Industrie40 - Is Now, and Hannover Messe Ante Portas

Last week government of Saxony and Plattform Industrie 4.0 invited stakeholders involved in the changing landscape of business towards a digitally driven one to "Industrie 4.0 - Sachsen stellt sich auf" in Dresden. About 400 participants from across all possible stakeholder communities, from HR to politics to banks to chip manufactures, and ICT companies and CEOs of local SME followed the invitation.

As disruptive as it feels digital is nothing new in the business world, even outside chip factories or car manufactures, though everywhere there is vast room for improvement and valuable use cases and applications.

#Industrie40 is the German expression for IoT (Internet of Things) in a production and manufacturing context, one of the core industry field in which Germany is strong and world-clas to this day. It was coined and published during the 2011 Hannover Messe (article in German) by several ministries and engineering organizations (which are also the driving force behind the current activities at Plattform Industrie 4.0). This year's main topic at Hannover Messe 2016 will be Industrie 4.0 so it makes sense to extend the view towards the underlying technology platforms that will enable this transformation (and not just within the fenced properties of production plants).

However without the necessary technology there will be little to no implementation of the vision of digitalization in the manufacturing space. With having a major chip factory by GLOBALFOUNDRIES (formerly known as AMD Dresden) in Dresden it is worth to read into what an expert has to say:

IoT is Now! (PART I) • IoT is Now! (Part II)

by Rajeev Rajan

It is going to be an exiting future, and it is happening today. Why don't we take active part in it ourselves?

PS.: A first view on last week's conference #SachsenIndustrie40 can be found here.