the networking event where both designers/product developers and production-related department heads find a representative range of solutions developed in the Benelux to connect all the dots between designing and manufacturing. The new value chain of the smart manufacturing company requires a dynamic and digital integration of all relevant processes combined with the use of innovative production and design techniques. Departments such as design, engineering, prototyping, planning, maintenance, production, supply chain, assembly, logistics, sales and aftersales are becoming one interactive platform of people and technologies. New technologies (such as generative design, additive manufacturing, connected and AI-driven manufacturing equipment, predictive maintenance, etc.) are increasingly being adopted throughout the industry.