Industrie 4.0

acatech President Henning Kagermann presenting the final Industrie 4.0 report to Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 2013 Hannover Messe. © Federal Press Office

Towards the fourth industrial age

On 8 April 2013, the Industrie 4.0 Working Group presented a series of concrete recommendations to Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Hannover Messe. The final report of the Working Group established by the BMBF’s Industry-Science Research Alliance sets out the requirements for a successful transition to the fourth industrial age.

On 9 April 2013, the BITKOM, VDMA and ZVEI associations established the Plattform Industrie 4.0 in order to coordinate Germany’s development into a leading market and leading supplier of state-of-the-art manufacturing technology.

Academia will also continue to actively support the implementation of this strategic project. The Plattform Industrie 4.0’s Scientific Advisory Committee, which is coordinated by acatech, held its inaugural meeting in June 2013. The Committee is made up of professors drawn from the fields of production and automation, information science, law and the sociology of work. The spokesperson of the Scientific Advisory Committee also sits on the Plattform’s steering committee.

Members of the Industrie 4.0 Working Group

Chairmen

Dr. Siegfried Dais, Robert Bosch GmbH
Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann, acatech

Spokespersons

AG 1 – Die Smart Factory
Dr. Manfred Wittenstein, Wittenstein AG
AG 2 – Das reale Umfeld
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Russwurm, Siemens AG
AG 3 – Das wirtschaftliche Umfeld
Dr. Stephan Fischer, SAP AG
AG 4 – Mensch und Arbeit
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI
AG 5 – Der Faktor Technologie
Dr. Heinz Derenbach, Bosch Software Innovations GmbH

Members of the economy

Dr. Reinhold Achatz, ThyssenKrupp AG
Dr. Heinrich Arnold, Deutsche Telekom AG
Dr. Klaus Dräger, BMW AG
Dr. Johannes Helbig, Deutsche Post DHL AG
Dr. Wolfram Jost, Software AG
Dr. Peter Leibinger, TRUMPF GmbH & Co. KG
Dr. Reinhard Ploss, Infineon Technologies AG
Volker Smid, Hewlett-Packard GmbH
Dr. Thomas Weber, Daimler AG
Dr. Eberhard Veit, Festo AG & Co. KG
Dr. Christian Zeidler, ABB Ltd.

Scientific members

Prof. Dr. Reiner Anderl, TU Darmstadt
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauernhansl, Fraunhofer-Institut IPA
Prof. Dr. Michael Beigl, KIT
Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy, TU München
Prof. Dr. Werner Damm, Universität Oldenburg / Offis
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gausemeier, Universität Paderborn
Prof. Dr. Otthein Herzog, Jacobs University Bremen
Prof. Dr. Fritz Klocke, RWTH Aachen / WZL
Prof. Dr. Gunther Reinhart, TU München
Prof. Dr. Bernd Scholz-Reiter, BIBA

Research unions and associations

Dr. Bernhard Diegner, ZVEI
Rainer Glatz, VDMA
Prof. Dieter Kempf, BITKOM
Prof. Dr. Gisela Lanza, WBK, KIT
Dr. Karsten Ottenberg, Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
Prof. Dr. August Wilhelm Scheer, Scheer Group
Dieter Schweer, BDI
Ingrid Sehrbrock, DGB
Prof. Dr. Dieter Spath, Fraunhofer IAO
Prof. Dr. Ursula M. Staudinger, Jacobs University Bremen

Guests

Dr. Andreas Goerdeler, BMWi
Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Lukas, BMBF
Ingo Ruhmann, BMBF
Dr. Alexander Tettenborn, BMWi
Dr. Clemens Zielonka, BMBF

Authors of the final report

Core authors

Klaus Bauer, Trumpf Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG
Dr. Bernhard Diegner, ZVEI
Johannes Diemer, Hewlett-Packard GmbH
Wolfgang Dorst, BITKOM
Dr. Stefan Ferber, Bosch Software Innovations GmbH
Rainer Glatz, VDMA
Ariane Hellinger, acatech
Dr. Werner Herfs, RWTH Aachen / WZL
Marion Horstmann, Siemens AG
Dr. Thomas Kaufmann, Infineon Technologies AG
Christian Kobsda, acatech
Dr. Constanze Kurz, IG Metall
Dr. Ulrich Löwen, Siemens AG
Veronika Stumpf, acatech

Chapter 5.4 Security

Matthias Brucke, OFFIS Institut für Informatik
Jürgen Niehaus, SafeTRANS – Safety in Transportation Systems

Chapter 5.7 Legal Circumstances

Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung, Universität Passau
Kai Hofmann, Universität Passau

Co-authors

Dr. Kurt D. Bettenhausen, Siemens AG
Dr. Kerstin Geiger, SAP AG
Jörg Heuer, Telekom AG
Dr. Günter Hörcher, Fraunhofer-Institut IPA
Petra Köpfer-Behncke, SAP AG
Jörn Lehmann, VDMA
Dr. Katja Patzwaldt, Jacobs University Bremen
Steven Peters, WBK, KIT
Dr. Harald Schöning, Software AG
Joachim Seidelmann, Fraunhofer-Institut IPA
Prof. Dr. Ursula M. Staudinger, Jacobs UniversityBremen

Further authors from the working groups

Vinay Aggarwal, Deutsche Telekom
Mathias Anbuhl, DGB
Dr. Dietmar Dengler, DFKI
Ulrich Doll, Homag Holzbearbeitungssysteme GmbH
Dr. Gerhard Hammann, TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG
Andreas Haubelt, TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG
Dirk Hilgenberg, BMW AG
Bernd Kärcher, Festo AG & Co.KG
Dr. Alassane Ndiaye, DFKI
Dr. Detlef Pauly, Siemens AG
Tobias Philipp, IWB
Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Prokop, TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG
Michael Wetzel, Daimler AG

Our economy is on the verge of a fourth industrial revolution. Through the strategic project Industrie 4.0, we can help to successfully shape this process and thus ensure that we continue to enjoy a high level of prosperity in Germany for years to come. While research can help to reorganise production processes and improve the relevant structures, it is equally important to rapidly implement research findings in companies’ day-to-day business.

Johanna Wanka, former Federal Minister of Education and Research

The factory of the future combines unprecedented flexibility with optimal resource utilisation. Industrie 4.0 offers Germany the chance to further strengthen its position as a manufacturing location, manufacturing equipment supplier and IT business solutions supplier. It is encouraging to see that all the stakeholders in Germany are now working closely together through the Plattform Industrie 4.0 in order to move ahead with implementation.

Henning Kagermann, Chairman of the acatech Board of Trustees and Co-Chair of the Industrie 4.0 Working Group

It is clear from the work that we have done together that Germany possesses all the necessary expertise in the fields of manufacturing technology and mechanical engineering to carry forward its global success into the future world of the Internet of Things and Services.

Siegfried Dais, Robert Bosch GmbH und Co-Vorsitzender Arbeitskreis Industrie 4.0

Industrie 4.0 Implementation Forum on 2 October 2012

Presentation of the project’s recommendations to State Secretaries Dr. Georg Schütte (BMBF) and Ernst Burgbacher (BMWi, MdB) at the “Industrie 4.0 Implementation Forum” in October 2012. © acatech/D.Ausserhofer

Germany is paving the way for the fourth industrial revolution. At the Implementation Forum of the Industry-Science Research Alliance, held at the Produktionstechnisches Zentrum in Berlin on 2 October 2012, the Industrie 4.0 Working Group presented its provisional strategic recommendations for this transformation process to State Secretaries Dr. Georg Schütte (BMBF) and Ernst Burgbacher (BMWi, MdB). The recommendations will be reviewed and developed in the run-up to the Hannover Messe in April 2013, where they will be presented to the Federal Government. From this date on, a “Plattform Industrie 4.0” project office will take over the running of the project.