Shaping tomorrow's mechanical and plant engineering together
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With 3,600 members, the VDMA is the largest network organization and an important voice for the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry in Germany and Europe. The association represents the common economic, technical and scientific interests of this unique and diverse industry.
Learn more about the diverse topics, industries and services of the VDMA here. With our broad-based organizational structure and the know-how of more than 500 employees worldwide, we support you in making the right decisions in your company.
Four years have passed since the last General Assembly - four years that have shaken many apparent certainties and presented the industrial SME sector with major challenges. “Unique.” is the motto of this year's General Meeting on October 10 and 11 in Wiesbaden. Be part of it!
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Our Topic Areas
The VDMA bundles the know-how and competence of its entire organization in eleven topic areas and offers you support for your entrepreneurial decisions - from daily business to the political representation of interests to the recruitment of young talent.
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What is the Collaboration Platform?
Collaboration Plattform
As a powerful association, the VDMA promotes innovative formats of digital collaboration. With the Collaboration Platform, VDMA offers a new and interesting service for digital association work and networking. In this video we present the Collaboration Platform. For more information, please contact your VDMA contact person or go to our Collaboration info page. Have fun watching!
Leistungen Der Verband
Our Services
Consulting
Company and product search
Research activities and trend scouting
Key data and benchmarks
Market and business cycle information
Networking and collaboration
Newsletter
Political representation of interests
Trainings, courses, seminars
Standardization and regulations
Studies, guidelines, publications
VDMA Magazine
Events and trade fairs
Do you have individual questions or need professional advice? Our experts will be happy to advise you in person, by telephone or at your premises.
With cost-free listings in our online directories, you can present yourself to potential customers.
By participating in research activities and utilizing the results, we offer your company access to the best minds in science. What is more, we help you to recognize relevant mechanical engineering trends and disruptions at an early stage to make them useful for your business.
We provide you with survey results and benchmarks from various business areas that will help you evaluating and classifying your company’s performance, amongst other things.
Access to an extensive statistics data base, forecasts, country reports and much more will help you manage your business activities.
Take advantage of the many opportunities at VDMA for networking and collaboration along the entire industrial value chain and mechanical engineering topics - in person or online.
With our VDMA newsletters we inform you by email about current trends, news, and events from the VDMA and the world of mechanical engineering – you decide which newsletters you need.
We represent the issues of mechanical engineering in Germany and Europe on your behalf. Our technical expertise, our knowledge of the industry, and our straightforward positioning makes 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 further education and training courses relevant to mechanical engineering: Conferences, courses, seminars as well as digital learning.
Stay on top of technical legislation with our support. In addition, the VDMA promotes the competitiveness of the mechanical engineering industry through its participation in the DIN Standards Committee for Mechanical Engineering (NAM).
With our publications, we impart knowledge and provide insights into the latest developments in our industry and in our association.
The VDMA magazine is aimed exclusively at VDMA member companies and gives them unusual insights into the mechanical engineering industry. What challenges is it dealing with? What projects is it working on? And how does it envision the future? To find out, we talk to our members and visit them on site. In doing so, we don't shy away from presenting controversial viewpoints that reflect the diversity and vibrancy of mechanical engineering.
We offer various networking events, including high-level congresses and target-group specific experience exchanges on expert level. In addition, VDMA connects you with your customers during numerous trade fairs and exhibition activities; in Germany and all over the world.
The VDMA stands for free and fair competition. In order to guarantee undistorted competition and legal certainty for members in their daily association work, the VDMA has committed itself to a comprehensive compliance program.
The VDMA is becoming increasingly attractive for companies in other European countries. We are consistently pursuing this path, because our future as an industrial SME is Europe!
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Benefits for you as a member
Largest industry network in Europe
3,600 primarily medium-sized member companies in the capital goods industry make the VDMA the largest industrial association in Europe and the most important network organization in the industry.
Strong representation of interests
The VDMA is the most important voice of the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry. It represents the common economic, technical and scientific interests of the industry in Germany and around the world.
A wide range of services
More than 500 VDMA employees worldwide support you with practical services to make the right decisions in your company - along the entire value chain.
"The baby boomers are about to retire and too few young people are joining them. We need to join forces to generate enthusiasm for our industry and our working environments and to highlight our role and potential."
What is behind the X in Manufacturing-X? A ground-breaking concept that goes far beyond the exchange of data between companies. It is the key to collaboration within and between industries.
Around three million people in EU-27 are employed in mechanical and plant engineering, more than 1.2 million of them in Germany alone. These figures and many other exciting facts can be found in the online brochure "Mechanical and Plant Engineering in Figures and Charts 2024", which provides a comprehensive overview of all the important figures and statistics relating to mechanical and plant engineering in Europe. The comprehensive set of figures is accompanied by a special topic that changes at regular intervals and opens up new perspectives. Current issue: "Highly valuable: focus on skilled workers and employees"
Connect2Discover@VDMA: Get to know the VDMA better!
The digital event series "Connect2Discover@VDMA" invites you to get to know your association better. It offers you a regular insight into our wide range of services and shows you how you can best use your association for your tasks.
Job offers, daily work routine, core values, dual studies, apprenticeship or internship - get to know the VDMA as an employer and find out about the different divisions.
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