SPS 2025 – all highlights in the live stream

Follow all the news about the top automation topics at SPS 2025 in our live streams.
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Whether energy efficiency, cybersecurity, or open control systems, our experts will show you how modern automation is changing the world.

To ensure you don’t miss any of the highlights at SPS, we will be streaming live from our booth from November 25 to 27. You can look forward to more than 20 exciting live streams on the topics of PLCnext Technology, “Automation and Safety”, “Digitalization and Security”, and “Power and Efficiency”.

Look forward to:

  • Live talks: Follow experts as they discuss current industry trends, such as the CRA, virtual PLC, and AI.
  • Live product demos: See our product innovations in action.
  • Virtual guided tours: Let us show you the latest automation solutions in a guided tour of our booth.
  • Recap of the day: Our experts summarize the highlights of the trade fair day for you.

Add live streams to your calendar now and never miss a highlight!

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Phoenix Contact employees at the SPS

The new SPE pin connector pattern – a compact connection for the industrial communication of tomorrow

Nuremberg, Germany

SPE revolutionizes industrial communication: With its new pin connector pattern, Phoenix Contact is focusing on a compact design, high performance, and standard-compliant future-proofing for IIoT applications.

Employee standing in production, a digital pattern running across the image motif

AI for industry domain experts: Intelligent data analysis with MLnext

Nuremberg, Germany

Find out how AI can sustainably increase the availability, productivity, and quality of machines and processes and how specialist departments can use their own ML models in practice – without any prior knowledge of data science.

Person with laptop at a control cabinet

Advantages of an open automation approach in hydrogen applications

Nuremberg, Germany

Hydrogen is driving the energy transition – but scaling and new requirements demand flexible solutions. Experience live how open automation can make hydrogen systems future-proof.

Machine building employees in conversation

Tech Walk: Safe, integrated solutions for maximum system availability

Nuremberg, Germany

On this tour, we will show you how modern automation and functional safety go hand in hand; for more productivity, less downtime, and the maximum availability of your machines and systems.

Machinery Regulation: Screen with “Access Denied” message and emergency switching off switch

Safety meets security: Challenges posed by the Machinery Regulation and the Cyber Resilience Act

Nuremberg, Germany

The new Machinery Regulation and the Cyber Resilience Act are opening up opportunities for integrated safety and security concepts. Our experts will discuss how companies can use regulatory requirements to drive innovation.

Employee with cabling at a control cabinet

Push-X: the efficiency boost for control cabinet wiring

Nuremberg, Germany

Tool-free connection for all conductor types – Push-X connection technology is not only characterized by efficiency in manual wiring, but is also paving the way for the automated wiring of tomorrow.

Focus application Virtual PLCnext Control

IT meets OT: How Virtual PLCnext Control can open up new paths in automation

Nuremberg, Germany

Virtual PLCnext Control brings the controller into the IT world: software-based, containerized, and hardware-independent. The presentation illustrates how this innovation can open up new degrees of freedom in automation.

Machine building employees in conversation

Highlight of the day (day 1)

Nuremberg, Germany

Our Innovation Stage focused on the topic of "Automation and Safety" on the first day of the SPS 2025 trade fair.

Conversation in a server room

Case study: How smart networks fend off cyberattacks

Nuremberg, Germany

Find out how the Arntz Optibelt Group modernized its production network with Phoenix Contact and successfully armed itself against cyberattacks. Practical, exciting, and with real insights from the field!

Control cabinets at Phoenix Contact

Planning and designing state-of-the-art DC grids: Strategies, methods, and best practices

Nuremberg, Germany

Efficient planning and design of DC grids: From basics and advantages, through practical planning, right through to technical details – presented in a compact and clear way by our experts.

Person holding a tablet and grain

Data-driven thinking: How OEMs make smarter decisions in practice

Nuremberg, Germany

Experts will discuss how data-driven automation and open ecosystems such as PLCnext Technology enable scalable, secure digitalization in industry and agriculture.

Data analysis in the factory

Tech Walk: Smart digitalization with a focus on cybersecurity

Nuremberg, Germany

This tour will demonstrate how secure digitalization and open automation transform data step-by-step into real added value – with solutions that intelligently network IT and OT, machine learning, the cloud, and cybersecurity right from the start.

Remote relay system – PLC-INTERFACE Ethernet gateway mounted on a DIN rail with network logos

New standards for data centers: Virtual PLCnext Control and a remote relay system working together

Nuremberg, Germany

Virtual PLCnext Control and a remote relay system are revolutionizing data centers: The scalable, software-based controller meets a network-capable relay system – for greater efficiency, security, and future viability.

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Openness as a strategy for success: Competitive edge through partnerships and platforms

Nuremberg, Germany

Phoenix Contact, Festo, and Yaskawa use the example of the open PLCnext Technology ecosystem to demonstrate how co-creation is redefining innovation, flexibility, and competition.

PLCnext Factory

Highlight of the day (day 2)

Nuremberg, Germany

Our Innovation Stage focused on the topic of “Digitalization and Security” on the second day of the SPS 2025 trade fair.

Automated guided vehicle system (AGVS)

New technologies for AGVs – PLCnext Technology makes it possible, for engineering, safety, and communication

Nuremberg, Germany

AGVs reimagined: Learn about how PLCnext Technology combines the safety, drive control, and navigation of an AGV in one system.

Person standing in front of an open control cabinet with a flashlight

Power Reliability: Avoid system failures and downtimes

Nuremberg, Germany

System availability as a success factor: Our expert will present concrete and tangible ways of increasing the efficiency of your production system and avoid downtimes with “Power Reliability”.

Message on a screen: System hacked

Live hacking: The reality check for your OT security

Nuremberg, Germany

Experience live how easily attackers can penetrate OT systems and how targeted protective measures can prevent exactly that. An exciting live hack demonstrates why industrial security is indispensable today.

Experts monitoring the condition of a wind farm via laptop

Tech Walk: Using energy efficiently and ensuring security of supply

Nuremberg, Germany

On this tour, we will demonstrate how you can ensure an intelligent and cost-efficient power supply with solutions focusing on system availability, power-to-X, DC grids, and battery energy storage systems.

Solar panels and wind turbines with a blue sky as the backdrop

From wind and the sun through to charging stations: PLCnext Technology in the smart energy grid

Nuremberg, Germany

How PLCnext Technology is promoting the energy transition: Open control technology is setting new standards in flexibility, safety, and real-time capability – from generation through to the charging station.

Two people in control cabinet building

Digitalization and automation in control cabinet building

Nuremberg, Germany

How can companies in control cabinet building use a combination of practical methods taken from digitalization, lean management, and agility practices in a targeted manner to drive digitalization and process optimization and ensure their competitiveness?

 Engineer monitoring the condition of a wind farm

Highlight of the day (day 3)

Nuremberg, Germany

Our Innovation Stage focused on the topic of "Power and Efficiency" on the last day of the SPS 2025 trade fair.

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