In the previous sections, we examined industry 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 the important inventors and the technologies they developed. On the road from Industry 1.0 to 4.0, now it’s time to examine the industry 4.0. When did the Fourth Industrial Revolution in history begin? Let’s take a look together.
Industry 4.0 ( 2011 – )
Start year ; 2011
When you research the meaning of Industry 4.0, you can find many different explanations. My interpretation of Industry 4.0 is a system of technologies in which the internet plays the leading role. Machines equipped with these new technologies can communicate with each other. Computers entered production and machinery in Industry 3.0. The biggest difference from past industrial revolutions is that machines communicate with each other. For this reason, we call Industry 4.0 “Internet of Things”.
So what is the purpose of industry 4.0? My own comment; To produce with better quality, faster and with fewer people. If possible, a factory without humans and lighting, called a “dark factory”.
Let’s examine the history of Industry 4.0 together ;
The Fourth Industrial Revolution was first introduced by a team of scientists developing a high-tech strategy for the German government.
Most important people in the team ;
Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster
Wolfgang Wahlster (born February 2, 1953) is a German artificial intelligence researcher. He was CEO and Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and full professor of computer science at Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster conceived a future project of importance for Germany for the use of cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things on behalf of the Federal Government in the Research Union in 2010.
In December 2010, at a meeting at the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) in Berlin where he met his colleagues Henning Kagermann , he suggested that the future project be named “Industry 4.0”.
Wolfgang Wahlster is sometimes called the inventor of the “Industry 4.0” term.
On April 1, 2011, his first article on Industry 4.0 appeared in VDI-Nachrichten, Germany’s leading business weekly on industry and engineering, with the title “Industry 4.0: With the Internet of Things on the Way to the Fourth Industrial Revolution”.
Henning Kagermann / Prof.Wolfgang Wahlster
Henning Kagermann
Henning Kagermann (born 12 July 1947) is a German physicist and businessman. He was the former chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer of SAP.
During and after his time at SAP, Kagermann became a close adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel on technology. In June 2009, Kagermann assumed the office of the president of acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering.
Industry 4.0 was mentioned by Henning Kagermann, Wolf-Dieter Lukas and Wolfgang Wahlster at the Hanover Fair in 2011. In October 2012, the Industry 4.0 Working Group, chaired by Siegfried Dais (Robert Bosch GmbH) and Henning Kagermann (acatech), presented a series of implementation proposals for the realization of Industry 4.0 to the German Federal Government. The Industry 4.0 Working Group announced its final report at the Hanover Fair on April 8, 2013.
Prof Dr Wolf-Dieter Lukas
He holds a PhD in Physics, is an honorary professor at the Technische Universität Berlin and joined the BMBF in 1988. He was Director-General for Research for Digitalization and Innovation for 14 years. Together with Henning Kagermann and Wolfgang Wahlster, he designed the future project “Industry 4.0” and published it for the first time in the VDI News on April 1, 2011
Wolfgang Wahlster, head of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Henning Kagermann, President of German Academy of Engineering Sciences, and Wolf-Dieter Lukas, head of the key technologies department in the Federal Ministry of Research
Siegfried Dais
Siegfried Dais (born January 18, 1948 in Stuttgart) is a physicist, an internationally known manager and partner in Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG (RBIK)
At the fair ‘Hannover Messe 2011’, the term ‘Industrie 4.0’ (Engl. ‘Industry 4.0’) was introduced for the first time by Siegfried Dais and Henning Kagermann . Both were founding fathers and driving forces behind the project leading the high-tech strategy of the German government.
We owe a debt of gratitude to all the scientists mentioned above. They start in a new industrial revoluation.
You can see a summary table below about the technologies that entered our lives after Industry 4.0. We will examine these technologies step by step in our next articles.
References
- https://ricaip.eu/prof-wolfgang-wahlster-on-industrie-4-0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Wahlster
- https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/five-questions-for-siegfried-dais-on-ten-years-of-industry-4-0-227399.html
- https://kfactory.eu/short-history-of-manufacturing-from-industry-1-0-to-industry-4
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution
- https://www.magazin.uni-mainz.de/der-mensch-steht-staerker-im-mittelpunkt/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Kagermann
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf-Dieter_Lukas
- https://www.nw-ihk.de/2022/06/messe-industrie-4-0/
- https://www.dfki.de/fileadmin/user_upload/DFKI/Medien/News_Media/Presse/Presse-Highlights/vdinach2011a13-ind4.0-Internet-Dinge.pdf
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article
- https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/wir-brauchen-planungssicherheit-5534362.html
- https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/germanys-merkel-at-davos-wef-on-world-order.html
- https://www.businessprocessincubator.com/content/industry-4-0-technologies/
