Unternehmen & Trends - Ausgabe 1/2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS Legal Notice Publisher VEK Publishing Elisabeth Klock Am Waldfeld 34 C 65812 Bad Soden GERMANY Telefon +49 611 949164-65 Telefax +49 611 949164-7755 info@klock-medienpartner.de www.klock-medienpartner.de Editors Elisabeth Müller-Klock (Publishing Director) Dr. Rudolf Müller Clive Davies Proofreading Clive Davies Advertisment Manager Elisabeth Müller-Klock Telefon +49 611 949164-65 Online-Edition Oliver Bauer Online-Presse-Service and Sales Dr. Reinold Lippmann Sales Stefan Jantzen Graphic Fotosatzstudio Oliver Bauer www.fotosatzstudio.de Print gutenberg beuys feindruckerei gmbh 30851 Langenhagen Cover English Edition For the Design of the cover we used Graphics from Scharfsinn /www.shutterstock.com and Olha Insight /shutterstock.com Edition 1/2018 Copyright VEK Publishing Elisabeth Klock This work was created with the greatest possible care and after best knowledge and does not claim to be exhaustive. Despite careful review, neither the publisher nor the ed- itor can accept liability for the completeness or accuracy of the publication. Contributions characterized by name express the respective author’s individual opinion. Neither the publisher nor the editor have made such external con- tributions their own. The business enterprises those contributions stem from are responsible for the respective photographic and graphic material and particularly for the fact that the material is free from third party rights. The publisher holds the exclusive rights of use to the accepted and published contributions and articles. Reprints, even extracts are only possible with the publisher’s prior consent. Any texts, pictures or graph- ic depictions as well as their arrangement are subject to copyright and ancillary copyright law. The publisher also does not accept liability for any direct or indirect links to external websites, that are outside the publisher’s sphere of responsibility. Only the respective provider of such external websites is responsible for the completeness and accuracy of the available contents. The publisher does not make such external contributions his own. 62 Unternehmen & Trends Editorial 63 HANNOVER MESSE 2018 Connect & collaborate 64 Fraunhofer IOSB Possible solutions to standardised, manufacturer-independent interfaces in production 66 Research Association for Drive Technology FVA On the value of sharing 70 Böllhoff Group The best of two worlds combined for modern multi-material designs 72 YASKAWA Europe GmbH The all-rounder robot cell 74 COSMO CONSULT Group COSMO CONSULT supports complete digital transformation 76 Company Presentations The Böllhoff Group 78 COSMO CONSULT Group 79 YAZAKI Europe Limited 80 Huf Group 81 Expert Directory 82 Legal Notice 62 Graphic: © Scharfsinn /www.shutterstock.com