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.
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.
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.
