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As part of the EU project 'Hiveopolis', an international research team led by the University of Graz is working on a smart city for bees.
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As part of the EU project 'Hiveopolis', an international research team led by the University of Graz is working on a smart city for bees.

At Hannover Messe 2019, Prof. Friedhelm Loh, Chairman of the Exhibitors' Advisory Board, and Dr. Jochen Köckler gave an outlook on the future of the trade fair. The Chairman of the Board of Management of Deutsche Messe on the further development of the world's largest industrial trade fair.

At Hannover Messe 2019, exhibitors demonstrated what the networked production processes of the future will look like. In addition to AI, digitalization, 5G and I4.0, the Computer&AUTOMATION team has put together a selection of other things to see at the trade fair.
Hannover Messe is restructuring: From 2020, seven exhibition areas will bring together the previous trade fairs - with a change in site layout. Also new from fall 2020 is the 5G trade fair '5G CMM Expo'.

Together with partner companies, Siemens has launched an initiative to enable the rapid construction and conversion of production facilities. Other companies are still invited to join in.

In mid-March 2019, Bosch Rexroth began expanding its plant in Xi'an, China. The company has earmarked around 60 million euros for this project. With the plant expansion, Bosch Rexroth is doubling its development and production capacities in Xi'an.

The 'SPS - Industrial Automation Fair Guangzhou' (SIAF) took place for the 10th time at the beginning of March and attracted a record number of visitors. Together with Asiamold, which was held at the same time, the three-day trade fair attracted almost 99,000 visitors, an increase of 37%.

What is artificial intelligence? What stages of development has it gone through so far? And where is it all heading? A five-minute explanatory film published by the "Learning Systems" platform to mark the start of the 'Year of Science 2019' provides answers.
OPC UA is regarded as the new communication standard for industrial automation. Part 1 explained why a new communication technology is needed in automation and described the OPC UA methods. Part 2 deals with the OPC UA pub/sub methods and the power of modeling.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will be in the spotlight at this year's Hannover Messe. Around 6500 companies will once again be exhibiting at the world's leading trade fair for industry from April 1 to 5.