"Built to Lead: The Aftermarket Advantage" headlines this year's event, with confirmed speakers from CLAAS, VDMA, Siemens Energy, Mitsubishi Electric Europe, Terex, and more.
Stuttgart, September 24th, 2026 – PARTS SUMMIT 2026 will bring together spare parts, pricing, service, and aftermarket leaders from industrial manufacturing on October 15 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. After three editions in the Stuttgart region, the event moves to Frankfurt this year and expands its reach to professionals from across Europe.
The one-day event pairs practitioner-led sessions and keynotes with panel discussion and peer networking, built around the pressures now shaping aftermarket businesses: pricing under margin pressure, shifting cost structures, and growing competition for parts revenue that manufacturers once treated as guaranteed.
“If you are giving up a full day away from your business, it has to pay you back” said Stephen Fauth, Co-CEO of MARKT-PILOT. “That means bringing together people who understand the same challenges you do, but approach them from different perspectives. From industry insights and economic outlooks to practical examples from leading manufacturers, PARTS SUMMIT is about sharing what works, learning from one another, and taking ideas back to your business.”
“That means bringing together people who understand the same challenges you do, but approach them from different perspectives. From industry insights and economic outlooks to practical examples from leading manufacturers, PARTS SUMMIT is about sharing what works, learning from one another, and taking ideas back to your business.”
Check the full agenda.
Attendees will also see live demonstrations of MP ONE, MARKT-PILOT's Pricing Performance platform, showing how manufacturers connect market data, pricing decisions, governance, and results across the aftermarket.
"When we started PARTS SUMMIT, we asked one question: where do spare parts and aftermarket managers talk honestly with their peers? We could not find that place, so we built it" said Dr. Martin Ruth, Co-CEO of MARKT-PILOT™. "The pressures shaping the parts business do not stop at the border, so the conversation should not stop there either."
"The pressures shaping the parts business do not stop at the border, so the conversation should not stop there either."
MARKT-PILOT also hosts PARTS FORUM, its North American event for spare parts and aftermarket leaders, returning to Chicago in June 2027.
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MARKT-PILOT™ is the industry leader in Pricing Performance for industrial manufacturers. It replaces scattered pricing efforts with one system that keeps every price current, controlled, and proven, so manufacturers protect margin and grow the aftermarket instead of just managing it.
MP ONE™, its unified Pricing Performance platform, runs pricing strategy across the entire portfolio: built deliberately, approved with a rationale, published everywhere at once, and measured so the next cycle gets smarter. Run this way, pricing stops being a once-a-year project and becomes a discipline the business can rely on, backed by enterprise infrastructure built to run at scale.
MARKT-PILOT supports more than 200 leading machine manufacturers worldwide. The company employs more than 150 people and is headquartered in Stuttgart, with additional presence in Chicago and Stockholm.
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