News
June 2016
High level networking and visions for the digital future
| In a joint effort, AUTOMATICA and EUnited Robotics will gather the CEOs of AUTOMATICA exhibitors and selected end-users at the first CEO Dialogue "Robotics – pacemaker of the Digital Economy" on the eve of AUTOMATICA opening, June 20th, 2016. The fast evolving digitization is leading global manufacturing towards the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). Robotics and automation is in the center of this development, but more than ever, we need to look at disruptive developments coming from outside of our industry sector. |
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| The internet of things, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems and machine learning are all bound to bring massive change. What the opportunities and risks are is in the focus of our keynote speakers from the world of ICT. |
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| “Big data is not a vision of the future, but already here”. |
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| Rolf Schumann, Chief Technology Officer of SAP AG for EMEA and MEE, will present SAP’s vision of production in the digital era. The author of the award winning book Update (co-authored by Michael Steinbrecher) is a leading expert of the big data driven transformation of the global economy. At SAP, Rolf Schumann is the driver of Industry 4.0 and head of innovation. |
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“Our machines should be nothing more than tools for extending the powers of the human beings who use them.” Thomas Watson Jr., 2nd President of IBM (1914 – 1993) |
Andrea Martin, Chief Technology Officer DACH, IBM Deutschland GmbH, will explain what Watson can do for the factory of the future. IBM’s Watson AI technology came to fame in 2011 after spectacularly winning the American Jeopardy quiz show against the two human champions. As a “cognitive system”, Watson is currently taking on new challenges ranging from healthcare to education. Andrea Martin will explain how it works and how it might bring manufacturing to a new level. |
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| “Industry 4.0 is a journey - it may take several years. So we better start now.” |  |
Ralf-Michael Franke, CEO Factory Automation of Siemens AG, will draw Siemens’ picture of production in the era of Industry 4.0. Interaction between hardware, software and services along the entire industrial value chain is at the core of the digital enterprise of the future. Four pillars are needed for the digital transformation of industrial processes: software, communication solutions, safety concepts and digital services. Ralf-Michael Franke clearly believes that everything we need to start with Industry 4.0 is already available. |
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