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Micronora closed its doors on 28 September with an extremely positive balance sheet and confirms once again its position as an international leader in the microtechnical and precision sector with a number of exhibitors (35%) and visitors (14.5%) foreign countries up from the previous edition.
Beyond the overall number of professional visitors (15,220), exhibitors appreciated the quantity, but above all the quality of contacts made at the show.
Inaugurated by Bruno Grandjean, President of the Industry of the Future Alliance, the international microtechnical and precision fair attracted all the contractors in this field, essential to realize the high-tech products of today or tomorrow.
An increasingly innovative offer
Nothing was missing from the offer presented on the stands, ranging from CFAO software to the latest generation machine tool through the most productive cutting tools and the most ruthless means of control, cooperative and agile robotics or ubiquitous lasers... New production approaches, such as additive manufacturing (plastic, ceramic or metal) were almost five times more numerous than at the previous edition of the show.
A veritable laboratory of the micromechanics of tomorrow, the exhibition allowed visitors to understand the new technological frontiers that industrialists in this field aim at like no other. The achievements of the winners of the Microns and Nano d'Or 2018 competition are here to highlight it. Their know-how pushes the limits of plastic injection towards nano dimensions, allows to manipulate and assemble smaller and smaller components or to exploit to the last limits the possibilities of a machining center to achieve reasons of unprecedented complexity or even to make robots with parallel Lilliputian kinematics or to ensure nano surface treatments. This extensive know-how also allows laser machines to be ever more versatile and the means of control to adapt to this tiny world.
While Micronora has always been the showcase for all these amazing innovations, the show is also an important agitator of ideas. This is illustrated this year by the show's Zoom, which hosted a stand-alone production unit in operation.
Industry 4.0 zoom popular with exhibitors and visitors
Based on an original idea by Michel Froelicher, Vice President of Micronora, the UAP brought together a set of equipment for design, manufacturing (machining and 3D printing), marking, control and robotics that enabled the production of a complex plastic/metal set. A production system whose software was developed by a bisontine start-up, MC Robotics, and its creator Mathieu Charles. "This production facility demonstrates that an SME can equip itself at a lower cost and with existing means on the market to enter the Industry 4.0 approach. It is still necessary to master it, to have good specialists. This requires a considerable training effort that must begin now. It is at this price and only at this price that we could respond to the tremendous change in the labour market that is underway and have enough candidates for the thousands of jobs that will be created tomorrow. concludes Michel Froelicher.
The conference programme around Industry 4.0 has interested large numbers of exhibitors and visitors.
The next edition will take place from 22 to 25 September 2020 in Besançon.
Find out more: www.micronora.com
