Industry 4.0 platform

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Industry 4.0 platform
Logo of the platform industry 4 0.png
Management of the platform: Actors from politics and business
Begin: April 2013
Seat : Berlin
Website: plattform-i40.de

The Industrie 4.0 platform is the central network in Germany for promoting digital transformation in industrial value creation. It was founded in 2013 as a joint project of the German trade associations BITKOM , VDMA and ZVEI for the further development and implementation of the future project Industry 4.0 of the high-tech strategy of the federal government . In 2015, the platform was expanded and players from companies, associations, trade unions, science and politics were included. In mid-2020, over 350 actors from more than 150 organizations will be actively involved in the platform . The focus of the work of the platform is to bundle the expertise in relation to Industry 4.0 and to make it available to German companies, especially medium-sized companies.

Development of the Industry 4.0 platform

Industry 4.0 was adopted as a so-called “future project” by the federal government in November 2011 in the action plan for the 2020 high-tech strategy . The future project was initiated in January 2011 by the promoter group COMMUNICATION of the Research Union for Business and Science (FU). The Industry 4.0 working group drew up initial recommendations for implementation from January to October 2012 in coordination with acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering . Dr. Siegfried Dais , Deputy Managing Director of Robert-Bosch GmbH, and Prof. Henning Kagermann , President of acatech. In October 2012, the Industry 4.0 working group submitted the recommendations for action to the federal government. In April 2013, the associations BITKOM, VDMA and ZVEI decided in a cooperation agreement to pool their knowledge and jointly operate the Industry 4.0 platform across the association.

The Industrie 4.0 platform was expanded in April 2015 - additional players from companies, associations, trade unions, science and politics were added. The platform also picked up on new trends and topics: after digital applications and products had already been implemented on a broad scale, the development and use of data-based business models and artificial intelligence were anchored in the work of the platform as cross-cutting topics in 2018 . In order to jointly tackle the transnational opportunities and challenges of digitalization, the platform built 3 multinational (G20, trilateral cooperation with France and Italy, DA-CH cooperation with Austria and Switzerland) and 7 bilateral (Australia, China, Japan, Netherlands, Mexico, Czech Republic, USA) cooperations. At the end of 2018, Dr. Frank Melzer, Board Member for Product and Technology Management, Festo AG & Co. KG took over the management of the Industry 4.0 platform from Bernd Leukert, Board Member at SAP SE.

At the Hannover Messe 2019, the Plattform Industrie 4.0 and its partners presented the 2030 model for Industrie 4.0. It emphasizes sovereignty, interoperability and sustainability as central guard rails for global, open, digital ecosystems. The Industrie 4.0 platform shows its current work status in annual progress reports.

structure

The platform is led by the following actors:

Six working groups are subordinate to this steering group . The Reference Architectures, Standards and Norms working group develops and negotiates the standards and harmonizations required for Industry 4.0. With the concept of the asset administration shell, it is promoting a comprehensive standard for the interoperability of Industry 4.0 components. The research and innovation working group determines the need for research in the field of action and suggests implementation recommendations to the actors. The Security of Networked Systems group develops methods and concepts to ensure security in the Internet of Things . The legal framework working group has set itself the goal of determining the extent to which current law is applicable to Industry 4.0. The working group, Work, Education and Training , deals with how cooperation between man and machine can be designed. The sixth working group, Digital Business Models in Industry 4.0 , focuses on the basic requirements and operating principles of digital business models in Industry 4.0.

In addition, there is a steering committee made up of company representatives to coordinate the work of the working groups and to implement the proposals made.

The Industry 4.0 transfer network primarily supports medium-sized companies by networking and exchanging numerous transfer actors in the digitization of industrial value creation.

The Research Advisory Board advises the Industrie 4.0 platform on all scientific and programmatic research issues, in close cooperation with the accompanying research. Circa. 30 representatives from science and industry come together in the advisory board. With their respective institutions, they are characterized by expertise in various specialist areas. These include e.g. B. Production and automation, computer science as well as law and sociology of work. The advisory board's spokesman is a member of the platform's steering committee. The advisory board is coordinated by acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering.

The administrative and organizational tasks from the office adopted.

criticism

The platform is criticized for the fact that apart from recommendations for measures and committee work, there were no concrete results. There was also a lack of joint action by German and European companies - in contrast to the USA, where large companies have joined forces with the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) to develop common standards.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Implementation forum Industry 4.0: Germany is embarking on a new age of production. In: www.forschungsunion.de. Retrieved November 4, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Industry 4.0 platform launched. (No longer available online.) In: www.maschinenbau-institut.de. Archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maschinenbau-institut.de
  3. ↑ Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Public Relations Department: Joint Industry 4.0 Platform starts. In: www.bmwi.de. Retrieved November 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Combining Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The Industry 4.0 platform and its international cooperation. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Change in the steering committee of the platform. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Mission Statement 2030 for Industry 4.0 - Shaping digital ecosystems globally. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Progress Report 2019. In: www.plattform-i40.de. Platform Industry 4.0, accessed on April 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b c d Platform Industry 4.0 - background. Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Public Relations Department, accessed on September 16, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Platform Industry 4.0 - working groups. Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Public Relations Department, accessed on September 16, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board Industry 4.0. Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften eV, accessed on September 16, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Karin Zühlke: Platform Industry 4.0 is about to end: "Germany lost the first half" , on: elektroniknet.de on February 10, 2015, accessed on February 10, 2015.
  13. ↑ US manufacturers organize themselves for the growth market Industry 4.0 , on: computerwoche.de from March 28, 2014, accessed on February 10, 2015.