Industry 4.0
The capital region Berlin-Brandenburg with its excellent research landscape and high-tech start-up scene offers a great opportunity for companies from Industry 4.0.
Industry 4.0 – the complete networking of industrial production using IP-based networks to increase the efficiency and flexibility of enterprises. It is still the #1 topic on the minds of those thinking about the future of industry. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region is an outstanding center for research. Its vibrant high-tech start-up scene offers manufacturing companies in all industries a wide range of digital innovations and competent cooperation partners.
Artifical Intelligence plays a crucial role in the manufacturing of the future: it automates processes, increases efficiency, and ensures high quality through precise data analysis. With the opening of the ai_berlin hub in 2025, a central hub was created that brings together all relevant stakeholders. The hub serves as a guiding body, a platform and showcase for Berlin's AI landscape and aims to connect users and AI solution providers from various fields of application.
Examples from Berlin:
- Zentio develops practical AI for multidimensional planning and scheduling. The adaptive, self-learning software responds in real time to unforeseen events such as machine downtime, staff shortages or rush orders.
- Ailoys uses proprietary sensors and AI-driven digital twins to predict production processes under varying parameters and provide operating instructions.
- Gestalt Automation relies on AI-based real-time control to enable automated inline inspection.
Why Berlin?
„R3 helps industrial companies make production systems more flexible as products are increasingly individualized. In so doing so, we let machines 'off the leash,' so to speak, and ensure fail-safe, powerful, and real-time wireless communication. With plug-and-play hardware and software tools for installation and monitoring, it is easier than ever to set up wireless networks for use in industry. With Berlin as a magnet for skilled workers, we have already been able to attract great international minds from seven different nations.“
Why Berlin?
„What good is it to predict a machine failure if you don't know why or what you can do about it? At HTW Berlin, Berlin's largest university of applied sciences, we research and teach the next level: explainable artificial intelligence. This means that experts will no longer just have to trust the results of the AI, but receive information about the cause of the problem.“
Why Berlin?
„For more than 80 years, Procter & Gamble's Gillette plant has been producing with state-of-the-art technology. Here over 800 employees produce razor blades and razor heads for the whole world. "Made in Berlin" is not only a seal of quality for shaving heads, but above all for efficient production with high-tech from Berlin. Berlin's startup ecosystem offers the leading expertise and technology to continuously develop our location and to continue to produce innovations with the highest precision in the future.“
Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Berlin GmbH
Many large companies have their digital units in Berlin:
- The Werner-von-Siemens Centre is an industrial and scientific campus in Berlin's Zukunftsort Siemensstadt.
- Körber Digital optimizes industrial manufacturing processes with AI-based technology solutions.
- With the Henkel dx Berlin Hub, the company is driving forward its digital transformation.
- Mercedes-Benz Digital Factory Campus is the center of excellence for digitalization within the global Mercedes-Benz production network.
I4.0 users based in the capital region include, for example, Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg and Mercedes Benz.
Practical research and networking
Private and public initiatives connect established companies, the start-up scene, and research working on the topic of Industry 4.0 in Berlin:
- The Berlin Center for Digital Transformation of the four Berlin Fraunhofer Institutes provides an ecosystem that can rapidly turn research results into innovative products.
- The Digital Agentur supports SMEs in their digital transformation.
- The Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Berlin is the central point of contact for all questions relating to digitization in business practice.
- The Industry 4.0 Competence Atlas provides transparent assistance in the search for the right regional technology providers and Industry 4.0 experts.
