Increasing demand for intelligent automation

In 2018, Mex­i­co is the offi­cial part­ner coun­try of the Han­nover Messe. A great deal is cur­rent­ly being invest­ed in fac­to­ries and major plants in the largest Span­ish — speak­ing coun­try, with intel­li­gent automa­tion boom­ing. Aven­tics also has a local coun­try unit that sup­plies its cus­tomers with intel­li­gent pneumatics. 
With over 123 mil­lion inhab­i­tants, this year’s part­ner coun­try to the 2018 Han­nover Messe, Mex­i­co, is the largest Span­ish speak­ing coun­try in the world and has the 15th largest econ­o­my. As an auto­mo­bile nation, it takes sev­enth place, ahead of Spain, Cana­da, Brazil, and France. In 2017, the coun­try pro­duced around 3.7 mil­lion cars, and in 2020 that num­ber is expect­ed to leap to 5 mil­lion. Between 2017 and 2019, three new plants of Ger­man man­u­fac­tur­ers will begin pro­duc­tion. Auto­mo­bile sup­pli­ers in Mex­i­co are upping their capac­i­ties accord­ing­ly. In recent years, a total of near­ly 30 bil­lion US dol­lars of for­eign direct invest­ments into the coun­try were made annu­al­ly. Aven­tics has also seen major growth in Mex­i­co in recent decades owing to invest­ments of Euro­pean and Amer­i­can customers.

Companies are facing digital transformation

As in all indus­tri­al­ized economies, the Inter­net of Things is on the rise. Accord­ing to recent stud­ies, 60 per cent of indus­tri­al com­pa­nies in Mex­i­co plan to under­godig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion with­in the next five years. A major dri­ver is the auto­mo­tive indus­try, and com­pa­nies from the elec­tron­ics sec­tor as well as the food and pack­ag­ing indus­tries are also start­ing to imple­ment the first steps. This leads to an increas­ing demand for intel­li­gent automa­tion with smart pneu­mat­ics, Aven­tics has noticed. The pneu­mat­ics spe­cial­ist sat­is­fies this demand with new IoT prod­ucts, like the Smart Pneu­mat­ics Mon­i­tor (SPM). The mod­ule pro­vides reli­able infor­ma­tion on the state of wear of actu­a­tors as well as the ener­gy effi­cien­cy of pneu­mat­ic sys­tems. This min­i­mizes the risk of machine down­times and sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­ers oper­at­ing costs.
In Mex­i­co, Aven­tics is focused on end users such as tier‑1 and tier‑2 auto­mo­bile sup­pli­ers and com­pa­nies pro­duc­ing met­als. Pneu­mat­ic com­po­nents in a hygien­ic design also appeal to the food and bev­er­age indus­try. Mex­i­co is the world’s top con­sumer of car­bon­at­ed drinks, and has a very large soft drinks indus­try. The Aven­tics coun­try unit in Mex­i­co col­lab­o­rates with numer­ous sales part­ners and sys­tem inte­gra­tors in the country’s dif­fer­ent hubs of industry.