Image caption: Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, Executive Director, VDW.

Mercedes-Benz and Siemens plan to cooperate on advancing digitalisation and automation in the automotive industry, supported by the State of Berlin. Mercedes-Benz AG aims to digitise its production processes.

The "Special Die and Tool, Die Set, Jig and Fixture Global Market Report 2021: COVID-19 Impact and Recovery to 2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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.