AUTOMATICA 2025

Automatica is brought to you by Messe München GmbH. The international exhibition is held at Messe München every two years and is co-located with analytica and ceramitec, which creates a strong synergy between all events. Editions run for four days in June. Admission is given only to trade visitors. Work hours are set for 09:00 in the morning until 18:00 in the afternoon for the first three days. Closing day wraps up two hours early at 16:00. Navigating Munich to reach the gates of Messe München is so simple thanks to its excellent location and public transport service. The airport connects to the exhibition centre via the suburban train lines S1 and S8. During exhibitions and trade shows there’s even a shuttle bus driving directly to the grounds. There’s also a metro line that connects you to the central station and several buses that service the rest of the city. 

• “Automatica has once again set standards. It shows the future of automation and provides knowledge for orientation at the highest level. Visitor quality and quantity: outstanding!” – Dr. Norbert Stein, Chairman of the Board of VDMA Robotics + Automation and Managing Director of VITRONIC GmbH;
• “Automatica is the most important trade fair in the area of robotics and automation. A lot of value is put on future-oriented technology here. This is the main reason why we are here in Munich,” – Per Vegard Nerseth, Managing Director of ABB Robotics 
• “Our digital enterprise portfolio fits ideally to the Automatica motto ‘Optimize your Production’. Siemens provides end-to-end software and hardware solutions, with which the entire value chain can be integrated and digitalized. As a result, machine manufacturers and users can already use the benefits of Industry 4.0,” – Ralf-Michael Franke, CEO of the Factory Automation Business Unit at Siemens AG

The last live edition marked one of the biggest attendance in the exhibition’s history so far. The number of visitors reached 45,500 altogether with 38% being foreign nationals. Looking at the numbers internationally, overall 63% of all visitors were from the European Union with Austria, Italy, France, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Hungary and Finland as leaders. Then you have countries like the UK, Japan, the USA, the Russian Federation, China and Turkey. There were also 890 exhibitors, out of which 31% were not based in Germany. What’s impressive about Automatica is that it’s popular with decision makers – 84% of all trade visitors. They represent the whole upper management food chain, right up to owners and CEOs. Because automation is just so widespread, visitors come from the automotive sector, the electrical and electronic industry, IT, rubber, metalworking and the chemical industry. 

Automatica 2022

Automatica 2022 was accompanied by Ceramitec and Analytica 2022. The trade shows took place between the 21st and 24th of June 2022, at Messe Munich, with Automatica occurring as a face-to-face trade expo. In attendance were 574 exhibitors from 35 countries and approximately 28,000 trade visitors from 75 countries. Approximately 38% of the visitors originated from other countries. The nations with the greatest rates of exhibitor participation were:

• Poland;
• Denmark;
• France;
• Italy;
• the UK;
• Austria;
• Canada;
• Switzerland;
• the USA;
• the Netherlands.

Automatica 2023

Automatica's 2023 edition was the first rendition to coincide with LASER World of Photonics. The events were hosted as live trade fairs in Messe Munich between 27.06.2023 and 30.06.2023. The 2023 edition of Automatica received 650 exhibitors from 34 countries. They presented wares to approximately 40,000 visitors from more than 70 nations. 94% of the exhibiting group and 98% of the visiting segment rated Automatica 2023 as excellent. 91% of the exhibitors rated visitor quality as good, and 85% appraised the new customer acquisition increase.  97% of the visiting praised the high concentration of market leaders, and 65% consider that the event will increase in significance in the upcoming years.