Digitization & AI

Industry 4.0 is a hot topic: Everything in the smart factory is digitally networked—including all processes and the entire value chain.

With Dr.-Ing. Christopher Schneider, Business Development Manager Robotics EMEA at Yaskawa Europe Robotics Division.

The robotics market in pharmaceuticals, medicine, and healthcare is growing rapidly—automatica 2025 showed why this future-oriented sector is so much in focus.

Alternative Label 1Upcoming technology will revolutionize all sectors of industry. Interesting how much Metaverse exhibitors at automatica will present.

With Magnus Edholm, Head of Marketing for the Digital Enterprise at Siemens Digital Industries

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Alternative Label 1Overview of the most important aspects: What is autonomous production? What is the current situation? What role do people play in this?

Alternative Label 1Autonomous production of the future configures and coordinates its production cells itself. Industry pioneers are already implementing the characteristics of the smart factory.

Alternative Label 1GAIA-X: The Secure European Cloud Is Taking Shape. A secure and data-sovereign European cloud infrastructure for SMEs – that is the goal of GAIA-X. That is why government, business and science are promoting the project.

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Alternative Label 1The IoT boom makes edge computing necessary, but data processing in the cloud is more dynamic and therefore scalable to any extent.

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Alternative Label 1IoT platforms connect devices and applications, machines and factories in the Internet of Things. With the large number of providers, obtaining an overview is often not very easy.

Alternative Label 1With the help of industrial analytics, companies want to gain added value from production data. Intelligent data analysis software alone is not enough.

Alternative Label 1The question of data sovereignty is not clearly regulated by law: Interview with Uwe Seidel, Head of the Working Group “Legal Challenges” of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy.