Industry 4.0
Even today, most people associate the “industrial revolution” with steam engines and smoking chimneys. Of course, we also know that production processes have changed significantly since then because progress cannot be slowed down. For a few years now there has been a new specter in the media: “Industry 4.0.” Everyone has heard of it before, and everyone has their own ideas about what’s behind it.
The catchy term “Industry 4.0” was coined at the Hanover Trade Fair in 2011 by a group of German scientists, managers, and politicians to describe...
