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EFESO and the trade journal "Produktion" are looking for winning projects from industry for the Industrie 4.0 Award. Anyone who has implemented an innovative solution or a promising prototype in a digitalisation project in their company can apply for the award in the categories "Smart Factory", "Smart Supply Chain" or "Smart Products & Services".

The roles of AI as intelligence amplifier and intuition assistant.

The use of data resources and the mastery of data-driven technologies are the backbone of industrial digitalisation.

The next stage in the data-driven production is prescriptive analytics.

The triumph of analytics tools, IIoT platforms and AI solutions has begun. But what exactly does the industry’s entry into the data age?

Since 2014, the business magazine brand eins and its partner Statista have been honouring top consultants who stand out for their competence, quality and professionalism.

For the first time, the business magazine Focus Business selected the best consultants 2021 from 38 specialist areas.

The business magazine 'Finanz und Wirtschaft' annually selects the best consulting firms in Switzerland.

"...and the winner is ..." - under this motto, champions and awards are the focus of our current newsletter.

Industry 4.0 technologies play a key role in the digital transformation of industry.

We have exciting news to start the year with: Fendt and Haier are the winners of the Industrie 4.0 Award 2020.

Review of Training Day 2020 with Tayfun Kaymakci, Head of Learning Campus, EFESO

Prof. Dr Werner Bick, Senior Partner at EFESO, on the potential of data in the factory and the best way to start digitising production.

New roles, new skills: get fit for Industry 4.0 with the Learning Campus.

A natural growth of culture and technology is no longer possible. The dynamics of transformation must be actively controlled.

Traceability in focus: Digital initiatives in the process industry.

The main reasons for the failure of Industry 4.0 projects and how to avoid them.

Increased resilience through data analytics – the challenges of effective data management in the Smart Factory exceed technical requirements out.

Digital shop floor management or agile methods in R&D eight impulses for the implementation of the Smart Factory.

From control to Coaching process: the new role of the manager on the shop floor.

Technologies and application scenarios, that are on their way to intelligent factory.

Toasters and refrigerators are transformed into “smart products” that will be controlled by Alexa and Siri in the future. A manufacturer of household appliances realizes: Three years from the first idea to the finished product are too long for that. He consistently upgrades his development team with ROI.

In the search for suitable cooperation models, companies often rely on individual methods and overlook the fact that they have to transform their organization sustainably - a guide to change.

Due to the increased complexity, the processes in product development have become more time-consuming and costly. At the same time, new technologies are speeding up processes considerably - insights into the race for efficiency.

Hardware and software development follow completely different development cycles. Synchronizing them is one of the greatest challenges of smart product development. A new control model provides a remedy.

Over the next 10 years, 90% of industrial products will have a software component. Most development departments are not prepared for this today.

By Hans-Georg Scheibe, Managing Partner, ROI