There comes a moment in every industry’s evolution when technology stops being just a tool and becomes a language, a language shared by research, production, and the market, made of data, competence, and shared responsibility.
That is the language spoken at Applitech 2025, the first international exhibition entirely dedicated to the supply chain of household appliances and consumer electronics, to be held at BolognaFiere from November 5–7. Applitech is not a traditional trade show: it is a meeting point, a space where innovation is no longer seen as an isolated act but as a continuous process that runs through the entire value chain. Here, subcontractors move from the background to the center stage, becoming the driving force of applied innovation, an ecosystem of experimentation, cross-pollination, and collaboration.
Applitech 2025: where the supply chain becomes the engine of innovation
In recent years, the electronics and mechatronics industries have undergone a quiet but profound transformation. Breakthroughs no longer emerge only from research centers or major corporations, but along the supply chain, at the intersections where diverse expertise meets.
The supply chain has become a distributed research lab, a living system capable of learning and adapting, where suppliers, designers, integrators, and manufacturers share knowledge and generate collective value. This is the new benchmark for competitiveness in Europe: integration, collaboration, and systemic vision.
Applitech 2025 will showcase exactly this scenario: manufacturing as a connected organism, where digitalization, artificial intelligence, advanced materials, and circular economy principles intertwine. It’s not just about technologies, it’s about new ways of thinking, an industrial culture based on networks of collaboration rather than silos of specialization.
The new grammar of innovation
Innovation today is not a department; it is the very architecture of modern enterprise. Every phase of the supply chain, from electronic design to logistics, contributes to a connected ecosystem that learns, improves, and evolves. This is the grammar of applied innovation, where experimentation and industrialization are not opposites but complementary forces.
This vision is also embodied in Elemaster’s use of Design for Manufacturability (DFM) principles. Through advanced DFM validation tools, each product is designed to be efficiently manufactured and assembled, preventing PCB and PCBA fabrication issues, improving reliability, and reducing overall production costs. This proactive design approach supports sustainability and ensures long-term product performance, a perfect synthesis of innovation, precision, and responsibility.
Elemaster Group embodies this vision. For nearly fifty years, it has integrated design, prototyping, and industrial production through its “Concept to Product” model, not merely a process but a mindset. It’s a way of transforming engineering into an open network of shared expertise, where design, software, automation, and mechanics collaborate to create complex, sustainable systems.
Elemaster doesn’t talk about innovation, it practices it. Every project becomes a dialogue between creativity and process, between precision and imagination, between today’s need and tomorrow’s possibility.
Innovation as a shared ecosystem
In Elemaster’s philosophy, innovation is not a department, it’s an ecosystem of collaboration. Its International Design Centers are interconnected hubs of research and development across Italy and Germany, sharing one global purpose: to transform ideas into intelligent industrial solutions.
In Italy, this vision takes shape at the Osnago technology hub, where the group’s Head of the R&D division (Eletech), brings together electronic design, software development, prototyping, and testing under one roof. It is here that research meets production, and innovation becomes a continuous exchange between engineers, universities, and industrial partners.
Within this collaborative network, the Elevo Innovation Hub represents the natural extension of Elemaster’s philosophy. More than a mechatronic lab, Elevo is a platform for connection, linking academia, start-ups, and Customers in co-design processes that accelerate innovation. It’s where ideas become prototypes, and prototypes become products, where innovation turns into shared value.
This model perfectly reflects the spirit of Applitech 2025, where value no longer lies in technology alone, but in the collective capacity to shape the future.
Managing obsolescence and designing longevity
Responsible innovation in electronics also means managing technological obsolescence. In an industry that evolves at lightning speed, designing means anticipating. Elemaster integrates product life cycle management from the earliest development phases, forecasting the long-term availability of components and technologies to ensure continuity and sustainability.
This proactive approach creates products designed not just to perform, but to endure. Through predictive maintenance strategies and repair-oriented design, Elemaster helps its Customers extend the operational life of machines and appliances, often beyond twenty years. It’s a philosophy aligned with the circular economy, where durability and technological regeneration are key to reducing waste, energy consumption, and environmental impact.
In an age where sustainability also means longevity, Elemaster proves that innovation is not about replacing what works, but helping it live longer.
Sustainability as a design responsibility
Applitech 2025 devotes significant attention to green manufacturing, resource efficiency, and low-impact production. Sustainability, however, is not just a corporate goal, it’s a technical discipline.
Elemaster applies it to every phase of its product life cycle: from material selection to energy optimization, from process efficiency to product repairability. The ISO 14001 certification, hold by several companies of the Group, shows the commitment to reducing its carbon footprint, and the use of recyclable materials and eco-friendly packaging are tangible expressions of this mindset.
For Elemaster, sustainability is first and foremost an act of design, a way of ensuring that technology serves not just performance, but permanence.
Applitech and the culture of collaboration
Applitech 2025 offers a privileged vantage point on the transformation of industry. It highlights how true innovation is no longer measured in patents, but in the ability to collaborate, to share knowledge, and to create collective intelligence.
In this context, Elemaster Group stands as a coherent and credible voice in this new industrial culture, not because it exhibits products but because it embodies a way of thinking. For Elemaster, innovation is not a proprietary asset but a shared responsibility.
Today, innovation doesn’t belong to those who own it but to those who build it together. That’s the lesson of Applitech, and the vision that drives Elemaster: an innovation that unites, that evolves, that leaves a lasting impact.
The future is collaborative
To innovate the supply chain is to redesign the very DNA of industry. It means shifting from ownership to connection, from competition to collaboration.
Applitech 2025 reminds us that the future of manufacturing will not be written by solitary pioneers but by networks of companies that learn, share, and grow together. In this landscape, Elemaster stands not as a protagonist, but as a bridge builder, a company that contributes to innovation not only through what it makes, but through what it connects: people, ideas, and visions.
Because technology evolves, but culture, when shared, endures. And it is there, at the intersection of research, industry, and responsibility, that innovation truly becomes the future.