Hexagon empowers manufacturers to innovate and bring sustainable product innovation to market. Hexagon’s solutions support the entire product and manufacturing lifecycle, empowering manufacturers to make better products in new, innovative ways that benefit people and the planet.

Hexagon is a multinational company with a turnover of EUR 4.3 billion. In the manufacturing industry, Hexagon empowers stakeholders across the product lifecycle to shape the sustainable future of their industries by engaging with the value chain of different stakeholders. From aerospace to healthcare to life sciences, the company’s expertise enables companies of all sizes to gain a competitive advantage and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Siemens AG is a technology powerhouse that brings together the digital and real worlds to benefit customers and society and thus people around the globe. The company – having shaped every of the four industrial revolutions ever since and celebrating its 175th birthday in 2022 – focuses on intelligent infrastructure for buildings and decentralized energy systems, on automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries, and on smart mobility solutions for rail and road transport, but also in medical technology, financial services or real estate. In more than 200 countries/regions the company has roughly (FY22) 311,000 employees of which 44,000 are in digital jobs.

Scania is a world leading provider of transport solutions with 54,000 employees in more than 100 countries. Together with our partners and customers, we are driving the shift towards a sustainable transport system, creating a world of mobility that is better for business, society and the environment.

DMG MORI is a worldwide leading manufacturer of machine tools. Integrated automation and end-to-end digitization solutions extend our core business with turning and milling machines, Advanced Technologies and Additive Manufacturing. With modular products, we enable an easy, fast, scalable entry into digital manufacturing as well as end-to-end digitization. Our customer-oriented services cover the entire life cycle of a machine tool – including training, repair, maintenance and spare parts service.

In the “Global One Company”, around 12,000 employees are in direct contact with over 100,000 customers from 55 industries. DMG MORI is present in 87 countries worldwide – with 16 production plants, 111 sales and service locations – and is actively advancing the future fields of automation, digitization and sustainability.

SEITEC is a medium-sized industrial automation and software company and a long-standing partner for mechanical and plant engineering, as well as for manufacturing companies.

With an interdisciplinary competence team of 30 employees at three German locations, SEITEC is an innovative performance and technology leader for holistic automation solutions and the digital transformation of the manufacturing and process industry.

In the field of digitalization and data-based process optimization, SEITEC develops the appropriate solutions, depending on the maturity level of the customer. These can start with the retrofit of existing machinery and lead up to the digital platform business model based on different IoT/Cloud and Edge architectures.

seioTec is the digitalization brand of SEITEC.

igus develops and produces motion plastics: lubricant-free high-performance plastics that improve technology and reduce costs – wherever things move. In energy chains, cables, plain bearings and thread technology made of tribopolymers, igus leads the markets worldwide. The family-owned company from Cologne is represented in 31 countries and employs over 4,500 people worldwide. Research in the largest test laboratory in the industry continuously produces innovations. In recent years, igus has expanded through internal start-ups, for example for ball bearings, robotic gearboxes, 3D printing, the RBTX platform for lean robotics and “smart plastics” for Industry 4.0. igus is also driving the circular economy, for example with its own “chainge” recycling program for used e-chains.

Phoenix Contact is the global market leader for components, systems and solutions in the field of electrical engineering, electronics and automation. Today, the family-owned company employs around 20,300 people worldwide and generated sales of 2.97 billion euros in 2021. Its headquarters are in Blomberg, Westphalia. The Phoenix Contact Group includes fourteen German and four international companies as well as 55 sales companies around the world.

OTT-JAKOB Spanntechnik GmbH specializes in the manufacture of complete tool clamping systems for processing machines. Our family-owned company from Allgäu looks back on 150 years of tradition and is today one of the key players in the industry worldwide. Our repertoire includes solutions for automatic and manual tool change, rotary unions, release units as well as electronic monitoring systems.

OTT-JAKOB sets the standards in the market: since the 1970s, we have been instrumental in shaping several standardization processes. In May 2022, our ongoing quality efforts were rewarded with ISO 9001 certification. Where possible, we take environmental aspects into account in the development of our products. This includes the avoidance of hazardous substances as far as possible and resource-saving production. We also attach great importance to durability and ease of repair. Long-standing cooperation with leading machine and spindle manufacturers, as well as knowledge transfer with colleges and universities, maximize our range of services.

Since the 1960s, KABELSCHLEPP® has been developing, producing and supplying guideway protection and conveyor systems for mechanical and plant engineering.

KABELSCHLEPP® is a global player within the TSUBAKI Group with foreign representatives and subsidiaries in more than 70 countries. The company’s products have proven themselves as tried and tested worldwide for decades in the field of mechanical and plant engineering.

The company now considers itself increasingly as a solution provider, for example in the field of turning, milling or laser applications, and develops, produces and supplies not only complete protection systems but also central disposal systems. Customer benefit is always in the foreground and leads the innovations.