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.
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.
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.
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 […]
The movement towards Industrie 4.0 leads to a higher software penetration on the shop floor. Companies must sit behind the steering wheel if they do not want to run into trouble. A suitable software architecture is the basis for a successful Industrie 4.0 journey. […]
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 […]
In our fast changing, interconnected world, a new inhabitant arises. The Citizen 4.0.
This article will give an impression, what a Citizen 4.0 is and why we need one.