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With its extensive expert knowledge, the VDMA offers you a wide range of consulting services.

Our members can present themselves to potential customers with free listings in our online directories. The databases are constantly updated and provide detailed nomenclature for machinery and equipment manufacturing. This makes it possible to search for specific products and their suppliers.

The VDMA facilitates cross-company research by organizing and co-financing it. By participating in research programs and using the results, we offer access to the best minds in science. In addition, we help to identify trends relevant to mechanical engineering at an early stage and make them usable for companies.

Benchmarking is a controlling and management tool that can be used to analyze processes, successes and developments in a company. We provide you with survey results and benchmarks from different areas of the company, which help you to evaluate and classify the performance of your company.

Managers rely on well-founded market information to make operational and strategic decisions. Access to an extensive statistics database, forecasts, country reports, and more helps you manage your enterprise.

We are joining forces to expand the leading position of the VDMA as the voice of our industry on an international level. Take advantage of the many opportunities for networking and collaboration along the entire industrial value chain and regarding all topics of mechanical and plant engineering with us at the VDMA - both in person and digitally.

We represent the issues of mechanical and plant engineering in Germany and Europe on your behalf. Our technical expertise, our knowledge of the industry, and our straightforward positioning make us a recognized and valued contact for companies, as well as for the public, science, administration, and politics.

The VDMA offers you a comprehensive range of professional training opportunities relating to machinery and equipment manufacturing: conferences, courses, seminars and digital learning. In addition we support numerous companies in the mechanical and plant engineering sector with in-house training and individual consulting projects - tailored to your specific needs.

Standardization as a strategic management tool is one of the core tasks of the VDMA. Keep track of technical legislation with our support. In addition, the VDMA promotes the competitiveness of mechanical engineering through its involvement in the DIN Standards Committee Mechanical Engineering (NAM).

Our publications provide in-depth industry knowledge. Our studies help you to understand the technology and market trends that affect your business. And our guidelines provide a framework for entrepreneurial decisions.

The VDMA Magazine gives you insights into the mechanical and plant engineering industry that go beyond the horizon. The VDMA newsletters provide you with information on current trends, news and events. And our social media activities keep you in touch with the latest developments.

We offer you a wide range of events for exchanging ideas - from high-level congresses to target-group-specific experience exchange at expert level. In addition, the VDMA takes you to your customers with numerous trade fairs and exhibitions- in Germany and around the world.