The "Future Packaging" line will be taking part of the Messe München once again. Every year, Fraunhofer IZM as the organizer and the participating machine exhibitors aim to demonstrate the current possibilities in the individual processes and technologies. Coordinating the logistics of the various partners with the local trades in such a way that stress-free production is possible during the trade fair becomes more difficult from year to year: there are always bottlenecks with components or parts for the machines, so that everything has to be planned in detail in advance in order to avoid all the imponderables. Right from the start, the focus is on maximizing the knowledge gained by visitors.

In 2025, exhibitors will be addressing the question of how far-reaching automation and digitalization can be used to design the individual process steps in such a way that maximum robustness against errors in the processes is achieved. Regardless of which fluctuations in the supplied materials, auxiliary materials and media need to be compensated for in terms of quality, dimensional accuracy or similar, when is it detected, how is it documented and forwarded and which countermeasures can be carried out automatically by the individual machines. Where exactly does the extended digitalization start and up to what point is it useful or at what point is it just pure data storage. These are just some of the aspects we would like to discuss with our visitors.