BIAS 2010 in Milan 4-7 May

The upcoming edition of the Biennial International Automation, Instrumentation - Microelectronics and ICT for Industry Exhibition, BIAS 2010, in Milan from 4-7 May 2010, is aimed at encouraging a match between supply and demand, as well as fostering technical and professional training.

BIAS has reorganised its spectrum of exhibits into five macro areas: automation, instrumentation, electronics production, microelectronics and components and IT for manufacturing - each one dedicated to a single sector.

There will be a focus on cutting-edge topics and technologies, expressed by the ‘thematic islands’ - allowing businesses to showcase their products and enabling a comprehensive approach to technologies and applications for visitors:

- Bias lab: Featuring important university labs, R&D divisions of major companies and spin-offs operating in the research setting. A blend of ‘made in Italy’ technology excellence featuring significant models of innovation: from advanced robotics to nanotechnologies; from new materials to the most recent software technologies. A number of non-stop presentations and micro-seminars provide information on technical and scientific high-level update and training instruments.

- T&M: Illustrates models of virtual and traditional lab instruments; part of the ‘instrumentation’ island dedicated to testing and measurement, stages examples of virtual and traditional lab instrumentation and shows, ‘live’, how an advanced measure lab dedicated to high-frequency applications (wireless, etc) or a measure lab in industry with virtual instruments can work.

- Energy saving and efficiency: Made in cooperation with the Italian Automation and Measurement Association, it brings together technical components and energy-saving systems for production and complete solutions (drives, motors, electronic subsystems). It also features microelectronic solutions for modules and advanced subsystems design with very high-energy efficiency, applicable in the industrial environment.

- Wireless solutions for industry: A wide range of exhibits spanning wireless solutions for asset management, product traceability, production flow and logistics (inner and outer). Suitable for those products requiring visibility and traceability along the production chain that would otherwise cause inefficiencies and higher costs.

The exhibition will be supported - in terms of know-how and organisation of events, conferences and workshops - by important trade associations, sector specialists and representatives from academia. It will facilitate professional updating not only as to the applied research - made by the companies - but also as to the most advanced research technologies designed in university labs (and therefore not easily available in other environments).

The BIAS 2010 exhibition, together with the Biennial International Fluid Power and Mechatronics Exhibition and Biennial International Mechanical Transmission, Motion Control and Mechatronics Exhibition, will be part of the Technology Exhibitions Week (TEW), an international event dedicated to products and solutions aimed at the different production and process industry sectors.

For further information, email: mariagrazia.scoppio@fieramilano.it.