Industry 4.0 & Manufacturing

This category is Industry 4.0 & Manufacturing, exploring the future of smart factories, automation, and digitalization. It features expert insights on AI, IoT, robotics, and advanced manufacturing technologies driving efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness in the industrial sector.

Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution Requires More Supply Chain CEOs

By Wolfgang Lehmacher CEOs need to transform businesses – an imperative which is increasingly relevant in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Apparently, as the supply chain...
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Digital Twins: How Big is the Opportunity for Industrial Organisations?

By Deborah Sherry Looking at how advanced our world has become, a bridge to the virtual world is no longer an imagination as the concept...
Industry 4.0 –Designing the Factory of Tomorrow in North Rhine-Westphalia

Industry 4.0 –Designing the Factory of Tomorrow in North Rhine-Westphalia

It is the topic with the biggest economic dynamic. Industry 4.0 is revolutionising the production process – and North RhineWestphalia (NRW), Germany's industrial heartland,...
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The Real Industry 4.0 Challenge

By Richard Markoff and Ralf Seifert As the manufacturing industry enters into the fourth industrial revolution or the Industry 4.0, supply chain leaders are challenged...

Breaking the Mould! A New Business Model for the 21st Century

By Karl-Heinz Streibich The pace of change in the digital era is too fast, and survival is the main objective.  Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich...

Who Needs Silicon Valley? Made in Digital Germany is Europe’s Big Hope

The industrial and manufacturing landscape of 2025 will be massively different from today and every single “traditional” company has to digitally innovate if it...

A New World Order with Industry 4.0

From the Editors The Internet of things has invaded individual space and now live in our pockets in the shape of that little computer gadget...

Industry 4.0: How Businesses in Aargau are Mastering Technological Change

Businesses operating in Switzerland are particularly exposed to global competition. High production costs and the strong Swiss franc mean that they are forced to...