© Günter Herkommer, Computer&AUTOMATION

The topic of Industry 4.0 inevitably raises the question of how distributed intelligence can be used to solve control tasks in a modular system in an efficient and user-friendly way. Visitors to the trade fair were able to get answers to this question at the numerous "Smart Factories". For example, at the Pilz stand. As a member of the SmartFactory KL research platform, the safety specialist from Ostfildern not only took part in the corresponding joint stand of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Hall 8, but also brought its own small "Smart Factory" (pictured) to Hanover.