Industry 4.0 - Digitalization
Industry 4.0 automation - ready for the future

Industry 4.0 stands for the fourth industrial revolution. It describes the development of production into digitalisation with automated production lines. Thus the industry is gearing up for the future.

A look back

In order to understand the importance of Industry 4.0 automation in its scope, let us take a look back first. The historic industrial revolution had its beginning at the end of the 18th century. It began with the mechanization of production plants by steam engines and hydroelectric power and culminated in electrification at the end of the 19th century and thus in the 2nd Industrial Revolution. Within 100 years, industry had developed so far that the first assembly lines were already in use.

The 3rd Industrial Revolution was not long in coming. At the beginning of the 1970s, automation began with the help of electronics and IT. Today, German mechanical engineering is in the early stages of Industry 4.0 - the age of networking.

A look ahead

After steam engines, assembly lines, electronics and IT, the so-called intelligent factories are now moving industry and producers. Due to the increasing digitalization of society, markets and the economy, a process has taken place in industry. Industry 4.0 thus describes the merging of the digital world with production to get automated production lines. Information and communication networks as well as sensors and actuators have become essential to unite and interlink the networking of the various components in the production process.

These include the machines, systems, products, logistics as well as the people who communicate and act with one another in the product creation process. This networking makes it possible to optimize complete value chains. A new age of industry has dawned - get ready for the future.

Advantages of Industry 4.0 automation

An important component of networking is the analysis of large amounts of data, which are already available but initially unstructured. The goal is to extract the relevant information from the data. This intelligent use of data opens the way for our customers to innovations and a apply preventative maintenance – predictive maintenance.