Due to the close cooperation between the Technical Division VDI Max Eyth Society for Agricultural Engineering (VDI-MEG) and the European Society of Agricultural Engineers (EurAgEng), the International Conference has developed into the leading event of her type.
The programme with 75 contributions from industry and research partners will present current developments and research of tractors, power train, electric drives and mobile hydraulics, electronic components, sensor systems and automation. Additional topics covered by the Conference are navigation, soil protection and tillage, crop protection and harvesting technology, precision farming, production of bioenergy and industrial product development.
In a plenary lecture, Hubertus Paetow from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will introduce the requirements of agricultural engineering from the viewpoint of the farming. At the end of the Conference, Prof. h.c. Martin H. Richenhagen, CEO of AGCO Corporation, will present 25 years development of the global enterprise.
Chairman of the programme committee is Prof. Dr.-Ing. Henning J. Meyer, Head of the Department for Construction and Machine Systems of the Technical University of Berlin. The Conference language is English.
For registration and programme download, please refer to www.vdi.de/landtechnik-ageng or contact VDI Wissensforum Customer Service, PO Box 10 11 39, D-40002 Duesseldorf, Germany, E-mail:
wissensforum@vdi.de, telephone: +49 211 6214-201, telefax: +49 211 6214-154.
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