NEWS n More than traditional ECAD software The foundation for digital transformation: consistent and continuous data EPLAN offers more than traditional ECAD software, our multifaceted solutions in various engineering disciplines enable networked processes that save valuable working hours and resources. With EPLAN, your co-workers and business partners can easily, and securely access your current project status for clear collaboration. Discover more: www.eplan.co.uk/ecosystem MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING Week 2023 has become the UK’s biggest industrial event after just two years, according to its organiser, The Nineteen Group. The two-day event held at the NEC in June attracted 10,355 visitors and 342 exhibitors. According to Manufacturing & Engineering Week’s portfolio director, Haf Cennydd: “To have built the biggest UK event for the industrial sector in just two years has surpassed our expectations and clearly demonstrates that bringing together Smart Factory Expo, Design & Engineering Expo and Maintec was a great idea. With industrial events also taking place at the same time and venue run by other event organisers, plus the addition of Drives & Controls, Air-Tech and Fluid Power & Systems, there will only be more to see and do in 2024.” “Manufacturing and Engineering Week has gone from strength to strength from last year to this year and we expect it to grow even further next year,” adds Stephen Phipson, CEO of the manufacturers’ organisation Make UK and chair of the Manufacturing & Engineering Week steering committee. “Key challenges were high on the agenda for the second year, with skills, supply chain and sustainability discussed in detail. It was great to see the show also offset their carbon emissions once again by planting thousands more trees in the M&E Week forest.” Nineteen Group CEO Peter Jones is also delighted with the way the show went: “We gave our team the licence to disrupt the accepted norms of what an industrial sector trade show looked like, felt like and achieved and they have overperformed by every measure,” he says. “From the Nexa3D guitar players’ competition to the festival-like stilt walkers and branding to the sheer sense of excitement generated on the exhibition floor it's been superb, and it will only get better next year as we add Drives & Controls, Air-Tech and Fluid Power & Systems into the mix.” In 2024, M&E Week will take place in two halls at the NEC. In addition to the Smart Factory Expo, Design & Engineering Expo and Maintec taking place in Hall 4 on 5 and 6 June, Hall 5 will host the Drives & Controls, Air-Tech and Fluid Power & Systems events for three days from 4–6 June. These last three events were acquired by The Nineteen Group from DFA Media in 2022. At this year’s show, they formed a zone within the M&E Week show, but they will return as full exhibitions in 2024 and every two years after that. www.mandeweek.co.uk In just two years, M&E Week has become ‘UK’s biggest industrial event’ THE GLOBAL MARKET for motion controls will be worth $18.9bn this year, rising to $22.2bn by 2027 – a CAGR of 4.6% – according to new data from Interact Analysis. It expects the market to fall slightly next year as a result of the decline in global economic growth, before returning to steady expansion. This follows a period in 2021/2022 when high demand for consumer products boosted investment in automation. According to Interact research analyst Alexander Jones, Siemens continues to dominate the motion controls market with its share growing by almost 1% in 2022. The Chinese supplier Inovance is now the world’s fifth-largest motion controls vendor, boosting its market share by 0.6% during 2022. In 2018, the company was not even in the global top 10. Although some motion control vendors are predicting market growth rates as high as 20%, others are more cautious, suggesting that 2023 will be a flat year compared to 2022. The Asia-Pacific region was the largest market for motion controls in 2022, accounting for 37% of global revenues, followed by EMEA on 33%, Japan on 16% and the Americas on 14%. Motion controls sales will dip, before rebounding to $22bn by 2027 M&E Week attracted more than 10,000 visitors to the NEC
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