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Published on: Tuesday, Tue, 17 Jul 2018 ● 3 Min Read
Dubai will host the inaugural edition of SPS Automation Middle East, a dedicated industry platform with focal point centred on the latest trends and technologies across all areas of industrial or building automation. The event is scheduled on 18-19 September, 2018 at Festival Arena – Dubai, UAE.
The inaugural edition of SPS Automation Middle East has already signed on leading automation players as official Launch Partners including German companies BECKHOFF Automation, Bosch Rexroth, SICK, and Pilz. They’ll be joined by another 25 highly targeted exhibitors and dozens of international speakers at the two-day conference and exhibition, which takes place from 18-19 September 2018 at the Festival Arena in Dubai.
SPS IPC Drives is Europe’s leading exhibition on electric automation with already 28 years of experience and 5 shows across the globe attracting more than 2,400 exhibitors and around 150,000 visitors worldwide.
SPS Automation Middle East is the newly born in the SPS expanding group. The show aims to gather the professionals of the Automation, IoT and Artificial Intelligence Industry under one roof, providing the right platform to showcase the latest innovations and solutions.
Innovative Solutions
The UAE and Saudi Arabia are the major contributors in the GCC region for adapting automation technologies, with market awareness relatively higher in the UAE. The two countries are in the top markets for 2016-2017 in industrial automation which focuses on: Sensors and Instruments, Electric Motors and Actuators, Electrical Relay and Industrial Control Equipment, Materials handling and Industrial Robots.
The demand for high-end automation is largely coming from UAE and Saudi Arabia. The following industries contribute to the existence of automation and are the key success factors for this show:
• Internet of things (IoT) is seeing an influx of growth alongside the Industrie 4.0 segment in the automation accounting for an increase in the spending in the Middle East & Africa by 19.6% to US$ 7.8 bn in 2016.
• According to IDC, a global market intelligence firm, manufacturing will be the way forward in 2017, with IoT related spending in the UAE to account for US$1.3 billion.
• Building Automation & Control market is worth more than US$ 26 billion and expected to grow fast in the years to come.
• The logistics market was valued at US$ 27 billion in 2015 and one of the top industries that focuses on automation technologies is also bound to adapt to new changes as the nation is gearing for developments in rail that connects the entire GCC by 2022 and connect two major cities in the UAE with "Hyperloop Technology".
