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Hanover Fair: Get New (Automation) Technology First
Hanover Fair Under the motto "Get new Technology First", the 2006 Hanover Fair will take place between April 24 and 28 as a forum for users, developers and decision makers from all sectors of industry. The Hanover Fair is the leading global information and presentation platform for industrial automation ...

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Light+Building 2006
Light+Building 2006 Light+Building will take place between 23th and 27th April in Frankfurt, Main. The international trade fair for architecture and technology will present itself with an overall concept for lighting, electronics, and home & building automation, complemented with architectural systems ...

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Customer-oriented transfer of know-how and exchange of
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Automation UpDate The organisers of the second Automation UpDate demonstrated strong commitment to customer orientation: Embedded PC seminars took place on three consecutive evenings between 31th January and 2nd February in Germany. "With this offer we wanted to illustrate our commitment to customer service", said Wolfgang Negele from the Beckhoff branch in Nuremberg ... more
China Sales meeting 2006 illustrates prospects for the future
China Sales meeting In 2005, the Beckhoff branch in China with head office in Beijing and sales offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou, achieved an increase in turnover of more than 50 % in the Chinese market, with further growth expected. Managing director Liquiang Liang had invited distribution partners, system integrators and selected customers to the China Sales Meeting between 12th and 16th January 2006 in HaiNan, in order to present a review of the last business year and plans and developments for 2006 ...

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Bus Terminal series KS with pluggable wiring
KS series The Beckhoff Bus Terminal system has been expanded with a pluggable connection feature. The assembly and wiring procedure for the new KS series is the same as for the KL series. The complete KL series with all 180 functions will be made available in KS configuration ... more
OMAC approves PackAL
Gerd Hoppe The executive committee of the OMAC Packaging Workgroup (OPW) officially approved PackAL (Packaging Application Library) at their 2006 spring meeting on February 23rd held in Orlando, Florida. PackAL will be added to the OPW Guidelines for Packaging Machinery Automation. An updated version of these guidelines, Version 3.1, is scheduled to be released in April ... more
Achema 2006: Global forum for the process industry
Achema Achema, which will take place between 15 and 19 May in Frankfurt, is seen as an important international get-together for suppliers to the process industry. Across ten exhibition halls, around 4,000 exhibitors from 50 countries will present their technology know-how and provide comprehensive insight into solutions for all areas of process engineering ... more
International trade fair for robotics: Automatica
Automatica The second Automatica will take place between 16th and 19th May in Munich. This year Beckhoff will present its automation solutions for robotics, assembly and handling, as well as standard solutions for general machine construction for the first time at Automatica. Munich is an excellent venue for meeting customers from the important business location of Bavaria ... more