At the event “ZIRP at 8”, Rhineland-Palatinate’s Prime Minister Malu Dreyer praised the SME 4.0 Competence Center at SmartFactoryKL as one of the highlight projects to implement

Received at the IFAC IMS2016 Workshop Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef Zühlke, Dr.-Ing. Dominic Gorecky, André Hennecke and Stephan Weyer (all from the German Research Center for

With their joint booth at SPS IPC Drives in Nuremberg (Germany), Europe’s leading expert trade fair for electric automation, the Technology Initiative SmartFactory KL e.V.

November 22, 2016 marked the kick-off of the EU-funded project HyproCell (Hybrid Production Cells), which SmartFactoryKL and  several members are participating in – along with many other

„Learning and acting in the digital world” – this was the motto of the German national IT Summit in Saarbrücken on November 17, 2016, where

The conference “4th Industry Revolution” which took place in Seoul (Korea), from November 1-2, 2016, focused on “Changes of technology, industry and social trends with

Representing Technologie-Initiative SmartFactory KL e.V., Dr. Dominic Gorecky, Head of Research, gave two talks on the work of the technology initiative.

„Lean meets Industrie 4.0“ was the title of the TOP Transfer Forum which took place at Schaeffler AG in Herzogenaurach on September 27, 2016 and

The latest edition of the US-based magazine Smart Industry features „The Smart Industry 50“, a collection of digital innovators already putting the concepts of the

The European Commission hosted a roundtable chaired by EU-Commissioner Günther H. Oettinger on September 20, 2016 in Brussels. Representatives from politics and industry from all

More than 900 representatives from industry and research are discussing the development of and implementation strategies for the industrial Internet of Things at the 2nd

As a new member, the Boston Consulting Group joined the SmartFactoryKL. We are very happy, to welcome the world’s leading advisor on business strategy.

On the 27th of July professor Zühlke, chairman of the Executive Board Technology-Initiative SmartFactory KL e.V., Scientific Director, Innovative Factory systems DFKI and professor at

Die Obama-Regierung hat die Gründung eines „Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (SMII)“ bekanntgegeben. Dieses wird sich, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem US-amerikanischen Energieministerium, auf die forcierte Entwicklung

From June 22 to 26, SmartFactoryKL will attend the conference „Industrial Technologies“ 2016 in Amsterdam. With his speech „Industry 4.0 – from vision to reality“, our employee

During the next week, the SmartFactoryKL will exhibit at the booth of MiniTec at the trade show Automatica in Munich. In hall A5, booth 324, we show

This year´s Manufacturing Leadership Summit took place in Carlsbad, California and was attended by more than 200 senior industry leaders. From 6 to 9 June,

Im Rahmen des Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Kaiserslautern lädt Sie die SmartFactoryKL in ihrer Funktion als Konsortialführer herzlich zu den ersten Informationsveranstaltungen ein.

Mittelständische Unternehmen auf Ihrem Weg zur Digitalisierung begleiten. – Eine Aufgabe, der sich seit 01. April 2016 das Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Kaiserslautern widmet. Der offizielle Kick-off

Mettler Toledo joined the SmartFactoryKL as member number 45. The company is a leading global manufacturer of precision instruments and the world’s largest manufacturer and marketer of weighing instruments

We are looking back on an eventful trade fair: this year’s Hannover Messe has ended last Friday, April 29, 2016, after five successful days.

We´re very glad to welcome the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Europe as our 47th member.

We´re very pleased to announce that bridgingIT joint our Partner circle as its 46th member.

The SmartFactoryKL welcomes Griesson – de Beukelaer as 43rd member within the network.

iTAC Software AG (Internet Technologies and Consulting) has joined the SmartFactoryKL as its 42nd member.

We are very pleased to welcome Bernecker + Rainer Industrie Elektronik GmbH (B&R) as the 41st member of the SmartFactoryKL.

Die rheinland-pfälzische Ministerpräsidentin Malu Dreyer ernannte Prof. Zühlke nun zum „Transferbotschafter für den Potenzialbereich Produktionstechnik, Automation – Schwerpunkt Industrie 4.0“. Vorgeschlagen wurde dies durch Wissenschaftsministerin