner ‘Digital Enterprise – Thinking industry further!’. Over an exhibition space of around 4000 sq m in Hall 9, Siemens showcased these solutions with an array of new additions to its Digital Enterprise offering designed to enable the digital transformation of the discrete and process industries. By integrating future technologies into its portfolio, Siemens offers users new and far more extensive scope for leveraging the exponential growth in industrial data. Siemens illustrated its vision for industry-specific implementation of the Digital Enterprise and the use of future technologies with a range of exhibits, including two highlight showcases. One of these was the chemical industry showcase featuring the totally virtual representation of a greenfield plant complete with laboratory, automation and control technology enabling the sustainable and environmentally responsible production of polyamide made from biomass. SKF Enabling radical improvements to machine reliability, SKF demonstrated its new optical sensing technology as part of the Sweden Co-Lab. SKF comments that its new sensing technology takes monitoring to the next level, providing engineers with new insights into machine performance. SKF Fiber Optic Sensing uses optical fibers to measure forces, in real time, in difficult environments and without electronics. The technology provides an instant overview of equipment performance, measuring parameters including load, speed, temperature and more. This opens up new opportunities for closed-loop control of processes. It also allows engineers to proactively prevent problems early. This can be unfavourable running conditions, misalignment or wear, before they lead to costly shutdowns. www.hannovermesse.de Staged under the motto ‘Sweden Co-Lab’, Sweden’s Partner Country showcase was all about innovation and collaboration.