SPS provides a comprehensive look at smart and digital automation. To help you find what you're looking for, the exhibition is divided into 13 product and functional groups.
1. Drive systems and components
1.1. Standard motors
- Asynchronous motors
- Three-phase motors
- Direct current motors
- Synchronous motors
1.2. Dedicated motors
- AC-servomotors
- Brake motors
- DC-servomotors
- Direct drives (rotatory)
- Motors for hazardous areas
- Gear motors
- High geared frequency motors & drives
- High-torque motors
- Hollow shaft drives
- Compact drives
- Linear motors
- Precision drives
- Belt and chain drives
- Spindle motors
- Torque motors
- Transverse flux drives
- Water-cooled motors
1.3. Small motors
- Brushless DC motors
- Single-phase motors
- Electronic motors
- Direct current motors
- Micro actuators
- Micro motors
- Stepping motors and drives
- Voice coil actuators
- AC motors
1.4. Drives, systems, motion control
- Power converters
- Converters
- Rectifiers
- Inverters
- Drives
- Three-phase drives
- DC drives
- Compact drives
- Positioning drives
- Positioners
- Electric traction drives
- Drive controllers
- Motor controllers
- Decentralized drives
- Vector controllers
- Positioning systems
- Technology functions for electric drives
1.5. Drive components
- Brakes
- Brake resistors
- Chokes
- Solenoids
- EMC filters
- Gears
- Couplings
- Motor power cables
2. Sensor technology
2.1. Binary sensors
- Flow sensors, switching
- Level sensors, switching
- Pulse sensors, counters
- Inductive sensors
- Capacitive sensors
- Photoelectric sensors
- Laser sensors
- Magnetic sensors
- Ultrasonic sensors
- Sensors for cylinders
- Pressure and vacuum sensors, switching
- Temperature sensors, switching
- Sensors for hazardous areas, switching
2.2. Rotary transducers
- Absolut value encoders
- Incremental value encoders
- Resolvers
- Sine wave encoders
- Tachometers
- Rotary transducers for hazardous areas
2.3. Identification sensors and systems
- Code scanners, optical
- RFID systems
- Identification sensors for hazardous areas
2.4. Industrial image processing
- Vision sensors
- Smart cameras
- Vision systems
- Lighting
- Cameras
- Lenses
2.5. Measuring sensors and systems
- Accelerating sensors
- Deformation sensors
- Distance sensors
- Distance sensors, inductive
- Distance sensors, optical
- Distance sensors, ultrasonic
- Torque sensors
- Pressure sensors, measuring
- Flow sensors, measuring
- Color sensors, measuring
- Humidity sensors
- Level sensors, measuring
- Velocimeters
- Force transducers
- Light grids, measuring
- Linear encoders
- Linear potentiometers
- Inclination sensors
- Measuring scanners
- Temperature sensors, measuring
- Angle sensors
- Weighing sensors and systems
- Load cells
- Weighing systems
- Sensors and devices for material analysis
- Sensors for hazardous areas, measuring
2.6. Safety sensors and systems
- Safety cameras
- Safety light grids and curtains
- Safety scanners
- Safety switches
- Safety connecting blocks
- Safety shutdown mats
3. Control technology
3.1. Compact control systems (PLCs)
- PLC-based control systems
- Micro-computer based control systems
3.2. Modular controls
- Control modules
- I/O modules
- Functional modules
- Communication modules
3.3. Logic modules
- Control modules
- I/O modules
- Functional modules
- Communication modules
3.4. Computerized numerical controls (CNC)
- Control modules
- I/O modules
- Positioning modules
- Functional modules
- Communication modules
- Robot controls
3.6. Safety PLCs
- Compact safety PLCs
- Modular safety PLCs
- Decentral I/O modules
4. Factory power - grids and -supplies
4.1. Power supplies
- Uncontrolled power supplies
- Linear-controlled power supplies
- Primary-switched power supplies
- Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS)
- Power supplies for hazardous areas
- Transformers
4.2. Monitoring and protection equipment
- Isolation monitoring devices
- Fusing devices
- Lightning and surge protection devices
- Current and voltage monitoring devices
- Phase failure protection devices
- Monitor relays
- Measuring relays
4.3. Safety devices and systems
- Compact safety switches
- Modular safety switches
4.4. Power quality
- Active and passive filters
- Mains voltage quality
- Network analyses
5. Interface and interface technology
5.1. Signal converters
- Measuring amplifiers
- Measuring transducers
- Isolation amplifiers
- Current and voltage transformers
- Interface changer
- Ex-isolating signal converters
5.2. Interface modules
- Optical couplers (SSRs)
- Signalling relays
- Timers
- Counters
- Switching relays
5.3. Interface technology
- Rail-mounted terminal blocks for industrial use
- Marking material
- Passive sensors/actor boxes
- Plug connectors
6. Low voltage-switching devices
6.1. Contactors
- Motor contactors
- Auxiliary contactors
- Semiconductor relays
6.2. Motor protection devices
- Motor protection switch
- Overload relays
- Motor starters/soft start devices
- Motor management systems
6.3. Circuit breakers
- Main switches
- Disconnecting switches
- Power switches
- Switch disconnectors
- Control switches
- Electric cam switches
- Mechanical switches
7. Mechanical infrastructure
7.1. Control cabinets and control cabinet systems
- Heatings for cabinet systems
- Coolings for cabinet systems
- Fans and blowers for cabinet systems
7.2. Industrial housing systems
- Housings
- Racks
7.3. Cables and fiber optic systems
- Cables and cords for industrial use
- Fiber optic systems for industrial use
- Cable carriers
- Cable feedthrough
7.4. Rotary joints
- Slip ring systems
- Fiber optical rotary joints
8. IPCs
9. Software & IT in manufacturing
9.1. Planning and engineering software
- Mechanical construction
- Electrical construction
- Programming/software for control technology
- General planning software
9.2. Production/manufacturing software
- MES
- Production data acquisition
- HMI/SCADA
- Energy and resource management
- Data management for the production
- Control runtime
- Production optimization
9.3. Maintenance software
- Analysis
- Asset management
- Predictive maintenance
- Condition monitoring
- Remote monitoring
9.4. Cross-sectional technology
- Cyber security
- Cloud computing applications & services
- Mobile Application
- AI Application
10. Human-machine-interface devices
11. Industrial communication
11.1. Industrial ethernet
- Network infrastructure
- Field devices (I/O modules etc.)
- Functional modules
- Network adapters
- Tools
11.2. Field bus systems
- Network infrastructure
- Field devices (I/O modules etc.)
- Functional modules
- Network adapters
- Tools
11.3. Safety field bus systems
- Network infrastructure
- Field devices (I/O modules etc.)
- Functional modules
- Network adapters
- Tools
11.4. Wireless communication
- Network infrastructure (radio modems, access points)
- Field devices
- Functional modules
- Network adapters
- Safety devices
- Tools
- Wireless communication for hazardous areas
- Mobile communications standard 3G, 4G, 5G
- Low-Power Wide-Area Aetwork (LPWAN), Narrow Band IoT (NBIOT), Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRA)
11.7. Sensor/actuator communication
- Network infrastructure
- Field devices
- Functional modules
- Software and tools
11.8. Industrial communication for hazardous areas
- Network infrastructure
- Field devices
- Functional modules
- Software and tools
12. Training and consulting
13. Functional groups
13.1. Bodies & associations
- Support and development of specifications and standards
- Associations and societies for standardization
13.2. Project planning & Engineering
- Planning and project management tools
- Supply of digital device data (digital twin)
- For processing with CAD / CAE tools
- For processing with engineering tools
- Models for simulation of products, machines and processes
- Planning and engineering tools
- Electrical and mechanical construction
- Design of automation systems
- Drive dimensioning
- Programming of PLCs
- Provision of technology functions
- Possibility of integration of external article data (e.g. XML files)
- Simulation tools
13.3. Set-up
- Tools for parametrization and configuration of products, production processes, machinery and equipment
- Solutions for virtual set-up
- Auto-tuning for field devices
13.4. Operation
- Systems for production optimization
- Integration of order, production and product data (e.g. connection to ERP systems)
- Analysis of machine and process data
- Energy data and resource management
- Continuous optimization/adaption/AI
- Systems for increasing machine and plant availability
- Condition monitoring
- Predictive maintenance
- Assisted/prescriptive maintenance
- Preventive maintenance
- Connectivity solutions
- Cloud / Fog-based solutions
- Control, monitoring and optimization of production processes
- Service and support in the production process
- Industrial Security
13.5. Smart Service (product- and system-related)
- Network services (e.g. data storage, bandwidth)
- Remote Support
- Condition Monitoring
- Dynamic Improvements
- Lifecycle Information
- Maintenance Management
- Process Efficiency
13.6. Service delivery
- Design of machines and plants
- Programming and set-up of machines and plants
- Realization of integrated IoT solutions for production
- Connectivity – networking of existing plants
- Security services