The Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research are managing the platform together with high-ranking representatives from companies, science, associations and trade unions. In working groups, experts develop strategies, technical approaches and recommendations on the most important topics of Industry 4.0.Plattform Industrie 4.0 was launched at the 2013 Hannover Fair with the aim to prepare German industry including SME`s for the future of production, aligning requirements of being leading in the market and capabilities of being leading suppliers. It is based on the needs of future production such as efficiency, time to market and flexibility following use-case based approach with scenarios describing the future, implementation examplesfrom SMEs/large industry describing the actual status and test-infrastructure to support esp. SMEs on way towards the future. |