Posted to News on 1st May 2010, 21:34
2010 Drives & Controls show preview
Many of the UK's leading automation and motion engineering companies have shown their confidence in the future of the industry by booking substantial stands at the 2010 Drives & Controls show, plus there are exhibitors from mainland Europe, China and elsewhere. With only weeks to go until the exhibition opens at the NEC, Birmingham (8-10 June 2010), the number of exhibitors that have booked 'space only' showcase stands is already at least 50 per cent up on the total number at the previous show in 2008. And many returning exhibitors - including Danfoss, Leuze Electronic, Phoenix Contact, Rockwell Automation and SEW Eurodrive - have booked larger stands than they had at the 2008 event.
According to the exhibition's sales director, Doug Devlin, the number of companies bringing their own stands to the show demonstrates their confidence in the future and their commitment to the event. He describes the level of interest so far as "extremely encouraging" and predicts that "we are heading for a bumper show."
Many of the companies attending the show are either first-timers (including Alldrives, Kroy, Micro-Epsilon and SITI/Alphadrive) or have not taken part in Drives & Controls exhibitions for many years. Examples of returning exhibitors include Baldor, HMS Industrial Networks, Motovario, Schmersal, Sick, Synatel, Trio Motion Control and SS White.
Austrian automation supplier B&R will be returning to the show after a long absence and will have one of the largest stands booked so far, covering an area of 112m2.
Other technologies represented at the show will include communications (Harting and HMS), sensors and measurement (Heidenhain, Micro-Epsilon and Red Lion) and software (Aceri, Auctotec, Don Tyne and Thinking Space).
Many of the sector's major players will take part in the show via their distributors and partners. For example, Siemens and Schaeffler will be represented on the HMK Automation & Drives stand, and products from ABB will be found on Quantum Controls' stand.
At the 2008 Drives & Controls Show, several Chinese exhibitors had stands for the first time. There will be another Chinese delegation at the 2010 event, with at least twice as many exhibitors.
As before, Drives & Controls is one of several co-located exhibitions organised by DFA Media. Follow the links to read the show previews for the Plant & Works Exhibition (PWE), Air-Tech and IFPEX (the International Fluid Power Exhibition). Also taking place at the NEC at the same time are MACH 2010, Subcon and Electrex.
In addition to the exhibition, the organisers have also assembled an excellent FREE seminar programme. For more information about the speakers and topics, see this article: Free seminars at Drives & Controls 2010 and co-located shows.
For online registration to attend the free comprehensive series of independent seminars or to register to attend the shows follow the links for the Drives and Control 2010 Exhibition, the Plant and Works Exhibition, Air-Tech and the International Fluid Power Exhibition.
