Industry 4.0: Specific solutions with added value for SMEs
Networking medium-scaled businesses, setting standards, generating added value for customers: Following the launch of Industry Business Network 4.0 association, the merger of innovative medium-scaled companies this year presents a unique solution for the cross-producer networking of systems in industrial manufacturing at the specialist conference on Manufacturing 4.0. The congress “Fertigung 4.0 – Specific Solutions with Added Value for SMEs” will take place on Thursday, 16 November in Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria. At the summit of the most important players in the field of industrial digitisation, for example, high-ranking representatives of the Industry 4.0 platform and the Industrial Internet Consortium will focus on the latest developments in the digitization of small and medium-scaled enterprises.
The presentation of Industry Business Network 4.0 at last year’s “Fertigung 4.0” conference attracted a great deal of interest. Numerous medium-scaled companies as well as TÜV Süd and Fraunhofer IGCV have joined forces in the association to develop specific, producer-independent solutions on the subject of Industry 4.0 – from SMEs for SMEs.
One year later, on November 16 in Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria, the “Fertigung 4.0 – Specific Solutions with Added Value for SMEs” congress is now to follow: in the context of its main annual event, the association will present a unique solution for cross-producer networking of systems in industrial production. The new system has been developed in close cooperation with TÜV Süd and Fraunhofer IGCV and is designed to make the great potential of networked production available to small and medium-scaled enterprises in particular. It is based on the groundbreaking work on Industry 4.0, which was developed by the players of the platform Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), for example – together with the VDMA and the DVS, they will provide an exciting insight into the latest developments in the field of digitization of industry at the specialist congress. Dirk Slama is the keynote speaker this year – he is Director of Business Development at Bosch Software Innovations and represents the Bosch Group in the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). He is currently a member of the steering committee and thus the highest body of the IIC.
As in the previous year, Ilse Aigner (MdL), Deputy Prime Minister of the Free State of Bavaria and Bavarian Minister for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology will again be the patron of the congress: “With “Industry 4.0″, Germany has succeeded in establishing a worldwide reputation for German manufacturing excellence and innovative strength. Now we have to push forward the transfer across all companies.” According to Aigner, the Industry Business Network 4.0 association is an excellent example of how Industry 4.0 can succeed in practice and a promising approach to leveraging the huge potential of Industry 4.0.
Around 100 to 120 guests and decision-makers from business and industry are expected to attend the congress – including numerous key players from Bavarian, German and European machine and plant engineering companies as well as software producers.
For more information on the congress – programme and ticket orders – go to
www.fachkongress-fertigung40.de
More about the Industry Business Network 4.0 Association at
www.industry-business-network.org
Keynote Speaker at the Conference Manufacturing 4.0 2017 is Dirk Slama, Director of Business Development at Bosch Software Innovations and representative of the Bosch Group in the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC).
The patroness of the congress is Ilse Aigner (MdL), Deputy Prime Minister of the Free State of Bavaria and Bavarian Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology:”With Industry 4.0, Germany has succeeded in establishing a worldwide known concept that stands for German manufacturing excellence and innovative strength. Now we also have to push the transfer across the board. “
Industry Business Network 4.0 e.V .: Great joy reigned in September 2016 among the founding members of the mid-sized initiative of innovative mechanical and plant engineering companies at the presentation of the association within the scope of the congress Manufacturing 4.0. in Bad Wörishofen (from left): Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Schilp (University of Augsburg & Fraunhofer IGCV), Andreas Bärwald, Dr.-Ing. Detlev Richter (both TÜV Süd), Dr. Michael Schnick (Kjellberg Finsterwalde), Frederic Lanz (Kemppi GmbH Germany), Björn Kemper (Kemper GmbH), Igor Mikulina (MicroStep Europe).
As part of a kick-off workshop in spring 2017, the working groups constituted the concrete value-added fields of work and resource management, energy efficiency and maintenance.
Great attention has been paid to the association since its foundation. Igor Mikulina, CEO of the Industry Business Network 4.0 and CEO of MicroStep Europa GmbH, was, like the other founding members, a sought after contact.
