Two days. Three key topics. Concrete ideas for product development, manufacturing, and defense.
Two themed days, curated presentations, concrete use cases, and direct on-site discussions create a framework in which technological developments translate into tangible insights for participants' own professional practice.
Here's where you can find us:
September 23–24, 2026, Fulda
Contact:
Ms. Pamela Spohn
Phone: +49 7131 40 67-722
Email: sales@gessmann.com
Focus on Future Issues
The focus is on three key thematic areas that address current challenges and future developments in the industry. Smart Product, Smart Factory, and Defense offer different perspectives on how innovative technologies, intelligent processes, and end-to-end data concepts can help make products, production, and complex systems future-proof.
Smart Product
The Smart Product focus area explores how ideas are transformed into marketable, robust, and sustainable products. The product lifecycle serves as the guiding thread: metys as the data and control foundation, Define for strategic direction and development, Realize for implementation, validation, and industrialization, and Optimize for ongoing development during operation. This transforms a complex topic into a clear framework that demonstrates how speed, quality, and sustainable product success can be integrated.
Smart Factory
Smart Factory focuses on the question of how production and logistics can become measurably more efficient, transparent, and robust while simultaneously putting people at the center. We demonstrate how, by leveraging technological solutions in the Industrial Metaverse, factories can be developed, optimized, and transformed to be future-ready in order to maintain profitability and competitiveness.
This creates a focus that brings together data, implementation, training, and people-centered work processes.
Defense
The Defense focus area delves deeper into the topic of Integrated Product Support and emphasizes the sustainable manageability of complex systems throughout their entire life cycle. Planning, logistics, maintenance, and obsolescence management are considered early on to ensure that availability, life-cycle costs, and operational requirements work together reliably.
Anyone who wants to learn how to specifically reduce costs per kilometer driven or per operating hour should focus not only on procurement but, above all, on operations. Using specific use cases, we’ll demonstrate how this principle can be applied to your own product.
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