Hannover Messe Digital Edition 2021

Innovation. Inspiration. Interaction.

Under the central theme of "Industrial Transformation," we presented our ideas and technologies for the factories, energy systems and supply chains of the future during the Hannover Messe Digital Edition 2021 from April 12 to 16.

Together with partners from research and industry, we showed our trade fair audience magazines and live discussions specially designed for the event.

Our topics at the digital Hannover Messe!

Here you will find in-depth information on our magazine shows and live talks. We look forward to your questions and ideas and are happy to discuss these and other exciting research and development projects for industry with you!

5G in Production

Let's innovate the manufacturing industry: Discover and test new applications for 5G in production environments with us!

You missed the fair, did not have time for our broadcast dates or would like to show your colleagues individual passages from our live stream? In the following media library you will find the magazines and live talks in the recording, so you can watch everything again at your leisure.

Media Library

5G Campus Mag (magazine, YouTube)

Production technology for hydrogen drives

Learn how Fraunhofer will launch a cost-effective, scalable series production of fuel cells.

You missed the fair, didn't have time on our broadcast dates or would like to show your colleagues individual passages from our live stream? In the following media library you will find the magazines and live talks in the recording, so you can watch everything again at your leisure.

Networked, adaptive production: Industry 4.0 on the shopfloor

With our International Center for Networked, Adaptive Production and the Hackathon #hackingforfuture, we will show you which new approaches to solutions from IT can actually succeed in the transformation to Industry 4.0.

You missed the fair, did not have time for our broadcast dates or would like to show your colleagues individual passages from our live stream? In the following media library you will find the magazines and live talks in the recording, so you can watch everything again at your leisure.

Media Library

ICNAP Community Mag (magazine, YouTube)

Press release for Hannover Messe

Learn more in our press release for Hannover Messe Digital Edition 2021:

Hydrogen Technologies – High production rates for fuel cells

To create a sustainable road traffic system, hundreds of thousands of fuel cells will be needed for hydrogen-powered cars in the future. Until now, though, fuel cell production has been complex and too slow. The Fraunhofer team is therefore developing a continuous production line that will be able to process fuel cell components in cycles lasting just seconds. The pilot line is set to be presented at the Hannover Messe Digital Edition from April 12 to April 16, 2021.

We are also involved in these topics:

EPIC Centre of Excellence in Production Informatics and Control

EPIC is a long-term cooperation between the Fraunhofer Institutes IPT, IPK, IPA, Fraunhofer Austria and the Hungarian partners of EPIC Inno Labs, SZTAKI and BME. The cooperation's goal is to establish a center of excellence for Cyber Physical Production Systems

HEAD-Demonstrator

In the HEAD project, Fraunhofer IPT and SCAI are researching how tool wear can be determined automatically from acoustic emission with the help of machine learning. Our goal is to increase both the robustness of the production process and the availability of machines, while maintaining a high production quality.

30th Aachen Machine Tool Colloquium

Turning Data into Sustainability – Under the new guiding theme of AWK'21, the aim is to shed light on how manufacturing companies can achieve rapid, error-free improvements in series production through demand-driven data acquisition and machine learning, and how they can thereby produce resiliently and sustainably.