未来机床的特征和功能会是什么样的？今天早上九点开幕的两场会议将给予答案。

    VDW主席 Carl Martin Welcker先生：“我认为，协同调研和协同生产将深深影响未来制造业的模式。”

    What will be properties and functionality of the machine tools of tomorrow? Answers to this question will be provided in a two day symposium beginning at 09:00 a.m. tomorrow Parallel to the evolutionary further development of existing technology, which proceeds day-by-day in industry, we need impulses to spur revolutionary step-change in technology,?says Carl Martin Welcker, Chairman of the German Machine Tool Builders?Association (VDW, Frankfurt). Exactly these revolutionary impulses should come from a number of collaborative research projects that will be outlined during various seminars and conferences during EMO. Together with the Production and Manufacturing Technologies division of the Research Centre Karlsruhe, VDW will be holding the symposium on the topic of utting edge machine tools for tomorrow production? Beginning tomorrow, September 15, the two day symposium will review the current status of many of the research projects funded by the Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).
    The joint projects presented at the symposium were able to draw on extensive preceding research. In 2001 and 2002 the VDW, in collaboration with the WPG, the Scientific Society for Production Technology, and the Industrial Association for Production Technology, conducted a pilot survey on the subject achine tool 2010? which triggered the BMBF competition ew machine tools for tomorrow production?
    The twelve best joint-projects involve 80 machine tool manufacturers, suppliers of components and university institutes.
    At the symposium, they will present their first results ?organized in five thematic sections he future of the machine tool? icro and precision machining? imulation and optimization? odularization?and utomation? Further conferences are included in the table.