Image caption above: Bystronic's smart factory vision.

Incorporating interviews with leading international industry, government figures, academic and association figures, International Sheet Metal Review offers a strategic insight into the latest news, company and product developments, technological and technical advances, market trends, innovations and new business opportunities. It has a targeted global readership of over 35,000 per month.

Today, industrial robots are an essential part of many manufacturing processes across a broad range of market sectors. Robots, as part of a modern manufacturing strategy, bring a host of benefits including process consistency; improvements in productivity quality and yield; high levels of flexibility and the ability to free humans from dirty, tiring or hazardous working environments.

Image caption: Dr. Jan Antonis

(Image caption above: KMF's new TruBend Cell 7000.)

Image caption: New investment for Ford Cologne Electrification Centre for the manufacture of electric vehicles, Ford’s first such facility in Europe.