Key technologies for the mining industry, for medicine, environment protection and for facility management – this was the scope of innovations from Germany that this year’s joint stand of the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) presented on the international engineering fair MSV in Brno, Czech Republic. For the fourth time in a row since 2011, German R&D-institutions – universities, companies and institutes from Fraunhofer and Leibniz association – demonstrated their competences in Mechanical Engineering and beyond. As the most prominent among the stand’s visitors, Czech Republic’s Deputy Prime Minister took his visit of the stand. Pavel Bělobrádek appeared to be deeply impressed by the German high standard of innovations within the field of key technologies.
This year’s focus exhibit of the joint stand was presented by HyPneu GmbH, Dresden, who demonstrated a drive solution built by “pneumatic muscles”. This prototype of a drive technology consists of pneumatic elements run by a clamp-based control. Advantages of this new drive solution can be unlimited scalability in combination with lower investment. As a non-electric device, it can also be used in restricted environments like in the mining industry.
The core group of the exhibitors of the joint stand 2014 showed their innovative contributions to mechanical engineering and related technical applications. Exhibitors and their presentations concentrated on matter-efficient production technologies like hydroforming, low-weight machine parts and tribology solutions. Further innovations in the material and nano technology field were shown by representatives of universities and private companies.
Another subgroup of this year’s exhibitors presented their research activities pointing to multiple usability within technical and medicine areas. Sensor systems, as presented by two microsystems exhibitors, can be used for machinery in the mechanical engineering sector, in facility management and health care fields, as well. Two-fold applicability in technical and health care fields, too, is the goal of two plasma technology exhibitors who demonstrated their examples of plasma beam devices.
Environment and energy issues lay in the focus of another subgroup of exhibitors. They presented technologies on e.g. recycling of waste to energy and raw materials, and for early detection of forest fires, respectively.
Be it mechanical engineering, be it key technologies – owing to the specific canvassing of Czech contact partners and pre-arranged talks by the Czech-German Chamber of Commerce, the joint stand 2014 resulted in further promising cooperation initiatives.
The exhibitors of 2014:
1. ICM - Institut Chemnitzer Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V.
2. HyPneu GmbH Hydraulik und Pneumatik, Chemnitz
3. Optotransmitter-Umweltschutz-Technologie (OUT) e.V., Berlin
4. TTZH Tribologie & Hochtechnologie GmbH, Garbsen
5. Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Umformtechnik IWU, Dresden
6. IMMS Institut für Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme gemeinnützige GmbH, Ilmenau
7. CiS Forschungsinstitut für Mikrosensorik und Photovoltaik GmbH, Erfurt
8. Gesellschaft für Fertigungstechnik und Entwicklung Schmalkalden (GFE) e.V.
9. Technische Universität Ilmenau
10. Global EnerTec AG, Guben
11. RENA-TEC e.V., Pritzwalk
12. Leibniz-Institut für Plasmaforschung und Technologie e.V. (INP) Greifswald
13. neoplas GmbH, Greifswald
Contact:
German Aerospace Center
Project Management Agency
European and International Cooperation
Dr. Ralf Hagedorn
Bonn, Germany
Phone: +49 228 3821-1492
Ralf.Hagedorn(at)dlr.de
www.internationales-buero.de
