Machine tools, for forming, shaping or machining metal or plastic or other rigid materials by cutting, boring, grinding, sharpening or finishing; milling, drilling, copying and turning machines, tool turrets and tool disc turrets; replacement and structural parts for the aforesaid machines and turrets, in particular electric, hydraulic and electromechanical drives, positioning devices, gears, couplings, fluid valves, hydraulic and pneumatic and lubricant-dispensing units; rotary indexing tables; tool stores, namely, tool magazines; machine tool holders; machine tool and workpiece positioning holders; workpiece holders being parts of machines, interchangeable chucks for machines excluding land vehicles; power tools being parts of machines, namely, motor-driven spindles with and without swiveling units; industrial robots for machine handling and positioning; industrial robots for separating, cutting, joining, welding, milling, deburring, grinding, peeling, rolling and polishing; machines for gripping, moving and positioning mechanical components, including workpieces and/or tools; tool changers being parts of machines for mechanical rotation, turning and lifting; machine parts in the nature of conversion apparatus and mechanically driven apparatus for retaining, tensioning and gripping workpieces; operating devices being parts of machines for the aforesaid machines

Industrial automation controls, in particular NC and CNC controls for machine tools of all types, and for tool turrets and tool disc turrets with computers and data processing devices connected thereto; computers; computer software for use in operating machine tools; measuring devices, namely, revolution counters, torguemeters, length measuring devices, vibration measuring devices, speed control devices, laser measurement apparatus; signaling devices, namely, position and torque sensors, inductive, capacitive and optical transducers, annunciators and indicator lights; supervision devices, namely, surveillance apparatus for controlling and monitoring the actual working situation of all kind of working machines and their parts, like tool turrets; computers and computer programs for controlling, regulating and simulating manufacturing installations, industrial robots, industrial mobile platforms and tools, and tool carriers