Power-Electronics Stand Builder for PCIM Expo & Conference in Nuremberg

PCIM Expo & Conference 2027 runs 11–13 May 2027 at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg, across halls 4, 4A, 5, 6, 7 and 9, with the PCIM Conference in parallel at NCC Ost. It is organised by Mesago Messe Frankfurt and has been held in Nuremberg annually since 1979. Note the slot moved: 2026 was in June, 2027 is back in May.

This is the question the stand lives or dies on at PCIM. A power module, a bare SiC or GaN die, a wound magnetic part or a passive component is often smaller than a hand and worth four figures, and a design engineer decides on a meeting by studying it closely. We build lockable eye-level vitrines with directional task lighting, add magnification where it helps, and back them with oversized cutaway or cross-section models so a visitor can read internal structure they could never see on the real part. We usually pick the three components that carry the stand and design the sightlines around them.

From €4,500 to around €48,000 depending on size and demo requirements. A modular 18 m² sits in the €4,800–€10,100 range. A 24 m² custom stand with one live-demo position is typically €11,500–€15,000. A 48 m² with two demo positions runs €19,000–€26,000. Premium and double-decker builds from 80 m² start around €34,000.

Three things. The floor space rental, which is between you and NürnbergMesse. Electrical, three-phase, water and rigging orders placed with the venue. And specialty add-ons — AV beyond the listed package, furniture beyond the standard set, catering, and staffing during the show.

Yes, and it is increasingly the norm here. We design a powered demo bench with cable management, size the electrical supply to the rig rather than to the lighting — three-phase where you need it — and build a heat-extraction path into the enclosure so the demo that runs at nine in the morning is still running at four in the afternoon.

If you are running anything that switches real power, quite possibly yes. It is ordered separately from the standard single-phase stand supply, it is position-dependent, and the deadline falls well before build-up. Tell us the rig's power draw at briefing stage and we specify and file the right supply alongside the rest of the order.

A running converter or drive dissipates real heat, and an enclosure built for looks rather than airflow overheats in a warm hall. We plan the extraction path — vented plinths, a route for warm air, a quiet fan behind a grille where needed — at the same time as the bench, so the rig stays inside its thermal limits through the day.

No. Nuremberg is domestic for us. We build in Frankfurt and drive roughly 220 kilometres south, so there is no customs file and no border on the stand itself. Demo equipment or samples you ship in from outside the EU are separate and stay with you.

Hall and stand allocation is set by Mesago and NürnbergMesse. The expo now runs across six halls — 4, 4A, 5, 6, 7 and 9 — having expanded from four in earlier years, so if you exhibited a few editions ago the layout around you may have changed. We design to your current stand number, not to a previous edition.

The organiser Mesago rebranded the event from PCIM Europe to PCIM Expo & Conference. It is the same show, in the same halls in Nuremberg, with the same focus on power electronics — only the name has changed. Many third-party listings still use the old name, which is why you will see both.

Yes — electrical and three-phase orders, rigging permissions, waste removal, daily cleaning and crew passes. We file on the day a contract is signed, because the services deadlines fall well before build-up and they are the ones that cannot be recovered late.

A modular 9–18 m² stand goes up in one shift. A 24–48 m² custom stand with a live-demo bench takes one to two days plus commissioning time for the rig. Premium builds use the full window. Every stand is pre-assembled at our workshop first.

For a mid-May show, mid-March is comfortable. But the services orders bind earlier than the design does, so if your stand runs a demo we need the power figures well before the design is final — the electrical and rigging orders cannot wait for a styling decision. And remember 2027 is in May, not June: work back from 11 May.

Yes. The PCIM Conference runs in parallel at NCC Ost, physically separate from the expo halls. We schedule the build so the stand is finished and staffed before your presenter draws people over, and we factor the walk between NCC Ost and your hall into the timing.

PCIM ran in May 2025, June 2026 and returns to May in 2027, so muscle memory from one year misleads the next. We anchor everything to the confirmed 11–13 May 2027 dates and count the venue deadlines back from there. The one that bites first-timers is the services order, which closes far earlier than the design deadline.

Yes, if it is built on a system frame. We store the structure in Frankfurt and refresh the graphics for the next edition. Because PCIM is annual, that reuse pays back quickly — and power-electronics messaging tends to move fast, so a graphics refresh is usually wanted anyway.

Usually, for the structure. What cannot be rushed is the venue services order — electrical, three-phase and rigging have fixed deadlines and no builder can move them. If your stand runs a demo, that is the single reason to start earlier than you would for an ordinary show.

Yes, and with a demo bench involved we recommend it. The workshop is about fifteen minutes from Frankfurt Airport. You see the stand assembled, test the demo bench and check the vitrine sightlines against your real components, and meet the crew.

On 18 m², two to three. On 24 m² with a live demo, three to four — someone needs to run the rig while another works the aisle and a third holds a seated conversation. At 48 m² and above, five or more. PCIM conversations are technical and long, so plan for depth rather than crowd-handling.

Yes — Embedded World, it-sa, SPS, Powtech, Fachpack and Chillventa among others. Same crew, same route from Frankfurt. Embedded World in particular shares much of PCIM's engineering audience, so if you exhibit at both we plan them together.