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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.

 

  • Project duration

    11/2012 — 05/2013

  • Partners

    • BITKOM
    • VDMA
    • ZVEI
  • Topic

    Digital transformation

News

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Tokyo, 30 September 2020

Henning Kagermann awarded Honda Prize for the strategic initiative Industrie 4.0

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Publications

Cover of the publication Smart Service Welt

Smart Service Welt: Recommendations for the Strategic Initiative Web-based Services for Businesses. Final report.

Published: 19 March 2015

Cover of the publication Recommendations for implementing the strategic initiative INDUSTRIE 4.0

Recommendations for implementing the strategic initiative INDUSTRIE 4.0. Final report of the Industrie 4.0 Working ...

Published: 08 April 2013

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