Intelligent Industry 4.0 will not only respond to customer requirements faster and more individually. Above all, companies expect it to enable networked parts to learn from their own mistakes. More than 80 percent of those surveyed believe that self-learning diagnostics and the associated lower error rate are likely. Just as many of the company managers surveyed believe that waste will be detected and eliminated more quickly in future. Just as many are convinced that opportunities for improvement will be identified earlier.