Jowat Magazine 2015-09 EN

07 Author Dr Bettina Horster With a degree in computer science, Dr Bettina Horster is head of the Business Development and Consulting department at VIVAI Software AG and in charge of Industry 4.0. She directed one of the first European pro- jects in Industry 4.0, which was awarded in 2014 by the “Germany – Land of Ideas” initiative of the German Federal Government and the BDI (“Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie”, German industry association). For many years, she was a consultant of the ministry of economics of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin and the Government of North-Rhine Westphalia for mobile technology questions. She has been a pioneer in mobile services since 1996 and had a great impact on the mobile sector with various studies, events, scientific elaborations and extensive PR activities. Since 1999, she is head of the Competence Group Mobile at eco – the largest European association of the Internet Industry. share it with other participants on the market. This raises fear and involves risks. By aggregating the information and strict regulations about who recei- ves which information, the integration platform ensures that identification of process structures is restricted. A transparent, open collaboration throug- hout the value chain is now possible, new insights are obtainable, and ma- chines can be managed and operated more efficiently. Services like Predicti- ve Maintenance can be easily put into practice. One thing becomes clear, in spite of all obstacles. Enterprises should start di- gitalising and interlinking all processes now, otherwise they might mortgage their future. Germany, with a strong and long tradition in the mechanical engineering sector, has the great op- portunity of playing a key role on the Industry 4.0/M2M global market.

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