In the future, we will add new highlights to each event. Each sector is selected based on current and future industry developments, its growing importance and the role it plays in the manufacturing process or showcasing new markets.

Highlight themes 2011:

• Battery/energy-storage manufacturing and power electronics
  productronica has extended its nomenclature in 2011 to include the areas of battery production and power electronics. This is playing a very important role primarily in the hype topic of electromobility. In particular, a large number of production engineering challenges still remain unsolved. productronica 2011 will take up and highlight this topic parallel during a special show organized in close cooperation with the Productronics Association in the German Engineering Federation (VDMA)
   

• Efficient production management
  Efficiency in manufacturing, improved quality and traceability are just a few examples of things that have become possible thanks to efficient production management such as MES, ERP, etc. 
  
  

• Electronic manufacturing services 
  Outsourcing in times of anticipated bottlenecks and promising new branches of business are increasing the demands that the EMS industry places on productronica.
  
  

• Organic und Printed Electronics
  This is a developing industry with growth that will become noticeable in the production sector in the future, which is why it needs its own platform at the leading trade fair for electronics production.