This year again, we attended MECSPE at BolognaFiere, one of the key events for the manufacturing industry.
Across its 13 exhibition halls, the fair brought together companies, technologies and expertise that are shaping the transformation of industrial processes. The exhibition path focused on three key themes for Industry 5.0: training, digitalization and sustainability.
Francesco Marziani, Andrea Garino, and Andrea Orlando met with technology partners, suppliers and research centers, discussing ongoing projects and gathering insights on the technologies that are increasingly entering industrial processes.
We asked Andrea Garino to share his perspective.
What was the most interesting signal you noticed about the future of Industry 5.0 manufacturing?
The most interesting signal is the shift from a “purely technological factory” to a “relational factory”, where technologies, people and the supply chain are designed together. The Transition 5.0 paradigm is now seen as a mature framework that integrates productivity, sustainability and quality of work. The applications presented at the fair showed robotics, sensing technologies and AI designed to support operators rather than replace them.
Among the technologies showcased at the fair, which ones do you think will have the greatest impact in the coming years?
Certainly AI applied to production, quality control and predictive maintenance. But also more “established” technologies such as additive manufacturing for rapid prototyping and customization, smart automation with collaborative robots, and Logistics 5.0. Alongside these, industrial cybersecurity and machine vision are emerging as fundamental infrastructure.
Where do you see the most concrete opportunities for Teoresi’s expertise?
I see opportunities for Teoresi in embedded systems on board machines for control, monitoring and safety, as well as in more ergonomic and data-driven industrial HMIs and platforms capable of integrating heterogeneous data and AI into end-to-end solutions.
I also see several opportunities to propose our PLM/ALM and mechanical engineering solutions to support the processes of the companies we met, leveraging the strong synergies built over the years with our technology partners Siemens Polarion, Shining 3D, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence and Polyquark.
What key idea or insight are you taking away from this visit?
The key takeaway is that the competitive advantage will not come from having a single cutting-edge technology, but from the ability to combine AI, automation, embedded systems and HMI into concrete use cases with a clear ROI. Companies are looking for partners capable of translating the Industry 5.0 narrative into measurable pilot projects with a short time-to-value.
This creates an opportunity to position Teoresi as a technology system integrator for Industry 5.0 manufacturing.