Industry 4.0The top dialog
The future-oriented Industry 4.0 project was officially launched at Hannover Messe 2011. The Industry 4.0 platform's research advisory board has now met for a top-level dialog and drafted a twelve-point communiqué on the work still to be done.
<p>The panel participants (from left to right and from top to bottom): Siegfried Russwurm (President of the BDI), Prof. Peter Liggesmeyer (Scientific Spokesman of the Research Advisory Board), Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI), Harald Schöning (Industry Spokesman of the Research Advisory Board), Henning Kagermann (Acatech), Thomas Saueressig (Member of the Board of Management of SAP SE), Volkmar Denner (Chairman of the Board of Management of Robert Bosch GmbH), Jörg Hofmann (First Chairman of IG Metall) and Cedrik Neike (Member of the Board of Management of Siemens AG). Not in the picture: Manfred Wittenstein (Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Wittenstein SE) and Frank Possel-Dölken, CDO at Phoenix Contact).</p> © Computers&AUTOMATION

