Every year, Hannover Messe offers an interactive medium for industrial technology vendors to showcase their latest and greatest products to the world. This page identifies some of the biggest product announcements and press releases stemming from the 2026 show.
We will update this page as more news comes out.
Autodesk
- Autodesk is hosting its Digital Factory Summit at Hannover Messe, focused on how manufacturers can move from early-stage digital initiatives to measurable operational impact. The sessions center on making data more accessible across teams, improving collaboration, and enabling more confident decision-making throughout the factory lifecycle.
- The agenda blends strategy with practical application, covering topics like AI and platform-level vision, data exchange, and digital twins. Customer examples and hands-on sessions, including transforming 2D layouts into 3D digital twins, highlight how these approaches are applied in real manufacturing environments.
- Autodesk, supported by partner Contelos, is centering on improving how data flows between design and manufacturing through digital twin approaches and connected data models. Demonstrations highlight tools like Vault Professional for standardized material and product data management, as well as the Integrated Factory Model, which links product design with factory planning to enable early simulation and optimization. The showcase also includes Autodesk Platform Services for unifying data across systems, alongside immersive XR-based design reviews and automated model validation tools.
- Autodesk is also working with partners like Cideon to show how its tools connect engineering workflows with broader enterprise systems, particularly through integration with ERP and platforms like SAP. The collaboration highlights how CAD, PDM, and PLM solutions can be linked into a more continuous process from design through production. It also includes use cases around digital twins, 3D layout planning, and cloud-based platforms, giving a clearer view of how Autodesk software is applied in real manufacturing environments.
Sources:
https://www.autodesk.com/events/hannover-messe-2026
https://www.cideon.com/about-cideon/events/hannover-messe/#:~:text=This%20year's%20Hannover%20Messe%20will,cells%20will%20complete%20the%20event.
https://www.cideon.com/about-cideon/events/hannover-messe/
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS is presenting a large-scale, demo-led showcase centered on autonomous manufacturing. One example walks through a full production flow, where a custom product is designed, produced, inspected, and delivered using robotics and AI systems. It gives a concrete view of how different technologies come together in a single process.
- A significant part of the booth is dedicated to partners, with multiple kiosks showing how companies are building solutions on AWS across areas like supply chain, automation, and digital twins. The setup reflects how AWS positions itself as the underlying platform rather than the end solution.
- Infor and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to deliver industry-specific AI agents for manufacturing that can automate and optimize complex workflows. Built on AWS infrastructure, these agents help companies scale AI faster while improving efficiency, costs, and service. Early adopters like Xpress Boats have already achieved measurable operational gains, highlighting the impact of agentic AI at scale.
- NEURA Robotics and AWS have partnered to accelerate Physical AI by combining robotics with cloud and AI infrastructure. The collaboration improves robot training, integrates simulation with real-world learning, and validates systems in environments like Amazon fulfillment centers. It aims to overcome data and scalability challenges to drive broader adoption of intelligent robots.
Sources:
https://pages.awscloud.com/hannover-messe-2026.html
Dassault Systèmes
- Dassault Systèmes is demonstrating how production systems can be designed and tested in virtual environments before being built physically. Its platform connects simulation with real-time data, allowing systems to be adjusted and improved without interrupting operations.
- The showcase includes factory simulations, virtual commissioning, and the use of generative AI in system design. There are also examples of immersive training and augmented reality for maintenance, all built around the idea that the virtual environment becomes the primary place where decisions are made.
- Dassault Systèmes and OMRON have partnered to combine virtual twin technology with industrial automation, enabling manufacturers to design, simulate, and optimize production systems across virtual and physical environments. By converging information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT), the collaboration reduces fragmentation and allows systems to be validated before deployment and improved with real-time data. This approach helps manufacturers increase efficiency, reduce costs and risks, and move toward more flexible, AI-driven production systems.
Sources:
https://myevents.3ds.com/hannover-messe-2026
HighByte
- HighByte is exhibiting within the AWS booth as a Gold Sponsor, where it is demonstrating its Intelligence Hub and how manufacturers can operationalize industrial data for AI use cases. The focus is on bridging OT and IT systems, allowing companies to standardize and contextualize data so it can be used across analytics, applications, and AI workflows.
- Its presence is closely tied to the AWS ecosystem, with live demonstrations showing how Industrial DataOps supports autonomous manufacturing scenarios and AI-driven decision-making. The company is also participating in multiple theater sessions, including real-world case studies with companies like Alcon and Bayer that highlight how scalable data pipelines underpin predictive maintenance and defect detection.
- More broadly, HighByte is positioning itself as a foundational data layer for Industrial AI, emphasizing that clean, validated, and accessible data is what enables AI systems to function reliably in production environments. Its messaging is less about new products and more about solving the data architecture challenges that hold back AI adoption.
Source: https://www.highbyte.com/company/events/hannover-messe-2026
Nokia
- Nokia is showcasing how Private 5G, edge computing, and Industrial AI can support large-scale industrial digitalization. Its messaging focuses on building a strong data foundation, where connected systems and workers generate the insights needed to drive continuous improvement and more advanced AI use cases.
- The company’s demonstrations highlight real-world applications that depend on reliable, low-latency connectivity, including autonomous mobile robots, worker safety through video analytics, digital twins, and predictive maintenance. Nokia is also emphasizing its ecosystem approach, showing how partners and industrial applications integrate into its edge-native platform.
- Nokia is showing off its Enterprise Campus Edge (ECE) - "the global market leader in private wireless LTE/5G technologies, trusted by 1000+ industrial customers and accounting for about 50% of this fast-growing market."
Source: https://www.nokia.com/networks/events/hannover-messe/
NVIDIA
- NVIDIA is focusing on how AI can be deployed inside industrial environments, bringing together compute, simulation, and software into a single stack. Its Hannover Messe presence highlights use cases across robotics, simulation, and real-time decision-making, all tied to running AI closer to operations.
- A major theme is training systems in simulation before deploying them in the real world. By using virtual environments to develop and test robots and processes, companies can reduce risk and refine systems before they go live. This reflects a broader shift toward simulation playing an ongoing role in operations.
- NVIDIA is working with Siemens and robotics company Humanoid to demonstrate how physical AI is moving into real production environments. The setup features a humanoid robot performing logistics tasks inside a live factory, using simulation-first training and real-time edge AI to navigate and adapt on the shop floor. The collaboration highlights how autonomous systems are starting to take on practical roles alongside human workers.
- A separate focus is the Industrial AI Cloud in Europe, built with Deutsche Telekom, which serves as a foundation for running AI and robotics workloads at scale. NVIDIA is supporting a broad ecosystem of partners, including Siemens, SAP, Dassault Systèmes, and Wandelbots, all using the platform for applications such as real-time simulation, digital twins, and software-defined robotics. The goal is to provide a secure, scalable infrastructure layer that allows manufacturers to deploy AI across operations rather than in isolated use cases.
Sources:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/events/hannover-messe/
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-manufacturing-hannover-messe/
PTC
- PTC is focusing on how manufacturers can connect data across different stages of the product lifecycle and make better decisions based on that information. Its Hannover Messe presence highlights the importance of having accessible, structured data to support operational improvements.
- The company is also addressing how organizations move from isolated use cases to broader deployment. The emphasis is on making systems usable in practice, rather than introducing new tools, with a clear focus on execution challenges.
- PTC is highlighting how Bobcat applies an Intelligent Product Lifecycle strategy to unify product data across design, engineering, manufacturing, and service functions. Using integrated tools such as Creo and Windchill, the approach streamlines collaboration, minimizes rework, and speeds up development for complex equipment. The showcase underscores how AI-enabled, connected workflows can drive faster innovation and ongoing product improvement.
Sources:
https://www.ptc.com/en/events/hannover-messe-2026
Rockwell Automation
- Rockwell Automation is focusing on how industrial operations are evolving beyond traditional automation. Its Hannover Messe presence highlights systems that can adjust and improve over time, combining AI, digital twins, and connected data from across the factory.
- Rockwell Automation is unveiling an AI-driven approach to industrial automation at Hannover Messe 2026 that brings together digital twins, controller engineering, and validation within a single, coordinated workflow. The model enables engineers to move from simulation to fully tested systems before deployment, reducing complexity, shortening development cycles, and improving overall factory performance.
- The company is showing this across the full lifecycle, from design and simulation through to live operations and maintenance. Tools like FactoryTalk are used to bring together data from machines, edge systems, and the cloud, giving operators a clearer view of performance and system behavior.
- Rockwell Automation and AWS are jointly demonstrating how cloud-connected data, digital twins, and autonomous systems can be combined to improve factory design and operations. A central example uses Rockwell’s Emulate3D software to build digital twins of industrial environments, allowing teams to test layouts, simulate processes, and complete commissioning activities before physical deployment. The same models are then reused post-launch to validate performance and refine operations.
- The collaboration also highlights how autonomous mobile robots and connected systems generate and share data across production and logistics. By linking Rockwell’s industrial software with AWS cloud infrastructure, the setup shows how manufacturers can move away from fragmented data and toward a shared data foundation that supports real-time insights and more adaptive decision-making.
Sources:
https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/events/hannover-messe.html
Schneider Electric
- On April 20th, Schneider Electric is hosting a panel titled “Building a resilient and competitive European industry in an era of permanent disruption.” Key talking points center around technological innovation, scalability, and industrial autonomy.
- Schneider Electric is also highlighting how Agentic AI can be used to manage and adjust industrial processes more dynamically. Its expanded partnership with Microsoft focuses on autonomous systems that can coordinate operations and respond to changes without relying entirely on fixed programming.
- The messaging aligns with a broader push toward more flexible and adaptive operations, particularly in environments where conditions shift frequently. The focus is on making systems more responsive rather than simply more automated.
- Schneider Electric is demonstrating how combining electrification, software-defined automation, and Industrial Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help manufacturers overcome rising costs, legacy constraints, and workforce challenges. Through an ecosystem of partners and real-world deployments, the company highlights how integrated, AI-enabled solutions improve efficiency, resilience, and sustainability across industrial operations.
- Schneider Electric and Deloitte are partnering to accelerate AI-enabled digital transformation across industrial operations, helping organizations modernize outdated systems and scale more efficiently. The collaboration brings together Deloitte’s expertise in strategy and enterprise transformation with Schneider Electric’s industrial technology and software to improve IT/OT integration and unlock greater value from data and AI. Together, they aim to help businesses reduce complexity, enhance resilience, and build more adaptive, future-ready operations.
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Siemens
- Siemens is showcasing how AI is being applied across industrial operations, with a focus on connecting engineering, production, and infrastructure into a single environment. Its demonstrations highlight real-world manufacturing scenarios, including flexible production and traceability in consumer goods. The emphasis is on making AI part of day-to-day operations rather than a separate layer.
- A key product highlight is the Eigen Engineering Agent, which is designed to carry out engineering tasks directly within Siemens’ automation environment. It works inside TIA Portal and applies company-specific standards, allowing outputs to move straight into deployment. The positioning suggests a shift toward AI taking on more responsibility within engineering workflows.
- Siemens and Vulcan Energy have partnered to develop Europe’s first fully integrated lithium and renewable energy project, with Siemens serving as a key provider of automation and digitalization technologies. The collaboration supports the Lionheart project in Germany, combining lithium production with renewable energy generation to strengthen Europe’s battery supply chain. Backed by Siemens’ technology and financial investment, the initiative aims to boost sustainable lithium supply and support the region’s energy transition.
- Siemens is positioning Industrial 5G and its broader connectivity portfolio as a critical foundation for AI-driven manufacturing, combining wired and wireless networking, power systems, and OT network management. With tools such as digital twins for network simulation and integrated cybersecurity solutions, the company enables secure, scalable, and high-performance industrial connectivity to support increasingly complex operations.
- Siemens is advancing its Industrial Automation DataCenter into an AI-ready platform by integrating accelerated computing from NVIDIA and advanced cybersecurity from Palo Alto Networks directly at the edge. Delivered as a pre-configured, turnkey solution, it enables manufacturers to run real-time AI applications securely while reducing complexity, deployment time, and integration risks.
Sources:
https://press.siemens.com/global/en/event/siemens-hannover-messe-2026
Velotic
- At Hannover Messe 2026, Velotic (newly formed in 2026) made its debut as a unified industrial software powerhouse, bringing together formerly separate portfolios from PTC and GE Vernova.
- Velotic hosted several leadership and product management sessions at its booth to discuss the future of integrated industrial software:
- "My AI Wish List (If the Data Didn't Fight Back)": A roundtable on April 22 addressing the data challenges of industrial AI.
- ThingWorx Innovation: A session titled "From Platform Innovation to Industrial Impact: What's Next with ThingWorx" held on April 20.
- Kepware Roadmap: A roundtable on April 23 focused on next-generation containerized connectivity for Kepware.
Carter Gordon