Visit four doctors, and you’ll come home with five diagnosis.
This saying can be transferred to the term Industry 4.0, where everybody has its own definition.
Back in 2011 when the term Industrie 4.0 was introduced by the german government institution BMBF […]
The possible role of IOTA in Industry 4.0
At the time this article was written, the cryptocurrency market showed major losses and is in a bear market now since 2018. The downfall affected all currencies more or less equally.
Apart from this commonality, the currencies have very different potentials and use cases.
This article lays focus on one particular cryptocurrency, that was designed for IoT and Industry 4.0 purposes.
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Tackling Climate Change – How Tech Can Help
Contrary to the statements of a well-known president, climate change is not only real, but also a serious threat.
We are heading towards a hothouse earth scenario, complete ecosystems die out and we are polluting oceans on a large scale.
A look at Germany’s AI Strategy
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is really nothing new. The field of AI research was founded in 1956.
To date, this field has been always covered with huge expectations. Phases of a hypes alternated with AI winters.
Surely we are in such a hype phase, but Google CEO Sundar Pichai is also right, when he says AI is bigger than the invention of fire and electricity.
As one of the largest industrial nations, Germany addresses this big promise and publishes a AI strategy this month (Nov, 2018).
But what exactly does that strategy look like and how competitive is it in a global comparison?
How Smart Factories Benefit From Digital Twins
Today, the term Digital Twin is ubiquitous.
Four years ago, I had my first personal contact with this concept. I attended the VDI conference “Big Data in Manufacturing”, where a General Electrics (GE) manager presented the well-known example of the transformation of GE’s business model in the aircraft turbine market. […]
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Autonomous Cars – An Overview
Autonomous Cars are a big thing.
They are the best example of a revolution, which is hitting us at full speed: The new decentralization wave, also known as Edge Computing.
Nowadays automobile manufacturers are ridiculed as old economy by the tech scene (a.k.a the new economy).
However, the ongoing revolution clearly plays into the hands of the old economy. […]
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The Resilient Factory
The Digital Transformation is happening at full speed. And it leaves no industry untouched. So is the manufacturing industry.
However we have a different name for the change in this sector: Industrie 4.0 […]
Blockchain Unchained
The rise of blockchain technology is tightly coupled to the emerging of Bitcoin in 2009.
Now you can think what you want of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, but […]