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Event Report | UNITED GRINDING
Grinding Symposium 2019
Grinding Symposium 2019 delivers user experience At the Grinding Symposium 2019, visitors experienced new technologies from precision machining and current trends in the manufacturing industry.
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he manufacturer of precision machines for grinding, eroding, lasering and combination machining invited guests to the Grinding Symposium for the fourth time since 2004. Traditionally, the focus of the Symposium is on metalworking technologies as well as general topics of the manufacturing industry. The FutureLAB was part of the Symposium for the first time in 2019. "Our aim in presenting these future technologies is to create a dialog with our customers and to discover more about their individual expectations and requirements", explains Chief Technology Officer Christoph PlĂźss. Which advantages do digital solutions bring
production machine operators? How must user interfaces be designed, to enable ideal machine operation? And what role can additive manufacturing play in machine construction? These questions were the focus of the socalled FutureLAB at the Grinding Symposium. Technology presentations and lectures as well as the presentation of partner companies and suppliers were other focal points of the conference, organized by the UNITED GRINDING Group with great success. Over 1500 visitors from all over the world, including customers of the Group and international trade journalists, attended the three-day event in Thun, Switzerland.
