Beckhoff at Hannover Messe 2010

The Hannover Messe 2010, the world and leading trade fair for automation technology, took place from 19 – 23 April 2010 in Hanover. Beckhoff presented its high-performance control technology for mechanical engineering and process technology at booth F06 in hall 9. One of the highlights of the trade fair booth was the presentation of TwinCAT 3, the latest generation of the software for PC-based control technology. Around 200 Beckhoff employees from 40 countries were on hand to welcome the international customers and visitors. Due to the worldwide air travel chaos, caused by the ash cloud over Europe following the volcanic eruption in Iceland, the number of the foreign visitors dropped this year. Altogether the number of the visitors decreased by around 20 percent to 150,000. Nevertheless, the Managing Director of Beckhoff Automation GmbH, Hans Beckhoff, sums up the spring fair for automation positively: “The Hannover Messe 2010 fostered the basic positive mood in the industry. The internationality of the fair was less pronounced than in the previous years due to the air travel crisis, but trade visitors from Europe with concrete projects compensated for that.”

Beckhoff: 6 times at Hannover Messe

Beckhoff was represented at a total of six exhibition booths at the Hannover Messe for example at Microsoft with a technology demonstration concerned with the monitoring and optimisation of energy in server rooms. Beckhoff showed its high-speed XFC controller at the OWL Maschinenbau booth.

TectoYou is a nationwide initiative by the Hannover Messe in cooperation with associations and companies, and aims to inspire young people to take up technical professions and to give them a better understanding of future technologies. Within the context of “TectoYou”, Beckhoff sponsored the visit to Hanover of over 500 school pupils from eastern Westphalia together with their teachers. Trained guides and Beckhoff experts accompanied the pupils from nine schools, who were able to experience automation technology live at the Hannover Messe.

The Hannover Messe 2011 will occupy the entire exhibition centre from 4 to 8 April with 13 leading trade fairs.