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Trade Show Review: PPMA 2024, Birmingham, UK Trade Show: PPMA Date: 24th-26th September, 2024 Location: NEC Birmingham, UK Website: https://www.ppmashow.co.uk/ Visitors: ca. 8,000 (Source) Exhibitors: ca. 350   PPMA Trade Show review The PPMA trade show is the UK’s main Process and Packaging automation show held every year at the NEC in Birmingham. The NEC is accessible from Birmingham International Station making it a very convenient venue to access. The show in 2024 was in a single hall, in this case, Hall 5, which was similar in size to one hall at LogiMAT so it can be finished in a...

A REVIEW OF LOGIS-TECH TOKYO 2024 Logis-Tech Tokyo (LTT) is an annual intralogistics industry trade show held at the Big Sight location in Tokyo, Japan. Big Sight Exhibition area seen from the train station.    In odd years (2023, 2025, etc.) the show is an "Innovation Expo" (a smaller show) and even years (2024, 2026, etc.) is the main and larger Logis-Tech Tokyo show.  STIQ visited this show in 2023 and 2024. The two shows are very different in size.  Year 2023 2024 Show type Innovation Expo "Full show" # Exhibitors 401 580 Space 24,440sqm 67,260sqm Show Days 3 4 Visitors c.84,000...

 Our own Tom Andersson was interviewed by Kate Rooney at CNBC for their mini documentary on humanoids "Meet the AI-powered robots Big Tech is betting can solve the global labor crisis" See the 17.09min video from CNBC here:   Here's a link to the video: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/07/08/humanoid-robots-have-gotten-an-ai-upgrade.html If you are interested in STIQs view on Humanoids in warehouses - download our 2024 report on the Future of Warehouse Automation

TOP 5 MOST COMMON QUESTIONS FOR STIQ LTD ANALYSTS STIQ's business model is unique in the market of publishing market research reports. All our publications are free to download and share by anyone across the globe.  Q1: How do you make money?A1: It's very simple - we allow advertisers to badge our high-quality market research reports. This means we can publish them for free. Q2: How can you remain unbiased?A: We interview up to 50 stakeholders for each report. Advertisers do not get to preview reports before they are published. In fact, only our analysts get the full picture up to publication. Q3:...

MHI 2024 Spring Meetup The Material Handling Industry association (MHI, website) arrange a number of member meetings in addition to trade shows Modex and Promat. Member meetings are held in the Spring and Autumn meetups - called Spring Meetup and the Annual Conference.  MHI's 2024 Spring Meeting was held on home turf (for MHI) in Charlotte, North Carolina, US in lovely summery weather (just below 30 degrees Celsius in the sun). Venue was moved from the 2023 location in the Westin hotel to Charlotte Convention Centre due to refurbishment. This was no problem and the Convention Centre is conveniently located just across the road from...