{"id":2164,"date":"2008-05-14T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/A-small-slice-of-Hannover\/ba-p\/333530"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:16:36","slug":"a-small-slice-of-hannover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/a-small-slice-of-hannover\/","title":{"rendered":"A small slice of Hannover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VhpsqtqJTec\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>One of the first &#8216;Siemens&#8217; memories I have was last year when I got the chance to go to Hannover Fair (Hannover Messe if you are a local).&nbsp; The acquisition had been announced but wasn&#8217;t quite closed and I spent the week before doing some integration work (that is as boring as it sounds) and then got the chance the next week to go to my first Hannover.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve never been there all I can say is words can&#8217;t describe the scale of it all.&nbsp; It&#8217;s like 27 McCormick places (Chicago) or Cobo Halls all on one large parcel of land.&nbsp; My feet got tired just walking from the train to the main entrance!&nbsp; What amazed me even more is the scale of the displays.&nbsp; There were two story motors, large vehicles and three story booths.&nbsp; The Siemens booth was certainly on par with everyone else and this year it looks like we took it to the next level.&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>In this short clip of our President, Dr. Helmuth Ludwig, from the show floor this year you get a glimpse of <EM><STRONG>a full auto assembly line<\/STRONG> <\/EM>running in the background &#8211; that was all in the booth this year.&nbsp; Having started my career in the golden age of big trade shows in the U.S., its interesting to see that these mega-shows (which have mostly died off here) still pack them in elsewhere.&nbsp; Who says globalization makes everyone and everything the same?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first &#8216;Siemens&#8217; memories I have was last year when I got the chance to go to Hannover Fair (Hannover Messe if you are a local).&nbsp; The acquisition had been announced but wasn&#8217;t quite cl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}