SPS IPC Drives Italia - 21st to 23rd May 2013, Parma

The role of industrial automation in "ReMade in Italy"; an approach of listening and dialoguing  with the protagonists of the fair/conference dedicated to electrical automation technologies, systems and components. Focus on food&beverage.

Along with many innovations that will characterize the next edition of SPS IPC Drives Italia (organized by Messe Frankfurt Italia Srl), the event will also feature collaboration with Professor Aldo Bonomi, head of the AASTER Consortium, that will accompany the show systematically listening to the leading companies of the industrial automation macro-sector that are taking part at the fair-event.
The objective is to establish a new channel of dialogue with the same, to understand their needs and demands, as well as to think up common growth strategies. In particular, the intent is to highlight the role of industrial automation in "Remade in Italy", the process of re-industrialization of the country system, starting from the assets of top Italian manufacture and Italian territorial capitalism.

To this purpose, numerous interviews will be made with representatives of the exhibitors at SPS Italia and other companies in the supply chain, to construct a research report that will be presented at the panel discussion in May 21st entitled "Future scenarios of automation."
A report summarizing the themes that emerged during the study, with a particular focus on the Food&Beverage sector, that will also be a document of analysis at the panel discussion on 23rd May, organized in collaboration with CibusTec under the explicative title: "Production processes in the food industry. Automation to increase efficiency, productivity, safety, service and quality." The meeting serves as a moment of confrontation and exchange between exponents of production, distribution and suppliers of industrial automation systems, from the world of retail, food, packaging and industrial automation.
 
Thinking up the future of automation
In the context of the process of re-industrialization of the country system - the "Remade in Italy" that is to say - the industrial automation sector hence takes on strategic importance due to some of its intrinsic characteristics, that the fair SPS Italia intends to have emerge:
- industrial automation is one of the few sectors that still has a competitive capacity in a context of structural difficulties besetting the Italian economy;
- the product and process innovations of this sector can lead to a process of gradual revitalization of the competitive strength and productivity of numerous Italian manufacturing sectors;
- it is a sector that is able to synthesize the formal and global knowledge base of metropolitan creative-cognitive capitalism with that pertaining to the context of typically manufacturing based territorial capitalism;
- the segment fosters innovations with an eye to the green economy and sustainability of production processes;
- it represents a crucial hinge between Italian and German (or be it European) manufacturing
 
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