On March 31, 2025, as part of the traditional Hannover Messe opening tour, acting Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Beckhoff Automation, a company headquartered in Verl, Germany. He was accompanied by François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance for Canada, this year's partner country for Hannover Messe. Hans Beckhoff, Managing Director and owner of Beckhoff Automation, presented his company and its comprehensive expertise in the field of software and artificial intelligence.

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Beckhoff Automation recorded sales of €1.17 billion in the 2024 financial year. This shows a sharp decline of 33% compared to the 2023 annual result of €1.75 billion.

Following over 25 years of successful in-house panel production and 12 years of expertise in multi-touch design, Beckhoff is bringing out a new smart panel design: the Next multi-touch panel generation. With its revised electronics concept and standardized connection solution for electronics and mechanics, this device platform maintains its future-proof technological lead and builds on it. The consistently high quality of Beckhoff Control Panels and Panel PCs is thus combined with an optimized price/performance ratio.

Beckhoff is taking automation technology to the next level with TwinCAT PLC++. Both engineering and runtime are noticeably faster, without compromising on TwinCAT’s signature strengths of seamless integration, compatibility, and openness. Leveraging state-of-the-art compiler technology and a new system structure, the advanced chatbot function TwinCAT CoAgent is now fully embedded as an efficient programming assistant.