In addition to the plenary and expert lectures, leading German and European companies from industry and business presented their innovations on the topic of »Empower Green Production« on an exhibition area of approx. 3,000 m² at AWK’23. The industrial exhibition not only offered an exclusive insight into the production of the future, but also allowed the participants to experience the unique networking character of the Aachen Machine Tool Colloquium: In an exchange with exhibitors who operate at the interface of production and IT, concrete solutions around Production 4.0 and promising product innovations were presented based on practical examples.