The show’s chosen motto is “Manufacture Linking • Activate the Future". The smartification of machine tools links the industry to global smart manufacturing trends, enhances the competitiveness of end customers, and taps the capabilities of Taiwanese smart manufacturing in an effort to provide buyers with complete solutions.

An estimated 750 companies will participate, which will utilize 4,300 booths, occupying a total area reaching 91,000 square meters. For both of the number of exhibitors and number of booths will break the record. It is estimated that 85,000 buyers from domestic and overseas will visit, making it the largest machine tool show in Taiwan this year.

TMTS will call on the heavy hitters (leading brands) of Taiwan machine tool and accessory builders’ industry to demonstrate complete and diversified industrial supply chains, such as: metal cutting machine, metal forming machine, machine tool accessories, components, parts, fluid power, CNC control system & auxiliary equipment, cutting tools, tool-holding & work-holding devices, measurement instruments, smart manufacturing system, industrial robot, CAD/CAM, software, etc.

Under the trend of Industry 4.0, global industries are moving toward smart manufacturing and applications. For instance, big data, the Internet of Things, and automated peripheral equipment have also been innovated in the hope of increasing production efficiency, product quality, and reducing costs. As a key role of manufacturing, machine tools have to meet this trend in order to grasp huge business opportunities.