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izard ([personal profile] izard) wrote2012-11-28 08:52 pm
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Trip report: SPS Drives Nuernberg

Just returned from Nuernberg where I attended IPC SPS Drives trade fair.

This is my favorite trade fair: I think it is more geeky than anything else, including Cebit, CES, MWC, etc. Because robots are everywhere!

This robot is special: it was the only one out of hundreds that was utterly useless :)

More robots under cut.

Playing tic tac toe with a safety twist. There were tens of vendors of robotic arms, so I would only post this pic from 3S booth showing Kuka arm controlled by IEC61131 software running on a Bosch PLC.

I should write a post about safety :) There are some interesting developments in the field.

Mechanical equalizer shows live music spectrum:


Siemens was not short of space.

They had almost a whole hall for themselves, and installed equipment simulating big part of a factory, a lot of moving parts, more than their next 2 competitors combined had.

To be really original and to attract visitors a creative company placed a retro-industrial installation at their booth:

With everyone else showing 21st century technology it was eye catching to see 19th century technology works too.

All pics in picasa album. Not too many this time because I broke my camera in Berlin so now it only works in full auto mode.