Even though Industrie 4.0 and smart manufacturing concepts have been around for a few years, thought leaders are now agreeing that Industrie 4.0 is at an inflection point. In a recent issue of CloudComputing News, this passage was particularly striking:
"Manufacturers are gaining the greatest value from Industry 4.0 by creating pilot projects that create flexible, agile, real-time platforms supporting new business models with real-time integration...For manufacturers in cost-sensitive industries, the urgency of translating the vision of digital transformation into results is key to their future growth. The more competitively intense an industry, the more essential real-time integration."
We are definitely seeing this as we talk to manufacturers who are looking at different ways to accelerate their digitization projects in factories around the world.
Later this month Cisco will be at Hannover Messe, the largest industrial show, highlighting some of the key steps to securely digitizing your operations. Read more about our presence in Martin Dube's blog here.
If you are planning to attend the conference, plan on catching many interesting sessions in the various forums on the following topics:
More information including locations for these sessions can be found here.
In addition, we will have subject matter experts presenting on various topics every ? hour in our booth theatre inHall 8, Stand C13on topics such as:
We hope to see you at Hannover and we look forward to helping you jump start your Industrie 4.0 strategies and plans.
For more details, check out our event site here.