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Production-ready assistance functions for mobile machinery
The off-highway industry, which includes agricultural machinery, is increasingly relying on mobile machines that are highly connected and semi-autonomous. At the same time, the demand for assistance systems that relieve the operator is growing.
More autonomy through smart environmental sensors and AI cameras
Whether on construction sites or in the field, the demands of automation in the off-highway sector are diverse. To meet these challenges, exhibitors at SYSTEMS & COMPONENTS 2025 are harnessing the full potential of intelligent sensors and camera systems – laying the technological groundwork for autonomous mobile machinery.
Fuels for the future
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is one of the major challenges facing the off-highway sector. With the goal of achieving net-zero emissions in the future, exhibitors at Systems & Components are working on alternative drive concepts and pursuing an open technology approach—one that also prepares established systems for the future.
Predictive maintenance instead of breakdown service
Maximizing uptime—ensuring that mobile machinery remains fully operational and available—is one of the top priorities in the off-highway equipment sector. Condition monitoring, remote diagnostics, and predictive maintenance are among the key topics at the exhibition. Solutions will be presented in Hanover that, thanks to intelligent sensors and data analysis, alert to disturbances early, making maintenance measures easier to plan and optimizing the use of wear parts.
Human machine interfaces in off-highway use
Increasing connectivity and automation in the off-highway sector is influencing the interaction between man and machine: the ‘ideal’ human-machine interface (HMI) supports the driver and provides them with the right information at the right time. Camera and radar systems facilitate all-round visibility and can increase safety.
Maintain instead of repair
What is already possible today in the field of predictive maintenance
Finding the optimum time for maintenance is a major challenge for operators of mobile machinery. How can unplanned downtimes be eliminated and machine availability increased? There are already solutions for condition monitoring in the off-highway sector. But this is just the beginning: companies are working on solutions under the "Digital Twin" banner to take predictive maintenance to a new level.
Big data meets machine learning
From the Internet of Things, cloud solutions and big data to mobile apps: advancing digitalisation makes it possible to design services and solutions for the off-highway markets in a more individual, consistent and transparent way. Which smart solutions can be used to increase the efficiency, reliability, safety and comfort of mobile machinery?
Automation in the off-highway sector
Smart sensors and data fusion pave the way for autonomous working machines
Shovel excavators, bulldozers, tractors: all-terrain commercial vehicles have to get to work when it's time to get off the road. The evolution of mobile machinery is largely characterised by the rapid advances in sensor technology. Powerful sensor systems that take the strain off the driver and increase efficiency will be presented at the exhibition centre.
From powder to component
Additive manufacturing is moving into the focus of mobile machinery manufacturers
Additive manufacturing has become a key concept in the off-highway sector. All major construction, forestry and agricultural machinery manufacturers, as well as their OEM partners, are transitioning from prototype and small series production to fully integrated series production using 3D printing.
Travelling autonomously
Advances in assistance systems in the off-highway sector
Mobile machinery such as tractors, forage harvesters and combine harvesters are becoming increasingly autonomous and equipped with more and more intelligent assistance functions. The focus is shifting to flexible concepts for the entire off-highway sector, ranging from intuitive manual operation to fully autonomous solutions.