斯图加特国际安装及使用技术专业展览会(MOTEK)是国际领先的安装、操作与自动化技术贸易展览会，该展从1982年开始举办，与从2007年开始举办BONDexpo展同时在斯图加特国际展览中心举行，两个展可吸引更多的专业士参展。MOTEK展是智能解决方案在生产和装配自动化、进料技术和物料流、通过搬运技术和工业搬运进行合理化等领域具有多样性。展会的主题是精简和处理技术，以及工业处理，从而MOTEK展是唯一的集中于机械工程及自动化的各个方面的贸易交易会，以及提供明确的、具有决定性的、具有竞争优势的、相关行业的、各种规模的用户。
事实与数字：参展企业超过1000家，专业观众人数达35000名，展出面积达73000平米，来自几十个国家的参展商参加，从世界各地来的约3万多名专家游客，并有近百国家的潜在用户参加了此次活动。这数据说明了MOTEK作为国际性的信息、通信和用于生产、组装及周边物流自动化投资业务平台极为重要。
整个世界的处理，装配和自动化技术展览会：除此以外，MOTEK国际贸易的处理，装配和自动化技术展览会是唯一的技术展览，介绍了整个世界的自动化 - 从元器件，子系统，完整的解决方案。相对于事件涉及的组件单元，或只是目前根据客户的要求特殊定制系统，这为专家和游客，包括工程师，找到正确的解决方案，从细节上最多可直接对安装系统的跨学科方法的优点的用户。
目标群体：MOTEK高度一致的目标群定位类型是成功的，MOTEK是在德国经济强劲南部工业区中心举行MOTEK展 - 欧洲中部 - 并发挥行业内的领先的技术和业务角色。MOTEK主要的本地目标群体包括汽车，机械和设备制造，电气和电子工业，医学工程和太阳能的生产，以及金属和一般塑料加工行业，包括他们的供应商。
展品范围(Show Products):
驱动器：皮带传动，链传动，链指南，数控码垛表，压缩空气钢瓶，压缩空气发电，压缩空气安装要素，压缩空气的单位，坐标表，电驱动，电气安装要素，能源链，齿轮，资产负债单位，代液压动力，导向元件，线路金具，直线导轨，直线电机，机械定位系统，气动驱动器，气动定位系统，气动，液压进给单位，速效接头，滚筒输送机，滚动轴承，滑动轴承，回转分度表，伺服电机，减震器，滑轨，主轴驱动，钢板带和磁带驱动器，伸缩护栏，同步带传动，工具转变的耦合单元，滚轮，传热单元，运输车；
拆除：自动拆装机，拆除设备，拆除机，拆除管理，拆除机器人，拆卸工具，拆除意识的产品设计；
连接：铝合金建筑型材，自动包装单位，自动旋盖单位，建筑型材组件，胶合单位，连接元件，加盟单位，手动拧设备，包装单位,新闻单位，铆钉单位，拧单位，焊接单位，钢建筑型材，张紧装置，焊接转盘，焊接单位；
处理：大会输送技术,离心式输送机，链式输送机，绕线设备，输送带 ，配药设备，灌装设备，握容器,夹钳，电夹钳，机械爪，气动，夹子，真空，夹持系统，处理装置，可编程处理，漏斗槽，霍珀斯，倾斜输送机，线性轴电，一般线性轴,线性轴气动,线性输送机,加载装置,杂志,杂志的工件,范围，定位单元，分离设备，卷簧机，螺旋振动输送机，漫步梁，工作件，工件处理机组；
集成系统：成形，压力机的装配技术，加工材料，回收， 表面处理；
微技术：组装技术和微技术装配系统，工业机器人及微技术处理设备，微夹持器，微型电机，微定位系统，微型传感器；
装配：装配用具，手动操作组装机，紧凑型装配系统，与系统的结合装配系统，装配工具，自动组装机，圆转移，自动装配机，纵向转移，自动元件插入机，基本单位， 洁净室技术，杰克芒，机械手，对O形圈安装设备，安装表，单站的组装工作；
组织：广告，大会发动，民航建设，建筑，经济效益分析，组织软件，组织方式，规划软件，出版商媒体，研究发展，培训学校，服务；
测试：自动打标机，配药车，识别系统，图像处理，干扰消除装置，泄漏探测器，测量设备，为压入力监测系统，安全装置，安全规程，安全光幕，测试单位，检测与分选系统，扭矩接驳；
机器人装配：载重工业机器人，工业机器人最多至1公斤负荷能力，激光二极管焊接机器人，焊接机器人；
监测：自动计数机，CNC控制，控制电缆，电控制元件，气动控制元件，气动控制设备，电动控制设备，计数器，通用可自由编程控制器，水位监测装置，限位开关，编码标记设备，气动监测系统，电动监测系统，路径控制系统，印刷设备，接近开关，电容传感器，感应传感器， 传感器，软件。
展会报告(Show Reports):
The 42nd Motek international trade fair for automation in production and assembly, together with the 17th Bondexpo international trade fair for bonding technology, have come to a successful conclusion. 409 exhibitors from 19 countries presented new systems and solutions for production automation during the 4-day event. The autumn highlight was accompanied by an attractive, world-class supporting programme.
Satisfied faces and lots of positive statements marked the end of the last day of the traditional Motek/Bondexpo trade fair duo in Stuttgart. 409 exhibitors from 19 countries – 26% of whom came from outside of Germany – presented their forward-looking innovations and welcomed 18,948 expert visitors to Stuttgart from the 8th through the 11th of October, 2024. They came with explicit objectives: reduced unit costs, increased productivity, minimised consumption, optimised performance. “These goals are driving new developments,” observes project manager Rainer Bachert. “The trade fair’s main topics were characterised by keywords such as efficiency, competitiveness and sustainability,” says Bachert. “Motek 2024 demonstrated again and again that production is dependent on AI-based processes in a wide variety of areas. Artificial intelligence supports processes and the work force, and is becoming firmly established in manufacturing companies.”
Clear-Cut Thematic Profile, Satisfied Exhibitors
The Motek/Bondexpo trade fair duo is the perfect place for the industry sector to present the entire value added chain for industrial manufacturing. It’s recognised as an ideal business platform because it supports the modern design of manufacturing processes for all parties involved – pragmatically and with a practical approach. Low-cost as well as high-end automation solutions are covered. The range of topics is clearly geared towards industrial manufacturing processes – from raw materials and component handling, as well as sorting and feeding, right on up to assembly, screwing, joining and labelling, and finally discharge and packaging. once again this year, expert visitors experienced various types of feed systems, robot-based handling applications, inline inspection systems including image processing, transfer systems and autonomous logistics, as well as packaging technology. “only Motek offers such a user-oriented format,” emphasised Dr. Ing. Christian Löchte, CEO at FORMHAND Automation GmbH in Braunschweig, Germany. Having originally participated at the trade fair as a startup, the company is now a traditional exhibitor at Motek where it presents flexible gripper pads for gripping, clamping and holding workpieces and products – ranging from car body parts to tomatoes. “We’re in the right place here at Motek, because the trade fair concept is clearly user-oriented and this aligns with our target group,” says Löchte.
Personal Exchange, Matching Target Group
Optimum datamanagement solutions GmbH has also been exhibiting at Motek for many years with its “Clever Klaus”. The camera-based work assistance system, which has received various awards, guides employees step by step at manual workstations, at the same time ensuring that no mistakes are made. “This is a classic Motek topic,” observed managing director Wolfgang Mahanty who, together with his team, has been cultivating personal contact with the relevant target group at the trade fair for years.
Participation at the trade fair was also a forward-looking experience for Robin Geiselbrecht, EU sales engineer at VKS Ltd. (Visual Knowledge Share). The young Canadian enterprise offers browser-based software that helps production companies provide employees with digital instructions and capture live production data. The goal is continuous improvement of the production process – a classic Motek topic. “We’ve been operating in Europe for twelve years and are exhibiting at Motek this year for the second time. The Stuttgart region is home to a significant number of the industrial companies we want to approach. The topics covered by Motek are in line with our target group, as discussions at our booth have shown. We’ll be back again next year.”
Focus on Digitalisation, Software and AI
The two adjacent booths operated by Bott and Assemblio also attracted large crowds with their focus on the integration of software solutions into manual assembly processes. Together, the two companies organised their own supplementary programme with practice-oriented presentations, workshops and podium discussions. The software solution for efficient assembly planning and automated preparation of assembly instructions developed by Assemblio GmbH attracted many interested expert visitors to the booth, who wanted to learn more about process optimisation in production and assembly, as well as the practical implementation of AI and inter-system networking.
Robert Patric Fabian, CEO of Einzelkind Software GmbH in Karlsruhe, was also extremely satisfied with the large number of interesting meetings. The young company develops customised cloud software solutions for B2B customers. “We met up with the relevant target group who are interested in our digitalisation solutions here at Motek.” Startup Inbolt from France also attracted a great deal of attention with its presentation of GuideNOW – a real-time robot guidance solution based on 3D vision and AI. It consists of a 3D camera mounted to the robot, real-time AI for workpiece localisation and a web application for training the AI algorithms on any CAD model or 3D scan.
Motek/Bondexpo Leading the Way: from Components to Systems
Over the decades since its inception, the trade fair has risen from the component level to the overall process chain. “Time and again we hear that Motek is simply indispensable,” reports project manager Bachert. “It presents viable solutions. once again this year, it demonstrated that it has never been easier to get started in automation. And it offered lots of information on AI,” says Bachert. AI was a key topic at the forum presentations, which were very well received. “We’re very pleased with the successful conclusion of this autumn event,” says Bettina Schall, managing director of trade fair promoters P. E. Schall. “This proven trade fair was once again the perfect platform for bringing together suppliers and users from the factory automation industry in a personal, practice-oriented manner. In many ways, Motek/Bondexpo has once again been able to generate forward-looking impetus and make a valuable contribution to helping manufacturing companies position themselves for the future. I would like to express my sincere thanks to all exhibitors, expert visitors and interested guests for the lively exchange in a constructive working atmosphere! We’ll carry this outstanding, inspiring atmosphere over from 2024 to next year’s event – the 43rd Motek and the 18th Bondexpo from the 7th through the 9th of October, 2025.
