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.
Artificial Intelligence plays an essential role in the production of the future by automating processes, increasing efficiency and improving quality assurance through precise data analysis.
The Berlin-based company FactoryPaL is developing a Shop Floor Co-Pilot that eliminates the complexity of modern manufacturing and enables shop floor teams to achieve seamless operations and optimized production. The Berlin-based start-up Ailoys uses proprietary sensors and AI-controlled digital twins to predict the behavior of production processes under various technological parameters and provide operating instructions. Gestalt Automation uses 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 future-oriented area of Siemensstadt. Körber Digital increases efficiency in production with the help of artificial intelligence. The Henkel dx Berlin Hub creates leading technology solutions and supports innovative business models.
I4.0 users based in the capital region include the 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.
