Ten Years of Industrie 4.0

🤖 Plain-English Summary

A decade after its introduction, Industrie 4.0 has been established globally as the dominant paradigm for the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. This enables the creation of digital innovation ecosystems that ensure long-term adaptability in a volatile economic and geopolitical environment.

🔑 Key Findings

• Amalgamating research-based results and practical experience from the German industry, this contribution reviews the progress made in implementing Industrie 4.0 and identifies future fields of action from a technological and application-oriented perspective.
• Putting the human in the center, Industrie 4.0 is the basis for data-based value creation, innovative business models, and agile forms of organization.
• Today, in the German manufacturing industry, the Internet of Things and cyber–physical production systems are a reality in newly built factories, and the connectivity of machinery has been significantly increased in existing factories.

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