Manufacturing automation is by no means standard in panel building: The percentage of panel builders and mechanical engineers having automation in production is currently 5-10% at the most. Yet with increasing digitalization and integrated data flow above and beyond processes and systems, this will change. Fundamentally. Within ten years, according to experts, 80% of Germany’s panel  builders and mechanical engineers will be producing using full or partial automation.

The transformation begins – for example in Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) – with planning in a 3D format. And it leads to machine-controlled production and automation processes, which are running more quickly, more resource-efficient and more precisely than ever before. But first things first .