The Automation Sector at IMTS 2024, powered by SPS – Smart Production Solutions, will feature an extensive presentation of automated, robotics, connected and digital manufacturing technologies that can increase manufacturing efficiencies. IMTS 2024 runs Sept. 9-14 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. The vast scope of automation offers manufacturers vast and varied solutions to better manage supply chain and logistics, as well as greater productivity and profitability. As the largest manufacturing technology event in North America, IMTS 2022 witnessed an unprecedented number of demonstrations featuring robots, cobots, vision systems, and other automated solutions around manufacturing processes such as additive manufacturing, CNC machining, metrology, and part handling. Exhibitors featured complete system-solutions that also included connectivity for data management and process optimization, as well as digital twin technology and new solutions for CAD/CAM and ERP/shop management software. “By working with SPS – Smart Production Solutions, IMTS 2024 will have even more exhibits featuring advanced motion systems, vision and imaging, data analytics, systems integration, artificial intelligence, and cloud and edge computing,” says Douglas K. Woods, president of AMT, which owns and produces IMTS. SPS – Smart Production Solutions SPS – Smart Production Solutions will be held Sept. 23-25, 2025, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The inaugural event will host exhibits from simple sensors to intelligent solutions, from what is feasible today to the vision of a fully digitalized industrial world. “Manufacturing in the Southeast region is flourishing, and as one of the national leaders in advanced manufacturing, Georgia is the perfect backstory for an automation industry event in the United States,” says Constantin von Vieregge, president and CEO, Messe Frankfurt Inc. “Working in concert with AMT, GBM, and our sister company, Mesago, the development of SPS – Smart Production Solutions in Atlanta will cater to a multiplicity of sectors providing a platform to elevate the advancing technological innovations.” Stronger Together Both events will facilitate a faster exchange of knowledge, which is particularly relevant to global issues involving supply chains, logistics, staff shortages, and cost pressures. Read more in the press release.
On January 19, AMT and Mesago, a subsidiary of Messe Frankfurt Group, announced a collaboration to create the Automation Sector at IMTS 2024 in Chicago, Illinois, and SPS – Smart Production Solutions in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2025. Both events will be supported by Gardner Business Media (GBM), the leading publisher for manufacturing.