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 Industrial Data Marketplace
Latest news titled a far-reaching collaboration between two tech behemots. Old-tech giant Volkswagen chose Amazon to digitize its 122 production sites and build Volkwagen’s Industrial Cloud.
The news came as a bombshell for the whole industry. Especially […]
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Should You Build or Buy Software Solutions?
Software is crucial to every business today. Even more important is a clear decision process for when to make or buy software. This article gives good hints and an overview for such a process.
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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.
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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 […]
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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