In 2024 we at KERN will celebrate our 180th anniversary and cordially invite you to our large in-house exhibition!
This offers a unique opportunity to find out more about our latest products and segments - We have prepared an extensive program with informative training courses on all relevant company areas. You have the opportunity to meet our product specialists, gain insights into our latest innovations and exchange ideas about the challenges and opportunities in our industry.
When and where?
Period: 18.03. - 20.03.2024
Location: KERN & SOHN headquarters, Ziegelei 1, 72336 Balingen
As a participant in our in-house trade fair, you can expect a discounted overnight stay at the Hotel Stadt Balingen.
But that's not all! As a thank you for your participation, you will receive an exclusive code that you can redeem in conjunction with an order of goods over €180 in our shop. We would like to show you our special appreciation and give you the opportunity to benefit from your next purchase.
So, can we look forward to welcoming you to our trade fair in the anniversary year of 2024? Please register using the contact form below.
We look forward to seeing you!
Your KERN & SOHN team
Day 1
- Welcoming to the KERN fair 2024
- 09.00-11.45: Trainings
- 12.00-12.45: Lunch break in the CASINO
- 13.00-15.45: Trainings
- 16.00-16.15: Shuttle to the hotel Stadt Balingen
- 16.30-16.45: Departure from the hotel to Rottweil
- 17.00-18.15: Visit of the TK Elevator TestTower
- 18.30-19.45: Dinner
- 20.00-20.30: Presentation of the KERN future
- 22.00: Return to the hotel via shuttle service
Day 2
- 08.00 Pick up at the hotel via shuttle
- Welcome in the main building of KERN
- 09.00-11.45: Trainings
- 12.00-12.45: Lunch break in the CASINO
- 13.00-15.45: Trainings
- 16.00-16.15: Shuttle to the hotel Stadt Balingen
- 18.00: Dinner in the event location OKYO
Day 3
- 08.00 Pick up at the hotel via shuttle
- Welcome in the main building of KERN
- 09.00-11.45: Trainings
- 12.00-12.45: Lunch break in the CASINO
- End of fair and see you soon
Trainer: Thomas Buchholz, Richard Lebherz
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Casino Red
Training 2: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 1-2.30 pm | Place: Casino Red
Training 3: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Casino Red
Training 4: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 1-2.30 pm | Place: Casino Red
Training 5: We., 20.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Casino Red
Agenda:
- Industry + Food product range
- EF 2.0 devices from the product range
- New products 2024
- Hands-On: TKFC-TM- C + TKXC-TM-A + TFCB-A
- Outlooks Industry
- Atex
- New series with TKFC-TM-C + TKXC-TM-A with exploration of prototypes
Trainer: Aleksandar Delic
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Casino Blue/Black
Training 2: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 1-2.30 pm | Place: Casino Blue/Black
Training 3: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Casino Blue/Black
Training 4: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 1-2.30 pm | Place: Casino Blue/Black
Training 5: We., 20.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Casino Blue/Black
Agenda:
- Presentation of our KERN laboratory segment (structures and areas of responsibility)
- KERN laboratory basic
- KERN laboratory standard
- KERN laboratory premium
- Presentation of the individual product groups and their USPs:
- Pocket/school balances
- Precision balances – strain gauge – t-fork – force compensation
- Analytical balances
- Moisture analyzers
- What's NEW - Our new products 2024
- Bestsellers and sales arguments
- Hands-on: Working with KERN laboratory products
Trainer: Julia Sauter
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Training room Beige
Training 2: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 1-2.30 pm | Place: Casino Beige
Training 3: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Casino Beige
Training 4: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 1-2.30 pm | Place: Casino Beige
Training 5: We., 20.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Casino Beige
Agenda:
- Presentation of our KERN categories: Differences and application areas (Approved Medical device, Professional Care, Home Care)
- Presentation of the individual product groups and their USPs
- What's NEW – Our Premium Line
- How-to: Integration of Wifi-enabled scales into the network
- Bestsellers and sales arguments
- Hands on
Trainer: Ralf Gutbrod, Nicole Lebherz
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Training room Brown
Training 2: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 1-2.30 pm | Place: Training room Brown
Training 3: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Training room Brown
Training 4: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 1-2.30 pm | Place: Training room Brown
Training 5: We., 20.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Training room Brown
Agenda:
- Presentation of the KERN Optics Segment
- Introduction of the optical instruments
- Biological compound microscopes (Applications and area of use, Components and basics, Overview bestsellers)
- Stereo- and videomicroscopes (Applications and area of use, Components and basics, Overview bestsellers)
- Microscope-cameras and digitalsets (Applications and area of use, Components and basics)
- Hands-On – assembly and installation
- Assembly and installation of a microscope (compound microscope, stereo set)
- Assembly and set-up
- Adaptation of a camera
- Setting and focusing a sample
- Assembly and installation of a microscope (compound microscope, stereo set)
Trainer: Andreas Vossler
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Training room Yellow/Orange
Training 2: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 1-2.30 pm | Place: Training room Yellow/Orange
Training 3: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Training room Yellow/Orange
Training 4: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 1-2.30 pm | Place: Training room Yellow/Orange
Training 5: We., 20.03.2024 | 9-10.30 am | Place: Training room Yellow/Orange
Agenda:
- Presentation and overview of SAUTER product range
- Force measurement technology (force, torque, test systems)
- Hardness measurement technology (Shore, Leeb, UCI)
- Material thickness measurement technology (coating thickness)
- Safety and environment devices
- Einsatzgebiete der SAUTER Messtechnik
- Field of Use of SAUTER measuring devices
- Bestseller and selling points
Trainer: Fabian Brenner
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Casino Red
Training 2: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 3-3.45 pm | Place: Casino Red
Training 3: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Casino Red
Training 4: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 3-3.45 pm | Place: Casino Red
Training 4: We., 20.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Casino Red
Agenda:
- Introduction of CUSOS
- Your requests
- Realized projects
- Floor scales in special sizes
- Agricultural/animal scales
- Roller conveyor integration
- Axle load scales
- Clean room scale(s)
Trainer: Karl-Richard Fuchs
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Casino Blue/Black
Training 2: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 3-3.45 pm | Place: Casino Blue/Black
Training 3: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Casino Blue/Black
Training 4: We., 20.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Casino Blue/Black
Agenda:
Presentation of Equipment Qualification
- Become a GMP expert in the plant qualification of scales at KERN
- Insights, about scale qualification on site at the customer
- Advice on suitable technology and qualification of purchase decisions made.
- EQS Software
Trainer: Matthias Grcic
Tour 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 3-3.45 pm | Meeting point: Service department
Tour 2: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 3-3.45 pm | Meeting point: Service department
Trainer: Markus Reinke
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Service department
Training 2: Tue., 19.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Service department
Training 3: Wed., 20.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Service department
Agenda:
- The team
- From everyday service “what we experience every day and how we can help you”
- The core service portal, this is how you can reach us.
- Questions, wishes and suggestions
Trainer: Wolfgang Schäfer
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Training room Brown
Training 2: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 3-3.45 pm | Place: Training room Beige
Training 3: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Training room Brown
Training 4: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 3-3.45 pm | Place: Training room Beige
Training 5: We., 20.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Training room Yellow/Orange
Agenda:
KERN EasyTouch 2.x / The New Age Of Weighing
- EasyTouch Basics
- Current Features and Functions
- New Highlights in 2.x
- Tips for sales and consulting
- What’s next? New Products 2024
- Questions and Feedback
Trainer: Sebastian Duft
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Training room Yellow/Orange
Training 2: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 3-3.45 pm | Place: Training room Yellow/Orange
Training 3: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 3-3.45 pm | Place: Training room Yellow/Orange
Training 4: We., 20.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Training room Brown
Agenda:
- Presentation of the KERN development & design philosophy
- Presentation of the KERN development
- Product development process
- Impact on the KERN product portfolio
- New menu structure and applications
- KERN design philosophy
- KERN applications
- Advantages of our menu structure
- Interfaces and communication protocol
- KUP (KERN Universal Port) & KUM (KERN Universal Module)
- KCP (KERN Communications Protocol)
- Prospects for 2025
- Presentation of the KERN development
Trainer: Hendrik Neff
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 3-3.45 | Place: Training room Brown
Training 2: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 3-3.45 | Place: Training room Brown
Agenda:
- Introduction to the marketing team
- Digital marketing
- Marketing & Communications
- Digital marketing
- Webshop
- PIM
- Customer-related data preparation (master data extract, customer templates, product sample suggestions, media and documents, IGEL)
- Marketing & Communications
- Responsibilities (print, social media, public relations/PR, trade fairs
- Marketing support for our customers (flyers, banners, content, give aways, HASE)
- Looking into the future
Trainer: Marcel Turino, Christoph Sauter
Training 1: Mo., 18.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Training room Beige
Training 2: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Training room Beige
Training 3: We., 22.03.2024 | 3-3.45 pm | Place: Training room Beige
Agenda:
DAkkS-Calibration Laboratory
- Overview of Calibration, Verification, Conformity Assessment: When, Why?
- "DAkkS" Calibration vs. Factory Calibration
- Services offered by the KERN Calibration Laboratory: In-Lab and On-Site
- Introduction to kern-lab.com
KERN Test Weights – Product Line
- Applications of Test Weights (Adjusting scales, Calibrating scales, Newton weights)
- International Recommendation OIML R111-1 (OIML classes, Tolerance limits, Requirements)
- Determining the correct test weight for scales (Handling of weights, Handling by class, Cleaning
- KERN Product Range (Individual weights, Weight Sets, Guaranteed positive tolerance, Individual marking, Accessories, Customization)
Trainer: Michael Stark
Training 1: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 11-11.45 am | Place: Training room Yellow/Orange
Training 2: Tu., 19.03.2024 | 3-3.45 pm | Place: Casino Blue
Agenda:
- KERN calibration partner systems DAkkS
- System, conditions, working contracts, workflow
- Max-Bus GmbH
- Consulting for accredited companies
- Accreditation guidance
- Software, Audits, training
We are pleased that you are taking part in our KERN trade fair. We hope you have a pleasant stay and that you will improve your knowledge of KERN & products during our training courses. expand SON.
So that we can also learn something from this event, we would be very happy if you would take a moment after the event to tell us your honest opinion about the KERN trade fair.
Providing information about yourself at the end of the survey is voluntary, so you can also submit your answers anonymously. The results will of course only be used for evaluation purposes.
