Patricia Lips and Xaver Jung, both members of the German Bundestag, visited DFKI and SmartFactoryKL to learn about latest research and transfer projects.

Prof. Dr. Detlef Zühlke gave the guests a tour of the democenter and explained the newest features of the SmartFactoryKL Industrie 4.0 prouction plant. A further topic was the importance of networking and cooperation to advance the topic of Industrie 4.0 in Germany. Lips was very impressed by the large amount of research competency in the research mile “Trippstadter Strasse” in Kaiserslautern.