Hannover 2001

This year’s Drives & Controls exhibition and conference was staged alongside two other events; Hydraulics & Pneumatics, and Power Electronics.

Now in its eighth year, the exhibition has found a new home at the purpose built Excel centre, a state of the art exhibition venue onstructed last year (2000) in London’s Docklands at a cost of some £250 million.

Here are just a few industrial networking highlights from this year’s show:

Digital revolution for pneumatic valves	Norgren	b106
Distributed soft logic for drives tasks	Control Techniques	b108
OPC Interface: DriveServer convinces in action	Lenze	b110
Ethernet fieldbus gateway features integrated web server	Deutschmann Automation	b109
AS-interface modules for M12 connectors	Woodhead Connectivity	b107