Plant Works & Engineering March 2022

14 | Plant & Works Engineering www.pwemag.co.uk March 2022 Plant & Asset Management Exhibition 2022 Preview The biennial co-located events: Plant & Asset Management, Drives & Controls, Smart Industry Expo, Fluid Power & Systems, Plant & Asset Management, and Air-Tech Exhibitions – are once again set to return to Birmingham’s NEC between the 5-7 April 2022, alongside MACH. PWE takes a closer look. The countdown is almost over for Plant & Asset Management Exhibition 2022 W ith only weeks to go , Plant & Asset Management Exhibition 2022 and the co- location of events taking place alongside it, has confirmed it is now 98% sold out, reflecting the increasingly optimistic outlook for the manufacturing and engineering sectors. Plant & Asset Management 2022, the UK’s premier event for plant, asset, maintenance and works management engineers and directors, will once again bring together key suppliers of state-of-the-art equipment representing the multi- tasking culture of today’s engineering professionals. Industry spends huge sums of money maintaining its plant, machinery and building assets and, because of constantly increasing business and financial pressures, there is an on- going need to achieve the maximum performance from those assets. Plant & Asset Management 2022 will therefore showcase the very latest technologies and systems covering: Asset Management Systems Seals, Bearings, and Lubrication Boilers/Burners, Combustion Engineering Calibration Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) Condition Monitoring/Predictive Maintenance NDT Equipment/Services Oil Analysis Remote Monitoring Thermographic Equipment Temperature Measurement Vibration Analysis Contract Maintenance, Outsourcing & Management Services Energy Management Plus much more Exhibitors currently include: SPM Instrument UK, Fixturlaser, Fluke, EA Technology, Keytracker, Pragmatic Maintenance & Reliability, Lee Spring, Maintmaster, Pruftechnik, SEAM Group, Senseye, T Cards Direct, Ultimo, plus many more. Alongside Plant & Asset Management 2022, the co-location also sees the return of Drives & Controls Exhibition 2022 which will once again bring together key suppliers of state-of-the-art equipment representing the multi-tasking culture of today’s design engineer, covering critical areas such as energy efficiency, machine safety, drives, motion control, robotics, and automation plus much more, all under one roof. With the advent of the smart factory, Drives & Controls Exhibition 2022 is an essential source of technological and engineering information and is fully supported by GAMBICA and EPTDA. Returning exhibitors include Beckhoff, Rittal, Weidmuller, Mitsubishi Electric, Radwell, Bosch Rexroth, Elmo Motion Control, Binder, Carlo Gavazzi, Eaton Electric, Finder, Harting, Hepco, HMS Industrial, Leuze Electronic, Control Techniques/ Nidec Industrial Automation, Omron, Pilz Automation Technology, Renold, plus many more returnees. While the latest confirmed exhibitors include: EAO, EMAS Electric UK, M Buttkereit Ltd, WEG (UK) Ltd, IDEM Safety, Applied Integration UK Ltd, and Trio Motion Technology, whose President, Tom Alexander, commented: “We’re very happy to return to Drives & Controls Exhibition because it’s an important event to present our growing automation control package to UK machine builders. At Drives & Controls we’ll be presenting Trio’s motion and robotic control solutions for applications including CNC, packaging, and cutting, and we’ll also be publicly showing our SCARA robot solution for the first time in the UK.” For the latest exhibitor updates and a full exhibitor list please visit: www.drives-expo.com To complement Drives & Controls Exhibition is the now firmly established Smart Industry Expo, where visitors will have the ideal opportunity to learn about digitalisation and how to prepare and implement a strategy in this smart era as well as being able to discuss a wide range of issues from components to Predictive Maintenance 4.0, Logistics 4.0, and smart grid technologies amongst others. Other areas covered include: components for IT- based automation solutions that will bring fundamental change to all in-factory processes, IT security, as well as smart technologies that manage and coordinate power, gas and heat networks so that capacity can be balanced and optimally deployed across the entire energy system – integrated energy, plus much more. Manufacturing Technology Centre New for 2022 is the significant announcement that the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has confirmed a 100m2 pavilion within Drives & Controls and Smart Industry Expo where it will be joined by its members. The MTC was established in 2010 as