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HANNOVER TRADE FAIR 2026

Apr.

Experience data and AI innovations firsthand:
—from predictive maintenance to agentic AI

AI Pavilion (Hall 27, Booth B24/4)

CONTACT Partner Booth (Hall 17, Booth H24)

Innovations for a sustainable energy supply

Hannover Messe is the leading platform for industrial transformation. This is where the digital and industrial worlds converge: smart automation, connected production, AI applications, and new energy and sustainability concepts.

At the AI Pavilion, Dataciders will demonstrate how data and AI create measurable added value in production. Use cases range from predictive maintenance and digital twins to hyperautomation and agentic AI. At the CONTACT partner booth, you can experience how CONTACT Elements and Microsoft Fabric put AI-based decision support into practice. This includes PLM and ERP integration, digital homologation, and the Digital Product Passport.

For C-level executives, we’ll outline concrete ways to enhance operational excellence, ensure compliance, and develop new data-driven services. Meet our experts in person. You can also look forward to concise short presentations on sustainability, digital product passports, and digital homologation—all practical and focused on implementation.

Key topics at the event

At the AI Pavilion (H27, Booth B24/4)

Predictive Maintenance: IoT/ML anomaly detection and failure prediction; fewer downtimes, higher OEE.
Digital Twin: Real-time status updates and what-if simulations; stabilize quality, reduce costs.
Hyperautomation: Process Mining + RPA + AI; End-to-End Automation with Governance & Scalability.
Agentic AI: AI agents with guardrails; root cause analysis, assistance, orchestrated workflows.

At the CONTACT Partner Booth (Hall 17, Booth H24)

AI-powered decision support (CONTACT Elements + Microsoft Fabrics): Data Fabric, Cockpits, Copilots; faster, fact-based decisions.
PLM/ERP integration: consistent changes, aligned BOM/BOP; fewer iterations, shorter time-to-market.
Digital Homologation: Rulemaps & Automated Checks; Transparent, Auditable Compliance.
Digital Product Passport: Product and lifecycle data across the supply chain; transparency, circular economy, new services.

Come see us at the AI Pavilion (Hall 27, Booth B24/4) and at the
CONTACT partner booth (Hall 17, Booth H24).

April 21

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

CONTACT Partner Booth (Hall 17, Booth H24)

Sustainability Meets Reality:
Data as the Foundation for Decision-Making and the Digital Product Passport

Content of the presentation

In practice, sustainability rarely fails due to a lack of will or goals, but rather because of the perception that sustainability is expensive and time-consuming. As an application of Green PLM, the Digital Product Passport transforms sustainability from a reporting requirement into an operational capability that enables the right decisions to be made for an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable product.
This presentation shows why the Digital Product Passport helps save money and how end-to-end product and lifecycle data form the foundation for this.

April 23

15:00 - 15:15

CONTACT Partner Booth (Hall 17, Booth H24)

Digital Homologation and Modular Business Services: From Rule Maps to Data Rooms

Content of the presentation

In the future, regulatory requirements will no longer be managed through documents, but only through data. This presentation demonstrates how digital homologation—using rule maps, lean data rooms, and modular business services—enables transparent, automated compliance decisions.