The digital twin and the vintage drill

Members of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance such as Endress + Hauser, Festo, KUKA, Pepperl + Fuchs Group, SAP and Schunk are also founding members of the "Industrial Digital Twin Association" (IDTA), which was recently founded in September. As an "implementation alliance", many members are already working actively in their customers' factory halls with the help of digital twins - whose interfaces are now being adapted in the cloud (4th layer "Common Cloud Central") and are then generally available to members of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance...read more

October 20, 2020 

The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance and the GAIA-X Foundation 

The alliance is informally and closely linked via individuals to the GAIA-X Foundation, a foundation that will put the European cloud and data infrastructure GAIA-X into practice 

Reinach, Switzerland, 10. September 2020 - In June 2020, 22 companies and organizations from France and Germany - including Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG from Verl, Germany - took another major step towards the European digital infrastructure with the establishment of the GAIA-X Foundation. A German and French initiative around international cloud and data infrastructure, GAIA-X is designed to promote a secure, trustworthy data infrastructure in Brussels, thus also promoting the digital sovereignty of Europe. In the meanwhile, the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance is demonstrating similar working principles and goals, and now comprises of 64 members operating worldwide...read more

Initiatives for intralogistics in view of the coronavirus crisis

The demands placed on intralogistics are becoming ever more demanding as a result of crises such as the current COVID-19 pandemic and the trend towards individualisation right down to batch size 1, as opposed to survey findings from last year on production logistics among German SMEs by Swiss material flow specialist Interroll. The average degree of automation of internal material handling is only 53 per cent among the companies that were surveyed. At the lower end of the scale, just under 10 per cent of companies with a degree of automation of less than 25 per cent did not invest last year and are now potentially at risk in view of the corona crisis...read more

„I am a drill machine from 1900, I can still drill.“

On July 16 and 17, 2020, the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance held its first "Virtual Fair", presenting the its strategy, active working groups, deployed technologies and initial case studies in numerous zoom meetings. With Endress+Hauser, Hilscher Gesellschaft fuer Systemautomation, KUKA, MULTIVAC, Pepperl + Fuchs, SAP, SVA and Voith, 8 members and 14 speakers from the now total of  60 Alliance members contributed. The Virtual Fair was held in English and recorded over 360 registrations and up to 200 simultaneous participants from Europe, the USA, but also China, India and Japan...read more

July 28, 2020

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance overcomes the challenges of 2020 and focuses on internationalisation in 2021

Karl H. Mayer, Berkeley Communications

Wenn der Digitale Zwilling die Vintage-Bohrmaschine trifft

Gaia-X und Open Industry 4.0 AllianceGrundsatz ist Datensouveränität für alle Beteiligten

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Reinhold Schäfer

Die Intralogistik soll besser digitalisiert werden

Digitization during COVID-19: Open Industry 4.0 Alliance intensively pushes the digitization of intralogistics

By Karl H. Mayer

Umsetzungsallianz für industrielle Digitalisierung

By Volker Oestreich

Bündnis will Industrie 4.0 skalierbar machen

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance zieht Jahresbilanz

3DSignals Joins the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

3DSignals tritt der Open Industry 4.0 Alliance bei

The Open Industry Alliance 4.0 takes the lead at the SPS

By Karl Mayer

SPS 2019: Open Industry Alliance 4.0 präsentiert interoperable Lösungen

Vernetzung von der Maschine bis zur Cloud

Kuka and the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance at SPS

Realizing the Promise of Industry 4.0 Takes A Digital Transformation Village

SAP partner itelligence AG links production machines with business management

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance eyes digital Transformation

The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

Will Konica Minolta lend new momentum to Axoom?

By Edeltraud Günthör

Will Konica Minolta lend new momentum to Axoom?

By Edeltraud Günthör

Open Industriy Alliance 4.0 is starting

By Andreas Knoll

Battle of open cloud ecosystems opened

Alliance for industry 4.0

By Eva Linder

Seven companies are establishing Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

By Wolfgang Ernhofer

5G and the future of work - Hannover Messe

By Lukas Bay Christof Kerkmann Fulya Çayir Kevin Knitterscheidt Lars Ophüls Stephan Scheuer Roman Tyborski

7 industry leaders announce foundation of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

Platform jungle: with whom I'll go with?

By Robert Weber

Smart machines, different languages: an alliance of practioners to change

By Christof Kerkmann

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance: An Open Ecosystem for the Digital Transformation of Industrial Manufacturing Plants

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance established

SPS Magazin (Germany) (Open Industry 4.0 Alliance)

April 2, 2019 (197,186)

Endress+Hauser joins with other suppliers to found Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

By David Greenfield

Plattform Industrie 4.0, Industrial Internet Consortium announce more joint projects

An Alliance for IIoT

By Gerald Ondrey

SAP Open Industry 4.0 Alliance: Open ecosystem for diigtal transformation of industrial manufacturing plants announced

Seven companies are establishing Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

Elektrotechnik (Germany) (Open Industry 4.0 Alliance)

By Katharina Juschkat

SAPs Open Industry 4.0 Alliance is coming

Factory (Austria) (Open Industry 4.0 Alliance)

Industry 4.0 alliance by SAP, Kuka and Beckhoff is about to start

All electronics (Germany) (Open Industry 4.0 Alliance)

March 28, 2019 (91,732)