Category Industrie 4.0

A look at Germany’s AI Strategy

AI
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.

How Smart Factories Benefit From Digital Twins

Drive
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.