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EMO Hannover: joint booths make trend themes even more visible. The Sustainability in Production Area is attracting great interest because exhibitors are repositioning themselves in this field. Photo: VDW

Editorial

p3 Meeting place for production technology

EMO Hannover p6 Digitalisation and sustainability in the focus for industrial production p9 umati back at EMO Hannover

Artificial Intelligence

p10 Artificial intelligence makes factories clever

Machine tools

p12 Start-ups pave the way to new businesses p15 Online-capable chatter early warning system p18 Silent Tools expand turn-drill-mill centres p20 Spark erosion: efficiency through cleanliness

Digitalisation

Start-ups: AR can be used to train new employees without interrupting production. Service technicians can also be guided remotely.

Software and automation p22 Matrix production systems are flexible and productive p24 Big Data leads to new business models p28 A shortcut to the finished component

Tools and clamping devices

p30 The perfect tool for everyone p33 Smart toolholder as data supplier p36 Grooving with indexable inserts p39 Stable processes through milling tool modification p42 The search for the optimum tool

Metrology and Quality Assurance

p43 Smooth data flow p46 Efficient tool repair p48 Automation from machine to process

E-Mobility p51 How does manufacturing technology advance e-mobility?

Drive technology

p54 Spindle bearings for machine tools

Additive manufacturing

p56 AM: High relevance of feedstock characterisation p59 3D-printed tools: „on a par with the steam engine“

Tools: Intelligent tool holders require hardly more installation space than a conventional type and are in equal measure universally applicable and easy to integrate. Photo: