- Daegu Automatic Machinery Expo to be introduced with smart factory solutions and automation technology

- Parts & Materials Show which will serve as a venue for cooperation between organizations and companies to stimulate the regional economy

- Daegu Robot Expo to lead the expansion of global manufacturing robot technology and robot market

Since the spread of COVID-19, the equipment industry is eying on Daegu Machinery Expo 2020, the biggest event in the machinery industry to be held in Korea. At Daegu Machinery Expo, where the "next production and manufacturing strategy" will be shared, three expos, Daegu Automatic Machinery Expo, Parts & Materials Show, and Daegu Robot Expo, will be integrated, and it will be held Nov. 24-27 at EXCO exhibition hall on the first floor. Despite the canceling and reduction of major trade shows due to COVID, this exhibition will be held in 597-booth scale by 240 companies.

Daegu Automatic Machinery Expo presents smart factory solutions and automation technology guides for expanding production efficiency

Hosted by Daegu Metropolitan City and organized by Daegu Gyeongbuk Machinery Cooperative, 106 companies will participate in Daegu Automatic Machinery Expo (DAMEX 2020) in 317 booths to promote intelligent and automated solutions and related products in the production and manufacturing process. DAMEX 2020 was organized into six specialty halls, Factory Automation, Smart Factory, Tools, Logistics and Packaging Machines, Machine Tools, and Control Instruments to deliver more useful automation technology and related solutions to increase production efficiency.

At the Machine Tool hall, Eshimtech will be showing its 5-axis high-speed machining center optimized for precise and complex structures, and Daesung Hitech and Nicemach will be exhibiting NOMURA's automatic shelves. Also, in the factory automation hall, Samick THK, the number one guide and ball screw manufacturer and sales company in Korea, Duksan Cotran, which is about to launch a non-face-to-face sterilizer suitable for COVID-19 era, and IGM Service Korea and HJ PNC, welding robot specializing companies confirmed participation in the show.

Especially in DAMEX 2020, as the need to advance smart manufacturing innovation and industrial ecosystem has grown due to changes in the global value chain caused by COVID-19, 29 companies in 45-booth scale formed the smart factory special hall to improve the understanding of smart factories and share the cases of successful implementation. Daegu Technopark Daegu Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center plans to participate in the special hall to promote the construction cases of 269 companies that supported the construction and advancement of smart factories. And, a joint hall will be formed by 21 companies including Daegu Smart Factory Supply Association to share support policies and the implementation know-how.

Parts & Materials Show 2020, a venue for cooperation between institutions and companies to strengthen the competitiveness of small parts companies

Parts & Materials Show 2020, hosted by Daegu Metropolitan City and Gyeongsangbuk-do and organized by EXCO, is the largest parts and materials exhibition in Daegu-Gyeongbuk area in its 15th year. A total of 89 companies participated in 128 booths to display mechanical & auto parts, electric & electronic parts, metal & chemical materials, and ceramic related products.

Also in this exhibition, a large number of local organizations formed a joint hall to participate in this exhibition to enhance the competitiveness of the parts and materials industry and to strengthen the convergence ecosystem of related companies. In Daegu Technopark, the Nano Convergence Practicalization Center has organized a joint hall with 12 companies in Daegu area including carbon and ceramic materials and parts manufacturers, and automobile parts manufacturers, and the corporate support group is participating in 8-booth scale joint hall made up of Sensor Solution, Capro, Fe G Tec, Hansung Aluminum will be participating.

Also, Korea Conformity Laboratories (KCL) and Daegu Mechatronics & Materials Institute (DMI) joined forces to foster door hardware manufacturing industry and formed a joint hall with door hardware companies in the regions such as Ace Innotech, Doowon TEG, DWADS, Suntech, M hardware, Hyundai Minuteness, and World Cross. Also, the co-organizer KEIT formed the Regional Win-win Cooperation Center with Daegu and Gyeongbuk regional companies like Bexel, IVT, Livingcare Development of Materials, S&S Tech, Korea Clad Tech, CIS, and Daehan Metal. As such, this year's Parts & Materials Show prepared the mutual cooperation with companies.

Daegu Robot Expo, the exhibition to present the global manufacturing robot technology and the trend in the robot market that will lead the manufacturing innovation in the non-face-to-face era

At Daegu Robot Expo (ROBEX 2020) in its ninth run, latest manufacturing robot technology will be used for various processes such as assembly, processing, testing, transport, and packaging to improve efficiency in manufacturing line and work environment.

In ROBEX 2020, major conglomerates such as Hyundai Robotics, Korea Yaskawa Electric, Stäubli, and Epson and 45 industrial robot companies such as Ajin Extek, SV Tech, UND, and Oto Robotics will participate in 152-booth scale will showcase industrial robots, service robots, robot parts, robot SI, and drones. Also, in Daegu Mechatronics & Materials Institute prepared the joint hall for the robot companies in the region to create the robot market and strengthen the competitiveness of robot parts.

Hyundai Robotics, the number one industrial robot company in Korea, is displaying the cooperative robot (YL012), which won the Best of Best Award at the 2019 Red Dot Award, and the display module shop robot training facility that can operate transportation, product verification, peeling, and inspection processes with one robot. Also, global company Yaskawa will introduce Motomini, the world's smallest robot that can perform handling and assembly work and Stäubli from Switzerland will introduce TX2 Safety and Touch Safety Robot, the fastest and safest industrial robots that can work with people in this show for the first time in Korea.

As ROBEX 2020 is spotlighted as the best industrial robot exhibition in Korea, the interest of overseas robot demand and suppliers are also growing. Epson is participating in ROBEX 2020 for the first time, and it is going to demonstrate its 6-axis robot N Series, the world's first robot with folding arm along with its SCARA robot that boasts the no. 1 market share in the global market for nine years in a row. Softbank Robotics is also participating for the first time through an agency in Korea and introducing its cleaning robot Whiz.

Various side events to prepare for the post-COVID era with export and purchase consultations to vitalize the local economy and industry

Also, at Daegu Machinery Expo 2020, overseas buyer video export consultation and purchase consultation will be held. In the export consultation, 33 companies from five countries will participate, and in purchase consultation, 16 large and medium-sized companies will participate to stimulate the regional economy stagnated due to COVID and contribute to the creation of profit by SMEs that are having difficulties in finding sales channels in Korea and overseas.

On Nov. 24, the first day of the event, KOTRA will moderate the export consultations with 18 buyers from Germany, Japan, China, Mongolia, and Vietnam, and on Nov. 25, KOTRA will moderate the export consultation with 15 buyers from the Shenzhen Machinery Association of China. On Nov. 26, 12 large companies (Samsung Display, Hyundai Wia, Renault Samsung Motors, POSCO, etc.), four mid-sized companies in Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions (Daegu Tech, Pyung Hwa Holdings, KICOX, etc.) and exhibitors will hold a one-to-one purchase consultation.

In this year's exhibition, Staff Training for Smart Factory Implementing Companies will be held Nov. 24 and 25, and Briefing of Manufacturing Robot which presents robot utilization cases, manufacturing robots, considerations when implementing robots, and support businesses will be held on Nov. 24. Also, various side events such as Daegu Global Robot Business Forum and Robot Idea Contest are prepared. This exhibition is expected to not only share product and technology information related to automation, parts and materials, and robots, but also check future industry and market trends at once.

EXCO, the exhibition secretariat, is accelerating preparation for the event by thoroughly complying with the safety rules for COVID-19, and is preparing for the event with the safety of visitors as the top priority through three stages of quarantine from entering the exhibition hall.

Daegu City Manager Lee Geun-soo said, "Local machinery and metal companies suffered a lot due to COVID this year․and I hope that this will be an opportunity for these companies to seek positive development directions in 2021 from exhibitions and domestic and international conferences."

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by Jane Lee (www.aving.net)