Automation Update 2022 seminars make impact on industry with new innovations from Beckhoff

Multi city events were conducted by Beckhoff across the Indian cities starting at Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune and Mumbai by Beckhoff Automation team.

Over 400 registrations were logged in with around 300 attendees across the industry segments, business segments and sizes in India. The event brought together practicing automation engineers from the end users, manufacturers, R&D engineers, machine designers, control system experts, system integrators and academics.

The objective of the physical events was to showcase and demonstrate in person latest product updates and technology developments from Beckhoff in past 2 years. Another objective of these physical events was to meet the customers and reassure them all the measures undertaken at Beckhoff Germany and locally to overcome the delivery crisis faced by industry.

“This was the first offline events since Sept 2019, and it proved to be the most needed networking event in 2022 giving opportunity for the participants,” the company said.

Watching the technology product demos was seen as most interesting by all participants. Most interesting demo was the AI-ML application demo for 2 machines, one local and one remote. Other interesting demos were about AMI812x integrated servo drives, CX7000 -compact PC based PLC, IoT, Precision weighing solutions etc.

All events began with an opening address by Jitendrakumar Kataria, Managing Director, Beckhoff Automation and were followed by a series of presentations / videos about Industrial PC /Embedded PC product update, IO product update, TwinCAT product update, Motion product updates. This was further followed by XTS-XPlanar product updates and climaxed with MX-System and ATRO presentations.

Tables with live demonstrations of Beckhoff products were the point of attraction and made the attendees engage with Beckhoff team trying to understand how the features demonstrated could benefit them in their business.